MAPEH ARTS 7 Q3

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 Festival

• Dinagyang Festival

• Panagbenga Festival

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

• Dinagyang

• Panagbenga

• Sinulog

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

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

• Ati-atihan

• Panagbenga

• Dinagyang

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

• Turumba

• Pahiyas

• Moriones

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

• Pahiyas

• 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

• Penafrancia Fluvial

• Kadayawan

• 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

• Pahiyas

• Higantes

• MassKara

A theatrical art popularized during the Japanes occupation. It has formed different musical trends and genres such as jazz and blues.

• Sarswela

• Moro-moro

• Komedya

• Bodabil

This feast is about their devotion to their patron, The Holy Cross.

• Sublian

• Ibalong

• Sinulog