Festivals of The Philippines

FESTIVALS OF THE PHILIPPINES
QUIAPO PROCESSION OF THE BLACK NAZARENE

Date: 9th January
The procession, and the accompanying Feast of the Black Nazarene, takes place every year on
9th January. It is usually the single largest festival of the year in the Philippines and thousands of
devotees come to the district of Quiapo to take part in the procession to commemorate the
transfer of the Black Nazarene image (traslacion) from Intramuros to Quiapo Church.
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
Date: 3rd Sunday of January
The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held in honor of the Santo Nio held annually in January
concluding on third Sunday, in the town of Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines. It is the wildest
among Philippine fiestas and considered as the Mother of All Philippine festivals. Celebrants
paint their faces with black soot and wear bright, outlandish costumes as they dance in revelry
during the last three days of this two week-long festival. Catholics and non-Catholics alike
observe this special day with processions, parades, dancing, and merrymaking.
SINULOG
Date: 3rd Sunday of January
The Sinulog is an annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines.
The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Nio (Holy Child), patron of the city of
Cebu. It is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano peoples pagan origin, and their
acceptance of Christianity. The festival features a street parade with participants in bright-
colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs.
DINAGYANG
Date: 4th Sunday of January
The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth
Sunday of January. It is held both to honor the Santo Nio and to celebrate the arrival on Panay
of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis. Dinagyang was
voted as the best Tourism Event for 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers
in the Philippines.
PANAGBENGA
Date: February
Panagbenga is month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during
the month of February, was created as a tribute to the citys flowers and as a way to rise up from
the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake. The festival includes floats that are decorated with
flowers unlike those used in Pasadenas Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing,
presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi
dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera region.
MORIONES
Date: Holy Week
The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines.
The Moriones are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical
Roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks Morion means mask or visor, a part of the
medieval Roman armor which covers the face. The Moriones or Moryonan tradition has inspired
the creation of other festivals in the Philippines where cultural practices or folk history is turned
into street festivals.
PAHIYAS FESTIVAL
Date: 15th May
Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas 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. The houses are judged and the best one is proclaimed the winner.
PINTADOS
Date: 29th June
The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is a merry-making event lasting a whole month, highlights of
which include the Leyte Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals, the Pintados Festival Ritual Dance
Presentation and the Pagrayhak Grand Parade. These festivals are said to have begun from the
feast day of Seor Santo Nio, held every June 29th. The Leyteos celebrate a religious festival
in a unique and colorful way. Since the Visayans are experienced in the art of body tattooing,
men and women are fond of tattooing themselves.
KADAYAWAN
Date: Third week of August
The Kadayawan Festival is 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. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the
gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living.
MASSKARA
Date: 3rd weekend nearest to 19th October
The MassKara Festival is 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. The word
MassKara has a double meaning. First, it is a fusion of the English word mass or many and
kara, the Spanish word for face. MassKara then becomes a mass of faces, and these faces
have to be smiling to project Bacolod already known in the late 70s as the City of Smiles.

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