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What's The Sinulog Festival?
The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines with a very rich history. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Niño, or the child Jesus, who used to be the patron saint of the whole province of Cebu (since in the Catholic faith Jesus is not a saint, but God). It is essentially a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people’s pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity.
The festival features some the country’s most colorful displays of pomp and pageantry: participants garbed in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of drums, trumpets, and native gongs. The streets are usually lined with vendors and pedestrians all wanting to witness the street-dancing. Smaller versions of the festival are also held in various parts of the province, also to celebrate and honor the Santo Niño. There is also a Sinulog sa Kabataan, which is performed by the youths of Cebu a week before the Grand Parade.
Aside from the colorful and festive dancing, there is also the SME trade fair where Sinulog features Cebu export quality products and people around the world flock on the treasures that are Cebu.
Recently, the cultural event has been commercialized as a tourist attraction and instead of traditional street-dancing from locals, Sinulog also came to mean a contest featuring contingents from various parts of the country. The Sinulog Contest is traditionally held in the Cebu City Sports Complex, where most of Cebu’s major provincial events are held. - Read More: http://sinulog.ph/index.php/about/
Sinulog came from the word “sulog" (movement of a water current) which was the inspiration for the Sinulog dance.
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FESTIVITY. MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES
It has been the Filipino's nature to be festive in showing their strong faith and thanksgiving.We do it by dancing, parading, loud music and pure fun!
The Sinulog festival is the grandest celebration of the Cebuano devotees of the Sto. Niño. Every year gets better that it has been a tourist attraction because of all the street dances, amazing costumes, upbeat music, extraordinary food, and the beauty and richness of culture.
Sinulog 2012 is the most extravagant of all so far (compared to the previous festivals), with activities such as novena masses, exhibits, cultural shows, fluvial parade, pageants, street dancing and parties, fireworks displays and a whole lot more. Moreover, an estimated number of 3 million spectators has been there to witness the festival. Truly, festivities are more fun in the Philippines!
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SINULOG 2012: SUCCESS.
When all the street festivity of Sinulog 2012 came to an end, we can all say that the Cebu City Police did a great job in implementing security measures before, during, and after the festival.
Another Sinulog blast for has ended this year, but this calls for another successful fiesta! Hooray for Sinulog 2013! (if the world does not end on December, that is.)
But for now, let's all be expectant for other upcoming fiestas: Chinese New Year (Jan. 23) and the famous Dinagyang of Ilo-ilo!
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