--by John Christopher M. Datiles
(Click the link above and hit play button for the
musical score)
You won’t have to go to Bacolod to try a Maskarra
festival experience. It’s just within your reach, within the bounds of your
stingy personality, within the corners of your up-to-date resources. Have you gone
to PUP last August 7, 2013? Well, that’s a missed one if you haven’t. I just
wanna share a Masskara festival experience in PUP. Lemme.
It is the 12th Foundation Anniversary of the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines – College of Communication that made me brought myself
in there and joined the gaiety. And as part of their annual celebration, there
was a streetdance organized. Arrayed in bright colors, participants dance to
their graces with the festivals they are representing of. Caught my ear was the
musical score of the Masskara Festival group from BABRC I-1N. Energy.
Liveliness. That suggests the festival of Masskara. (Because, indeed, there is
no such festival that hasn’t merrymaking or dull-spirited festivity.)And the
lovely smiles that would attract and make you show yours too, it’s such an
experience worth watching. It does not only highlight the beauty of our land
but touches our socio-cultural values.
