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Festivals
This month - "January" 2022
Coco festival
San Pablo City Laguna
The Coconut Festival is a weeklong celebration in honor of the patron saint, Paul the Hermit. The celebration started in 1996, which aim to promote the city and its main produce, the coconut. The highlight of the event, the Mardi gras is usually participated by students and exceptional groups with alluring garbs made from parts of coconut tree while dancing with local indigenous music.
Binuyugan & Bangsi Festival
Municipality of Maitum
Every last week This festival celebrates the abundance of fish locally known as “bangsi” (flying fish). A year round abundant catch made dried fish making a thriving industry in the locality and made the place famous of its bangsi products.
Feast of Black Nazarene(Quiapo)
Manila
An intense, day-long festival highlighted by a mammoth procession of the image of the Black Nazarene from Quiapo Grandstand, Rizal Park, Manila, and around Quiapo district participated in by mostly male devotees who walk barefoot carrying the image in their shoulders. Full of faith, beliefs, and hopes that wishes will be granted and sins forgiven, believers on this occasion express their deepest gratitude to the Creator for all the bounties received the whole year through.
Hinugyaw Festival
Korondal City
Hinugyaw Festival is a colorful merrymaking depicting the evolution of the distinct cultures of the B'laan,Maguindanaons and Christians into a singular wave of rythms. The festival shows the festive spirit with street dancing parade,talent shows and beauty pageant,sports events and nightly street parties.
Kalibo Ati-atihan Festival
Kalibo, Atlan
This is a week-long celebration in honor of the Patron Saint Sto. Niño, which culminates on the 3rd Sunday of January. It is the ultimate jubilating, titillating, stimulating, riotous and frenetic aboriginal street dancing to the early primitive tempo and pulse of drums, participated in by different tribes in their full battle regalia as they crowd the principal streets of Kalibo rejoicing breathlessly to their religious vows.
Sinulog Festival
Cebu City
The Sinulog Festival is Cebu’s biggest and most popular festival. The feast is in honor of the Holy Child, the Sto. Niño de Cebu. Fiesta Señor, as it is widely known, is the celebrated every 3rd Sunday of January where people converge along the route of a grand solemn procession and partake in the gaiety amidst a mardi-gras-type parade immersed in wild colors and the constant beating of drums of the ‘Pit Senyor’.
Bambanti Festival
Province of Isabela
Festival celebrating the use of bambanti or scarecrow by the Isabelinos in their vast farmlands to protect its crops is highlighted by an agro-industrial trade fair participated by the 34 towns and three cities of Isabela. A bambanti village is set up to house all the activities during the festival to include agri-ecotourism exhibits, bambanti installations, Isabela Singing Idol and Glee, festival street dance competition with Festival King and Queen, and a grand fireworks display.