Top 10 Pinoy Festivals

Dinagyang Festival

Held in the month of January 

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.

Website: http://dinagyangsailoilo.com/

 

MassKara Festival

Held in the month of October

The Masskara Festival (Hiligaynon: Pista sang MassKara, Filipino: Fiesta ng MassKara) is a festival held each year in Bacolod, Philippines, every third weekend of October nearest October 19, the city's Charter anniversary.

Website: http://www.bacolodmasskarafestival.com/

 

Sinulog festival

Held in the third Sunday of January

The festival commemorates the Filipino people's pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. The main feature is a street parade with participants in bright coloured costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums, trumpets and native gongs. Smaller versions of the festival are held in various parts of the province, also to celebrate and honor the Santo Niño.

Website: http://www.sinulog.ph

Panagbenga Festival

Held in the month of February

Panagbenga Festival (English: Flower 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 decorated with flowers not unlike those used in Pasadena's Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in flower-inspired costumes that are inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that came from the Cordillera region.

Website: http://www.panagbengaflowerfestival.com/ and http://www.baguio.gov.ph/?q=frontpage

Bangus Festival

Held in the month of April to 1^st week of May

Bangus Festival is an annual festivity in Dagupan City, Pangasinan that kicks off every month of April. It celebrates the province's Bonuan bangus, which is renowned for its unique taste.

Website: http://www.dagupanbangusfestival.com/#

Ati-Atihan Festival

Held in the month of January

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.

Website: http://www.kaliboatiatihan.com/

Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival

Held in the month of June

Pintados Festival is a cultural-religious celebration in Tacloban based on the body-painting traditions of the ancient tattooed "pintados" warriors.[1] in 1986, the Pintados Foundation, Inc. was formed by the people of Tacloban to organize this festival in honor of Sr. Santo Niño.

Kadayawan Festival 

Held in the third week of August

-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, and 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.

Website: http://www.kadayawan.com/

Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)

Held  from the 25th of December to the first week of January

The Metro Manila Film Festival-Philippines (MMFF-P) is the annual film festival held in Manila. The festival, which runs from the 25th of December to the first week of January, focuses on locally-produced films.

Website: http://mmda.gov.ph/mmff/

 

Pahiyas Festival

Held in every May 15

Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas Festival every 15 May in honor of the patron saint of farmers, St Isadora the Laborer. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits, vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kipping, a rice-made decoration, which afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried. The houses are judged and the best one is proclaimed the winner. Every year, tourists roam the municipality to witness the decoration of houses.

Website: http://www.pahiyasfestival.com/home/

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