Badiangan soars high Holds the 4th Pandayan Festival
The tribe competition
* Badiangan is one of the region's great bolo-producing centers
People of Badiangan generally pursue traditional occupations, including small-scale commerce, and crafts such as textile work and one of the town's most popular industry---blacksmithing and metalworks.
Varieties of artisans provided services to the growing agricultural population. Blacksmiths set up shops in some rural barangays, where they create and repair tools needed by farm families. A small blacksmithing industry began when Barangay Bingawan powered the production of special bolos and other knives well-known not only here, but also abroad for their durable finish.
Bolo-making
Bolo-making in the area uses the traditional method of forging metal through heating from red heat of charcoal where the air used is through a force attained by means of inserting and moving two bamboo poles in an upward and downward motion inside two metal pipes.
This local industry provided avenues to markets and after sometime, it became a major enterprise in the province, making Badiangan as one of the region's great bolo-producing centers.
Badiangan, a tourist-free municipality on Iloilo provinces' northwest central part recognizes the town's local industry tradition of bolo-making through the celebration of their annual PANDAYAN Festival. Each year, tourists from around the province go to Badiangan to see the festivity.
It is a distinctive mix of culture, gastronomy and handicrafts.
The municipality of Badiangan through Mayor Suzette Mamon, invites everyone with this year's week-long celebration of the town's 40th Foundation Day, Religious Fiesta and the 4th PANDAYAN Festival that opened last June 17 and will last until June 24, 2007, with the theme: "Soaring Towards Progress Through Sustained Religious-Community Partnership and Effective Leadership."
Although there is no distinct choreographed steps, performing groups delight audiences with their informative and unique modern presentations, mostly with themes focusing on the town's popular local industries: Bingawan Bolo-Making; Badiangan Instant Taho, and Loom-Weaving.
The tribe competition is scheduled on June 20, 2007 at 8 am.