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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams huge Island Fair: Talk of the biggest annual island fair happening 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 much more than 20,000 folks yearly, 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 occasion are meals and crafts booths, as very well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro background and culture.

Taking part 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 Each day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers stated that this years festival is specially significant 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.

Genuine enough, 1 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 conventional competencies that have escaped the youthful Guamanians of today.

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

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

GMA Existence Tv premiered via its cable networks throughout the world, which includes Guam, the initially two plans in a series of locally generated teleseryes dubbed into English.

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

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

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

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Existence TVs programming additional related to the desires of its growing viewership around the planet, 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 present offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new plan line-up underneath the channels Stories of Lifestyle drama genre.

Francia says GMA Daily life Television goes past drama and extends to seven other genres reality and speak, style, cooking, kiddie, sports, 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 Enjoy to Like the drama anthology Maynila (hosted by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) and the film blocks Pinoy Cine Klasika (hosted by German Moreno) and Reel Daily life.

Francia stresses: We at GMA Lifestyle Tv want to give our subscribers abroad a total tv viewing practical experience 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 supply on the channel.