Arts quarter 4

• Ati-atihan festival - third sunday of january is a peace held in honor of the santo niño held annually in january concluding on third sunday in the town of kalibo aklan in the philippines. Celebrant painter face with black suit and wear bright outline this costumes as they dance in riverly during the last three days of this two week long festival
• Sinulog - the festival honors the child jesus known as santo niño or holy child patron in the city of cebu it is a dance ritual that commemorates the cebuano people pagan origin and their acceptance of christianity. The festival features a street parade with participants and bright colored costume dancing to the rhythm of drumst trumpet and native gongs
• Dinagyang - is a religious and cultural festival in iloilo city philippines held on the fourth sunday of january.

  Dinagyang was wow that as the best tourism event for 2006 2007 and 2008 by the association of tourism officers in the philippines
• Panagbenga festival - the festival in baguio was created as a tribute to the city's flowers as the way to rise up from the devastation of 1990 luzon earthquake. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers and like those used in pasadenas prostrate the festival dance also includes street dancing presented by dancers clad and flowers inspired costumes that is inspired by the bendian an ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the cordillera region
• Kaamulan - second half of february to march 10. Is a bukidnon ethnic cultural from the binukid word amol together is an indigenous bukidnon term for a gathering for any purpose the festival is held in malaybalay city from the second half of february to march 10 the anniversary date of the foundation of bukidnon as a province in 1997 to celebrate the culture and tradition of the seven ethnic tribal groups bukidnon he gaonon talandig manobo matilasug tigwahanon and umayamon that originally inhabited the province
• Moriones - is an annual festival held on holy week on the island of marinduque. The moriones are men and women and costumes and mass replicating the garb of biblically roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks morion means mask or visor apart of the medieval roman armor which covers the face
• Maledo cutud lenten rights - every year on good friday or the friday before easter so doesn't or so penitence mostly men but with occasional women are taken to raise field in the barrio of san pedro kutud 3 km 2 miles from the proper of city of san fernando pampanga and nail to the cross using 2 inch 5 cm stainless steel that have been soaked in alcohol to disinfect them
• Turumba - every year during the months of april and may the people of pacquiao in the province of laguna celebrates the turumba festival. It commemorates a seven stories of the blessed virgin mary it is held seven times each year between the months of april and may the first is held on the friday before the calm someday and the last falls on pentecost sunday
• Flores de mayo and santacruzan - is a catholic festival held in the philippines in the month of may. Santacruzan is the queen of may time festivals it is a novena of procession in commemoration of saint helena's finding of the cross saint helena was the mother of constantine the great
• Carabao festival - beginning may 14 the people of pulilan in bulacan province san isidro in nueva ecija province and agono in rizal province celebrates for 2 days

  • On the first day farmers paypay homage to the beast of burden which the farmers best friend the lonely carabao
  • In the afternoon farmers led their carabao city church to be the part of perception at the church carabao's neil for their blessings
  • On the second day the carabaos compete in a friendly race
• Pahiyas festival -

  • Lucban celebrates the pahiyas festival in the owner of the patron saint of farmer saint isidore
  • The festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned by fruits vegetables agricultural products handicrafts and keeping a rice made decoration which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried the houses are judge and the best one is proclaimed the winner
• Obando fertility rites


  1. Filipino dance ritual every year during the month of May

  2. To the tune of musical instruments of bamboo materials

  3. Men, women and children of Obando, Bulacan, Philippines wear traditional dance costumes

  4. Dance on the streets

  5. Followed by the image of their patron saints San Pascual Baylon, Santa Clara and Nuestra Senora de Salambo

  6. Singing the song Santa Clara pinong-pino
• Feast of San Pascual Baylon

  May 17
• Feast of St. Claire

  May 18
• Feast of Our Lady of Salambaw

  May 19
• Obando fiesta


  • Unique among the Philippine festivals
  • Dance performed in the streets by childless women
• Pintados festival

  • Is a merry making a vent lasting a whole month highlights which include the leyte kasadayan festival of festivals the pintados ritual dance presentation in the pagrayhak grand parade
  • The latest news celebrate a religious festival in a unique and colorful way since the visayans are experienced in the art of body tattooing men and women are fond of tattooing themselves
• Sandugo festival (july1-2) - spanish colonization of the philippines began with blood sealed peace treaty on the shores of bohol this historic event is remembered today with an all out fiesta at the island capital city check out the sandugo street dancing parade featuring 10 colorful dress groups dancing to the beat of drums there's also traditional filipino carnival a martial arts festival and miss bohol sandugo beauty pageant among the doesn't of the exciting activities
• Kadayawan festival - is an annual festival in the city of davao in the philippines its name derived from the friendly greeting "madayaw" from the dabaweño word "dayaw" meaning good valuable superior or beautiful the festival is a celebration of life a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature the wealth of culture the bounties of harvest and serenity of living
• Indigenous theater - the earliest form of theater in the philippines are manifested in the ritual ceremonies and song of our early ancestors
• Examples of indigenous theater

  • the diwata of tagbanuas
  • The bagani of mansakas
  • the balitaw of cebuanos
• When the spaniards arrived they introduced christian place
• Carillo - is a shadow play for entertainment and storytelling its use cardboard cutouts of figures that are placed between a light source such as lamp and cancel it screen that is often a piece of stretch fabric
• Carillo names

  
• Komedya - is one of the earliest examples of the stage play in the country features choreography fights called batala and mixes some special effects called magia to create the illusion of magic
• Two types of komedya

  • secular komedya - moro moro
  • Religious komedya - senakulo
• Religious komedya - also called comedia de santo centers of the life of christ or any saint
• Sarswela - is considered the father of drama
• Sarswela - it began around 1878 to 1979 in the form of spanish zarzuela
• Sarswela - it picked around 1900 up to the 1940s
• Bodabil - theater in the philippines is still alive though not as popular as stage play are before still performed in schools and by professional theater groups like philippine educational theater association or peta