SumBingTik Festival explained

Holiday Name:SumBingTik Festival
Type:secular
Nickname:Araw ng Cainta
(Day of Cainta)
Observedby:Cainta, Rizal
Significance:Patronal festival
Date:December 1
Frequency:annual
Celebrations:The town's delicacies, suman, bibingka, and latik

The SumBingTik Festival is an annual cultural festival held on December 1 in Cainta, Rizal. The festival starts on the feast day of Cainta's first patron saint, Saint Andrew the Apostle, on November 30, and continues on the day of the town's founding anniversary and feast of Our Lady of Light, the principal patron saint of the town, which is celebrated on December 1.[1] The festival was first celebrated in 2014.[2]

Etymology

The term "sumbingtik" is a portmanteau of suman, bibingka, and latik, the town's native delicacies.[3]

Notes and References

  1. [GMA News and Public Affairs]
  2. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1506300776296979.1073741913.1411313352462389&type=3 1st Cainta SumBingTik Festival
  3. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1506300776296979.1073741913.1411313352462389&type=3 1st Cainta SumBingTik Festival