16/12/2024
๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ฌ๐บ | ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ชโ๐ ๐๐๐: ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ป
๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐๐น๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ
Pageants, as a form of entertainment, bring Filipinos together. Having vibrant pageant culture, folks from the Philippines always leave a spot for pageantry in their hearts. From the suburbs to the mainland, there is always a stage to grace for all the pageant enthusiasts. Even in the busy academic world of universities.
Last November 2024, student leaders from Bulacan State University (BulSU) spearheaded the opening of the month-long celebration of Studentsโ Rights and Welfare (SRW). This annual celebration holds immense significance and comes with various student-centered activities: forums tackling societal issues; intercollegiate debate; film screening and art exhibits; and the Lakan at Lakambini ng Karapatan (LLK)โa pageant not-so-ordinary.
๐ผ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข ๐ค๐ ๐ฅ๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ
LLK is an advocacy-forward pageant. Rather than the glitz and glamour, it is leaning more into advocations.
From the stage production, candidates, and even the program flow, all were set to address inequalities, injustice, and discrimination through different societal issues for their call to action: LGBTQIA+ rights, land reform, accessible mental health services, HIV awareness, and protecting the environment.
Like a pageant candidate most of the Filipinos know, delegates of LLK should know how to execute their fierce pasarelas, a proper pageant walk done to grace the runway. But aside from extending their legs to walk on the LLK stage, they are also expected to walk the talk. On that certain stage, they are not just a candidate hoping to bring home the coveted crown; they are advocators magnifying the truth behind the current state of our societyโs various sectors.
Just like how the bets of BulSUโs College of Education (COED) Reinne Clarence Acosta and Anna Luisa Ganancial presented their advocacies on stage. Their call turned the spotlight to the implementation of a more inclusive system of education in the Philippines which resulted in being hailed as Lakan at Lakambini ng Adbokasiya 2024.
๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐จโ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ
For the audience to perceive and understand better, candidates became the epitome of their own advocacies, exuding such a big auras to tell people the social injustices happening today through the crafts of their artsy team, allowing their masterpieces to be an eye-opener.
The candidatesโ advocacy costumes were intricate. Each detail was connected with the society particularly to the sector they were advocating for. May it be blood, sweat, tears, or worst, a stain of government incompetency.
Their works were all well-conceptualized but the prides of College of Scienceโs (CS) Criss Vincent Dela Cruz and Erin Rei Santos of College of Nursing (CON) who campaigned against glorifying resiliency and negligence of medical health respectively, have bested the segment making them the Lakan at Lakambini ng Sining 2024.
๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ง๐ข ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐
The call doesnโt end on the stage: it goes beyond it. LLK is a pageant you would remember at the end of the day because of how it becomes a potential platform to make a far-reaching impact.
Title holder Joshua Ricardo had his chance to express his thoughts about the zero-based grading system to be implemented on BulSU in the second semester of the academic year.
โAko ay hindi sumasang-ayon sa pagpapalit ng grading system,โ Ricardo on zero-based grading system. He explained that instead of it, proper way of teaching, giving opportunities to everyone, and valuing our educators would be much needed in achieving the high-quality education that we need. โSapagkat ang edukasyon ay isang karapatan at โdi pribilehiyo at hindi dapat ito ipinaglalaban pa.โ the Lakan ng Karapatan 2024 added.
Meanwhile, Anna Ganancial, the crowned Lakambini ng Karapatan 2024 exuded courage as she talked about the power held by the โiskolar ng bayanโ in selecting the right candidate to vote for. โMayroong pagbabago kung patatalsikin natin ang mga payaso sa trono dahil hindi sila nararapat na mamuno. Ang nararapat na mamuno ay may akawntabilidad, responsibilidad, at transparency sa kanilang [magiging] liderato,โ.
The LLK pageant served as a platform for Ricardo and Ganancial as they both aced the Q&A portion of the competition. They addressed the words needed to hear not only by BulSUans but also the Filipinos in general.
The celebration may have already ended but its fire remains and no lies could extinguish the truth it carries. Lakan at Lakambini ng Karapatan is not only about the beauty and wits. It is a pageant that magnifies truth and amplifies voices. It is one of the pageants nowadays in which candidates significantly pour their hearts to make a lasting change. ๐ ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏโ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ.
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