September 3rd, 2008 -- Posted in Calesa Parade, Festivals, Food Fairs, Ilocos Sur, Street Dancing |
Viva Vigan Festival is being held every first week of May. Its festive mood is characterized by colorful Binatbatan Street Dancing where all costumes and props are all innovative and artistic plus dancers also use abel cloth and sticks. The Calesa Parade is another must-see portion of the festival wherein private individuals, calesa owners or calesa sponsored by business establishments, organizations or government agencies design their own calesa for a parade in the street. Decoration using materials indigenous to the City such as: Abel Iloko (the native handwoven cloth); Burnay (Vigan jars); damili; agricultural products; and processed foods like longaniza, bagnet and kankanen. The Karbo festival beckons spectators to feel the ambience of a living historic city. Other attractions include ramada games, religious rituals, Santa Cruzan, Abel fashion shows, exhibits, trade/food fairs and other exciting events.
September 2nd, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Garlic, Ilocos Sur |
Sinait Garlic Festival is being held from May 1 to 3 which showcase the talent, ingenuity and hard work of Ilocano farmers in a form of various competitions. Part of the objective of this festival is to encourage Ilocano farmers to mass produce high quality garlic using modern technology. The birth of this festival in year 2000 was made possible by Governor Savellano and Mayor Yabes after witnessing the Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California, USA renowned as the Garlic Capital of the World.
The Garlic Festival also provides various competitions that display the remarkable talents of Ilocos Sur farmers on garlic cooking and artistic presentation that includes root trimming, cleaning and bundling. An added feature is the Search for the Most Beautiful Cow and Carabao, which aims to recognize the superior indigenous livestock breed, raises by backyard farmers and encourage improvement of animal breeding.
The cooking contest encourages friendly bonding among participating non-government organizations, elementary and high school students and teachers as well as culinary experts while in the process of showing their culinary expertise in preparing and cooking delectable meals using the calorie and protein rich garlic as main ingredient.
The post harvest competition on Ordinary Garlic Bundling and Most Artistic Presentation will highlights the versatility of Sinait farmers and visitors.
The Festival is usually held at the grounds of the Sinait National High School and kicks off with a pilgrimage to Logo, Barangay Dalaquitan Norte which is followed by the opening program and trade fair. A grand parade of garlic floats, street presentations and street dancing are much-awaited sights as well.
The province-wide cooking contest is also held side-by-side with the Search for the Biggest Garlic Bulb and Garlic Bundling, whose categories include Longest Twined Garlic, Creative Bundling, and Bundling Competition which also allows tourist participation.
May 3 is the festival’s grand closing day with the celebration being started by a holy mass early in the morning. The much awaited Search for the Most Beautiful Cow and Carabao is also a major highlight. The criteria include general appearance, head and neck, forequarter, body and hindquarter of the animal breed.
A Marching Band Exhibition and Competition is usually held in the afternoon while the Search for Sinait Garlic Festival Queen is a must-see event in the evening. The Festival is capped by fireworks display before midnight.
August 23rd, 2008 -- Posted in Bicol, Festivals, Pottery |
Coron Festival is an annual celebration in Tiwi, Albay being held every third week of August. Coron is a Bicol dialect meaning clay-pot or pottery which the town of Tiwi is known for. It is an industry that can be traced back in the early part of the 17th century when the sticky clay dug at the hilly place near the sea named Bolo was discovered to have a useful way when the early settlers formed them in different shapes which they used for cooking, eating or drinking. Thus, the festival’s main feature is the pottery industry which is passed from parents to children and perfected through long years of practice without the benefit of formal training. It is a big and productive livelihood for the people there from its discovery up to present.
continue reading »
August 23rd, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Mindanao, Street Dancing, Travel |
August (August 14) is the month for the people on Kidapawan City in North Cotabato to celebrate an annual festival called Kalibongan Festival. Kalibongan is a manobo term for a Grand Festival which is celebrated yearly in Kidapawan, Cotabato. The Manobos, Bagobos, and other highland tribes from the different parts of the province go down to Kidapawan to show off and proudly display their tradition and cultural heritage. The natives display their own version of “party” with a traditional horsefight, a “blood compact” peace ceremony, etc.
August 10th, 2008 -- Posted in Delicacies, Festivals, Ilocos Norte |
Showcasing and promoting their very popular traditional fastfood that is “empanada”, Batac in Ilocos Norte held sometime in June this what they called Empanada Festival. The festival was created in commemorating their declaration as a city and featured their famous empanada to highlight the event.
There was a dance parade participated in by locals both young and old alike. There was a long line of participants dancing in the uniform music of Empanada. The music was piped in along the streets. It was followed by street dancing where different stages of preparing an empanada were depicted through dances.
August 9th, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Ilocos Norte, Street Dancing, Travel |
The Farmer’s Festival of Bacarra, Ilocos Norte is being held sometime in November. It is a festival that highlights a street dance parade participated in by dressed up farmers with their products, agro-industrial, trade fair, contest of the biggest farm harvest and livestock, “pinaka” contests agro products.
August 8th, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Ilocos Norte, Pottery, Street Dancing |
Highlights street dance competition pantomiming pottery making which is an industry of San Nicolas.
In this festival, the Street Dance is regularly participated by the youth as part of their cultural and social development. It is also where they can instill discipline, camaraderie and sportsmanship among themselves. Their organization, San Nicolas (SN) Cultural Troupe, participated already in different Street Dance competitions and received various awards.
August 7th, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Ilocos Norte |
The annual Guling-Guling Festival in Paoay, Ilocos Norte is traditionally held the day before Ash Wednesday. While Catholics officially mark the fasting and penitence as start of the Lenten Season, it is the day of merry-making and street dancing for Paoay folks. The residents dressed in their Ilocano costume adorned with antique jewelries, dance and sing around the town while being given the sign of the cross where pounded rice is used instead of gray ash. Also, it is the town mayor who imprints the sign of the cross among the Paoay villagers instead of a priest.
August 7th, 2008 -- Posted in Festivals, Fiestas, Ilocos Norte |
This festival is being held in Laoag City from February 02-11. The celebration is being held on the feast day of the town’s patron saint, Saint William the Hermit, to commemorate the founding of the city and highlighted by floral and dance parade around the city proper.
The fiesta in Laoag City is being held every February 11 to give honor and thanksgiving to their patron saint who as believed by the Laoagueños, with his intercession to the Lord the city has been blessed and spared from calamities and disasters.
Like any other town in the Philippines, the Pamulinawen Festival and the city’s fiesta are among the much awaited celebrations in Laoag City.
May 21st, 2008 -- Posted in Bicol, Festivals |
Peñafrancia Festival
It is a grand fiesta celebration from Sept. 7 to 18 that complements the feast day of the Patroness of the Bicol Region, the Our Lady Of Peñafrancia.
Activities include a Bicol Travel and Trade Fair, craft demonstrations, a food festival, concert and fireworks display. Highlights of the regional show are the Bicol Festival of Festivals Street Dance Competition, awarding of Bicol Festival Queen, and a fashion show featuring indigenous clothing material called “Pinukpok.”
Bicol Arts Festival
February 1-28, Legazpi City
It is a week-long festival showcasing the region’s arts and culture, crafts and agro-industrial products coming from the six (6) provinces and three (3) cities of Bicol. It coincides with the celebration of the National Arts Month every February.
Himag-ulaw Festival
February 17, Placer, Masbate
A celebration of praise and thanksgiving for the bountiful harvest in farming or good catch in fishing expressed through various forms of activities like street dancing, beauty competition, games and contests, food fairs, among others.
Partido Baybayon Festival
April 26-28, Sagay, Camarines Sur
This festival showcases the different tourism areas in the district and launches the municipality of Sagay as summer capital of Partido. Visitors converge in Nato shoreline or Baybayon in local dialect where various activities are featured.
Dayaw Dalan Festival
May 1-3, San Jacinto, Ticao Island, Masbate
Dayaw is an old Tigaonon term which means “to show off, parade or display”. In its strictest meaning, dayaw is to present with pride what is distinctly and essentially inherent in a person. Dalan on the other hand, means in olden times, a mountain trail which now includes path, street and highway. Dayaw Dalan Festival symbolizes the best of what the municipality of San Jacinto have as a town and as a people. The festival is held in honor of its patron saint, Santo Cristo de Burgos.
Palong Festival
May 10-13, Capalonga, Camarines Norte
Higlighted by a street dancing and agro industrial fair which expresses local folks’ gratitude for their town’s name etymology and signifies the abundant presence of rooster available in the locality. It is held also in celebration of their Black Nazarene’s Feast Day on May 13.
Black Nazarene Feast
May 13, Capalonga, Camarines Norte
A two-day religious festivity in honor of the town’s Patron Saint, the Black Nazarene, which is the object of veneration not only by the locals but by foreign devotees as well. It is highlighted by a pligrimage where people come in thousands to give in their respect to the miraculous Patron Saint.
Kaogma Festival
May 21-27, Camarines Sur
It is a week-long celebration of the of the foundation anniversary of the Province of Camarines Sur. The festival features numerous activities such as cultural expositions, sports events, beauty pageant, procession and Grand Parade.
Next »
