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Cebu Carnival Queens Philippines from 1914–1941

January 29, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

I wrote a blog about Cebu Car­ni­val Queens — click here https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-queens-philippines-from.html

I did research for a cou­ple of arti­cles about Cebu’s Car­ni­val Queens. Here’s the link to Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino, which pub­lished the arti­cle. In a nut­shell, Cebu cel­e­brat­ed the Car­ni­val sim­i­lar to that in Mani­la. While Mani­la’s Car­ni­val start­ed in 1908, Cebu start­ed in 1914.

The Car­ni­val was an extra­van­gan­za that includ­ed cir­cus; parades; exhibits; vaude­villes; mil­i­tary dis­plays; come­dies; com­parsas; cos­tume and mas­quer­ade balls, includ­ing the pop­u­lar Children’s Fan­cy Dress Ball. But the high­light was the coro­na­tion of the Car­ni­val Queen. Before the queen’s crown­ing how­ev­er, there was a huge buildup, start­ing with the recruit­ment of the can­di­dates, judg­ing or count­ing of bal­lots, and so on. The Car­ni­val Queen events were the­mat­ic (Ara­bic, Greek, Hin­du, Egypt­ian, Chi­nese, etc.) allow­ing for exot­ic and extrav­a­gant cos­tumes for all, includ­ing the queen’s court, which had a king con­sort, damas (maids of hon­or), and some­times page boys and attend­ing girls. Since there were night­ly events, par­tic­i­pants need­ed many outfits.

 My arti­cles will pro­vide more infor­ma­tion and I will pro­vide the links lat­er on, but here are the Cebu’s Car­ni­val Queens from 1914–1941.  Thanks to the help of Alex Cas­tro who has blogs about the Philip­pine Car­ni­val. includ­ing Cebu Car­ni­vals.  If you have pic­tures of Cebu Car­ni­val Queens, please let me know.

tags: #Philip­pinecar­ni­val #Mani­lacar­ni­val #Cebu­car­ni­val #Car­ni­valqueen #Cebu­car­ni­valqueen

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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