20/03/2023
HAPIsabela!
Watch out for the SAKAYAN FESTIVAL 2023: In celebration of the 22nd Cityhood Anniversary of the Happy City of Isabela de Basilan. Series of activities and events will take place from April 25 - May 06, 2023, unleashing the colors of our community ---
the ingenuity, creativity, food, smiles and many more --- all for Its More Fun in Isabela de Basilan!
MANY COLORS, ONE RAINBOW
- Many Colors, One Rainbow echoes the Department of Tourism’s Colors of Mindanao campaign of unravelling the kaleidoscope of hues and tinctures of sights and sounds that paint a vivid mural of Southern Philippines. This vivacity in diversity is a living, thrilling experience in Isabela de Basilan – where a stunning mélange of landscapes and seascapes is a backdrop to a pulsating rainbow of peoples and their history and identity, painting a mosaic of arts, culture and traditions uniquely Isabeleño.
- The smiles and splendors of the Isabeleño spirit is symbolized by the iconic sakayan, its exuberant colors dotting like twinkling stars in the wide expanse of the Malamawi Channel, ferrying the local economy in their planks and driving a confident city into the future.
- Thus, the 22nd Cityhood Anniversary of Isabela carries the theme Many Colors, One Rainbow to speak of Isabela de Basilan of the multicultural and the plural, of the terrestrial and the fluvial, of the musical and the spectacular. These sakayans journey through oceans of challenges but the daunting is inspiring for the animo Isabeleño – where the courage surf through the swells and the surges toward the horizon of promise – of a city that realizes a happy and dignified life for all.
SEE YOU THERE!
Competitions and other important announcements will be posted here and in the Official page of the City Government of Isabela de Basilan.