My World#108 Araw Ng Dabaw Celebration

Once again, it is our city's foundation day. Instead of a one-day celebration tomorrow, March 16, we are having a three-day celebration which started this Monday. I was looking forward to watching the annual Araw ng Dabaw civic parade but because of work, I'll be out of town instead. So, I'll just be posting photos I took last year.



Davao City has two annual festivals that locals really look forward to. One is the more popular Kadayawan Festival which is usually being held on the third week of August and this older festival, the Araw ng Dabaw (Davao Day), to celebrate our city's foundation day. March 16, 2011 is city's 74th foundation day.





There are a lot of activities lined up for this event but one of the much-awaited highlights is the civic-parade which is usually held every morning of March 16 along the main downtown streets. Well-attended and quite long (it usually lasts at least two hours), the parade usually starts with the city mayor and his city councilors at the head of the parade. Then, the government agencies preceding the private sector agencies.





What I like in watching the civic parade is that not only it is quite colorful but it also shows the cultural diversity of the city. I've also observed that the city has so many young people around than old ones which could be one of the reasons why it is considered one of the most fast-developing cities in the country.

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Skywatch#23 The Skies of Araw ng Dabaw

The skies alternated from overcast gray to clear blue during the Araw ng Dabaw celebration a few days ago. I was hoping for some rains (which came two days after the celebration) to ease the sweltering heat but also was praying for clear weather to not ruin the week-long celebration. But nature has its own schedule, so they say. The rain never came, instead it came days after the celebration. Meantime, we had these changing skies.

This was a bouquet being held by a cheerdancer while performing in the Cheerdance contest for Araw ng Dabaw celebration.


Inside People's Park with the sculptures of Davao sculptor, Kublai Millan, scattered all over the area. This sculpture shows two kids walking on wooden stilts.


Participants of Bugle & Lyle Competition on parade.

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My World#62 73rd Araw ng Dabaw Celebration

Today is the culmination of the week-long celebration of the 73rd Araw ng Dabaw Celebration, our city's foundation day. There are several events such as the the socio-civic parade and the cheerdance contest.

Here are some of the pictures of the cheerdance contest which I took last Saturday:

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