Posts by tag: kadayawan

10 years ago

UVU

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UVU

An Uvu-Manobo plays his Kulintang instrument at the Rizal Park during the opening of the 29th Kadayawan Festival. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

11 years ago

Pamulak festival ends with call for peace

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Pamulak festival ends with call for peace

At the end of the float parade, Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte addressed the audience thankful that the Kadayawan Festival is ending on a peaceful note, after several days of jitters and uncertainties.

11 years ago

EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

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EXCEPTION TO THE RULE

While onlookers are blocked off San Pedro Street, these women in bags somehow made their way inside the route of the Pamulak sa Kadayawanan. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

11 years ago

IS THIS A RALLY OR PARADE?

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IS THIS A RALLY OR PARADE?

Sunday’s Pamulak sa Kadayawan Floral Float Parade looked more like a rally with many police flanking the streets to keep off parade watchers from coming near the streets. (davaotoday.com photo by Jandy Ken C. Lizondra)

11 years ago

[Prints & Traces] Who is Datu Mangulayon?

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[Prints & Traces] Who is Datu Mangulayon?

In spotlighting the celebratory pitch and color of the Kadayawan Festival, let us give honor and deference to the unifying common tongue of all Lumads of Mindanao — the Cebuano language as the Island’s lengua franca. And so, allow me to use this as medium in this special write-up about the legendary Datu Mangulayon, the greatest of all Lumads in this part of the Philippine Islands.