Plans are in place for the pageant in which the Emblem of Freedom, the Queen of the Bay 2013 will be selected. Contestants from all over the country are prepared to bring their beauty and skills to the stage to compete for the honorable title. This year however, the talent section of the pageant has been separated from the final night showdown and Deputy Coordinator for the pageant, Anne Marie Williams says this is not the first time that the talent night is being separated from the main night.
ANN MARIE WILLIAMS
“In an effort to reform the Queen of the Bay it was decided to do something like this because it affords the candidates an opportunity to actually concentrate on doing a class act for their talent. Instead of you coming to the show and you sit out five hours, you could come to the show, sit out 2 ½ hours, three hours max and the night of the show, which is actually the 30th of August, the Queen of the Bay pageant, you will get to see the best talent; so, the person who wins tomorrow night and also the second person too, in terms of scores, although there will only be one best talent awarded but you will get to see those two talents as a regular part of the show and once the talent is out of the way, the candidates can truly focus on their introduction, the curtsy, the question and answer segment and evening gown competition.
"So, this year we plan to go back to what took place some years ago, to remove the talent competition from the actual Queen of the Bay competition. So, tomorrow night it begins at 7:30 pm at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts and we’re inviting Belizeans from all walks of life to come and see the nine lovely candidates from as close to Belize City to as far as Punta Gorda; it will certainly be a whale of a time. The candidates will be doing a talent of their choice; there will be singing, dancing, doing a monologue, actually acting, and the theme for their talent, they will have to decide that; it doesn’t have to be on the theme of the celebrations. They can do anything that is local; anything that speaks to Belize’s culture, its rich amalgam of people; we have a lot to offer, in terms of our country and it’s an opportunity for them to portray Belize as part of their talent.”
Williams explained that winning the talent competition is does not guarantee winning the pageant in whole.
ANN MARIE WILLIAMS
“Removing the talent, I feel, actually pose an advantage for the candidates in terms of they not having to concentrate on the talent for the evening of the show but winning the talent competition on Saturday night is no guarantee that the persons who wins will actually capture the crown and become the Queen of the Bay because in the past it’s not necessarily the candidate with the best talent go on to become the Queen of the Bay so if you don’t win on Saturday night there’s no hard feelings because you can still emerge as the Queen of the Bay.”
The talent competition will take place tomorrow at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the Bliss at a cost of ten dollars.
