Pintados-Kasadyaan: Double the Fun with Twin Fiestas. TACLOBAN CITY, LEYTE—Through the years, Leyte’s blissful festival has always been twofold—during one of the most flamboyant celebrations in the Visayas region, the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival where locals radiantly revel as vivid as the islands’ rich cultural heritage.
Leyteños celebrate a month-long religious festival that culminates on the feast day of Señor Santo Niño, held on the 29th of June each year. It is customary for the Visayans, both men and women, to adorn themselves with tattoos as a form of commemoration for the province’s opulent legacy. Tracing back the beginnings of such celebration to the pre-Hispanic era, the heavily painted Visayans stirred a sense of oddity, espousing an entirely rare ritual. The moniker pintados was how native painted warriors were then labeled; their tattoos were considered to be a symbol of valor, status, and power as these were only “awarded” to fighters who triumphantly protected their terrain. Article by: Emilie Anne G.
It's More Fun in the Philippines » Masquerades. BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental — What makes a masquerade party fun? It’s in the smiles, of course, and Bacolod folks do it so well. The Masskara (a combination of the English word “mass” and the Spanish “kara,” meaning “face”) is a Festival that started in the early 1980s, when world prices for sugar plummeted; and Bacolod City, the country’s sugar capital, was hit by a major crisis. The city government and artists banded together to find ways to lift the people’s spirits (not to mention their deteriorating economy), so they decided to throw a party! The Official Website of Iloilo Dinagyang Festival. Ati Atihan. Lanzones Festival Camiguin Philippines. Lanzones Festival is held every third week of October and it is a four day grand celebration of the lanzones fruit.
The most important livelihood in Camiguin is lanzones. It is when a lot of tourists come to witness the joyous Lanzones festival. Lanzones is one of the major fruit producers in the Philippines. Lanzones is a tropical fruit that grows extravagantly on the north-central coast of Mindanao. Lanzones has a pale brown skin and sweet translucent flesh. Moriones Festival. In the Philippines, Holy Week is observed with a fervor that mixes serious reverence leaning toward traditional Catholic practices on one hand and folk-beliefs bordering on the mystical, on the other hand.
It is also a time for somber, self-imposed retreats; for leisurely out-of-town drives; planned family vacations; or cherished visits to the individual's home province (Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are national holidays; a four-day weekend). And it is on this season that Marinduque becomes the focus of attention that spans the whole week. For it is the time of the moriones.Once again, in a tradition that have been annually practiced for more than a hundred years now, men called morions (some are women, if you can discern the difference) appear on the six towns of Marinduque.
Higantes Festival 2013 Choose Philippines. Find. Discover. Share. Sinulog Festival – Cebu, Philippines. When Is Sinulog 2013?
Sinulog Festival (Grand Street Dance Parade) falls on 20 January, 2013. View Sinulog Festival 2013 schedule. Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival Davao City Philippines. It is a celebration of Good Harvest!
This globally famous festival is a weeklong celebration and thanksgiving for nature’s bountiful harvest. Kadayawan Festival is being celebrated every 3rd Week of August. A celebration of the plentiful harvests of fruits and orchids during the season. Kadayawan is derived from the prehistoric word “madayaw,” a warm and friendly greeting also used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good, or profitable, “Kadayawan” in Mandaya means anything that brings fortune, a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living.
Ethnic tribes around Mt. T he festival is celebrated in the month of August with floats of fresh flowers and fruits, and indak-indak sa kadalanan or street dancing in colorful costumes. History “Du-aw na sa Dabaw! Aug. 128-11 AM Mayor Rodrigo Duterte Criterium Race From Magallanes, C.M Recto, Rizal, Legaspi to Magallanes 7 PM M.O.R. History of the Panagbenga. The Panagbenga started with just an idea that Baguio City should, like other towns and cities in the Philippines, have it's 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. Its charter day anniversary is on September 1, which falls right in the middle of the country's rainy season, which does not allow for parades and other outdoor activities that usually are the highlight of such celebrations. An Idea That Went Full-bloom In 1995 when Atty. Damaso E.
I asked Atty. He responded, "Because the weather in February is perfect, plus it gives folks a reason to visit us between Christmas and Holy Week. " Thereafter the idea was presented to the different sectors of Baguio society and their response, also warm and immediate, eventually grew as a wellspring of community support. ©2012.