Festival And Fiestas Flashcards

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Feast held in honor of Sto. Nino held annually in January concluding in third Sunday (Kalibo, Aklan)

Celebrants paint their faces with black soot and wear bright, outlandish costumes ( last three days of two week-long festival )

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Ati-atihan festival

3rd Sunday of January

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The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Sto. Nino (Holy Child), patron if the city of Cebu

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Sinulog

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Religious and cultural festival in IloIlo City ( 4th day of January )

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Dinagyang

4th Sunday of January

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4
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Dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people’s pagan origin, and their acceptance of Christianity.

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Sinulog

3rd Sunday of January

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5
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Festival in Baguio as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.

Floats with flowers, street dancing

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Panagbenga Festival

Whole month of February

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6
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Bukidnon ethnic-cultural festival

Amul “to gather”

Malaybay City

(Ethnic tribal groups)

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Kaamulan

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7
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Annual festival held in Holy Week on the island of Marinduque

___________ = men and women in costumes and masks replicating the grab of biblical Roman soldiers

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Moriones

Holy week

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8
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Morion means

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Mask or visor

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9
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Good Friday: penitents are taken to a rice field and nailed to a cross.

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Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites

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Months of April and May

People of pakil, in the provinceof Laguna celebrates _________ which commemorates the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

7x each year

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Turumba

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Catholic festival held in the Philippines in the month of May

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Flores de Mayo

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12
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Queen of Maytime festivals

Novena procession, in commemoration of Saint Helena’s finding of the cross

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Santacruzan

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13
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Who is Saint Elena?

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Mother of Constantine the Great

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14
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May 14: people of Pulilan in Bulacan, San Isidro in Nurva Ecija, Angono in Rizal celebrate for two days.

First day: farmers pay homage to the beast of burden which is the farmer’s best friend _____

On the second da, the _______ compete in a friendly race

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Carabao festival

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15
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Lucban celebrates it in honor of the patron saint of farmers, St. Isidore

It showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, etc.

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Pahiyas Festival

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16
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A Filipino dance ritual (patron saints) while singing the song “Santa Clarang pinong-pino, Ang pangako ko ay ganuto, Pagdating ko sa Obando, Sasayaw ako ng pandanggo”

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Obando Fertility Rites

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Merry-making event lasting a whole month, highlights include: Leyte Kasadyaan Festival…

Celebrate a religious festival in a unique and colorfyl way (tattoos)

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Pintados Festival

Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival

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Spanish colonization of the Philippines began with a blood-sealed peace treaty on the shores of Bohol.

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Sandugo Festival

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Annual festival in the city of Davao

Celebration of life, thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living

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Kadayawan festival

20
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Friendly greeting “Madayaw”

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Dayaw - good, valuable, superior or beautiful

21
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Naga City, Camarines Sur, Bicol Region. People attend church services followed by parades on the streets, fireworks and feasting

Virgin Mary: Viva la virgen

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Penafrancia fluvial

22
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All roads in Mindanao lead to Zamboanga, as the “City of Flowers” celebrates its grand, annual __________

Vintas - colorful native sea boats

Wealth of cultural and flower shows, art exhibits, and trade fairs. It’s an all out celebration of life - Chavacano style!

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Zamboanga Hermosa Festival

23
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Week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, capital of Negros Occidental.

Street dance composition - colorfully-masked dancers

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MassKara

24
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Mass =

Kara =

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Many

Face

“Mass of faces”

25
Q

City of Smiles

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Bacolod

26
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One of the more colorful events in the Philippines held in October

Celebrated its 30th Anniversary last October 2009

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Lanzones

0ctober 25

27
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Angono celebrates - which coincides with the frast of Saint Clement.

Promoted as tourism-generating event in the country

Made of mexican art form of paper mache

Spanish acienda

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Higantes

28
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Annual festival held in December in the city of San Fernando. It features a competition of giant ——

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Giant Lantern Festivals

29
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“Christmas Capital of the Philippines”

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San Fernando