FESTIVAL Dance

What is Festival?
It is an event, usually and
ordinarily staged by a local
community, which centres on
and celebrates some unique
aspect of that community and
the Festival.
It is usually a day or period
set aside for celebration.

There are many different
types of festival like:
- Music festivals
- Art festivals
- Film festivals
- Cultural festivals
- Seasonal festivals
-
Beer festivals
Mud festivals
- Fire festivals
- Dance festivals
- Drama festivals

Music festival
 A music festival is a festival oriented
towards music that is sometimes
presented with a theme such as
musical genre, nationality or locality
of musicians, or holiday. They are
commonly held outdoors, and are
often inclusive of other attractions
such as food and merchandise
vending machines, performance art,
and social activities.

Music festival

The Pythian Games at
Delphi included musical
performances, and may be
one of the earliest festivals
known. During the Middle
Ages, festivals were often
held as competitions

Music festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria,

Tomato Festival
 The festival started in the
1945 but was only officially
recognised in the 1952. The
festival is known to be in
honour of the town's patron
St. Louis Bertrand (San Luis
Bertràn) and the Mare de
Déu dels (Mother of God of
the Defenceless)

Tomato festival

Mud festival
 The Boryeong Mud Festival is
an annual festival which takes
place during the summer in
Boryeong, a town around 200
km south of Seoul, South
Korea. The first Mud Festival
was staged in 1998 and, by
2007, the festival attracted 2.2
million visitors to Boryeong.

Mud festival
The mud is taken from the
Boryeong mud flats, and trucked
to the Daecheon beach area,
where it is used as the
centrepiece of the 'Mud
Experience Land'. The mud is
considered rich in minerals and
used to manufacture cosmetics.
The festival was originally
conceived as a marketing vehicle
for Boryeong mud cosmetics

Mud festival

Art festival
 Edinburgh Art Festival is
Scotland’s largest annual festival
of visual art and has something
for everyone. Established in 2004,
the Festival works in partnership
with the city’s artists, galleries,
museums and visual art spaces to
present the best, exciting and
most intriguing in visual arts
practice.

Beer festival
 A Beer Festival is an
organized event during
which a variety of beers
(and often other alcoholic
drinks) are available for
tasting and purchase.
Beer festivals are held in a
number of countries.

 Singapore holds an annual Beer
Festival, Beerfest Asia, in June
each year. It was first held in 2008
and attracts over 30,000 beer
lover
Oktoberfest is the world's largest
beer festival or Volkfest. Held
annually in Munich, Germany, it is
a 16-18-day festival.

Beer festival

FESTIVAL DANCE
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 (religious) or in
thanksgiving of a bountiful
harvest (secular)

ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
-The Ati-Atihan Festival is a feast held
annually in January in honor of the Santo
Niño (Infant Jesus), concluding on the
third Sunday, in the island and town of
Kalibo, Aklan in the Philippines. The name
"Ati-Atihan" means "to be like Aetas" or
"make believe Ati's." Aetas were the
primary settlers in the islands according
to history books. They too are the
earliest settlers of Panay Island where the
province of Aklan is situated.

ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
-The festival consists of tribal dance,
music, accompanied by indigenous
costumes and weapons, and parade
along the street.
Christians, and non-Christians observe this
day with religious processions. It has
inspired many other Philippine Festivals
including the Sinulog Festival of Cebu and
Dinagyang of Iloilo, both adaptations of
the Kalibo Ati-Atihan Festival.

DINAGYANG FESTIVAL
-The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural
festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the
fourth Sunday of January, or right after the
Sinulog In Cebu and the Ati-Atihan in
Aklan. It is held both to honor the Santo
Niño and to celebrate the arrival
on Panay of Malay settlers and the
subsequent selling of the island to
them by the Atis.

MORIONES FESTIVAL
-The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy
Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines.
The "Moriones" are men and women in costumes
and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman
soldiers as interpreted by local folks. The Moriones
or Moryonan tradition has inspired the creation of
other festivals in the Philippines where cultural
practices or folk history is turned into street
festivals.[1
The participants use morion masks to
depict the Roman soldiers and Syrian
mercenaries within the story of the Passion
of the Christ.

KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL
-The Kadayawan Festival is an annual
festival in the city of Davao in the
Philippines. Its name derives from the
friendly greeting "Madayaw", from the
Dabawenyo 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

PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL
-Panagbenga Festival (English: Blooming
Flowers Festival) is a month-long annual
flower festival occurring in Baguio, the
summer capital of the Philippines.[1] The term
is of Malayo- Polynesian origin, meaning
"season of blooming". The festival, held during
the month of February, was created as a
tribute to the city's flowers and as a way to
rise up from the devastation of the 1990
Luzon earthquake.[2The festival includes floats
that are covered mostly with flowers not
unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose Parade.

PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL

HIGANTES FESTIVAL
 -Angono’s joyous fiesta in honour of San
Clemente whose image, resplendent in
papal investment, is borne by male
devotees during a procession
accompanied by “Parehadoras”
dressed in colourful local costumes,
wooden shoes and carrying boat
and higantes, giant paper Mache
The street event culminates in fluvial
procession at the Laguna de Bay
revelry that continues until the image
brought back to its sanctuary

MANGO FESTIVAL
 -Zambales is known for its pristine beaches
and beautiful islands, but it's most loved for
its mangoes. In 1995, mangoes grown in
the province were cited by the Guinness
Book of World Records as the sweetest
mangoes in the world. In addition, in
2013, the Department of Agriculture said
that Zambales mangoes remain to be
the sweetest in the country. As a way of
promoting and giving thanks for a good
harvest, the people of Zambales
annually celebrate the Mango Festival
every April.

BINATBATAN FESTIVAL
-The Viva Vigan Binatbatan Festival boasts of
joyful colors which envelopes the whole of
"World Heritage City," as Vigan, Ilocos Sur is
known for. It lures hundreds of local and foreign
tourists including residents and visitors in
nearby towns as they flock along the Crisologo
Street which is lined up with ancestral houses.
-The weeklong festival features local culture and
arts of which the Binatbatan and Longanisa
Festivals and the Amazing Heritage Race.

PENAFRANCIA FESTIVAL
-Our Lady of Peñafrancia (Spanish:
Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia in the
Philippines, and Nuestra Señora de la
Peña de Francia or Virgen de la Peña
de Francia in Spain) is a wooden
statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in
the Philippines patterned after the
one in Peña de Francia (Salamanca,
Spain). Millions of pilgrims, devotees,
and tourists arrive in Naga City — also
known as the Pilgrim City and the
Queen City of the Bicol region — in
the Philippines every September for
nine-day festivities in honor of Our
Lady of Peñafrancia, the Principal
Patroness and Queen of Bicol who is
endearingly addressed by Bicolanos as
Iná (mother).

KINABAYO FESTIVAL
DAPITAN (ST. JAMES THE GREAT)
Presently, the Kinabayo Festival is a
merging of religious, historical,
cultural, social and economic
elements, These include sports
competition, night presentations, a
beauty pageant, agro- trade fairs,
street dancing and showdown, street
parties and live band concert.

PINTADOS FESTIVAL
-The Pintados Festival is a cultural-
religious celebration in Tacloban based on
the body- painting traditions of the
ancient tattooed "pintados" warriors. In
1986, the Pintados Foundation, Inc. was
formed by the people of Tacloban to
organize this festival in honor of Sr.
Santo Niño. Years later, it was merged with
the Kasadyaan Festival which is always
held on JUNE 29

PATTARADAY FESTIVAL
-Pattaraday which means unity is an Ybanag word; it is
celebrated on the occasion of the founding anniversary
of Santiago. It celebrates the unity of the ethno-
linguistic groups that have merged in the city to make
it the melting pot of culture of Region 02 and
contributed to the city’s progress and development-
unity in action.
Highlighted with the presentation of the Comedia – a
moro-moro dance made famous by the Spaniards to
stress the power of Christian Religion over the Moorish
non-believers; other activities include beauty
pageant, grand batalla presentations and a grand
street dancing parade and exhibition with performers
from other cities, provinces and regions

SANGYAW FESTIVAL
-Sangyaw Festival is a religious and socio-
cultural event in the Philippines. It was
revived in 2008 by the city government of
Tacloban, Philippines. Sangyaw means "to
herald news" in Waray language. Various
festival-participants from different parts
of the country participate in this tribal
procession. It
was held a day before the city fiesta. The
festival was first held in 1974 but was
cancelled in 1987

BANGUS FESTIVAL
-The Dagupan Bangus Festival is a yearly
event in Pangasinan first initiated by
Mayor Benjamin Lim in 2002. The festival
aims at promoting the city’s local bangus
(milkfish) industry. In 2003, the Guinness
Book of World Records
recognized the “Kalutan ed Dagupan”
as the Longest Barbecue of the World

BANGUS FESTIVAL

BAMBANTI FESTIVAL
 Bambanti,” an Iloko term for scarecrow, is
used by Isabelinos to scare away birds to
protect their crop fields. More than its
practical use, Isabelinos also consider the
bambanti as a symbol of their resilience
that helped them get past disasters
brought by bad weather conditions.-A
creative 'bambanti' or scarecrow
displayed in the Agro-Eco Tourism exhibit
in the capitol grounds of Isabela during
the Bambanti festival.

MAMMANGUI FESTIVAL
Ilagan City, Isabela every May 30th,
“Mammangui” is an Ibanag word which
stands for corn and as the name
implies, this festival celebrates the
corn harvest of the farmers of Isabela’s
capital and largest city by land area.
This is celebrated together with
the Binallay Festival, which honors the
city’s rice cake industry as it is also a
rice-producing locale.

IBON EBON FESTIVAL
One of the more colourful events in Pampanga,
the Ibon Ebon Festival (literally means 'bird -
egg') features the municipality of Candaba as
the home of thousands of migratory birds from
different parts of the globe, and at the same
time showcases its growing duck-egg industry.
Among the activities featured during the two-
day event include: street-dance performance by
Tribung Dumara and other schools' contingents,
exhibits and trade fair at the Ms. Earth Park,
bird-inspired kite flying exhibition, itik race and
boat race along Pampanga river

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T’NALAK FESTIVAL
T’nalak Festival inaugural celebration
was held in 1999 which was also
preceded in 1998 by former president
Fidel Ramos, declaring Bey Lang Dulay
of Lake Sebu, as a Living Treasure in
T’nalak weaving.

Known with its geometric
patterns is a traditional
masterpiece of intensely
colored abaca fibers dreamt to
life by T’boli weavers that has
come to be known as the
ultimate cultural emblem of the
province of South Cotabato