True to its moniker the “City of Smiles,” Bacolod has a festival of masks aptly ... tribes of MassKara dancers garbed in colorful neon and LED lights on illuminated floats make their way ...

BACOLOD CITY—Throngs of people gathered here on Sunday to celebrate the MassKara Festival ... telling the world that it would make it. “The wearing of masks painted with happy faces has ...

With its vibrant masks ... diverse activities that make the Masskara Festival a must-see spectacle. The Masskara Festival is celebrated every October in the City of Bacolod.

BACOLOD CITY — The making of the iconic smiling masks used during the famous MassKara Festival here is an art ... of his performers as early as July to make sure that they are better than ...

“The Masskara Festival was an initiative to make locals wear smiling masks declaring that the people of Bacolod City will survive any challenge that we face, thus it was called the ‘City of ...

Once an insular and populist festival ... 1980 to coincide with Bacolod’s Charter Day. MassKara was traditionally a few days of revelry in colorful costumes and masks, drinking, feasting ...