This performer plays an indigenous two-string lute as he leads his group in a dance during the Sayaw Mindanao held Thursday at SM Annex as part of the 2013 Kadayawan Festival which highlights indigenous cultures in Mindanao. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Students from South Cotabato perform a Tboli tribe dance at the Sayaw Mindanao at SM Annex Thursday as part of the 2013 Kadayawan Festival which highlights indigenous cultures in Mindanao. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
ASSUMPTION SISTERS SING FOR 25THMissionaries of the Assumption entertain friends, faculty and students with a song to celebrate their 25th founding anniversary. The congregation is known for its thrust in transformative education and evangelization for the poor by joining rallies and social causes. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
KADAYAWAN PARADE ROUTE
Mikey Aportadera of Duaw Dabaw, the Kadayawan Festival 2013 organizer, presented the route of the Festival’s Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan on Saturday and the Pamulak Floral Parade on Sunday. Aportadera assures the public of safety as long as there is cooperation between the public and police. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Davao CIty Police Office Chief Ronald Dela Rosa orients barangay tanods on security measures for the Kadayawan festival. Around 400 tanods from the first district’s 40 barangays would form part of the city’s security for Kadyawan which includes police, intelligence, soldiers and volunteers. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
A house at the Boulevard street bears this mother who does everything– from caring the toddler to cooking with a charcoal stove.(davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani) (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Myrna Lim of Soroptimist International, admires the tinalak design from Tboli tribe of South Cotabato. These are on display in the Mindanao Trade Expo 2013 at Abreeza Ayala Mall until August 25. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Maylene Cutor of Ivory.07 Arts and Craft from Butuan City, demonstrates how to weave dried water lily into a pair of sandals which they are displaying now in the Mindanao Trade Expo 2013 at Abreeza Ayala Mall until August 25. Cutor said they can produce a maximum of seven pairs of sandals a day. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Minda Amodayon belongs to the Mandaya tribe, one of the first inhabitants of Davao Oriental. During the Kadayawan Festival, she exhibits her skill in weaving the Dagmay, a fiber from a native abace tree at the Apo View Hotel. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Nicolas Delange (right), President of the Chamber of Furniture Industry of the Philippines, praised Davao designers for their use of indigenous materials in furniture including salvaged materials from Typhoon Pablo in Davao region; he challenges designers to make crafts more accessible for consumers. Delange was guest at the 18th Mindanao Trade Expo 2013 at Abreeza Mall. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
