Seven days to Pasigarbo

It’s seven more days to go before Pasigarbo sa Sugbo, a competition that will showcase Cebuano festivals. The competition, which will be held at the CICC, will be the highlight of the province’s founding anniversary celebration.

Here are the other festivals of the province:

Budbod Kabog Festival and Pintos Festival

Both are in northeastern Cebu. The first is from the municipality of Catmon, while the latter from Bogo City.

Budbod kabog is a local product similar to that of the rice-made budbod only that kabog seeds are used as the main ingredient of the delicacy. Occupational-based dance steps include sowing the kabog seeds to harvesting and food preparation.

The concept is very much similar to Pintos festival, a corn delicacy commonly sold at the city’s terminal and key areas of the place.

Pastores de Naga

Just launched in November of last year, the festival originated from the Pastores presentation of the Requinto clan in barangay Taghagimet. This Christian tradition is about the search for the baby Jesus based on the shepherds’ account.

Tagbo Festival

From Poro, Camotes, this festival dramatizes how fishermen and farmers met (“tagbo”) and fought against each other but were pacified by a peacemaker named Panganoron. Thus, a celebration of friendship and peace took place.

Sinanggiyaw Festival

Down south, Dumanjug takes pride of their Sinanggiyaw festival. The name comes from two words – sanggi (harvest of corn and crops) and sayaw (dance). Thus, Sinanggiyaw is a dance celebration for a bountiful harvest. Dumanjug is also known for serving the best “manok Bisaya.”

Isda Festival

For years, the town of Madridejos in Bantayan Island celebrated its Kadagaya Festival. They, however, changed the name to Isda Festival just recently.

Cabcaban Festival

Cabcaban was a fern that once grew abundantly in Carcar. The dance interpretation of this festival was originally inspired from ”Kuradang.” The dance might have been more interesting had the steps been inspired from the movement of the famous fern.

Banig Festival

Just celebrated last month, Badian’s Banig Festival was a crowd drawer as the banig (mat) was creatively woven into costumes worn by the contingents during their street dance parade.

Panagsogod Festival

Since this festival commenced a few days ago, little is known about it except that sources point out that Sogod is where we can locate ground zero where northbound white sands and southbound dark sands meet. This explains why the town is called Sogod, meaning beginning or start. Photo credit: www.sugbo.cebu.gov.ph