The document discusses various Philippine festivals, including the Sinulog, Ati-Atihan, and Sublian festivals, highlighting their cultural significance, characteristics, and the communal spirit they promote. Festivals are seen as celebrations of unity and cultural diversity, often involving vibrant dances and music to honor patron saints or celebrate bountiful harvests. The text emphasizes how these festivals attract tourists and enhance the quality of life for Filipinos, while also serving to develop community fitness and cultural values.

2. SINULOG FESTIVAL

3. MANGO FESTIVAL

4. PANAGBENGA FESTIVAL

5. ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL

6. MASSKARA FESTIVAL

8. From the pictures
presented what can you
say?

9. What have you observed
with the props and costume?

10. What is Festival
Dance?

11. Festival dances
- are cultural dances performed to the strong
beats of percussion instruments by a
community of people sharing the same
culture usually done in honor of a Patron
Saint or in thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest
-draw the people’s culture by portraying the
people’s ways of life through movements,
costumes and implements inherent to their
place of origin.

12. Filipinos do festivals primarily to celebrate.
We celebrate our unity amidst the diversity
of cultures and we celebrate our industry
bringing about a bountiful harvest. Basically,
festivals are a form of entertainment that
attracts foreign and domestic tourists to visit
a place eventually leading to the elevation of
the Filipino’s quality of life.

13. Festivals
- religious, in honor of a certain
religious icon or secular/non-
religious, in thanksgiving or
celebration of peoples industry
and bountiful harvest.

14. Ati-Atihan Festival
• From Kalibo, Aklan means “make believe Atis”, held annually
every 3rd
week of January.
• Consist of tribal dance parade with drum music, costumes and
indigenous accessories to Honor Sto. Niño or Holy Child Jesus.
• People Cheer and shout “Hala Bira! And Viva Sto. Niño! To
encourage enthusiasm and continuous dancing for the duration
of the festival.

15. Sinulog Festival
• Religious festival held on the 3rd
Sunday of January in
Cebu to honor the Sto. Niño.
• Different groups of dancers dressed in colorful attire are
accompanied by rhythmic music of drums, percusiions,
trumpets and native gongs.
• The petitioners often yell out “Pit Senior”.

16. Sublian Festival
• Annual celebration on 23rd
day of July reflecting the
Batangueños commitment and great love to Holy Cross of
Bauan and Agoncillo and Sto. Niño of Batangas City.
• Subli is performed with chanting and accompanied by
drums. Subli come from two words: “subsub”(bending your
body forward or downward) and “bali” (broken). Male
dancers are in trunk-forward-bend position

17. Why is there a need for
festivals? festival dances?

18. How do you think can
festival dances help you in
enhancing your fitness?

19. What value do festival
dances develop in
community fitness?

20. A. LAS Answer Sheet
ACTIVITY 1 :
Fill in the table with the needed information
DESCRIPTION
Name of
Festival
Distinguishing
Characteristics
Instruments
Used

21. Title: VISUAL PRESENTATION
Directions: Explain what makes each of the Philippine festivals
presented above unique through visual presentations/ drawings. You
can draw a symbol or a thing that makes the festival different from
the others in a separate long bond paper
My Visual Presentations of some Philippine Festivals/Celebrations
MORIONES FESTIVAL
KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL