Festival

Utanon Fesival

Utanon Festival is a festival of music and dance featuring our high value crops and vegetables as a major form of trade, its contribution to the local economy, its role in cultural diversity and its significance as an industry representative of Dalaguetnons as a people. The festival shall focus on the concept of the people’s cultural practices of religious worship as thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest. It shall become a marketing tool for the promotion of our vegetable industry and gives emphasis that vegetable farming is a sustainable source of livelihood. These economic components shall be coupled with our reputation as a town of music and world class musicians featuring our cultural heritage. This will be held during the Annual celebration of our Patron Saint San Guillermo de Aquitania on February.

Banikanhon Festival

In celebration of the 60th Annual Fiesta of the Santa Monica Parish this coming May 3-4, 2012 and in reminiscence to the uncomplicated yet fulfilling rural life and countryside living, Barangay Cawayan will again play host to the 3rd Banikanhon Festival 2012, come May 3, 2012, Thursday, at the Cawayan Multi-Purpose Center.

Prior to this, eight lovely candidates, one from each of the eight barangays that comprises the parish, together with their contingents, will sing and dance their way on the streets at 1:00 PM, in their showcase of thanksgiving to the Almighty’s blessings through the intercession of Sta. Monica, mother of the prodigal son turned Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church, St. Augustine of Hippo.

Singer-actor and Pinoy Dream Academy Season 1 First Runner-up winner, Jay-R Siaboc, will lead a cast of Manila-based guest entertainers in the Search for the Banikanhon Festival Queen 2012, scheduled to start at 8:00 PM later in the night. The Jess Villahermosa-sponsored guest stars also include Bb. Pilipinas World 2010 Czarina Catherine Gatbonton; TV host, song performer, comedian, and impersonator Boy Abundat; radio, events, and TV host Tikoy Chiu; and singer, artist, and impersonator Chaross Pempengco.

Nightly entertainments are scheduled at the Cawayan Multi-Purpose Center which started last April 24 and will culminate with a coronation of the “Queen of 60 Years Old” on May 4, 2012.

Kite Festival

Summer season has just begun and as it is known to be the time of kite enthusiasts to take some hours of relaxation while watching at their personally-made or commercially-owned colorful kites under the heat of the sun, Barangay Casay has allocated, since 2005, a day to gather these kite aficionados.

In cooperation with the Municipal Government of Dalaguete, Barangay Casay will be having its 8th Kite Festival this April 15, 2012 at Casay Airstrip featuring the Search for Festival Queen 2012 in its debut staging.

Colorful and artistic display of kites will once again beautify the sky to amaze spectators that will take part of the visual feast.  The annual event had attracted out-of-town participants every year.  So far, 14 participants coming from Cebu City, Talisay City, Carcar City, Argao, and Casay have confirmed their participation and the number which is limited to only 25 entries is expected to rise as registration is still on-going.

A number of activities are fully lined-up for the one-day affair.  A motorcade will formally start the festival at 8:00 AM from Casay to Poblacion then back to the airstrip where an opening program will be done starting at 10:00 AM.  While organizers, sponsors, participants, and spectators have their lunch at 12:00 noon, there will be a live performance that will feature J.R.I. Band from Mandaue City, a band owned by a foreigner who is, at the same time, the lead vocalist and the husband of a Casaynon.

At 1:00 PM, the Kite-Flying Contest will kick off at the spacious area of Casay Airstrip, the former private airstrip of once world-renowned Argao Beach Club.  It will then be followed by the debuting “Search for Kite Festival Queen 2012” wherein gowns to be worn by five contestants will be made of indigenous and recycled materials.

There will also be a photo contest participated exclusively for Casay local amateur photographers.

A coronation of “Kitefest Buddy” will be staged at 9:00 PM at the Casay National High School followed with a disco.