EVENTS CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH
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Ga-Lila Hundred Islands Festival
Alaminos City, Pangasinan
Features longaniza eating contest, farmers & fisher folk float parade, vegetable art contest, mushroom cooking, palarong lahi, singing contest, ballroom dancing, bar tending competition and acoustic nights. The festival is also held during the Patronal Feast of San Jose.
Malasimbo Music and Arts Festival
Puerto Galera
The Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival is an annual celebration of music, arts and nature. Coinciding with the full moon, the festival will be held outdoors at the foot of Mount Malasimbo, overlooking the Puerto Galera Bay, selected as one of “The Most Beautiful Bays in the World”. The festival aims to blend traditional arts and performing styles with contemporary expressions in the arts and showcase the culture of the Mangyan tribal communities while working towards the protection and sustainability of the environment in the environs of Puerto Galera.
Payvanuvanuan Festival
Sitio Jura, Mahatao Batanes
This festival marks the start of the fishing season in Batanes where the fisher folks perform a ritual to pray for good fishing season and safety.
05
Ses’Long Festival
T’boli, South Cotabato
A celebration that portrays the practices of the indigenous people to gather and barter goods. T’boli and B’laan native songs and dances are the main attractions of the festival.
08
Bulawan Festival
Compostela Valley
Bulawan Festival or the festival of gold is a celebration of thanksgiving for a unified government, sustained good harvests, abundant resources and a promise of a golden future. It is symbolized by the gold Solidarity Ring, the biggest ring in the country.
09
Sillage Festival of Lights
Poro Point, San Fernando City, La Union
The highlight of the festival is a fluvial parade, featuring well lighted, decorated boats from participating government agencies, business firms and various organizations. Hope lanterns will be released and sold too. Other activities include trade/food fair, air show, concerts, electric float parade, luminous street dancing, drum and lyre competition and visit to SILLAG Village.
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Bankarera Festival
Delfin Albano, Isabela
This festival features a boat race competition by fishermen using traditional, non-motorized bancas propelled by wooden paddles that traverses the wide expanse of Cagayan River, the longest and widest in the country. A triathlon (biking, running and swimming) competition will also be part of the festivities.
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Araw ng Dabaw
Davao City
A celebration of the Davaoeno's oneness, this is being observed with a grand parade along the major thoroughfares of the city and highlighted by the search for the Mutya ng Dabaw, the city's Ambassadress of Goodwill. Various arts, cultural, musical, culinary, sports and street events are held during the celebration
Pintados de Pasi Festival
Passi City
This exhibition features dancing men and women marked by elaborate tattoos on their bodies believing it will make them invincible during war or protect them against sickness or misfortune. In a competition that showcases the legend and history of the people of the early Panayanon Pintados, participants honor their ancestors by sporting traditional designs, mostly decorative symbols on their arms, legs and torso. This weeklong festivity also includes popular special activities such as Karosa Parada, Pinta Karabaw and Sinadya sa Suba.
18
Strawberry Festival
La Trinidad, Benguet
La Trinidad, Benguet is known as the Strawberry Capital of the Philippines. Listed in the Guiness Book of World Records producing the longest strawberry shortcake, this festival aims to feature a contest on the most unique product with the touch of strawberry. Agro Trade Fair, sports competition and marathon is included in the festivities.
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Zambales Mango Festival
Iba, Zambales
Zambales Mango Festival is a celebration of a bountiful harvest of mangoes, which the province is so known for. Other activities includes Hataw Saya street dancing, Lakbay Zambales tours, trade fairs and exhibit.
21
Cabagab Pansi' Festival
Cabagan, Isabela
The Municipality of Cabagan celebrates the famous Pancit Cabagan with calesa floats, pancit Cabagan cooking contest and Street Dancing Competition involving all barangays.
23
Tobacco Festival
Candon City, Ilocos Sur
Celebrated during the cityhood anniversary, this festival is held to promote tobacco as the major industry of the city. Activities include open street dancing competition, marching band competition, Miss Virginia Tobacco, tobacco rolling, calamay rice cake eating contest, basketball with celebrities, beach bikini open, concerts, singing contest, motocross/mountain bike competition and boxing.
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Bantayan Festival
Guimbal, Iloilo
The guimba (drum) and the bantayan (watch tower) are the major features of the festival. The festival features dance drama, drum float and street dancing competition, cultural shows, beauty pagent, fluvial parade and musical concerts.
Holy Week Celebration
Iguig, Cagayan
Traditional presentation of the passion and death of Christ located on an 11-hectare rolling terrain presented through the larger- than-life size 14 Stations of the Cross at the St. James Parish. The place draws Roman Catholic pilgrims from all over the country yearly.
Holy Week Celebration
Dariok Hill, Barangay Balintokatok, Santiago City
A Holy week presentation of the passion and death of Christ which starts at the foot of Dariok Hill and ends at the top where the Chapel of Transfiguration is located to accommodate parishioners and Roman Catholic pilgrims. A long procession from the city starts every Good Friday morning and ends at Dariok Hill for the Stations of the Cross.
Moriones Festival
Marinduque
This well-known Lenten festival features the moriones, colourful garbed and masked soldiers or centurions that culminates in the re-enactment of the story of Longinus. This festival is celebrated in the towns of Boac, Mogpog and Gasan.
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Rodeo Masbateno Festival
Masbate, Bicol
The annual Rodeo Masbateno festival will unfold this year with a colourful parade of horse riders, livestock shows, animal health seminars, an agro-industrial fair, a country carnival, and a series of rodeo competitions at the one-hectare permanent rodeo arena in Masbate City.
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Moriones Observance
Boac, Gasan and Mogpog, Marinduque
A Lenten event depicting the story of Saint Longinus, a Roman centurion who was blind in one eye. Locals participating in the event wear masks and costumes as Roman soldiers and centurions. They reenact the "beheading" of Longinus. The towns of Boac, Mogpog and Gasan become the "stages" for the reenactment.
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