{"id":2734,"date":"2016-06-20T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2021-07-04T21:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T13:01:01","slug":"vibrant-and-colorful-a-guide-to-understanding-leytes-pintados-kasadyaan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2016\/06\/20\/vibrant-and-colorful-a-guide-to-understanding-leytes-pintados-kasadyaan-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Vibrant and Colorful: A Guide to Understanding Leyte\u2019s Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leyte\u2019s Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is barely a week away. People have cleared their schedules, set their side trips, and booked flights as well as hotel rooms for the big day on June 29. However, most people who visit the city of Tacloban are still clueless when it comes to the festival itself. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is Primer\u2019s guide to understanding the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 They were once Pintados. <\/em>The name of the festival stems from the term the Spaniards used to describe the locals when they landed on our shores. It means \u201cpainted\u201d, and stems from the fact that the locals they saw had their bodies tattooed. The more you had, the higher your status was as a warrior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FULL-BODY PAINT. The locals paint and tattoo their entire to portray in the most unique and creative way. (Photo courtesy of Flongology<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 Kasadyaan is to \u201cmerriment\u201d. <\/em>The other half of the festival is rooted in the Visayan world for merriment.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Once separated, now united.<\/em> There was a time when these were two separate festivals, celebrated across the island of Leyte. It\u2019s now dubbed as the \u201cFestival of Festivals\u201d thanks to celebrating two festivals in one event.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Dancing plays a vital role.<\/em> Much like most Philippine festivals, the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival always has tribal dancing as part of the festivities. It\u2019s as much a festival highlight as their annual search for Ms. Pintados and Ms. Teen Pintados.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 It is celebrated every 29th<\/sup> of June. <\/em>While it has been celebrated centuries before, it was only in June 29, 1987 that the date became official, thanks to the Pintados Foundation, Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking to enjoy the full festival? It\u2019s not too late! Here\u2019s the full schedule, taken from the Department of Tourism \u2013 Eastern Visayas\u2019 official Facebook page<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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CAN YOU SAY MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Source:<\/em> DOT Eastern Visayas Official Facebook page<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Philippine Country Guide<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Philippines Insider<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Doon Po Sa Amin<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leyte\u2019s Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is barely a week away. People have cleared their schedules, set their side trips, and booked flights as well as hotel rooms for the big day on June 29. However, most people who visit the city of Tacloban are still clueless when it comes to the festival itself. Here is Primer\u2019s guide to understanding the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival: \u2022 They were once Pintados. The name of the festival stems from the term the Spaniards used to describe the locals when they landed on our shores. It means \u201cpainted\u201d, and stems from the fact that the locals they saw had their bodies tattooed. The more you had, the higher […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-and-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}