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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams major Island Fair: Talk 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 collect far more than 20,000 men and women yearly, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held commonly in advance of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists alike.

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

Taking aspect in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from nearby islands such 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 critical 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.

Real sufficient, 1 of the booths in the island fair teaches vacationers and even young islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are standard abilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of currently.

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

GMA Lifestyle Television: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the current entry of pinoy tv and GMA Daily life Television, the two subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.

GMA Daily life Television premiered via its cable networks globally, together with Guam, the initial two applications in a series of locally developed teleseryes dubbed into English.

The work, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA International, is a 1st on Philippine Tv.

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

Francia says the English-dubbed soap operas hope to make the programs readily available 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 Existence TVs programming a lot more relevant to the requirements of its expanding viewership close to the globe, says Francia.

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

Eight intl genres: The Impostor and When You Were Mine are just two of the existing offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new plan line-up underneath the channels Stories of Life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Lifestyle Tv goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and speak, style, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, information, 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 Really 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 Life.

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