SINULOG

Sinulog 2017 The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest, most distinguished and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The major 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 fundamentally a dance ritual which remembers the Filipino people's pagan past and their recognition of Christianity. The festival features some the country's most colorful displays of ceremony and pageantry: participants clothe in bright-colored costumes dance to the rhythm of drums and native gongs. The streets are generally lined with vendors and pedestrians all wanting to witness the street-dancing. Smaller versions of the festival are also held in different 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. 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 highlighting groups 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. Sinulog is one of the biggest celebration here in Cebu, ti honor Senior Sto. Niño. Many people came here specially Filipino people from Luzon and Mindanao to witness the said celebration, yet foreigners never fall last in line. Celebrities such as, Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil with the primetime king, Coco Martin with the Ang Probinsyano's cast. But i have just seen it ? live television. I spend My time with my family. And i already decided not to go to sinulog also because of the weather and the bomb treat. Many people went to "Abellana National Sport Center" because they held the dance contest.