Basilica to celebrate Kaplag

Posted on April 20th, 2008 by mvg.
Categories: Events, Features.

Kaplag (Discovery) commemorates the 443rd anniversary of the discovery of the miraculous Image of the Santo Niño on April 28, 1565 in a modest, native house by Juan Camus, a soldier of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi’s fleet of the then village of Cebu.

Deeply impressed by the finding of this Image that all agreed at the time was brought from Europe and aware of its significance, Legaspi ordered an official inquiry conducted. On May 16 of the same year, a document written at that time tells us from the testimony of eyewitnesses that the Image was found inside a small pine box. Preserved in almost perfect condition, the Image wore a little shirt and cap with two of the fingers of its right hand raised in a gesture of blessing, while the left hand held a globe symbolizing the world. (more…)

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Kalilangan Festival 2008

Posted on February 29th, 2008 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

By Nelson C. Bagaforo

EACH year, General Santos City marks its foundation anniversary on February 27 with various activities culminating the weeklong celebration of Kalilangan Festival. The anniversary celebration commemorates the landing of the city’s founder, General Paulino Santos, along with the first settlers from Luzon, at the shores of Sarangani Bay.(more)

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Aeta festival to be launched during Mabalacat fiesta

Posted on December 27th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

Reynaldo G. Navales

MABALACAT — The 2008 Mabalacat Fiesta Executive Committee will be launching the first ever Aeta Festival during the celebration of town fiesta which will kick off on January 26.

Diosdao Pangilinan, chairman of the 2008 Mabalacat Fiesta execom, said the festival dubbed as Caragan Festival, which will be formally launched on February 28, aims to give the municipality its identity similar to the Sinulog of Cebu and Maskara of Bacolod.

The culture of the town’s first inhabitants headed by Chieftain Caragan will be interpreted during the festival, according to Pangilinan. (more…)

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Naga launches festival of shepherds’ tales

Posted on December 24th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

By Jujemay G. Awit

THE year 2007 is a milestone year for Naga.

Even as it became a city, it also honored its traditions by officially launching its own festival, the Pastores de Naga.

Pastores de Naga depicts the shepherds’ retelling of Joseph and Mary’s journey to find a birthing place for the Savior, according to the Christian tradition.(more)

The story is told through songs and dances. In between songs, the presenters tell the story in a poetic manner.

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A gastronomic adventure with the Duman Festival

Posted on December 9th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

STA. RITA — It was indeed a night to remember. Having imposed on ourselves an immediate fasting and having worked terrible long hours that day, we began telling ourselves that we were ready for the Arti.Sta Rita’s Duman Festival.

And like the ways that we usually start our December, we flocked that night to the old Sta. Rita Parish church patio and began the litany of a long gastronomic adventure of old Capampangan cooking. Greeting us were rows of stalls and booths, pastries and delicacies to home cooked meals that were lined at the four corners of the church meeting place. The Church patio was swarming with a huge mass of warm bodies. Some were seated on the middle of the field were chairs and tables were provided for eating. At the left side near the church was the makeshift stage was NCCA were performances from Arti Sta. Rita were staged non-stop. (more)

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Lang-ay fest bags P45T

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

THE Lang-ay Festival Group from Mountain Province brought home the first prize with their three-minute presentation during the grand parade of the Cordillera festivals at the Burnham Park Athletic Bowl as part of the 3rd Wow Philippines, Cordillera’s Best 2007.

Lang-ay is the Mountain Province’s traditional practice of generosity, sharing and respect. The group bags P45,000 cash prize. (more)

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Masskara Festival

Posted on October 30th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

Jojie Alcantara
Witerary

MASSKARA is coined from two words: mass, for crowd, and the Spanish word cara, for face — hence, a double meaning for “mask” and “many faces”. The Masskara festival was first conceived in 1980 to add color and cheer to the Bacolod City’s celebration of its Charter Day anniversary on October 19.

The symbol of the festival is a smiling mask — adopted by the organizers to dramatize the Negrenses’ happy spirit despite periodic economic crises experienced in the sugar industry. (more)

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Antequera, Bohol’s basket capital joins Sandugo 2007

Posted on July 12th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

ONE of the must-buys when you are in Bohol is basket ware. To get a good deal, especially if you are buying in bulk, go to Anteqeura.

Hailed the Basket Capital of Bohol, Antequera is a small municipality which lies 18.5 kilometers to the west of Tagbilaran City. The roughly thirty minute ride to Antequera may seem to be so out of the way, but Bohol’s stunning country side dotted with picturesque ancestral homes makes the time pass by unnoticed. (more…)

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The Festival of Festivals

Posted on April 12th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features, Festivals.

DISCOVER Negros Occidental’s bountiful land… charming people. Savor its legendary cuisine of delectable dishes and sugar-based delicacies… Experience its lifestyle that is a sweet blend of the cosmopolitan and the rustic: enjoy the amenities of a modern metropolis without its hassles.

Capture the essence of Negros Occidental in the annual celebration of Panaad sa Negros Festival in Bacolod City, scheduled every April. (more)

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La Trinidad’s strawberry cake declared world’s largest

Posted on March 6th, 2007 by mvg.
Categories: Features.

Jane Cadalig

AFTER more than a year, the municipality of La Trinidad finally got the title it has long been waiting for.

Mayor Nestor Fongwan announced that the Strawberry Butter Cake, which the town baked in 2005, was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest fruit shortcake ever baked.

The municipality received the confirmation last May 31.

This, as Fongwan said they are now preparing for the staging of the fourth strawberry cake festival next year. (more…)

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