DAVAO CITY—This year’s Kadayawan Festival, which will be held Aug. 19 to 22, aims to show the issues concerning the lumad and the Muslims in the city, said Acting Mayor Paolo Duterte.
Duterte said that this year’s annual festival of the city will be simpler than the previous years’.
“We want Davaoeños to concentrate more on the issues concerning our lumad and our Muslim brothers and sisters,” the vice mayor said.
He said that this year’s 31st Kadayawan Festival would show the importance of lumad in the community, the development of the city and that the government is alarmed with the issues that they are facing right now. The event will also showcase the lumad culture, according to Duterte.
On Monday, Duterte signed Executive Order No. 1 series of 2016 for the formation of the executive committee that will handle this year’s Kadayawan Festival.
The younger Duterte said that since the new President in the country is from the city, he expects that there will be an increase of local and foreign tourists during the festival.
The Kadayawan is an annual event in the city that aims to celebrate life, the gift of nature, the bounty of harvest and peace.