Festivals in the

Philippines
Ms. Claudette E. Sumagaysay
Subject Teacher
 What is a festival?
As a time of celebration marked by special observances
 Philippines is rich in festivals.
Colorful and various festivities are
annually celebrated, either for religious
purposes or for showcasing each city’s
main livelihood.
PANAGBENGA
Baguio, Philippines
PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL

blooming season

Baguio Flower Festival

Summer Capital of the

Philippines
PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
 Month-long annual celebration
 Means “season of blooming”
 Held every February as tribute to city’s flower and as a
way to rise from the devastation in the 1990 Luzon
earthquake
PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
 Street-dancing and costumes are flower-inspired
 First celebrated in 1995
PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
 COSTUMES AND PROPS
 made of recycled soft drinks bottles, leaves, colored paper,
and boxes
 Colorful flowers and ethnic sandals, and headdresses
 Males wore G-strings for their performance called
“Pepeyan Taha Panagbenga
PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
ATI-ATIHAN
DINAGYANG
SINULOG
 • To honor Kalibo’s patron,
Infant Jesus
2nd Sunday of January
ATI-ATIHAN • Means, “be like Atis or the
Kalibo, Aklan
Aetas” in Aklan
• Chant: Hala Bira!

• Feast of the Infant Jesus

• dagyang, merrymaking
4th Sunday of January • Commemorates the pact
DINAGYANG
Iloilo, City between the datus and the
locals
• Chant: Viva, Sto. Niño!
• sulog, like the water
current movement
3rd Sunday o January • 9 days novena, before the
SINULOG
Cebu City 3rd Sunday
• Chant: Pit Senyor! Viva,
Sto. Niño!
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
 HISTORY
 Order of arrival of group of people in the Philippines
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
Celebrated to honor Kalibo’s patron – Infant Jesus
Atis and Maraynons offer a traditional dance to Sto. Niño
ATIATIHAN FESTIVAL
 COSTUMES AND PROPS
 Vibrant street dancing, colorful costumes, and lively
music
 Costumes are made of indigenous materials and the black
paint in the face represent as “Ati”
DINAGYANG
Iloilo City, Philippines
DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
 Commemoration of the arrival of the Malays in Panay
island
 Begun in 1976
 “Iloilo Ati-atihan”
 Contest started in 1969, participated by four (4) tribes
 Became cultural entertainment in 1977
 “dagyang” meaning revelry or merry making of the
people
 “Tourism of the Year” from 2006-2008
ATIATIHAN FESTIVAL
 COSTUMES AND PROPS
 Serves as one of the event’s centerpieces
 Consist of headdress
 Made of feathers, beads, and other embellishment and
sometimes, body suit with designs inspired by indigenous
patterns and colors.
SINULOG
Cebu City, Philippines
SINULOG FESTIVAL
 Danced using carved wooden icons as homage to their
anitos
 Magellan converted Rajah Humabon and his wife
Amihan
 Basilica Minore de Santo Niño
Masskara
Bacolod City, Philippines
MASSKARA FESTIVAL

“Festival of Smiles”
Bacolod City
Mass, many people
Kara, means face

4th week of October

MASSKARA FESTIVAL