BANGUS FESTIVAL

The Bangus Festival is an annual celebration in the city of Dagupan. It

highlights the city’s rich milk fish aquaculture industry in the province of
Pangasinan and in the country.

The city of Dagupan is an independent component city created by virtue of

Republic Act No 170 signed by President Manuel Roxas on June 20, 1947.

The city’s name was derived from the local dialect word “pandaragupan”
meaning a gathering since the city has been for centuries the regional
market center in particular the Ilocos Region or Region 1.

This year, the festival will be held from April 6 to April 30, kicking off with
the Gilon Gilon ed Baley Street Dancing Competition. Other highlights of
the festival include the Festivals of the North, an event which highlights
festivals other festivals in Northern Luzon as well as the Bangusan Street
Party.
 BAMBANTI FESTIVAL

A big part of the lives of people from the Northern Philippines is Agriculture
– the bread and butter of most families, if you will. So much of their lives revolve
around grains and produce that it’s only fitting for them to dedicate an annual
festival for it.

“Bambanti” is the Ilocano term for scarecrow. The watchguards of their fields and
farms. This year, 20 out of 34 municipalities joined in the festivities.

Aside from the Agri Eco-Tourism booths, there is also an annual cooking contest
organized by Mrs. Ann Dy, the wife of Governor Faustino Dy III.Representatives
from each municipality compete to create a dish based on the main ingredient. The
chosen ingredient for

As with any festival in the Philippines, there always has to be a dance component.
All the participating municipalities prepared for months to come up with their own
exciting presentations.
 MAMMANGUI FESTIVAL

Mammangi Festival celebrated amid the most recent seven day stretch of
May; a Ybanag word meaning the reap or planting of corn. It respects the
ranchers who are the genuine establishment of Ilagan's economy and is
commended as a thanksgiving action for a decent gather. Mammangui
originated from the Ybanag wordmangui or corn. In the year 2011, General
Ordinance No. 33 proclaimed amid the organization of Mayor Josemarie L.
Diaz, DMD appointed Mammangui Festival as the official party of Ilagan to
be praised on the period of May.

Amid the yearly festival of the celebration, the neighborhood government can
start exercises, for example, b-ball games, cheerdance rivalries, engine and
auto appear, fun-run and a show held at the Ilagan Community Center
including nearby famous people which was gone to by a great many
Ilagueños. Features of the festival are the much anticipated occasions like
the vivid buoy parade, road moving exhibitions executed by youthful
Ilagueño artists wearing local ensembles made of indigenous materials and
magnificence events like the Little Miss Ilagan, Miss Gay Mammangui and
the scan for Mammangui Festival Queen which grandstands the excellence
and gifts of Ilagueñas. Tourists come here from all over the world with their
family and friends.
 MANGO FESTIVAL

"Zambales is more than just a mining province, it is a rising tourist

site,” Deloso said.

In the last two weeks, locals and tourists alike witnessed other
activities during the festival.Among these were Zamba Tuklas
Talento, I Love Zumbales Zumba Session, Ginoong Millennial
Zambales, Musikalikasan Beach Mardi Gras, Sambaliwanag Float
Parade, Environmental Summit, Tanghalang Zambaleño,
Padagaw Nin Aytan Zambaleño, Lakbaycycle Tour, Binibining
Zambales 2019, and the Earth Hour Celebration.

"The celebration of the Zambales mango is more than just the

mango itself. Truly, the event is a celebration of Zambales and the
many things one can do in the province," Omar Deloso, chair of
the festival, said."Zambales is more than just a mining province, it
is a rising tourist site,” Deloso said.
 PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL

Baguio is not only famous for the Panagbenga Festival. There are a lot
of activities that you can enjoy during your visit. Baguio is one of the
places where culture is rich and you won’t run out of things to do and
places to visit.

Baguio is not only famous for the Panagbenga Festival. There are a lot
of activities that you can enjoy during your visit. Baguio is one of the
places where culture is rich and you won’t run out of things to do and
places to visit.

The word “Panagbenga” is a word from the local Kankanaey language,

which means “blooming.” The first festival was held in 1996 and was
used as a means of recovering after the devastation that Baguio got from
the earthquake of 1990. After that, more people started to come over to
see one of the most colorful festivals in the country. In terms of media
coverage, this event has the largest coverage every time and is also one
of the most attended festivals in the country.
 IBON EBON FESTIVAL

IBON EBON FESTIVAL, happening on February 8-10, is dedicated to the Candaba Swamp which
serves as a temporary home of thousands of migratory birds from different parts of the world. Bird
watchers and nature lovers make their way to Candaba, Pampanga during this time of the year to
have a glimpse of our avian friends that found a temporary in the swamps of Candaba.

Over 14,000 migratory birds pass over the swamp before they set off to other parts of Asia and the
rest of the world.

Highlights of the event are the Art Exhibition, Wild Bird Photography, Trade Fair, various contests,
Kite Flying, Fun Run, Boat race exhibition, Karera ng Itik, free concerts at night and of course, the
GRAND STREET PARADE.

Intricately designed costumes and colorful body painting will be the main decoration of local
participants while dancing on the streets of Pampanga.

The 6th year of this eco-tourism festival promises to be more exciting and will offer new programs to
promote the natural beauty and wonder of Candaba and its annual avian visitors.
 MASSKARA

Throughout the years, the MassKara Festival of Bacolod City has become one of the
biggest festivals in the Philippines. Believe it or not, the festival has been giving local
and foreign visitors the chance to have fun, drink, and party on the streets of
Bacolod for over 30 years now!

This annual festival, which is similar to Brazil’s Rio Carnival, literally translates to “many
faces,” and is celebrated every October in Bacolod. Because of the smiling faces of the
mask, Bacolod City got the nickname of The City of Smiles.

The MassKara Festival can trace its roots back in the 1980s and was born
out of a crisis. It was during the time when the province's main livelihood,
sugar, was priced at an all-time low because of alternatives introduced in
the market. It was also the time when a tragic ferry accident happened,
which carried mostly people from the province including those from
prominent families of Bacolod.
 AMMUNGAN FESTIVAL

The 2018 "Ammungan" Gathering Festival will center around the rich history and
culture of Nueva Vizcaya, common authorities said Thursday. The Festival, to be held
from May 21 to 25, is a yearly cluster of weeklong merriments in the area where Novo
Vizcayanos from ying backgrounds will recognize the region's establishing
commemoration on May 24. It was announced as a non-working occasion here. The
celebration's chief general, said the official board of trustees has picked history and
culture as the focal point of the merriments to advance the conventions of different
indigenous people groups that make 70 percent out of the aggregate populace of Nueva
Vizcaya.

This social and verifiable feature of our merriments is auspicious considering the
endeavors of the common government in safeguarding the way of life and customs of
different clans here," Torralba said. Marichele Costales, commonplace tourism regulating
officer, said since 2014, the commonplace government through previous senator Ruth
Padilla began a forceful promotion program to show youthful IPs on their vanishing social
customs, running from taking in their nearby dialect to disguising their local moves, tunes
and ceremonies, among others. This is being directed every year through the IP Summer
Workshop, which has just shown in excess of 1,000 IP youngsters having a place with
the Tuwali ang Ayangan sub-clans of Ifugaos, Kalanguya and Ibaloi sub-clans of Igorots,
Isinais, Gaddangs, Bugkalots and Iwaks, among others, she said.
 BINATBATAN FESTIVAL

The Viva Vigan Festival of Arts is praised amid the principal seven day stretch of the
long stretch of May. It was begun in 1993 by the Save Vigan Ancestral Homes
Association, to advance familiarity with the estimation of the noteworthy town, which was
wanted to reinforce make plans to safeguard and ensure this legacy site. For the past
sixteenth years, the celebration of expressions has been fruitful in scrounging up
consideration for Vigan's tribal houses. With the assistance of national and nearby
organizations, and additionally media, expressions and non-legislative supporters, the
celebration has likewise prevailing with regards to advancing different parts of Vigan. Its
prominence has even profited the entire tourism industry of the northern area, getting
countless nearby and outside travelers inquisitive to investigate and have a "northern
affair.

Viva Vigan's week-long celebrations have both religious and common significance. It
begins on the first of May, when the entire nation observes Labor Day and Vigan recalls
its own Isabelo de los Reyes, who established the nation's first league of work. The
catholic dedicated additionally recalls on this day St. Joseph, supporter holy person of
specialists. The principal day remembrance is trailed by the Binatbatan Festival festivities,
which incorporates a road moving rivalry. Binatbatan moving is associated with Vigan's
abel Iloco make. The move portrays how cotton cases are beaten with bamboo sticks to
discharge the cotton lighten called batbat from its seed. This celebration was begun in
2002 to feature this customary weaving make that is said to originate before the landing
of the Spaniards.
 T’NALAK FESTIVAL

Provinces in the Philippines have their own unique ways of

celebrating their culture. For example, the South Cotabato province
has a big celebration every year known as T’nalak Festival. Every
July, the festival is a week-long celebration held in Koronadal City,
the capital of South Cotabato.
The festival gets its name from “t’nalak,” a
colorful abaca cloth, created and woven by the women of
the T’boli tribe of South Cotabato. The design of the cloth is unique
and “dreamed up” by the person who creates it. That’s why the
province is known as “The Land of the Dreamweavers.” The T’nalak
fabric serves as the festival icon because it symbolizes the blending of
the culture, strength, and unity of the various ethnic groups living in
the province.

The T’nalak Festival also commemorates the works of Lang Dulay, a

T’boli princess from Lake Sebu who was the best weaver of her time.
She was awarded the “Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan” or the
“National Living Treasure Award” in 1998.

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