Visual Arts in

Drama and
Philippine Festivals
Q4: Arts 7
 Lesson Objectives

 Identify the unique festivals and dramas celebrated

all over the country throughout the year, and state
the reason for each celebration.
 Appreciate the uniqueness of festivals
 Create festival attire with accessories based on
authentic pictures of the festivals.
What is festival?
 Festivals
 All year around there are festivals that people in
different places in the Philippines celebrate. Every
region in the Philippines has different kinds of
festivities that every Filipinos enjoy and celebrates.
People celebrate the occasion with enthusiasm,
excitement, and high spirit.
Philippine festivals express
different reasons to celebrate. It
may due to the following:

 1. To welcome good harvest

 2. To express religions fervours
 3. To commemorate historic event
Different festivals in
the Philippines
Baguio  The Panagbenga Festival in
Baguio is celebrated every fourth
week of February. His unique
culture of the people showcase huge
covered with beautiful flowers.
Beautiful floral floats display
different kinds of flowers that re
really so musing. During the parade,
colorful processions of people in
different costumes are behind the
float.
  The Pahiyas Festival is celebrated
Lucban, Quezon by the people of Lucban, Quezon
in honor of their saint-San Isidro
Labrador every May 15. This is to
give thanks for a good harvest and
to guarantee more bountiful
harvests in the coming seasons.
You will see brightly colored rice
water or kiping elaborately
decorating the front of almost
every house in town during the
occasion.
  The Maskarra Festival in
Bacolod Bacolod is one the most famous
festivals in the country. It is
celebrated every third week of
October. This festival is a Mardi
Gras-like celebration that
features colorful masks and
costumes of street dances
dancing to Latin rhythm.
  Dinagyang Festival for the Ilonggos is a period
Iloilo of thanksgiving and offering for all the blessings
received. It is celebrated every fourth week of
January in Iloilo City. This celebration started in
1968 is a religious celebration of mark the fest of
Seńor Nińo. This festival is characterized by
frantic stomping of feet and hypnotic
drumbeating with colorful whirl of thousands of
people erring unique costumes. They dance and
chant as they move round they street. Dinagyang
is a Dance that tells story about devotion to
Santo Nino or the Child Jesus.
Kalibo, Aklan  Ati-atihan in Aklan is a
famous festival. This festival is
a famous Mardi-Gras-like
festivity of Kalibo, Aklan. It is
a religious celebration in honor
of Santo Nińo. Participants
paint their faces black soot.
They wear bright, outlandish,
and intricate costumes as they
dance in festivities.
  Kaamulan Festival is celebrated by the
Malaybalay, people in Bukidnon every first week of
Bukidnon March. During this festivity, you will see
colorful banners and banderitas around.
Street hunting sound of native music filled
the air.
 The pamuhat ritual starts in the early
morning of festivities. People enjoy he fest
of ethnic foods and trade fairs. Native
dancing is worth watching with dancers in
their native bright, colorful, and intricate
costumes and headdress.
Tacloban City,  Pintados Kasadyaan Festival
Leyte celebration happens every month
of June. During pre-Hispanic
years, tattoo s sign of bravery
among the natives of Tacloban. Up
to the present time, the people of
Taclobn have this cultural revival.
 During the festivities, residents decorate their bodies with the paint,
imitating of the warrior old times. They dance to the frantic beat of
drums. It is so amazing to see colorful body paints of people
accentuated with other body accessories.
  Kadayawan Festival is an
Davao internationally renowned celebration. It
is a weeklong celebration and
thanksgiving for bountiful harvest every
third week of August. During festivities,
you will enjoy fruits and flowers show,
trade fair, tribal parade, and many more.
You will also enjoying eating exotic
fruits as the celebration coincides with
the harvest time. It is also the blooming
time for waling-waling.
  The Moriones Fesival is among
Marinduque
many attractions of the multi-
faceted island of Marinduque.
This religious festival began in
1807 held every Lenten season.
The word moriones is derived
from the word of morion a
Spanish word for helmet or
mask worn by the
conquistadores. Mask is a part
of the Roman centurion’s
helmet.
Holy Week  Holy week also called Semana Santa, the
Spanish translation of the religious festival
itself. It is also called Lenten season when
Catholic remembers the suffering and death of
Jesus Christ.
 During Palm Sunday, you will see beautifully
made palaspas. These ae made from coconut
or palm leaves. Catholic brings palaspas to
church to be blessed by the priest. In most
places especially in the provinces, you will see
and hear the pabasa. This is chanting verses
about the suffering of Jesus Christ. It may start
on Holy Monday.
 Cenaculo, the most enduring
religious drama about the
passion, death, and
resurrection of Jesus Christ, is
presented in many in the
Philippines from Palm
Sunday to Easter Sunday.
Komedya or Moro-moro

 During the Spanish

regime, komedya was
performed in the regional
dialects for the illiterate
while other was written in
the Roman alphabet in the
principal languages.
Komedya circulated
widely during that time.
 This play in verse has two types – the secular and the
religious komedya. The secular komedya deals with epic
stories of love and vengeance while the religious
komedya deals with lives of patron saints.
 Process Questions:

 1. What are some religious festivals that you have

learned?
 2. Describe how these festivals were celebrated.
 3. Why do you think people engage in festivals?
 Activity 1: ART ATTACK!

 DIRECTION: Prepare a mask for special ceremonies.

Use any natural materials in your
environment. Use the skills you have
learned in industrial carpentry and in art.