Festival And Fiestas Flashcards
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 )
Ati-atihan festival
3rd Sunday of January
The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Sto. Nino (Holy Child), patron if the city of Cebu
Sinulog
Religious and cultural festival in IloIlo City ( 4th day of January )
Dinagyang
4th Sunday of January
Dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano people’s pagan origin, and their acceptance of Christianity.
Sinulog
3rd Sunday of January
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
Panagbenga Festival
Whole month of February
Bukidnon ethnic-cultural festival
Amul “to gather”
Malaybay City
(Ethnic tribal groups)
Kaamulan
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
Moriones
Holy week
Morion means
Mask or visor
Good Friday: penitents are taken to a rice field and nailed to a cross.
Maleldo / Cutud Lenten Rites
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
Turumba
Catholic festival held in the Philippines in the month of May
Flores de Mayo
Queen of Maytime festivals
Novena procession, in commemoration of Saint Helena’s finding of the cross
Santacruzan
Who is Saint Elena?
Mother of Constantine the Great
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
Carabao festival
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.
Pahiyas Festival
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”
Obando Fertility Rites
Merry-making event lasting a whole month, highlights include: Leyte Kasadyaan Festival…
Celebrate a religious festival in a unique and colorfyl way (tattoos)
Pintados Festival
Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival
Spanish colonization of the Philippines began with a blood-sealed peace treaty on the shores of Bohol.
Sandugo Festival
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
Kadayawan festival
Friendly greeting “Madayaw”
Dayaw - good, valuable, superior or beautiful
Naga City, Camarines Sur, Bicol Region. People attend church services followed by parades on the streets, fireworks and feasting
Virgin Mary: Viva la virgen
Penafrancia fluvial
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!
Zamboanga Hermosa Festival
Week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, capital of Negros Occidental.
Street dance composition - colorfully-masked dancers
MassKara
Mass =
Kara =
Many
Face
“Mass of faces”
