Mapeh Festivals 4thq

• Types of festivals:

  Religions festivals

  Non-religous/secular festivals
• Devotees of higantes festival are the pahadores
• Higantes festival

  Is celebrated at the 9th week of November
• Pope St. CLEMENT 1 IS THE figure of higantes festival
• Obando fertility rites

  Celebrated every 17,18 and 19 of May
• Obando fertility rites frstival has 3 patron saints:

  Santa Clara

  San Pascual

  Nuestra senora de sambao
• Obando fertility rites is for childless couple to pray for a child
• Obando fertility rites is celebrated in Obando Bulacan
• Moriones festival

  Celebrated in Holy week, Lenten season (around April)
• Moriones

  Is celebrated in the island of Marinduque, it's to showcase or portray as the roman soldiers
• Moriones

  Saint Longinus and the Re-Enactment of "The Passion Of The Christ"
• Ati-atihan festival is known as the mother of all festivals
• Ati-atihan festival is celebrated every 3rd Sunday of January for Santo Nino
• Ati-atihan festival is celebrated at Kalibo Aklan, but originally at Batan Aklanthem adopted
• Ati-atihan festival is celebrated by the Aesta's and Aborigines
• Sinulog festival is celebrated in Cebu to giving thank to Santo Nino, it is for the celebration to the switching of religion to Catholic
• Sinulog festival is celebrated every 3rd Sunday of January
• Dinagyang festival

  Ilo-ilo city

  4th week of January
• Dinagyang festival for st.nino
• Santa cruzan festival

  Santa Helena

  Malolos Bulacan

  Lasy day of Flores De Mayo (May)

  Rrue Cross by Helena for finding Constantine
• Panagbenga

  Whole month of February

  Baguio

  City flower

  1990
• Pahiyas

  15th of May

  Lucban
• Pintados

  29th of June

  Leyte
• Kadayawan

  3rd week of August

  Davao

  Dayaw:good, mabait
• Madayaw: friendly
• Masskara

  Mass-crowd/mass

  Kara-Faces

  Masskara- Mass of Faces

  3rd weekend nearest to 19th october

  Bacolod city: City of smiles
• Lanzones festival

  20th of October

  Sagay,Camiguin Islands
• Kaamulan festival

  2nd half of February-March 10

  Bukidnon

  Amul:to gather

  Malaybalay city
• Maleldo festival/Cutud lenten rites

  Good Friday

  San Pedro Cutud

  san Fernando pampanga
• Carabao festival

  14th-15 May

  Pulilan bulacan

  Angono rizal

  San isidro nueva ecija
• Ibalong festival

  Albay

  To show friendliness

  August 12-30

  Baltog, Baltong handyong
• Philippines theatrical forms

  Usually in variety with religious and non-religous, usually oerformed in festivals
• Shadow puppetry-cut out figures that is controlled
• Drama: dance drama, to make the audience the "feel" or "ambiance"
• Sarswela or Zarzuela: sound and dance, romantic love
• Senakula: events from the life of Jesus Christ, celebrated for 8 days, sunday to easter sunday
• Comedia or Moro-moro: christians and muslims
• Philippine theatrical forms

  Variety of forms, including religious and non-religious acts or productions, usually shown or performed during festivals, covering a wide spectrum of resources and origins
• Shadow puppetry (shadow play)


  • Uses flat, expressed figures to produced cut-out figures which are held together by sticks or by sometimes thread to create movement shown behind the thin layer of cloth or screen and a light source to create shadows
• Drama

  • Performed through dance movements, frequently with dialogue or sometimes, even singing, dance drama is popular for retelling of famous, national literatures. movements and gestures of the actors, creating the right setup, props and costumes go a long way, and just like any theatre or drama performance, visual arts through costumes and settings play a big role in creating the right "feel" or "ambiance" to deliver the message of the story of the dance drama