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CEBU CITY, Philippines — Dancing for Santo Niño is an opportunity but doing it for more than two decades is a blessing. And so is the tale of Maria Rose Jean Peligro-Arraza, a Sinulog dancer of Barangay…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — When God showered gifts, Eduardo Pañares may have been fully awake. The 55-year-old artist from Barangay Mabolo in Cebu City is also gifted in music and dance as well as intellect. While he…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Around 200 college students from seven universities in Cebu City gathered at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño grounds on January 19, 1980 to dance the “Sinug” for the first time. Wearing Filipinana…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Sandiego Dance Company has been a main staple of the Sinulog Festival since the beginning of the annual festivity in 1980. Val Sandiego, the dance company’s choreographer and owner, had meticulously…
“Salamat Santo Niño” Words and Music by Carmen “Meng” G. Angbetic Santo Niño, Hari sa langit; Pagdaygon ang Imong Ngalan. Dangpanan sa makakasala, Sa sakit ug kalisdanan. Kabus ug adonahan, Imo silang gitabangan. Wala’y sukod ang gracia,…
“The Sinulog is a war dance full of variation of Joloano origin…reminiscent of jousts and ancient tournaments,” writes Felix Laureano in Recuerdos de Filipinas, his ground-breaking book of Philippine photographs published in Barcelona, Spain in 1895. The…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Artists, like their arts, fade away with their eyes wide open — starving to death. So was Ernesto Pangilinan told when he began painting Christmas cards back in sixth grade in the 1960s.…
Cebu City, Philippines—Sinulog Festival is coming up, and it being one of the biggest and more popular festivals in the country, a lot of interesting events take place during its celebration in the month of January. Among…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Candles symbolize light and hope to many. Hope that by the end of every tunnel there will always be a light that will lead them to the right path. The bright light given…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Devotees of the Santo Nino in New Zealand are celebrating the Feast of the Holy Child Jesus as an organized community for the 26th consecutive year. “Let us offer our halad, the Sinulog…
CEBU CITY, Philippines— Sinulog is one of the grandest festivals around the Philippines. More than the revelry that the festival is known for, its the time of the year — every third week of January — when…
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