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Kansilay is Silay City’s festival about a folktale showing the bravery of beautiful Pricess 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. 
HISTORY 
Silay was founded as a town in 1760. In 1896, it became a leading sugar producing town  because of the Horno Economico (sugar mill) introduced by a Frenchman who became a  Silaynon, Yves Leopold Germain Gaston.
The Philippine flag was first raised in Silay in the afternoon of November 5, 1898 when the Spanish soldiers surrendered to the hacienda laborers and landowner who attacked the garrison.
Silay in the past was known as the "Paris of Negros" and the "cultural and intellectual hub of Negros" because of Silaynons love for knowledge and works of arts. It became a chartered city on June 12, 1957 by virtue of Republic Act 1621
Today, Silay is one of the 25 tourist destination in the Philippines. It is the seat of arts, culture and eco-tourism in Western Visayas.
OTHER EVENTS
«« Kansilay Street Dance-Drama Competition »» 
«« Pinta Festival »»
«« Know-Silay Quiz »»
«« Binalaybay sa Ilonggo »»
«« Amateur Singing Contest »»
«« Amateur Singing Contest »»
 The SILAY CITY COORDINATING CENTER FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS of the Office of the City Mayor was organized in 1994 to develop and establish artistic craft of the Silaynon which can offer significant contribution to the City as one of the Seats of Arts and Culture in Negros Island. These functions were in line with the Cultural development program of the city under the administration of Mayor Edwin D. Velez as guiding principles of Filipinization, decentralization, democratization, artistic excellence and international relation. Since then, the Coordinating Center for Culture and the Arts has re-defined its objectives and grown to serve the center's need both as local venue for the performing arts and as a coordinating center for artistic and cultural program and activities throughout the city.
Through the years, that the SILAY CITY COORDINATING CENTER FOR CULTURE AND THE ARTS has been in existence, Culture has generally improved. It has managed to uplift the SCCCCA in a state whereby society has realized the need and importance of such a discipline. With the coming of the new century, the SCCCCA continues to move forward in its quest for a more improved, progressive and institutionalized Center for Culture and the Arts.
OBJECTIVES
1. to promote and encourage the conduct of more cultural activities, trainings for artistic development, cultural productions and other endeavors to foster self-discipline, team work, excellence and nationalism leading to the development of a healthy, alert and patriotic citizenry particularly in the City of Silay.
 2. to pursue mass-based and age group selections for cultural productions and for the benefit of children and youth who are most vulnerable to the drug menace and other social ills.
3. to enhance a wholesome alliance between the city government and the private sector in order that cultural awareness can be integrated into the lives of the Negrenses, particularly the Silaynons.
  4. to use the different cultural discipline as a venues in inculcating and improving conduct, honest and a strong sense of achievement to provide for self confidence among the young.
5. to foster unity, solidarity, and better understanding among Silay's Cultural workers, artists and performers of all ages, profession, creed and social backgrounds.
6. to assure the City of Silay that performing artists, cultural workers and performer with their respective coaches, directors and trainors sent to cultural festivals as Silay City's Cultural Ambassadors are adequately chosen, trained and supported by the administration.
 7. to discover, develop and harness the physical, social and cultural potentials of the youth especially Silaynons and to inculcate in them the love for culture, instill in them the values of discipline, honesty, team work, nationalism, competitiveness in and the pursuit for excellence in their respective field for endeavors, through a truly participate, developmental and mass-based program.
8. to broaden the logistic support and generate resources from both public and private individuals and entities for the realization of the primary goals of the cultural development program.
City Attraction  
Lifestyle Museums
Balay Negrense*
Jalandoni Ancestral House
Horno Economico Sugar Mill Chimney*
Old Silay Port*
San Diego Pro-Cathedral*
31 Ancestral Houses
Natalio G. Velez Sports & Cultural Center
Dr. Jose C. Locsin Cultural & Civic Center*
Cinco de Noviembre Marker*
World War II Shrine*
Waterfalls in Patag
Skyline Cable
Tinagong Dagat ( Enchanted Lake)
Sulphur Springs
Railway Handcars
Steam Locomotives*
Pottery in Guinhalaran
Embroidery in Balaring
Sugarcane Farms
source of information:www.silaycity.gov.ph
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