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The 30th MassKara Festival celebration enters its third and final week with some of the exciting highlights during the weekend building for the final day on Monday next week when Bacolod City celebrates its 71st Charter Anniversary, a press release from organizers said.

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita will be the guest of honor during the 71 st Charter Day celebration in Bacolod City on October 19, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said yesterday.
The city has adopted the theme “Bacolod Going Beyond Expectations” for this year’s Charter Day celebration because as a highly urbanized city, the performance [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ
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Bacolod City ’s annual MassKara Festival is celebrating 30 years of smiles this month with something new – a dramatic fusion of public art and street entertainment.
“We are going to unveil a major work of art at the Bacolod public plaza in the evening of Oct. 14 that is our vision of [...]

BY ADRIAN NEMES III
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Despite the pressures joining the MassKara Queen 2009 pageant entail, these two girls said their families and friends inspired them not to give up.
Christine Daphne Villanueva, 19, said she does not want to disappoint her family and friends, so she is doing her best to win this year’s crown.

BACOLOD CITY MASSKARA FESTIVAL
S C H E D U L E   O F   E V E N T S
MASSKARA FESTIVAL 2009

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
The first Chicken Inasal Festival will kick off today with a grand parade and the recognition of public officials and private citizens who have contributed to the establishment of the Manokan Country in Bacolod City during the opening ceremony.
To receive public service awards are former Mayor Jose “Digoy” Montalvo as the “founding father” [...]

A mall-wide sale and other activities where customers can get up to 50 percent off on great selections will be kicked off by SM City Bacolod, in cooperation with the Bacolod City government and the 1st Inasal Festival Committee, May 17 and end May 24, a press release from the mall said.
An afternoon of fun [...]

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The 16th year of Panaad sa Negros Festival will be celebrated April 18 to 25, at the Panaad Park and Stadium in Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, a Capitol press release said.
Gov. Isidro Zayco, festival Executive Committee chairman, said this year’s celebration is even more significant after Panaad sa Negros Festival was adjudged as the country’s [...]

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DATE
EVENT

Oct 1
Senior Citizen Week Celebration
Opening of MassKara Festival
AAB “Cover Up” MassKara Exhibit
(Ongoing until Oct 15)

Oct 2
DepEd Div Athletic and Cultural Meet
Senior Citizen Medical Dental Eye Camp
An Ilonggo translation of Rosencrantz and
Guilderstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Oct 3
DepEd Cultural Contest
Trash to Cash
An Ilonggo translation of Rosencrantz and
Guilderstern are [...]