FESTIVAL

DANCE
ATI-ATIHAN
 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.
 Mother of all Filipino Festivals
 The name of the festival means “pretending to
be like an Ati.” The Ati, also known as
Negritos, are an indigenous people who have
distinctively black skin and curly hair.
 the Ati-Atihan festival is said to honor
the Santo Niño (Christ Child).
 In fact, the name of Kalibo means
“one thousand,” which is the number
of people who were baptized in a
single day by early Spanish
missionaries. 
 A shout associated with the Ati-Atihan
Festival is Hala Bira!
SINULOG
 The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is an annual
cultural and religious festival held on the third
Sunday of January in Cebu City, and is the center
of the Santo Niño Catholic celebrations in the
Philippines.
  It is one of the grandest, most distinguished and
most colorful festivals in the Philippines.
 'Sinulog' comes from the Cebuano adverb sulog
which is "like water current movement," which
proficiently describes the forward-backward
movement of the Sinulog dance.
PANAGBENGA
 Panagbenga Festival (English: Blooming
Flowers Festival) is a month-long annual
flower festival occurring in Baguio.
 The term “panagbenga” comes from a
Kankanaey term meaning "season of
blooming".
 Multi-hued costumes are worn, mimicking the
various blooms of the highland region (or any
of its 11 ethnic tribes). These are flowerbeds -
masked, of course, as the Panagbenga parade
floats. 
KAAMULAN
 It is from the Binukid word “amul”
which means “to gather”. It is a
gathering of Bukidnon tribes people
for a purpose. It can mean a datuship
ritual, a wedding ceremony, a
thanksgiving festival during harvest
time, a peace pact, or all of these put
together.
KADAYAWAN
 The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in
the city of Davao in the Philippines during the 3rd
week of August. Its name derives from the friendly
greeting "Madayaw", from the Dabawenyo word
"dayaw", meaning good, valuable, superior or
beautiful.
 It is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts
of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of
harvest and serenity of living. It also focuses on the
multicolored mix of Davao and Mindanao’s
indigenous communities as well as migrant settlers,
whose identities make up the rich cultural heritage of
this island.
MASSKARA
 The Masskara (a combination of the English word
“mass” and the Spanish “kara,” meaning
“face”) is a Festival that started in the early
1980s, when world prices for sugar plummeted;
and Bacolod City, the country’s sugar capital, was
hit by a major crisis.
 Held every third weekend of October or on the
closest weekend to October 19, it dramatizes the
steadfast character of the Negrenses and
symbolizes what the people of the City of Smiles
do best: putting on a happy face when confronted
with challenges.
 People garbed in elegant and
ingenious costumes dance on the
streets, their masks reflective of the
jovial Negrense spirit. Costumes are
made with fabrics of different colors
and patterns, embellished with exotic
feathers, shiny sequins, multicolored
beads and paired with towering
headgear.