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Almost every month a colorful special event unreel somewhere in the Province. A Sampling:
SINULOG DE JIMALALUD - Jimalalud, on or about January 13 - street dancing and pageants to enliven fiesta.
TAWO-TAWO FESTIVAL - Bayawan City, December 22 - street dancing with scarecrow higantes the day before fiesta celebrates the guardians of the city's crop.
PASAYAW FESTIVAL - Canlaon City, March 19 - honors Patron St. Joseph with street dancing giving thanks for the harvest that makes the city the Province's rice and vegetable bowl.
LENTEN RITES - Province-wide, movable - traditional church rites, Via Crucis, Hatud procession of the Dead Christ on Good Friday, Sugat dawn procession on Holy Saturday.
LIBOD-SAYAW SA BINDOY - street dancing based on Philippine folk dances during April 5 fiesta.
YAG-YAG FESTIVAL - Cangmating, Sibulan - streetdancing and field presentations, colorful depictions of the baranggay's coastal marine resources, last Sunday of April.
SANTACRUZAN and MAYFLOWER FESTIVAL - Provide-wide throughout May. Dumaguete - Last week of May; Ayungon - 3rd week.
SAKOBHAN FESTIVAL - Santa Catalina, April 22 - celebrates the abudance of the town's sugar cane harvest.
AYOQUITAN FESTIVAL - San Jose, May 7 - street dancing retells the origins of the town's former place name derived from inukitan, or bird pickings.
GAPNOD FESTIVAL - Sibulan, June 12 decorated and lighted boats carry venerated images and devotees in a fluvial procession along the town's coastal waters.
BUDYAS FESTIVAL - Amlan, June 29, old ritual invokes good fortune on fishermen, images of patrons St. Peter and St. Paul are ferried by decorated sea crafts between the two chapels of Tandayag.
SINULOG DE TANJAY - Tanjay, third week of July - choreographed procession recounts ancient Moro-Christian conflict and the intercession of patron Senor Santiago.
SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDER'S DAY - weeklong activities ending August 28 commemorate the establishment, in 1901, of the first Protestant University in the country.
HUDYAKA FESTIVAL - Bais City, on September 7 - Mardi gras and elaborate floats bring secular revelry to the city fiesta.
BUGLASAN FESTIVAL - the Provincial fiesta, agri-tourism fair, Festival of Festivals, every October.
ST. PAUL'S UNIVERSITY OF DUMAGUETE CITY FOUNDER'S DAY - Dumaguete City, weeklong activities ending October 29 marks the founding, in 1904, of the first St. Paul de Charters institution in the Philippines.
SANDUROT FESTIVAL - Dumaguete City, third week of November - fiesta events welcome the various cultural strains that enrich the city's character.
PASKO - through December - lighted displays and giant Christmas animations in the parks and nightly activities to celebrate the holidy season. Especially DUMAGUETE, BAIS, BAYAWAN and TANJAY CITIES; Mabinay, Sibulan and Ayungon.
HUGYAWAN DALANSAYAW - First Sunday of December, vigorous and elaborately choreographed street dancing by Negros Oriental State University.
PINASKUHAN SAYAWIT AND PAROL FESTIVAL - The annual Provincial Christmas festival, every 2nde weekend of December.
FOUNDATION UNIVERSITY KASADYA-AN FESTIVAL - Dumaguete City - 3rd week of December - features the Province's oldest and longest mardi gras parade.
DOLPHIN AND WHALE WATCHING - Bais City - leisurely cruise of Bais Bay for delightful surprises, best during second and third quarter of the year.
13th OF EVERY MONTH - Sibulan - hordes of supplicants travel to shrines of St. Anthony of Padua and the Holy Child at the Parish Church.