LILAS PANDAN FESTIVAL

Lilas – Pandan Festival is a blossoming celebration in the Municipality of Calatrava rightfully recognizing the pandan not just in it’s contribution to the local economy but also in bringing Calatrava to the world. Aside from the manifestation of thanksgiving, joyfully executed in HUD’YAW, the festival showcases and/or displays the novelty items hand-woven out of the pandan strands locally called lilas. It also emphasizes its importance in the lives of Calatravanons economically benefitting from it.

The festival coincides with the town fiesta honoring St. Peter the Apostle. Through his intercession, God continuously provide Calatravanons with the bountiful abundance, inspiring them to progress and to prosper by their own industry and ingenuity.

 

PANDAN ART

A lot of things has been in focus in Calatrava but not much has been said of the pandan. Thriving in the rocky terrains, this lowly shrub is a sustainable source of livelihood of barangay folks skilled with the art of pandan weaving handed from generation to generation. What has become of the pandan industry in Calatrava is quite remarkable. This year’s celebration is focused on our appreciation of the pandan as a gift from God that we are not just utilize but in our consideration of the future generation we nurture as well.