Monday, May 6, 2013
Pattaradday Festival 2013 - Street Dance Competition
Competition Highlights
Danggayan Festival
Bagitos Tribe
Grand Batalla
Bangus Festival
Tribu Ari-Tau
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Pattaradday Festival - Santiago City launches coffee-table book
“PATTARADDAY” IS a powerful social trait of solidarity, originally among the Ibanags of Isabela province—akin to the Tagalog virtue of bayanihan.
This concept takes center stage in the coffee-table book, “Santiago de Carig: Pattaradday City,” which was recently launched at the Balay na Santiago Arts and Heritage Center.
Authored by Emmanuel Sison and co-authored by Lilia Cinco Sison, the book identifies the Ibanag trait of “unity amid diversity” as the driving force behind the remarkable progress achieved by Santiago City in less than two decades.
The 170-page, 10-chapter book book traces its beginnings from a precolonial settlement along the banks of the Cagayan River called Carig, to its proclamation as a city in 1994.
“Pattaradday unifies the city’s 14 ethno-linguistic groups and focuses on the unity despite the artistic and cultural diversity of the people,” says City Mayor Amelita Navarro who initiated and supported the undertaking as her legacy to her constituents.
She said that the publication of the book heralds a new milestone in the city’s cultural life as it immortalized its checkered history.
Santiago is also home to Muslim, Chinese and Indian minorities, and a bustling art community making it a true melting pot in northern Luzon.
Former senator and environment secretary Heherson Alvarez, a native of Santiago, shared his sentiments and memories as a homegrown Santiagueño during the book launch.
Moreover, Dr. Maximin Navarro, a second-generation descendant of migrants to the city, paid tribute to the book as filling the need of the youth in their search for roots and identity.
Named after St. James the Great, Santiago was converted into a component city of Isabela on May 5, 1994, the first of its kind in the Cagayan Valley and serves as the service center, agro- industrial and commercial hub of the region.
In 2000, Navarro introduced the Pattaradday Festival to embody the values of unity and harmony among its migrant population which has made the city their home. The award-winning cultural event gathers the city’s ethno-linguistic groups in a cultural festivity to mark its Charter Day.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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