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BOUNTY DANCE. Participants of the Kadayawan’s Indak-indak sa Kadalanan (street dance) use baskets in their performance to signify a bountiful harvest. They are among the 21 performers competing for the 500,000-peso prize for this year’s winner. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Davao City eyes simple celebration of Kadawayan

Post author:Maria Patricia C. Borromeo
Post published:July 11, 2016
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The city government said it will veer away from the usual grandiose celebration of Kadayawan festival in the past years and will make this year's festival “simple and meaningful”.

President Rodrigo Duterte speaks before some 700 Mindanao Muslim leaders during the Mindanao Hariraya Eid'l Fitr 2016 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Lanang in Davao City on Friday, July 8. (Presidential Photographers Division)

Davao hosts Mindanao Hariraya Eid’l Fitr 2016

Post author:ZEA IO MING C. CAPISTRANO
Post published:July 9, 2016
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Hundreds of Muslims from different tribes and from various regions in Mindanao attend the Mindanao Hariraya Eid’l Fitr 2016 held here on Friday, July 8.

Hundreds of Muslims gather at the Tionko Football Field in Davao City to celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday morning, July 6. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Muslims celebrate ‘timely, relevant’ Eid’l Fitr in Davao

Post author:EVAN MICHAEL S. CLERIGO
Post published:July 6, 2016
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To mark the end of the month-long fast during Ramadan, hundreds of Filipino Muslims here gathered and celebrated Eid’l Fitr at the Tionko Football Field in Agro-Foundation College of the Philippines this Wednesday, June 6.

REHEARSAL Youth in indigenous garb rehearsing a dance at People's Park for Friday's opening ceremony of the 28th Kadayawan Festival, an event celebrating the ten Lumad and Muslim tribes that inhabit the city. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)