MAPEH

• Non-Religous Festival


  Form of thanks giving celebration
• Pasasalamat


  Term for non-religious festival
• Panagbenga Festival


  • Annual Flower Festival celebrated every February in Baguio City, Philippines
  • The term "Panagbenga" comes from the Ibaloi term meaning "season of blooming"
  • Created as a tribute to the city's resilience and to rise up from the devastation of the 1996 Luzon earthquake
• Masskara Festival


  • Combination of the English word "mask" and the Spanish "cara" meaning "face"
  • Started in the early 1980s when the world prices for sugar in Bacolod City, the country's "City of Smile", dropped
• Ligligan Parul Festival

  December
• Ligligan Parul


  Secular festival with roots in Bacolor, originally a simpler activity called "Ligligan Para sa Mga Parul"
• Secular Festival


  • Bangus Festival (Dagupan, Pangasinan - Milk Fish Industry)
  • Mammangui Festival (City of Ilagan - Corn Industry)
  • Mango Festival (Iba, Zambales - Mango Industry)
  • Panaabenga Festival (Baguio City - Flower Industry)
  • IBon Ebon Festival (Pampanga - Migratory Birds)
  • Masskara Festival (Bacolod City - Mask/Sugar Industry)
  • Koronada Festival (Cotabato - Abaca)
  • Kimmuangan Festival (Nueva Vizcaya - Tribal Gathering)
  • Binatbatan Festival (Vigan, Ilocos Sur - Weaving Industry)