WorksheetsFestivals in the Philippines
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Is a feast held in honor of the Santo Niño held annually in January concluding on third Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines.
Ati-Atihan
Panagbenga
Dinagyang
Masskara
A week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental province. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.
Penafrancia Fluvial
Higantes
Pahiyas
MassKara
A Bukidnon ethnic-cultural festival that takes place from the last week of February to the first week of March. It can mean a datukship ritual, a wedding ceremony, a thanksgiving festival during harvest time, a peace pact, or any number of these together.
Kaamulan
Turumba
Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites
Carabao
A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.
Sinulog
Panagbenga
Ati-atihan
Dinagyang
The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.
Giant Lanterns
Turumba
Higantes
Carabao
Lucban celebrates the Festival in honor of the patron saint of farmers, St. Isidore. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried.
Panagbenga
Dinagyang
Pahiyas
Sinulog
An annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu.
Ati-Atihan
Panagbenga
Dinagyang
Sinulog
An annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting “Madayaw”, from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful.
Pintados
Kadayawan
Penafrancia Fluvial
MassKara
An annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. The men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks , a part of the medieval Roman armor which covers the face.
Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites
Pahiyas
Turumba
Moriones
A religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. It is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.
Dinagyang
Ati-Atihan
Panagbenga
Sinulog
