Masskara sa Bacolod

I really love this festival and one of the best awaiting events here in Bacolod, this festival has become the biggest annual tourism event not only of Bacolod, but of the entire province as well. Experiencing this kind of celebration brings you to an unending fun; you can meet more friends, bonding with other people, and waiting for a stunning fireworks show, wearing different mask walking along the street with your friends and eat at any corner of the street, many foods are displayed.

The weekend celebration started with a bang as street dancers equipped with flashing lights and ecstatic moves. 5 groups danced along Lacson Street but then the crowd squeezed them in making it impossible to move. What was funny in our part was joining the dancers and dodging the “line people” trying to keep spectators out of the way. The street party then after was fun, mixing the upper and lower classes of the city into a huge bash of Bacolodnons simply after plain, clean fun.

What to know
The symbol of the festival a ‘smiling face’ mask was adopted by the organizers to dramatize the Negrenses happy spirit despite periodic economic downturns in the sugar industry.

MassKara is a coined term from two words: MASS, meaning multitude of people or a crowd, and KARA, from the Spanish word for face, cara. Thus the term has a triple meaning: “many faces,” “mask” and “face of the masses” – meanings that best describe the 9-day celebration.