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Bacolod Masskara is the most popular festivity in Bacolod City. It is celebrated on the third weekend of October and ends on October 19, the city's charter day anniversary. The celebration kicks off with food fairs, mask-making contests, brass band competitions, beauty and talent pageants, a windsurfing regatta, drinking and eating contests, trade fairs and exhibits. The climax is a mardi-gras parade where revelers don elaborate masks and costumes while dancing to frantic Latin rhythms, Rio de Janeiro style. Bacolod City is known as the "City of Smiles", and the Bacolod Masskara, aptly called because of the sea of smiling faces, is the Bacoleņos exuberant character of strong will and warm heart. The festival started at the time when Bacolod felt the heavy toll of poor financial activities. Rather than give in to the burden, Bacolod met the challenge headlong, with the gregarious and charming people showing to one and all its ability to survive the hard times. And triumph it did! There is no cultural, historical nor religious reason for this celebration. It simply an expression of the Bacoleņos innate capacity for goodness, happiness and beauty expressed in the sights, sounds, color and rhythm of a people enjoying the might and bounty of the Great Creator through the Bacolod masskara festival. |
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