Sibug-Sibug Festival

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Sibug-Sibug FestivalZamboanga Sibugay, February 18-25 As a commemoration of Zamboanga Sibugay’s founding day as a province. Sibug-sibug Festival is celebrated every February with its highlight fixed on February 26. During the event, the streets are decked with colorful buntings and filled with throngs of onlookers waiting for the colorful street dancing depicting wedding and healing … Read more

Paraw Regatta

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Paraw RegattaIloilo City and Guimaras Island, February 19 The festivity features racing events between local outriggers in the strait between Iloilo City and Guimaras Island. You may want to read: Panay-Guimaras-Negros Bridge Buglas

Babaylan Festival

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Babaylan Festival Bago City, Negros Occidental, February 19 The highlights of the culture of the first settlers of Bago City before the Spanish colonizers arrived. As defined by Negros historians, the babaylan is a doctor, herbalist, artist, adviser, seer, diviner, and agriculturist. You may want to read: Buglas

Mahaguyog Festival

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Mahaguyog FestivalSanto Tomas, Batangas, February 27-March 7 It is an annual festival every Saturday of February as a prelude to the feast day of St. Thomas of Aquinas, the town’s patron saint, as a gesture of gratitude and a way of thanksgiving the farmers for the bountiful harvest of crops they reap the whole year … Read more

Pawu

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Pawu It’s World Turtle Day! The concept of reverse psychology in Kapampángan is expressed with a verb that originates from the Kapampángan root word for “turtle”! PAÛ / PAWÛ • (puh-WOO’)turtle, sea turtleTagálog (Filipino): pagóng, pawíkan (sea turtle) Kapampángan Reverse PsychologyThe concept of reverse psychology is expressed in Kapampángan with the verb magpawû (magpauo in … Read more