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Arts
Quarter 4 – Module 1:
Performing with Festivals and
Theatrical Form
Arts - Grade 7
Share a Resource Program (ShARP)
Quarter 4 – Module 1: Festivals and Theatrical Forms
First Edition, 2020

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Arts
Quarter 4 – Module 1:

Festivals and Theatrical Forms

Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Arts 7 Share a Resource Program (ShARP) Module on

Festivals and Theatrical Forms!
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Welcome to the Arts Share a Resource Program (ShARP) Module on Festivals and
Theatrical Forms.
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 What I Need to Know

This module was specifically developed and designed to provide you fun
and meaningful learning experience, with your own time and pace.

The module is divided into two lessons, namely:

 Lesson 1 – Religious/Nonreligious/Regional festivals
 Lesson2 – Representative Philippine Theatrical Forms

After going through this module, you are expected to:

 Identify the unique festivals and theatrical forms celebrated all over the
country throughout the year (A7EL-IVa-1)
 researches on the history of the festival and theatrical composition and
its evolution, and describe how the townspeople participate and
contribute to the event (A7EL-IVb-2)
 identify the elements and principles of arts as seen in Philippine
Festivals (A7EL-IVc-3)
 defines what makes each of the Philippine festivals unique through a
visual presentation (A7PL-IVh-1)
 design the visual elements and components of the selected festival or
theatrical form through costumes, props, etc. (A7PL-IVd-1)
 analyzes the uniqueness of each group’s performance of their selected
festival or theatrical form (A7PR-IVh-2)
 choreographs the movements and gestures reflecting the mood of he
selected Philippine festivals/theatrical form (A7PR-IVe-f-3)
 improvises accompanying sound and rhythm of the Philippine
festival/theatrical form (A7PR-IVe-f-4)
 performs in a group showcase of the selected Philippine
festival/theatrical form (A7PR-IVg-5)

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Lesson
Festivals and Theatrical
1 Forms

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 What’s In

WORD SEARCH
Direction: Work individually and find words related to our lesson on
Philippine Festivals.

F E S T I V A L S A
O F H J K L Z V B N
R B N M A S E S D F
M V C X Z Q W E R T
S I Y T S S D F H Y
P H I L I P P I N E
R E L I G I O U S R
T H E A T R I C A L

1. Choose several words from the word search and link/connect/web them
to make a definition/concept.
2. Use a definition map to describe and define the words you chose and
their related ideas. Each map should include branches that answer
questions about the vocabulary word such as, “What is it?”, “What is it
like?”, or “What are some examples?”

Whait is it?
Festivals and Theatrical Forms

What are some examples?

RELIGIOUS Nonreligious/Regional Festivals
Lucban, Quezon-Pahiyas Baguio-Panagbenga
Obando, Bulacan- Fertility Dance Bacolod-Maskara
Marinduque-Moriones Bukidnon-Kaamulan
Aklan-Ati-atihan Davao-Kadayawan
Cebu-Sinulog
Iloilo-Dinagyang
Santacruzan

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 What’s New

Check Your Experience about the Festivals

Directions: Write YES if you are familiar with the religious and non-religious
festival and NO, if you do not know it. Be honest with your responses. Write
your answer on the space provided.
Panagbenga
Santacruzan
Maskarra
Ati-atihan
Pahiyas

How many did you check? If you have five checks, it means you are really good
in festivals. If you did not check some of the items, you need to learn related
history of festivals.

What is It

Festivals
All year round there are festivals that people in different places in
the Philippine celebrate. Every region in the Philippines has different
kinds of festivities that every Filipino enjoys and celebrates. People
celebrate the occasion with enthusiasm, excitement, and high spirits.
Philippine festivals express different reasons to celebrate. It may be
due to the following:
1. to welcome a good harvest
2. to express religious fervours
3. to commemorate a historic event

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What are the festivals celebrated all over the country throughout the year?
The festivals celebrated all over the country throughout the year are
divided into two: religious and non-religious or regional festivals.

What are some Religious Festivals?

Lucban, Quezon
The Pahiyas festival is celebrated by
the people of Lucban, Quezon in honor of
their saint – San Isidro Labrador every May
15. This is to give thanks for a good harvest
and to guarantee more bountiful harvests in
the coming seasons. You will see brightly
colored rice wafer or kiping elaborately
decorating the front of almost every house in
town during occasion.

Colorful kipings were used to

decorate this house.

Lucbanons keep this tradition alive

and people from different places come to witness the celebration. The beautiful
and bright colors of kipings transcend the beauty of this place. Lucbanon’s
friendly smiles and greetings added to the festive atmosphere on the street.
Obando, Bulacan
The Obando Fertility Rites are a dance ritual, initially an Anitist ritual,
and later became a Catholic festival celebrated every May in Obando, Bulacan,
Philippines.
The fertility (Obando Festival)
dance is the main reason couples from
different parts of the country come to
Obando. It is believed that couples who

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are struggling to conceive a child will be blessed and finally have their prayers
answered by joining in the feast.

Marinduque
The Moriones Festival is among the many attractions of the multi-
faceted island of Mainduque. This religious festival began in 1807 held every
Lenten season. The word Moriones is derived from the word morion a Spanish
word for helmet or mask worn by the conquistadores. Mask is a part of the
Roman centurion’s helmet.

Moriones Festival

Kalibo, Aklan
Ati-atihan in Aklan is a famous festival. This festival is a famous Mardi-
Gras-like festivity of Kalibo, Aklan. It is a religious celebration in honor of
Santo Niño. Participants paint their faces with black soot. They wear bright,
outlandish, and intricate costumes as they dance in festivities.

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 Bright colorful costumes of Ati-atihan dancers
Cebu City
The Sinulog-Santo Niño Festival is
annual cultural and religious festival
held on the third Sunday of January in
Cebu City, and is the centre of the
Santo Niño Catholic celebrations in the
Philippines.
Sinulog comes from the Cebuano
word “sulog” which means “like water
current movement” which depicts the
forward backward step of Sinulog
dance.

Iloilo
Dinagyang for the Ilonggos is a period of thanksgiving and offerings for
all the blessings received. It is celebrated every fourth week of January in Iloilo
City. This celebration started in 1968 as a religious celebration to mark the
feast of Señior Santo Niño. This festival is characterized by frantic stomping of
feet and hypnotic drumbeating with colourful whirl of thousands of people
wearing unique costumes. They dance and chant as they move around the
street. Dinagyang is a dance that tells a story about devotion to Santo Niño or
the child Jesus. Participants wear colourful costumes and accessories.

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 Dinagyang Festival

Santacruzan
In many places in Luzon like Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Metro Manila, and
many more, Santacruzan is a common sight in May. It is a re-enactment of the
search for the true cross of Jesus by Queen Helena accompanied by her son
Emperor Constantine. You will see beautiful costumes and props used by each
participant to portray the character he/she is representing.

What are some Non-Religious Festivals/Regional festivals?

Baguio
The Panagbenga Festival in Baguio is celebrated every fourth week of
February. This unique culture of the people showcases huge floats covered with
beautiful flowers. Beautiful floral floats displays different kinds of flowers that
are really so amusing. During the parade, colorful procession of people in
different cotumes are behind each float.

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Pangbenga- Floats
covered with
beautiful flowers

Panagbenga participants
Bacolod
The Maskarra festival in Bacolod is one of the most famous festivals in
the country. It is celebrated every third week of October. This festival is a Mardi
Gras-like celebration that features colourful masks and costumes of street
dancers dancing to Latin rhythm.

Malaybalay, Bukidnon
Kaamulan Festival is celebrated by the
people in Bukidnon every first week of March.

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During this festivity you will see colourful banners and banderitas around.
Sweet haunting sound of native music fills the air.
The pamuhat ritual starts in the early morning of festivities. People enjoy
the feast of ethnic foods and trade fairs. Native dancing is worth watching with
dancers in their native bright colorful, and intricate costumes and headdress.
Davao
Kadayawan Festival is an internationally renowned celebration. It is a
weeklong celebration and thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest every third week
of August. During the festivities, you will enjoy fruits and flower show, trade
fair, tribal parade, and many more. You will also enjoy eating exotic fruits as
the celebration coincides with the harvest time. It is also blooming time for
waling-waling.
The celebration culminates with it much awaited grand floral parade with
real and fresh flowers and street dancing.

Kadayawan Festival

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 What’s More

LEVELING-UP ACTIVITIES

Remembering What You Learned

Answer the following questions:
1. What are some religious festivals that have you learned?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. Describe how these festivals were celebrated.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

Thinking What You Learned

1. Why do you think people engage in festivals?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
2. What cultural beliefs made them celebrate those festivals?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________

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Applying What You Learned
Making your own Maskara
1. Draw a face that will serve
as base of your mascara using
a cardboard.
You will make the following
2. Cut of the edges of the
drawing and work on the materials:
design.  Cardboard
3. Use glue or any adhesive
that fits to your needs.  Adhesive materials
4. Add accents to your  Cutting materials
maskara using bird’s feather
and glitters, beads and  Bird’s feather
buttons and found objects.
 glitters

Procedures:
Materials:

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 What is It

In this module, you will understand how the Filipinos live with art. From the
moment they are born up to the moment that they pass this life, Filipinos
developed ways of employing art in their lives. Here, we will focus on the visual
arts as mirrored in theatrical such as shadow puppetry, dance drama, moro-
mor, sarswela, and senakulo.

Representative Philippine Theatrical Forms

Shadow Puppet Play

Shadow puppetry –also called shadow
play got its start thousands of years ago in
China and India. This unique form of
storytelling is the oldest type of puppetry in
the world.

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 Shadow puppets are figures that are placed between a light and screen. Moving
them creates the illusion of moving images on the screen. An experience puppeteer
can make figures appear to walk, talk, fight and dance.

Dance Drama
It is performed through dance movements frequently with dialogues or even
singing. Actors act out scenes through complex gestures and body language, which
imitates actions in real life.

Moro-Moro
Komedya or Moro-moro is created by Spanish
priests. It is a love affair between a muclim-Filipino
prince and a Christian princess.
This play in verse has two types- the secular
and the religious komedya.
The secular komedya deals with epic stories of love
and vengeance while the religious deals with lives of
patron saints.

Sarswela
It is a musical drama where songs, dances, and prose dialogues are combined.
This theater presentation is about domestic family life. It was in 1870 when the first
zarzuela was performed in the Philippines.

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Senakulo
It is theatre play that happens every holy week. It is depicting the stories and
events from the Old and New Testaments related to the sufferings and death of Jesus
Christ.
It is presented in the Philippines 8
days from Palm Sunday to Easter
Sunday on the streets, on stage, in a
chapel or church.

What I Can Do

Traditional Drama Analysis

Make a drama analysis of the traditional drama found or practised in
your community. Remember that traditional drama may have disguised
themselves through dances. You can only understand that these dances are
dramas set into music and seasoned with movements. Use the guide below to
describe each element.

Title of the Drama:_____________________________________________________

Author:________________________________________________________________
Place of Origin:_________________________________________________________

Element Manifestations

Plot or action (Look for the exposition,

development, turning point, climax,
denouement, and conclusion of the
story)

Characters (Identify the protagonist

and antagonist)

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Setting (Describe the setting or place
where the story happened)

Theme (What is the meaning of the

story)

Assessment

Directions: Multiple Choice: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space
provided.
______1. It is a festival celebrated mainly by those who are members of the Catholic religions.
a. Religious b. Non-religious c. Cultural d. Religion
______2. What festival is celebrated in Baguio City?
a. Panagbenga b. Sinulog c. Dinagyang d. Higantes
______3. It is a festival in Cebu City.
a. Panagbenga b. Sinulog c. Dinagyang d. Higantes
______4. Drama that often characterized with poetic dialogues and evocative mood.
a. Dance drama b. Modern drama c. Festivals d. Celebrations
______5. It is a religious parade by the Catholics devotees of St. Helena.
a. Santa Cruzan b. Flores de Mayo c. Fiesta d. Festival
______6. Fill in the blank: Santa Cruzan: Flores de Mayo, Panagbenga: _______________
a. Fruit Festival b. Flower Festival c. Mascara Festival d.Vegetable
Festival
______7. It refers to one specific type of traditional play which uses prose dialogue that focuses
on Filipino characters and situations.
a. Playlets b. Drama c. cenaculo d. Komedya
______8. Complete the following: Lanzones Festival; Quezon- Dinagyang
Festival:___________
a. Cebu b. Baguio c. Bulacan d. Iloilo
______9. Which festival should be done in honor to Santo Nino?

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 a. Carabao Festival b. Pahiyas Festival c. Ati-atihan Festival d.Moriones Festival
______10. What does Cenaculo show during the Holy Week?
a. Passion of Jesus Christ
b. Forgiveness of Jesus Christ
c. Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
d. Death of Jesus Christ

Additional Activities

Show your understanding and creativity through this activity.

(40 points) 1. Cut out pictures of different pictures of Philippine festival and
state the place where it came from.
(30 points) 2. Select any of the festivals that you have learned and prepare
costumes and accessories for that festival.
(20 points) 3. Observe and prepare a visual presentation and reports of
festivals in the Philippines.
(10 points) 4. Use correct grammar.
(100 points) 5. Total points

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 Congratulations for
a job well done.
Your module ends
here. Keep safe!

Wrap up!

Festivals are delightful events for the Filipinos – we are all feast-
loving people. We love to celebrate almost every aspect of our
existence-from birth to death. We have birthday celebrations, wakes for
the dead, marriage feast, and others.
Our life is surrounded by festivals. Our festivities are our
expression of thanksgiving and celebration for the blessing from God.

Each festival is unique. Flowers and ornamentals dominate the

Panagbengaa, kiping in the Pahiyas, colors and paints in Maskara, Ati-
atihan and Sinulog, and products in other festivals. Several festivals are
profit oriented; others are religious in spirit; while others are festivals
for a cause. No matter what type of festival is celebrated, the important
element is that the community is united in these festivals.

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 Answer Key
Lesson I-Whats IN Assessment
1. Festival
1. A
2. Philippine 2. A
3. B
3. Theatrical
4. A
4. Forms 5. B
6. B
5. Religious 7. B
8. D
9. C
10.A

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