Kensington Harvest Festival updating festival pageant to include all genders
KENSINGTON, P.E.I. — The Miss Group Gardens pageant has been a long-standing custom in the course of the Kensington Harvest Competition for many years.
This yr, nonetheless, competition organizers felt it was time to modernize the pageant by opening the present to all gender identities.
“Our volunteer committee talked final yr about opening (the pageant) as much as all genders with nice response,” stated Harvest Competition committee chair Robert Wooden. “Occasions are altering – we wished to vary it to rebrand it.”
Wooden stated the competition committee plans to revamp the pageant right into a gender-inclusive ambassador program for youth between the ages of 16-21.
“Occasions are altering – we wished to vary it to rebrand it.” – Harvest Competition committee chair Robert Wooden
It isn’t clear precisely what the brand new program will appear like but, Wooden stated, however the committee has some plans in place and is contemplating a number of concepts.
“It is an evolution of the pageant,” stated Wooden. “We’re nonetheless going to have a expertise competitors, formal put on, judges interviews – we’re simply increasing on what it already was.”
The competition committee’s advice to replace the pageant was introduced earlier than Kensington city council in the course of the Might 9 common assembly, and council members voted unanimously in favour of the rebranding.
Through the assembly, Deputy Mayor Coreen Pickering stated she felt it was the proper time to vary the pageant to be extra inclusive.
“I do not assume it is taking an finish to a pageant and making a brand new program,” stated Pickering. “It is simply going to be inclusive to all folks.”
