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

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

The island fair, held normally before Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors alike.

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

Taking aspect in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from close by islands this kind 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 Every day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers explained that this a long time festival is especially essential 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.

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

These are regular capabilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of currently.

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

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

GMA Life Television premiered as a result of its cable networks globally, including Guam, the first two plans in a series of locally generated teleseryes dubbed into English.

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

Now airing globally 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 applications offered 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 Daily life TVs programming a lot more relevant to the demands of its developing viewership around the globe, says Francia.

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

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

Francia says GMA Life Tv goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and speak, style, cooking, kiddie, sports, info, and religious.

Other drama serials airing in Stories of 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 Like to Like the drama anthology Maynila (hosted by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) and the movie blocks Pinoy Cine Klasika (hosted by German Moreno) and Reel Daily life.

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