Kinsan Festival

June - Movable (Aloguinsan)

Kinsan is the name of the town's favorite fish that abounds in the town's coastal area every June. It is
relatively big fish, with a foot-long kinsan, weighing about three kilos considered small.

Kuyayang Festival
June - Movable (Bogo City)
Kuyayang refers to the dance movements conveying courtship and love characterized by the Bagohanon's
cariñoso character. Kuyayang mardi gras as a cultural tourism festival manifests the cultural heritage of
Bogo as a place and avenue for cultural conservancy program of the city.

Caballo Festival
25th of July (Compostela)
A street dancing competition that honor's the town's patron saint, Señor Santiago de Apostol. History
retells of a war between Christians and Muslims where the townsfolk saw and was saved by a miraculous
apparition of a man riding a horse and later became known as the town's patron saint.

Dinagat Bakasi festival

2nd week of August (Cordova)
It is a unique reinvention of the Dinagat Festival. The exotic eel locally known as "bakasi" is peculiar and
abundant in Cordova. The dance replicates the gliding movement of the bakasi.

Bonga festival
9th of August (Sibonga)
Celebrated in honor of the town's patron saint, Our Lady of Pilar and Santa Filomena. Among its highlights
is the street dancing and ritual/showdown competition. "Bunga" is a Cebuano word which means fruit in
English. This festival is a thanksgiving for all the blessings and graces the Sibongahalnons have received for
the abundant fruits found in their town.

Siloy Festival
Last Saturday of August (Alcoy)
The festival promotes the Mag-abo forest with its famous Black Shama or Siloy, the town's scenic white
sand beaches and dive spots and in honor of the town's patroness Saint Rose of Lima.

Kabuhian Festival
3rd Sunday of September (Ronda)
Celebrated during the town's fiesta that features activities like trade fair, livelihood forum and a street
dancing competition participated in by the different barangays with the dance movements depicting the
various livelihood program of the town.

Karansa Festival
3rd Sunday of September (Danao City)
The Karansa is a dance expressing one's joy and happiness performed in four basic steps: The kiay, karag,
kurug and kurahay that jibes with the Karansa official beat. It is celebrated during the city's annual fiesta
in honor of their patron saint, Sto. Tomas de Villanueva.

Pitlagong Festival
26th of September (Argao)
Argao's tribute to the tradition of townsfgolk faith, celebrations, food, work, livelihood, arts and crafts.
Pitlagong is an instrument for cleaning the "sugong" which is a bamboo container for coconut wine of "tuba"
which is very important to the taste and quality of the tuba.
Sinanggiyaw Festival
4th of October (Dumanjug)
Sinanggi-yaw is taken from two old Cebuano words, Sinanggi meaning abundance of harvested agricultural
products of the local farmers and Sayaw meaning dance. Through street dancing and field presentation.
Performers is focused on three aspects: planting, harvesting and thanksgiving.

Inasal (Halad) Festival

14th - 15th of October (Talisay City)
A showcase of Talisay City's historical heritage and identity promoting the city as an aqua and tourist hub,
through street dancing as a thanksgiving offering to the city's patroness, Sta. Teresa de Avila. Sports
fest, paradeof the great personages as higantes, food festival featuring the famous "inasal" or lechon,
Talisay's roast pig being the undisputable best - golden brown, crackling crispy skin, tasty meat from
secret stuffed herbs.

Kabkaban Festival
4th week of November (Carcar City)
The festival is in conjunction with the fiest of St. Catherine of Alexandria, the town's patron saint. It is a
cultural catalogue of the town's historical past. Among the highlights of the festival which was named after
Carcar's old name Kabkab which is a kind of fern, is the street dancing and parade.

Kawayan Festival
2nd of December (Alegria)
"Kawayan" is the vernacular term for bamboo and is the major source of livelihood/income in Alegria. The
street dancing competition is based on the kawayan and is slated during the town's fiesta in honor of Saint
Francis Javier.

Sadsad Festival
8th of December (Oslob)
In celebration of the town's annual fiesta, "sadsad" is a form of merrymaking and thanksgiving for the
blessings received for the past year from the town's patroness, the Immaculate Conception.

Tag-anitohan festival
8th - 9th of December (Tudela, Camotes)
The festival is a street dancing and ritual contest participated by the community. It is history retold of
the richness of the town's origin from immortals to the time of Christianization until it was separated from
its mother town of Poro in the year 1911.

Pasyon sa Mandaue
Good Friday to Easter Sunday (Mandaue City)
This is a re-enactment of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Fiesta sa Mandaue
May 8 - Week Long Festival (Mandaue City)
This is a week long fiesta celebration. The festival will starts May 8. The fiesta is celebrated in honour of
Manduae's Patron Saint, St. Joseph.

Feast of Santa Filomena

Celebrated in the First week of August in Tingo, Olango Island.

Tagbo Poro Festival

Celebrated every January in honor of Patron Santo Niño de Poro in Camotes Island. Tagbo is the
cornerstone from which this great municipality has sprung.

Banig Festival
Fiesta celebrated in Badian Cebu in the Month of July.