The Masskara Festival 2014 complete schedule of activities was released by the Masskara organizing committees a few days before the start of the month-long celebration. This year’s Masskara highlights include the Masskara Love Dance, Masskara Street Dancing competition and the highly anticipated Electric Masskara.
The Bacolod City festival, Masskara celebration will also coincides with the Charter Anniversary of the “City of Smile,” Bacolod City. The Masskara Festival 2014 was officially launched on September 30, 2014 as Mayor Monico Puentevella declared that this year’s celebration will be bigger, better and merrier festival.
The official theme of the Masskara Festival 2014 is “One Rhythm, One Bacolod. A Million Smiles.”
Here’s the Complete Schedules of Masskara Festival 2014 (Oct. 17-20, 2014):
Masskara Festival 2014 Highlights
- October 17, 2014 (Friday) – MassKara Love Dance
- October 18, 2014 (Saturday) – MassKara Street Dancing (Barangay Category) and Charter Day Countdown
- October 19, 2014 (Sunday) – Electric MassKara
The Masskara Festival of Bacolod City is also dubbed by some Negrense or the People of Negros Islands as the “Happiest Festival” in the Philippines. According to various historical sources, during the 1980’s the City of Bacolod was in the grip of crisis as the price of sugar was at an all-time low, a bad news for the province of Negros Occidental whose economy relied heavily on the sugar industry.
Aside from the economic problems faced by Bacolodnons, another struck the province, as one of its passenger vessel carrying many Negrense collided with another inter-island vessel and sank, hundreds of lives were lost that day.
Most Filipinos expect that such incident and tragedy shattered the city into a long period of mourning and depression, but the people of Bacolod rise up. In the midst of those tragedies, the city’s local government officials, civic groups, and artists decided to unveil a festival of smiles, the “Masskara Festival,” and the rest is history.
