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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams huge Island Fair: Speak of the largest 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 anticipated to collect additional than 20,000 men and women yearly, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).

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

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

Taking part 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 Day-to-day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers stated that this a long time festival is particularly crucial 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 adequate, one of the booths in the island fair teaches visitors and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are regular abilities that have escaped the youthful Guamanians of today.

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

GMA Life Tv: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the recent entry of pinoy tv and GMA Existence Tv, the two subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.

GMA Daily life Tv premiered via its cable networks worldwide, which includes Guam, the very first two applications in a series of locally made teleseryes dubbed into English.

The effort, 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 plans obtainable to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who find comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Lifestyle TVs programming far more appropriate to the desires of its increasing viewership around the planet, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon while When You Had been 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 latest offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new system line-up underneath the channels Stories of Daily life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Lifestyle Television goes past drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, fashion, 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 Adore 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 Lifestyle.

Francia stresses: We at GMA Daily life Television want to provide our subscribers abroad a finish tv 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 fascinating Existence flavors we give on the channel.