KANSILAY FESTIVAL
Negros Occidental
November 5-13

Kansilay is Silay City's festival about a folktale showing the bravery of beautiful Princess Kansilay who offered her life for justice and freedom. The dance-drama is the highlight of the week-long city fiesta that ends on November 13.

The 9-day celebration starts with the celebration of "El Cinco de Noviembre", a one-day bloodless revolution in Silay which caused the surrender of the Spanish civil guards. Commemorative rites in remembrance of "El Cinco de Noviembre" open the 9-day festival.

Special events include a food festival, quiz contest, Ilonggo poetry reading, agro-industrial trade fair, and a street dance-drama competition named after a forest tree with purplish pink flowers, the "Kansilay."