Festival

Dances
Ati- Atihan
Ati- Atihan
Itoriginated from Kalibo,
Aklan. Its known as the
“the Mother of All
Filipino Festivals”.
“Pretending to be like an
Ati”
The Ati also known as
Negritos
Itheld every third Sunday of
January in the honor of Sto. Nino in
the island and town of Kalibo, Aklan
in the Philippines.
Ati is also known as Negritos who
have distinctively black skin and
curly hair.
Today they paint they faces with
back stain and wore colorful and
eleborated costumes.
“ Hala Bira!” means Hit them!
 17th century- the moro raiders from
the south were attacking Panay.
 13th century- before the arrival of the
Spaniards in the Philippines, the
indigenous of panay, the Ati (Negrito),
who are small dark (Black) Kinky-
haired people, sold a piece of land and
allowed the immigrants from the island
of Borneo to settle in the lowland.
Majority of the Ati lived in the uplands
Kadayawan Festival
Kadayawan Festival
They celebrated kadayawan
Festival every third week of August
It is held to celebrate LIFE and
CULTURE.
It also the event of thanksgiving
for the gifts of nature, the
boundaries of harvest and peace in
life
Kadayawan Festival
The central theme is the
multicolored mix of davao and
mindanao’s indigenous
communities and the migrant
settlers.
It is an enriching experience that
explores the past, present, and the
future of the Davaoenos, the
Mindanaoans and the Filipinos.
It shows their beautiful harvest
and masks the survival of their
native people.
It celebrated through a parade
of flowers or float parades and
people dancing on the street
known as “sayaw sa Da’n”
Sinulog Festival
Sinulog Festival
Yearly celebration every third
Sunday of January.
The Sto. Nino Is the center of the
festivity.
Sulog means “like water current
movement”
They gracefully dance to the
rhythm of drums, trumpets and
gongs
It is considered as one of the
major popular Philippine festival
celebrations honoring the Sto.
Nino through street dancing along
with the beat of the drums.
It dramatizes the arrival of the
spaniards and the presentation of
the sto. Nino to the queen
MassKara Festival
3rd of October 19
It is a wonderful
combination of brightly
colored dresses along the
masks specially made for
the MassKara Festival.
It began in 1980 during a
period of crisis.
Itis also known as the festival of
smiles because of their traditional
smiling masks.

The purpose to start the festival is

to throw away all the sadness and
the grief that was popping in the
air of the Bacolod City during the
early 80’s
 Theterm MassKara is coined from two
words MASS meaning CROWD and the
spanish word Cara for face thus the
double meaning for “MASK” and “MANY
FACES”