* RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
** CONTENT
*** FESTIVAL
These are cultural dances performed  to the strong beats of
percussion instruments by a community of people sharing the
same culture usually done in honor  of a patron saint or in
thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest

**** SINULOG FESTIVAL
WHAT: SINULOG FESTIVAL 
WHEN
WHERE: CEBU CITY

It  originated  from  a  pagan  ritual  celebrated  by  the
ancestral  Filipinos.  The  ritual  was  modified  to  have
Christian color when the Spaniards came to the country

**** DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
WHAT: DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
WHEN: 4TH WEEKEND OF JANUARY
WHERE: PANAY

This  festival  commemorates  the   arrival  of  the  Malay
settlers in Panay and to honor the Sto.Nino,

**** ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
WHAT: ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL 
WHEN: MONTH OF JANUARY
WHERE:

This festival  is known  as the  "Mother of  all Philippine
Festivals"  It  was  originally held  to  commemorates  the
reconcillation of the Negritos and Maraynons

**** PAHIYAS FESTIVAL
WHAT: Pahiyas Festival
WHERE: Lucban, Quezon
WHEN: May 15

The celebration  consists of a  procession of the  image of
San Isidro Labrador. It is a popular belief that the houses
along  the road  where the  procession passes  will receive
gracious blessings

**** OBANDO FERTILITY DANCE
WHAT: Obando Fertility Dnace
WHERE: Bulacan
WHEN: Month of May

Every  married  couple go  here  and  participate, to  have
guidance or children even,  thats the simpliest explanation
i get write of

**** MORIONES FESTIVAL
WHAT: Moriones Festival
WHERE: Boac, Marinduque
WHEN: During the Lenten Season/Holy Week

The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the
island of  Marinduque, The  Moriones are  men and  women in
costumes and  masks replicating the garb  of biblical Roman
soldiers as interpreted by local folks


**** SANTACRUZAN & FLORES DE MAYO
WHAT: SANTACRUZAN AND FLORES DE MAYO
WHERE: ALL
WHEN: Month of May

During  the Celebration,  the towns  beautiful maidens  are
invited   to  grace   the   procession  wearing   Filipiana
gowns.  They  are  escorted  by young  men  wearing  barong
tagalog. The  participating pair  walks under a  bamboo arc
decorated with flowers

This started in  1800's, held in honor for  Queen Elena and
her son as they search for the real cross

**** HIGANTES FESTIVAL
WHAT: Higantes Festival

WHERE: Angonno, Rizal
When: November

The higanted Festival is now promoted as tourism-generating
event in  the country, This attracts  numerous tourist from
all over the  world. The higantes are  made of paper-mache,
Higantes measures four to five  feet in diameter and ten to
tweleve feet in height

Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was
a  Spanish hacienda,  This higantes  was influenced  by the
Mexican  art form  of  paper-mache brought  by the  Spniash
priests to the Philippines

*** TYPES OF FESTIVALS
1. Sacred/Religious
2. Secular
   A festival celebrated as thanksgiving

   
** REGIONAL/SECULAR FESTIVALS
*** MASSKARA FESTIVAL
WHAT: MASSKARA FESTIVAL 
WHEN: `
WHERE: BACOLOD CITY 

The masskara  festival is an annual  celebration in Bacolod
City  that  embodies  the Negrense's  optimistic  character
amidist trials and tragedies. Its name was derived from two
words -  mass means  "crowd" and  kara meaning  "face". The
festival was created to uplift the spirits of Negros during
in the sugar industy

*** PANAGBANGA FESTIVAL
WHAT: PANAGBANGA FESTIVAL
WHERE: BAGUIO CITY
WHEN: MONTH OF FEBRUARY

The  festical of  Baguio 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. The festival includes floats
that  are  deocrated  with  flowers unlike  those  used  in
Pasadena's Rose  Parade. The festival also  includes street
dancing,  presented  by  dances  clad  ini  flower-inspired
costumes. that is inspired by  the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance
of celebration that came from the Cordillera region.

*** KAAMULAN FESTIVAL
WHAT: KAAMULAN FESTIVAL
WHERE: BUKIDNON
WHEN: SECOND HALF FEBRUARY - MARCH 10

The  Kaamulan   Festival  is  a   Bukidnon  ethnic-cultural
festival, fromt  he Binukid word  amul, "to gather".  is an
indigenous Bukidnon term for a gaterhing for any purpose.

The festival  is held  in Malaybalay  City from  the second
half of February  to March 10, the anniversary  date of the
foundation of BUkidnon as a  province in 1917, to celebrate
the culture and tradition

*** KADAYWAN FESTIVAL
WHAT: KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL
WHERE: DAVAO CITY
WHEN THIRD WEEK OF AUGUST

The kadayawan festival  is an annyual festival  in the city
fof  Davao  in  the  Philippines,  its  name  derives  from
friendly greeting "Madayaw" from the Dabawenyo word "dayaw"
meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful. The festival
is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving

*** BANGUS FESTIVAL
WHAT: BANGUS FESTIVAL
WHERE: DAGUPAN CCITY
WHEN: APRIL

Regional Festival in honor  of the thanksgiving & bountiful
harvest  if Bangus  held around  April to  MAy in  Dagupan,
Pangasinan, The festival  started in the year  2002 and was
conceptualized

*** THE GIANT LANTERN FESTIVAL
WHAT: GIANT LANTERN FESTIVAL
WHERE: SAN FERNANDO PAMPANGA
WHEN: AROUND LATE DECEMBER

The giant lanterns  festival is an annual  festival held in
December (saturday before Christmas Eve) in the city of San
fernando  in  the  philippines,  the  festival  features  a
competition of giant lanterns.