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 Filip...