Pangapog Festival
Samal City, Davao del Norte
Pangapog Festival is located in Samal City, Davao del Norte held every 1st to 7th of August. It is a thanksgiving festival for a bountiful harvest highlighting the culture of the Sama, the indigenous people of Samal, as manifested in the local indigenous sports, cultural, and arts competition. The Pangapog Festival features a colourful parade with street dancing, singing and traditional dances.
Pangapog Festival News
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Samal Gathers Thousands Of IPs For 25th Pangapog Festival
More than 1,000 indigenous people gathered in Samal Multi-purpose Gym, Barangay Peñapalata, Samal District to celebrate the culmination of the 25th Pangapog Festival on Saturday.
The Pangapog Festival is the thanksgiving of the Sama tribe for the bountiful harvest and celebration of their cultural heritage usually every month of August.
A Pangapog ritual opens the celebration with a "Panawagtawag", performed by babaylan Teresita Lugam in Sama dialect. The ritual is performed in front of an altar with palm (bunga) and shrub leaves with offered fruits, food, drinks, farming tools and oth ... -
Pangapog Festival 2014 Band Competition 2nd Placer Basiawan NHS
Pangapog Festival 2014 Band Competition.
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Pangapog Thanksgiving For a Bountiful Harvest
The Pangapog festival is celebrated by the Samas of Samal Island located in Davao Gulf to thank the spirits of their ancestors for a bountiful harvest. A ritual is performed and then a feast follows it. This feast is celebrated annually, around the month of August.
The Pangapog festival that we witnessed began with a huge preparation both for the ritual and for the feast. After the materials for the ritual were arranged around an altar called the bunga, the balyan, the datus, and other selected members of the Sama tribe gathered around the bunga.
The balyan, Teresita Lugam, started by pr ...