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Buling-Buling Festival is a religious and cultural event celebrated annually in Pandacan, Manila in the Philippines on the third Saturday of January, in time with the town's fiesta, to honor its patron, Santo Niño — a wooden image of child Jesus Christ. It is a festival of street dancing where its people, Pandaqueños who are well-dressed in ...
Carlos Sampayan Bulosan (November 24, 1913 [1] – September 11, 1956) was a Filipino American novelist and poet who immigrated to the United States on July 1, 1930. [2]
Following the El Nino event in 1997 – 1998, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory attributes the first large-scale coral bleaching event to the warming waters. [169] Most critically, global mass bleaching events were recorded in 1997-98 and 2015–16, when around 75-99% losses of live coral were registered across the world.
Primarily, the festival is celebrated in honor of the town's patron, San Ildefonso but it also gives honor to the "kapok" plant, also known as "bulak" which played a very important part in the town's history. BULAK is actually San Ildefonso's old name when it was still just a barrio under the neighboring town of San Rafael.
A woman carries a section of a dragon in February 2024 during a Chinese dragon dance at a Lunar New Year Festival in Austin, Texas. The Year of the Snake. Here's your guide to the Lunar New Year
A Sinulog Festival Queen carrying the image of Santo Niño, representing Toledo City in 2023. The street dancers performs at South Road Properties.. The Sinulog Festival (as known as Sinug and Sulog) is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu, with the center of the activities being in Cebu City, and is the centre of the Santo Niño Christian ...
Performers participate in a dragon dance at the International Lunar New Year Night Parade on the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Snake in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.
The 22 nd El Veterano Conjunto Festival is from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5, at the Columbian Civic Center, 2137 N. Business Hwy. 77, Robstown. This year eight conjunto bands will perform: Los D ...