Date

Festival/Events

Location

Description

On or about January 13

Sinulog de Jimalalud

Jimalalud

Street dancing and pageants

February 17

Tawo-tawo Festival

Bayawan City

Street dancing with scarecrow higantes the day before fiesta to celebrate the guardians of the town’s crops

March 19

Pasayaw Festival

Canlaon City

Honors St. Joseph with street dancing giving thanks for the harvest that makes  the province rice and vegetable bowl

April 4

Libod Sayaw sa Bindoy

Bindoy

Street dancing based on Philippine folk dances

Throughout May

Santacruzan & Mayflower Festival

Province-wide

Dumaguete-last week of May, Ayungon- every 3rd week

May 7

Ayuquitan Festival

San Jose

Street dancing, retells the origins of the town’s former place named derived from inukitan, or bird pickings

June 12

Fluvial Procession

Sibulan

Decorated and lighted boats carry venerated images and devotees along the town’s coastal waters

June 29

Budyas Festival

Amlan

Old ritual invokes good fortune on fishermen, image of patron St. Peter & St. Paul are ferried by decorated sea crafts between the two chapels of Tandayag

3rd week of July

Sinulog de Tanjay

Tanjay

Choreographed procession recounts ancient Moro-Christian conflict and the intercession of patron Señor Santiago

August 22- 28

Silliman University Founder’s Day

Dumaguete City

Weeklong activities commemorating the establishment in 1901 of the first Protestant University in the country

September 7

Hudyaka Festival

Bais City

Mardi gras and elaborate floats bring secular revelry to the city’s fiesta.

Sipong Festival

Bais City

Another festival of Bais City

October 21-29

St. Paul College Founder’s Day

Dumaguete City

Weeklong activities marking the founding in 1904 of the first St. Paul de Charters institution in the Philippines.

3rd week of November

Sandurot Fatival

Dumaguete City

Fiesta events welcoming the various cultural strains that enrich the city’s character

Daro Sinulog & Santacruzan

Daro, Dgte City

Another street dancing

December

Pasko

Province-wide

Lighted displays and giant Christmas animations in the parks and nightly activities to celebrate the holiday season

1st Sunday of December

Hugyawan Dalansayaw

NORSU, Dgte City

Vigorous and elaborately choreographed street dancing

3rd week of December

Foundation University Kasadya-an Festival

FU, Dgte City

Features the province oldest and longest Mardi Gras Parade

Yag-yag Festival

Cangmating, Sibulan

Egg-scattering on the shoreline by certain sea creatures in Cangmating,  as well as GAPNOD of Sibulan

2nd & 3rd quarter of the year

Dolphin & Whale Watching

Bais City

Leisurely cruise of Bais bay for delightful surprises

13th of every month

Lighting of candles

Sibulan

Hordes of supplicants travel to shrines of St. Anthony of Padua and the Holy Child at the parish church

Bacon of Bacong

Bacong

When the Moro pirates attacked the village, now called Bacong, the brave chief shouted “Bacon” meaning stand up! Rise up! The native warriors stood up and rushed at the Moros with their sharp bolos, spears, bows, and arrows, daggers and blow gun (supot).