LUCBAN, QUEZON — The increasing prices of decor pieces and vegetables, and the drop in the price of copra have reduced the luster of this agricultural town’s Pahiyas Festival this year. Pahiyas, a ...

EARLY this month, a friend asked me if I would be visiting any town celebrating the feast of San Isidro Labrador, the patron saint of farmers and peasants, on May 15. I told him I was going to the ...

Of course, one takes special notice of this title—”Pahiyas: Planting Rainbow Seeds” by Eugene Y. Evasco, illustrations by Joffrey Zamora “Pepot” Atienza (Scholastic Singapore, 2023)—published as it is ...

An online celebration of Philippine festivals highlights the country’s most popular cultural events via a virtual multi-sensory format. Pahiyas is one of the biggest and most colourful festivals in ...

We hadn’t gone there for a couple of years, so Beng and I joined a posse of pilgrims—friends from our pen collectors’ group, the Fountain Pen Network-Philippines—on a sortie to the Pahiyas ...

Ahead of the Pahiyas Festival, “kiping” makers in Lucban, Quezon received free breast examinations, pap smears and Human papillomavirus (HPV) screenings from the GMA Kapuso Foundation. Sheirley ...

It's fiesta time in this month of May, and what better way to drink, eat, and be merry as we head south to explore charming Quezon province. It's the best time of the year as we join in the revelry ...

With light and love in my heart, I feel life! Missing out on almost a year of family and social activities, I am now fully present and attending most of the festivities happening around me, like the ...