3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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.
7. 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
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▶ The most common festival in Spain is called La Tomatina. It is a food
festival that is held every year on the last Wednesday of august, in the
town of bunol in the Valencia region of Spain. It is known that Tens of
metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets in exactly
one hour. The festival are open to only men and women. The festival is
a week long that includes music, parades, dancing and of course
fireworks. It is known that on the night before the festival begins, the
partaker of the festival will compete in a paella cooking contest. The
tradition for this is that women are to wear all white and men are to
wear no t-shirt.
9. V festival
▶ The V festival is one example of a music
festival.
▶The V Festival is an annual music festival
held in England during the penultimate
weekend in August. The event is held at two
parks simultaneously which share the same
bill; artists perform at one location on
Saturday and then swap on Sunday
11. 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.
▶ 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
13. 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.
15. 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.
17. CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The many communities of
predominantly Catholic Philippines
almost all have a patron saint
assigned to each of them.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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]
` It is a colorful festival celebrated on the island of
Marinduque in the Philippines. The participants
use morion masks to depict the Roman soldiers and Syrian
mercenaries within the story of the Passion of the Christ.
22. 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
23. 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".[1] 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.[2] The
festival includes floats that are covered mostly with
flowers not unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose
Parade.
25. 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”
devotees dressed in colourful local costumes,
wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles and
higantes, giant paper Mache effigies. The street
event culminates in fluvial procession at the
Laguna de Bay amidst revelry that continues
until the image is brought back to its sanctuary
26. 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.
27. MANGO FESTIVAL
-The event, which takes place every April, hopes to
promote the land's delicious mangoes and inspire
local growers to develop competitive mango
products that the entire country can be proud of.
Highlights of the festival are the Mango Eating
Challenge, Street Parade, Float Competition,
Mango-themed Street Dance, Trade Fair, and
Variety Show. T
aste for yourself how sweet
Zambales mangoes are, and join the locals as they
exult in the blessing of having the sweetest
mangoes in the world!
28. 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.
29. PENAFRANCIA FESTIVAL
-Our Lady of Peñafrancia (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de
Peñafrancia in the Philippines, and Nuestra Señora de la Peña de
Franciaor 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).
The shrine in Naga gathers more than five million devotees every
year and is known as one of the biggest Marian pilgrimage sites in
the world
30. KINABAYO FESTIVAL
- 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.
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
36. 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.
37. AMMANGUI FESTIVAL
-If you happen to pass by Ilagan City, Isabela every May
30th, you shouldn’t miss out on the Mammangui
Festival. “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. Aside from
the usual parades and harvest offerings by the farmers,
food fests abound where corn-based dishes are being
served to tourists, thus making this festival which
coincides with the conclusion of summer a must-see one
this side of town.
38. 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
39. T’NALAK FESTIVAL
- T’nalak Festival inaugural celebration was held in 1999
which was also preceded in 1998 by former president
Fidel Valdez Ramos, declaring Bey Lang Dulay of Lake
Sebu, as a Living Treasure in T’nalak weaving. The
renowned T’nalak weaving 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
40. KAAMULAN FESTIVAL
▶ Kaamulan Festival is the only genuine ethnic festival in the country. The
gathering of 7 tribes of Bukidnon is a celebration of thanksgiving for a
bountiful harvest from farms.
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