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 Panagbenga Festival - is a month-long annual
flower festival occurring in Baguio. The term
Kankanaey meaning "season of blooming". The
festival held during the month of February and 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.
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 • The Panagbenga started with just an idea that Baguio City should, like
other towns and cities in the Philippines, have its own "fiesta" or
festival celebration. Having been created a city by the Americans
during their occupation of the Philippines, Baguio did not start as a
town during the Spanish colonial period that had a patron saint with a
feast day.

• The Panagbenga was a series of celebrations that were held over a

period of 10 days encompassing two weekends: the first being the
launching ceremonies, the weekdays being Session Road in Bloom
and the last weekend was when the Grand Parades were held.
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 The rich traditions of the Cordillera region where Baguio belongs under are
performed during Panagbenga. Some examples of the featured dances during the
festival are “Hulin” of the Ifugao tribe that is danced during the planting and harvest
seasons to drive away pests and bad spirits. There is also the Kalinga’s “Abuyog”
that depicts the bayanihan or spirit of cooperation and self-help in the community.
There is also the “Tsinakhon” or the dry season rice production of Bontoc. Other
performers have done “Adivay” or a folk tale about the defeat of a snake that
threatened the farmers’ beautiful harvest. One the story of the Benguet hero,
“Ioway” who conquered adversity to bring home a gift for his chosen bride. Another
set of performers has danced the “Say-ang” which depicts a Tinguian story about
birds that transformed into a beautiful lady who gets married to the farmer they are
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helping to harvest rice

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 ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRBak1JP-5w

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=calx0-ZGBcw
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 ● The MASSKARA FESTIVAL was first conceived in 1980 to add color and
gaiety to the Bacolod City's celebration of its Charter Day anniversary, on
19 October. The symbol of the festival - a smiling mask - was adopted by
the organizers to dramatize the Negrenses happy spirit despite periodic
economic downturns in the sugar industry.

● The festival features a street dance competition where people from all
walks of life troop to the streets to see masked dancers gyrating to the
rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination
and stamina. Major activities include the MASSKARA Queen beauty
pageant, carnivals, drum, bugle corps competitions, food festivals, sports
events, musical concerts, agriculture-trade fairs, garden shows and other
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special events organized every year.

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 ● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUsh6pzRsXA

● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lAJOZOlrjA
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