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• Philippines’ celebration of the fiesta is mostly religious in nature.
• Festival dances 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 as a thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest.
• 2 types of festival dance:

  Religious/Secular Festival Dance

  Non-Religious Festival Dance
• A religious festival is a moment of special significance observed by followers of that religion.
• Non-Religious Festival Dance is a festival that is celebrated with enthusiasm and passion with a group of people or what we call community.
• Sinulog is held in celebration of one of the country’s

  most famous historic relics: the Santo Niño de Cebú.
• Sinulog is held in Cebu City.
• The Dinagyang festival in Iloilo City celebrates devotion to the Holy Child Jesus, locally known as Sr. Sto. Nino, and commemorates the arrival of Malay settlers and the legendary barter of Panay Island with the native Ati people. It is held every 4th Sunday of January.
• Ati-Atihan (Kalibo) - Dubbed as the Mother of All Philippine Festivals.
• Dinagsa Festival, was the brainchild of some of the members of the Samaria House Council of Cadiz City, a lay religious organization of the

  Catholic Church.
• Babaylan Festival is a yearly festival held each nineteenth day of February during the Charter Anniversary of the City of Bago, Negros Occidental.
• Babaylan Festival - The festival shows an outlandish character of the Babaylans who were exceptionally basic in the Visayan territories before the Spanish colonizers came.
• The Moriones is a lenten festival held annually on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines.
• The Pahiyas Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth of May every year in the Town of Lucban, Quezon. This celebration is held in order to express gratitude to the patron saint of farmers, Saint Isidore the Laborer,

  for a year of bountiful harvest, which in Filipino is ani.
• Higantes Festival is a secular celebration initiated by the Municipality of Angono to express gratitude to its patron Saint Clement, in which the parade of giants is held on Sunday before the town feast on November 23.
• The popular Feast of the Black Nazarene is one of the most significant festivals in the Philippines and is held on the 9th of January as well as on Good Friday. Held in Quiapo.
• Flores de Mayo - May, the Marian month, is when long festive celebrations for Mama Mary take place. In the Philippines, this month is known as the fiesta month, which has become the “Queen of Philippine Festivals”.
• Panagbenga Festival (Baguio) - is an annual Flower festival celebrated every February.
• Masskara Festival (Bacolod) - is derived from

  the words “mass” meaning

  “many” and “kara”

  meaning “faces,” thus

  calling it the Festival of

  Many Faces.
• Kaamulan Festival - is from the Binukid word “amul” which means “to gather”. It is a gathering of Bukidnon tribes people for a purpose.
• Bangus Festival (Dagupan) - is a ten-day celebration every April.
• The Abaca Festival (Virac) - The festival is cognizance of the importance of abaca fiber.
• Kadayawan Festival - The festival's name is derived from the Mandayaword “madayaw,” meaning treasured or valuable, as the locals use this time to give thanks for the season’s bountiful harvest.
• Tuna Festival (Gensan) - the abundance of tuna fish.
• Magayon Festival (Legazpi) - the stage reenactment of the tragic

  love story of Daragang Magayon and Panganoron whose fatal deaths

  gave birth to the volcano.
• Ibalong Festival (Legazpi) - Ibalong Epic featuring the bravery and

  strength of three heroes named Baltog, Handyong, and Bantong.
• Panaad Festival - is the Hiligaynon for a vow and its fulfillment and

  is the embodiment of the unity among the local governments in Negros Occidental and has become a yearly tradition.

  -Dubbed as the “Festival of All."
• T'nalak Festival - The festival’s unique name is attributed to a popular piece of colorful cloth woven by the local T’boli women.