Dumaguete Festival Schedule for the Year - Streat Dancing and Merrymaking
November 6, 2008 by admin
Filed under Bacong Festival, Bais Festival, Canlaon Festival, Dumaguete Festival, San Jose Festival, Sibulan Festival, Tanjay Festival
Dumaguete Festival Schedule for the Year - Streat Dancing and Merrymaking
What: Sinulog de Jimalalud
When: Around January 13
Where: Jimalalud
Happening: Street dancing and pageants
What: Tawo-tawo Festival
When: February 17
Where: Bayawan City
Happening:Street dancing with scarecrow higantes the day before fiesta to celebrate the guardians of the town’s crops
What: Pasayaw Festival
When: March 19
Where: Canlaon City
Happening:Honors St. Joseph with street dancing giving thanks for the harvest that makes the province rice and vegetable bowl
What: Libod Sayaw sa Bindoy
When: April 4
Where: Bindoy
Happening:Street dancing based on Philippine folk dances
What: Santacruzan & Mayflower Festival
When: Throughout May
Where: Province-wide
Happening: Dumaguete-last week of May, Ayungon- every 3rd week
What: Ayuquitan Festival
When: May 7
Where: San Jose
Happening: Street dancing, retells the origins of the town’s former place named derived from inukitan, or bird pickings
What: Fluvial Procession
When: June 12
Where: Sibulan
Happening:Decorated and lighted boats carry venerated images and devotees along the town’s coastal waters
What: Budyas Festival
When: June 29
Where: Amlan
Happening: Old ritual invokes good fortune on fishermen, image of patron St. Peter & St. Paul are ferried by decorated sea crafts between the two chapels of Tandayag
What: Sinulog de Tanjay
When: 3rd week of July
Where: Tanjay
Happening:Choreographed procession recounts ancient Moro-Christian conflict and the intercession of patron Señor Santiago
What: Silliman University Founder’s Day
When: August 22- 28
Where: Dumaguete City
Happening: Weeklong activities commemorating the establishment in 1901 of the first Protestant University in the country
What: Hudyaka Festival
When: September 7
Where: Bais City
Happening: Mardi gras and elaborate floats bring secular revelry to the city’s fiesta.
What: Sipong Festival
Where: Bais City
What: St. Paul College Founder’s Day
When: October 21-29
Where:Dumaguete City
Happening:Weeklong activities marking the founding in 1904 of the first St. Paul de Charters institution in the Philippines.
What: Sandurot Festival
When: 3rd week of November
Where: Dumaguete City
Happening: Fiesta events welcoming the various cultural strains that enrich the city’s character
When: Daro Sinulog & Santacruzan
Where: Daro, Dgte City
Happening:Another street dancing
What: Pasko Festival
When: December
Where: Province-wide
Happening:Lighted displays and giant Christmas animations in the parks and nightly activities to celebrate the holiday season
What: Hugyawan Dalansayaw
When: 1st Sunday of December
Where: NORSU, Dumaguete City
Happening: Vigorous and elaborately choreographed street dancing
What:Foundation University Kasadya-an Festival
When: 3rd week of December
Where: FU, Dumaguete City
Happening: Features the province oldest and longest Mardi Gras Parade
What: Yag-yag Festival
Where: Cangmating, Sibulan
Happening:Egg-scattering on the shoreline by certain sea creatures in Cangmating, as well as GAPNOD of Sibulan
What: Dolphin & Whale Watching
When: 2nd & 3rd quarter of the year
Where: Bais City
Happening:Leisurely cruise of Bais bay for delightful surprises
What: Lighting of candles
When: 13th of every month
Where: Sibulan
Happening:Hordes of supplicants travel to shrines of St. Anthony of Padua and the Holy Child at the parish church
What:Bacon of Bacong
Where: Bacong
Happening:When the Moro pirates attacked the village, now called Bacong, the brave chief shouted “Bacon” meaning stand up! Rise up! The native warriors stood up and rushed at the Moros with their sharp bolos, spears, bows, and arrows, daggers and blow gun (supot).
