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The Sinulog Grand Parade might be on January 18 on the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle
CEBU, Philippines – Cebu’s grandest competition is again once more for 2026 and is anticipated to herald hundreds of contributors from across the nation to the center of the province, Cebu Metropolis.
This yr’s Sinulog competition will carry the theme, “United in Religion and Love” with the standard tagline “One Beat, One Dance, One Imaginative and prescient.”
The yearly celebration consists of a collection of merrymaking actions like avenue parades, pageants, and dance competitions. The entire occasion is completed in tandem with the Fiesta Señor celebration, which is in honor of the Baby Jesus, through the month of January.
“What awaits is greater than a competition. It’s a wave of ardour, tradition, and neighborhood prepared to comb throughout Cebu as soon as extra,” the Sinulog Basis Included (SFI), the competition’s organizer, wrote in a social media submit on December 3, 2025.
Cebu Metropolis Councilor Dave Tumulak, one of many SFI’s govt committee members, informed Rappler on Friday, January 2, that the whole funds for the celebration is P90 million.
The official opening of the celebration might be held on January 9. On that day, a gap salvo mass might be held on the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño de Cebu at 2:30 pm. The launching parade will happen from the basilica to the Fuente Osmeña Circle after which to the Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle (CCSC), the place the launching program might be performed.
The grand parade and primary competition day will occur on January 18 on the CCSC. There might be two ticket choices for these involved in watching the occasion from the venue: Gen Advert Inexperienced and Gen Advert Yellow.
For P1,500, attendees can get the Gen Advert Inexperienced ticket that provides precedence seating nearer to the middle of the CCSC’s grandstand or spectator seating space. For P1,000, attendees can get the Gen Advert Yellow ticket that also gives them with the primary view of the occasion whereas seated farther from the middle of the grandstand.
This yr, there are 20 contingents competing within the Sinulog Grand Parade and Ritual Dance Showdown occasion, specifically:
Out-of-City Contingents
- Kalivungan Competition – Province of Cotabato
- El Pueblo Cultural Dance Troupe – Zamboanga Metropolis Excessive Faculty (Most important)
- Hudyaka Sa Bais: Competition of Harvest – Bais Metropolis
- Tabaco School – Albay
- Bukluran Dance Troupe – Antipolo Metropolis
- Muntinlupa Metropolis Performing Arts Guild
- Talon-Talon Nationwide Excessive Faculty – Hermosa Competition
- Maria Clara L. Lobregat Nationwide Excessive Faculty – Zamboanga Hermosa Competition
- Kabilin Mindanaw Artist Guild of Malita – Province of Davao Occidental
- Tagbilaran Metropolis Contingent
- Tribu Sibugaynon – Zamboanga Sibugay
- Pilar Youth Dance Firm (P.Y.D.C.) – Las Piñas Metropolis
Cebu Contingents
- Tribu Hinulawan – Toledo Metropolis
- Carcar Metropolis
- Alcoy Siloy Competition
- Mandaue Metropolis
- Sinulog Sa Carmen
- Tribu Septimo – Municipality of Dumanjug
- Moalboal Dancing Corals
- Tribu Asturias Dumdumon Ta
The grand parade may also characteristic visitor performers from Danao Metropolis, Cebu Metropolis, and Bacolod Metropolis from Negros Occidental.
There may also be a Sinulog sa Dakbayan (Sinulog within the Metropolis), a separate dance competitors that options the abilities of Cebu Metropolis’s barangays and their dance teams. This occasion might be held at 3 pm on January 10 on the CCSC.
Take a look at the official schedule of occasions beneath:
– Rappler.com
