Giant MassKara puppets, each measuring 12-feet high, will become an added attraction to the MassKara street dance parade on October 16 in Bacolod City and the Electric MassKara on Oct. 14.
The giant puppets were created by the students of La Consolacion College School of Architecture, Fine Arts, and Interior Design, as they returned to the MassKara Festival this year after they stopped joining in 2005. The ARFIEN students with their 45 giant puppets will join as guest performers and a non-competing entry to the MassKara Festival dance parade on Oct. 16. Festival director Eli Francis Tajanlangit yesterday said the return of LCC is significant to the festival because it means that organizers have created a more hospitable environment for the artists. Hopefully, this will also encourage other groups of artists to join the festival, he said because, “What is a festival without the artists?” Tajanlangit said it is also significant because how LCC is coming into the festival will serve as a template or a model for future partnerships with other participating schools and artists’ groups. He said the giant puppets, created with flamboyant personalities and unique design, will be dancing in the arena of the public plaza as the first performer in the streetdance. Before that, the giant puppets will be dancing in the street from the Capitol Lagoon to the public plaza on Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. Upon arrival at the plaza, there will be a puppet dance showdown. Further merry-making will happen during the opening of the Electric MassKara on Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. LCC president Sr. Ma. Myrna Concepcion said their academic community is very happy to participate again in the festival. The participation of the Puppet Show in the MassKara Festival this year also launches the ARFIEN Department’s 50th anniversary in June 2012. LCC-Bacolod is very excited to create an enthralling MassKara Festival for the people of Bacolod, she said. Concepcion said they are very proud to showcase the talents of all their 570 ARFIEN students, from the first year to the fourth year levels, who have helped in making the 45 giant puppets, with the guidance of their teachers. “We thank the festival organizers and the city government officials for their support to us. We are very happy with this partnership and hope this will continue in order to showcase the talents of the students,” she said. Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, Councilor Homer Bais, who is also the honorary co-chairman of the MassKara Festival, Councilors Catalino Alisbo and El Cid Familiaran officially received the LCC group at the Bacolod Government Center yesterday where the press conference was held. Tajanlangit said that for several years before 2005, the LCC ARFIEN Department had participated in the festival as streetdancing contingent. Because they were artists, their creativity oftentimes went beyond the guidelines of the streetdancing and there was a year when they were disqualified from the competition, he said. Alisbo said the idea of LCC joining again in the festival was brought up by his son, Rialino Alisbo, who is the dean of the ARFIEN Department. Other LCC school officials present at the press conference yesterday, aside from Concepcion, were vice president for Academic Affairs Ma. Mercedes Joson, vice president for Finance Sr. Lucilla Felicilda, ARFIEN dean Arch. Rialino Alisbo, department heads Antonio Tejado (Fine Arts), Maricar Tuvilla (Interior Design), faculty organizers Jinky Joy Besa and Cherryl Bacay, puppet production coordinator Roy Aguilar and consultant Rogelio Diaz. Joining them was Rudy Reveche, chair of the streetdance committee and special events. Meanwhile, Sayson said he is happy that the 250 police augmentation from the Police Regional Office VI has already arrived in Bacolod and are now in place.*CGS CHRYSEE SAMILLANO Visayan Daily Star
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