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Boling-boling Festival

PUBLISHED April 25, 2015

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARIANO SAYNO

Boling-boling is an age-old practice particular to Catanauanins of Quezon Province, which is celebrated annually. Participants roam around the town garbed in any costume they may fancy. Most of them wear colorful clown-like clothes while others imitate anybody whom they want, be it somebody they idolize or somebody they despise, and make fun of them. Boling-Boling comes from the Visayan word “ Boling “ which means dirt. The festival reminds us of the vulnerability of a man and serves as symbolic spiritual cleansing and signals the start of the Lenten season.

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