Festival here in the Philippines What is festival? is an event ordinarily celebrated by communities and centering on some characteristic aspect of that community and its religion or cultures . It is often marked as a local or national holiday , mela , or eid . Next to religion and folklore , a significant origin is agricultural . Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn , such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Example of Festival here in the Philippines: 1. DINAGYANG - ILOILO Dinagyang Festival is one of the biggest and world-class festivals in the Philippines. It traces the history of devotion to the Holy Child Jesus popularly known to Filipino devotees as Sr. Sto. Nino. The festival also commemorates the arrival of the Malay settlers and the legen