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The Philippines' largest charity bazaar is held at Manila's World Trade Center every year, offering a range of products from crafts to the latest hi-fi gadgets. Over the years proceeds raised…
The Pastores Bicol folk festival in Legazpi City offers carol-singing with a difference. Young people (or pastores) dress as the shepherds who visited Jesus in Bethlehem, singing songs and…
Six-metre Parols with kaleidoscopic blinking lights are paraded through the streets of San Fernando at the famous Giant Lantern Festival. The giant star-shaped lanterns travel on trucks…
Filipino Christmas: Paskuhan sa Imus
For the month of December, Imus in Cavite celebrates Christmas in grand style. Streets, houses and shops are decorated with thousands of parols, the star-shaped Philippine lanterns that…
The Philippines is a great place to be at Christmas. This intensely religious country takes the birth of Christ extremely seriously - a near month-long festival begins with the Misa de Gallo…
The Feast of the Black Nazarene is an intense devotional procession through Manila's Quiapo district. The focus is a rare statue of the suffering Christ, with a cross on his shoulders and a…
At Cebu's Sinulog Festival, people wearing phenomenal costumes of feathers and bright silks in a bewildering array of colours dance for hours in a Grand Parade. Masks and horns, traditional…
Soon after Ati-Atihan in Kalibo, Iloilo City, on the southern coast of Panay Island, holds celebrations in honour of the baby Jesus - Dinagyang.
On 25 February 1986, the People's Power Revolution toppled Ferdinand Marcos' tyrannous reign in the Philippines. Every year, Manila commemorates the peaceful uprising with People's Power Day.…
The towns of Boac, Mogpog and Gasan on the island province of Marinduque are the setting for the Moriones Festival celebrated during holy week each year.
A beauty pageant crossed with a religious procession, Santacruzan is held across the Philippines during the month of May. Locals dress as biblical and historical characters to commemorate St…
The Feast of San Roque street festival dates back to the 18th century, when the people of Valenzuela first gave thanks to their patron saint, San Roque. Women from the various barangays…
See a water buffalo like never before - oiled, shaved and generally ornamented - during the Pulilan Carabao Festival. Families gather their carabao, scrape off the mud, and even smarten them…
Flowers like ylang-ylang, hibiscus and sampaguitas are strewn around Manila by young girls in white during the city's Flores de Mayo festival, a month-long event that celebrates virginal…
Holy Cross Festival (Santacruzan)
On Sundays in May, if you visit Nayong Pilipino park in Pasay City you find yourself in the midst of an incredible religious re-enactment - the Holy Cross Festival (Santacruzan).
The Pasundayag celebrations in Iloilo City is a celebration of the rich cultural heritage of Northern Mindanao that includes lots of music, dancing, arts, crafts and agricultural displays for…
The Parade of the Pigs (Parada Ng Lechon) celebration in Balayan, on the south coast of Luzon, coincides with the feast of John the Baptist. Suckling pigs are the main attraction, but be…
The annual World Food Expo at Manila's World Trade Center attracts more than 50,000 visitors every year. No surprise perhaps, as it offers baking and cooking demos, technical and business…
Cinemanila International Film Festival
Held annually since 1989, Cinemanila is an international juried film festival that celebrates and promotes Filipino and Southeast Asian Cinema. Screenings, seminars and workshops are held at…
The annual thanksgiving festival, Kadayawan Sa Dadaw brings a week of festivities to Davao City. Events include a fashion show, an agricultural fair and the highlight on Saturday, the…
