This year’s MassKara Festival will be the longest in history, with 23 days of merry-making and festivity from Oct. 1 to 23.
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the preparations for the 2016 MassKara began after he was elected as local chief executive anew during the elections in May.
Eli Francis Tajanlangit, festival director and chairman of the Silver MassKara Festival Organization Inc., said access to major activities of the festival would be free.
Three festival sites have been identified—the Bacolod Public Plaza, the Bacolod City Government Center and the Tourism Strip on Lacson Street.
The festival will officially kick off on the first day of October and will end on the 23rd of that month with a grand fireworks display.
This year’s celebration will feature a new activity—the “Sadya ang MassKara with Mayor Bing”—a three-day invitational fireworks competition.
The much-awaited MassKara street dance competition open category, which will have 15 entries, will be held on Oct. 23. The arena dance presentation will be held at the Bacolod Public Plaza.
The Department of Education-led schools category street dance competition will be held on Oct. 22, with three entries from elementary and four from high schools.