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    The document describes several festivals celebrated in the Philippines: 1. The Kadayawan Festival in Davao celebrates life, nature, culture and harvest. 2. The Pahiyas Festival in Lucban honors St. Isidore and features houses decorated with fruits and vegetables. 3. The Higantes Festival in Angono coincides with the feast of St. Clement and features large paper mache figures.

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    The document describes several festivals celebrated in the Philippines: 1. The Kadayawan Festival in Davao celebrates life, nature, culture and harvest. 2. The Pahiyas Festival in Lucban honors St. Isidore and features houses decorated with fruits and vegetables. 3. The Higantes Festival in Angono coincides with the feast of St. Clement and features large paper mache figures.

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    The document describes several festivals celebrated in the Philippines: 1. The Kadayawan Festival in Davao celebrates life, nature, culture and harvest. 2. The Pahiyas Festival in Lucban honors St. Isidore and features houses decorated with fruits and vegetables. 3. The Higantes Festival in Angono coincides with the feast of St. Clement and features large paper mache figures.

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    Kadayawan Festival Third week of August .

    The Kadayawan Festival 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, 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
    .

    Pahiyas Festival 15th May .Lucban celebrates the Pahiyas Festival in honor of the patron saint
    of farmers, St. Isidore. This festival showcases a street of houses which are adorned with fruits,
    vegetables, agricultural products, handicrafts and kiping, a rice-made decoration, which
    afterwards can be eaten grilled or fried. The houses are judged and the best one is proclaimed
    the winner.
    Higantes 23rd November .Angono celebrates the “Higantes Festival” which coincides with the
    Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. Higantes Festival is now promoted as
    tourism-generating event in the country. This attracts numerous tourist from all over the
    world. </li></ul><ul><li>The higantes are made of paper-mache. Higantes measures four to five
    feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century
    when Angono was a Spanish hacienda. This higantes was influenced by the Mexican art form
    of paper-mache brought by the Spanish priests to the Philippines.

    Kadayawan Festival Third week of August .The Kadayawan Festival 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, 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.
    Dinagyang 4th Sunday of January .The Dinagyang is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo
    City , Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. Dinagyang was voted as the best
    Tourism Event for 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the Association of Tourism Officers in the
    Philippines.

    MassKara Festival 3rd weekend nearest to 19th October .The MassKara Festival is a week-long
    festival held each year in Bacolod City , the capital of Negros Occidental province. The festival
    features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to
    see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of
    mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina. The word MassKara has a double meaning. First, it
    is a fusion of the English word “mass” or many and “kara”, the Spanish word for “face.”
    MassKara then becomes a “mass of faces,” and these faces have to be smiling to project
    Bacolod already known in the late 70’s as the City of Smiles.
    Sinulog 3rd Sunday of January . The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño
    (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu . It is a dance ritual that commemorates the Cebuano
    people’s pagan origin, and their acceptance of Christianity. The festival features a street
    parade with participants in bright-colored costumes dancing to the rhythm of drums,
    trumpets, and native gongs.

    Panagbenga Festival Whole Month of February .The festival in Baguio 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. The festival includes floats that are decorated with flowers unlike those used in
    Pasadena’s Rose Parade. The festival also includes street dancing, presented by dancers clad in
    flower-inspired costumes, that is inspired by the Bendian, an Ibaloi dance of celebration that
    came from the Cordillera region.

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