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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams large Island Fair: Speak of the biggest annual island fair taking place 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 additional than 20,000 people annually, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held usually just before Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists alike.

Showcased in the Friday to Sunday occasion are food and crafts booths, as effectively as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro historical past and culture.

Taking component in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from nearby 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 years festival is specially 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.

True enough, one particular of the booths in the island fair teaches vacationers and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are classic skills that have escaped the young Guamanians of currently.

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

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

GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered by means of its cable networks globally, together with Guam, the initially 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 initial on Philippine Television.

Now airing worldwide 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 accessible to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who discover 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 needs of its developing viewership close to the globe, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon though 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 Existence TVs new system line-up below the channels Stories of Daily life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Life Tv goes past drama and extends to 7 other genres reality and speak, fashion, cooking, kiddie, sports, info, and religious.

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

Francia stresses: We at GMA Life Tv want to supply our subscribers abroad a comprehensive tv viewing encounter that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the opportunity to sample all the fascinating Life flavors we give on the channel.