// Maria Aika Uy was crowned the MassKara Queen 2009 last October 15 at University of St. La Salle Coliseum in Bacolod City. Uy seized the minds of the judges as she deliberately waves her identity as a true blooded Bacolodnon. In her answer to the finale question as she was challenged on how to...
The Masskara Festival is made to show the hardships of the people of Negros. The mask or masskara depicts the Negrense’s happy spirit, in spite of periodic economic downturns in the sugar industry in the mid 80’s. “Masskara” is a portmanteau word from: mass, meaning crowd, and the Spanish word cara, for face. Thus the...