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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams huge Island Fair: Speak of the largest annual island fair taking place the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam not too long ago.

The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Beach Park, was expected to gather far more than 20,000 individuals annually, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held generally ahead of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and vacationers alike.

Showcased in the Friday to Sunday event are meals and crafts booths, as well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro background and culture.

Taking element in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from nearby islands this sort of as Chuuk, Kosrae, Palau, Yap, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Marshall Islands.

In an Oct. 9 story in the Pacific Everyday News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers said that this years festival is specially important as it shall serve as a rehearsal for the Festival of the Pacific Arts, which Guam will host in 2016. Sellers described the festival as the Olympics of culture.

Correct sufficient, a single of the booths in the island fair teaches visitors and even young islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are conventional capabilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of these days.

By the way, about 80,000 of Guams present population of 170,000 are Filipinos.

GMA Daily life Tv: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the recent entry of pinoy tv and GMA Existence Television, both subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.

GMA Life Tv premiered through its cable networks worldwide, which includes Guam, the initially two plans in a series of locally produced teleseryes dubbed into English.

The work, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA Worldwide, is a initially on Philippine Tv.

Now airing throughout the world are the English-dubbed versions of Impostora (The Impostor) and Una Kang Naging Akin (When You Were Mine).

Francia says the English-dubbed soap operas hope to make the programs obtainable to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who uncover comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Life TVs programming far more appropriate to the demands of its developing viewership all around the world, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon although When You Were Mine is headlined by Angelika de la Cruz and Maxene Magalona.

Eight intl genres: The Impostor and When You Had been Mine are just two of the existing offerings from GMA Daily life TVs new system line-up below the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.

Francia says GMA Daily life Tv goes beyond drama and extends to 7 other genres reality and speak, fashion, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, information, and religious.

Other drama serials airing in Stories of Daily life are Ikaw Sana (Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras, and Pauleen Luna) and Daisy Siete (Sex Bomb Girls with Rochelle Pangilinan) the youth-oriented romantic series Really like to Love the drama anthology Maynila (hosted by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) and the film blocks Pinoy Cine Klasika (hosted by German Moreno) and Reel Existence.

Francia stresses: We at GMA Lifestyle Television want to provide our subscribers abroad a total television viewing encounter that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the probability to sample all the thrilling Daily life flavors we supply on the channel.