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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams major Island Fair: Speak of the largest annual island fair taking place the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam just lately.

The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Seaside Park, was expected to gather much more than 20,000 people yearly, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held usually prior to Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors alike.

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

Taking portion in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from nearby islands this sort 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 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.

True sufficient, one 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 traditional abilities that have escaped the youthful Guamanians of currently.

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

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

GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered through its cable networks globally, together with Guam, the very first two plans 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 initially on Philippine Tv.

Now airing throughout the world 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 obtainable to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who locate comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Lifestyle TVs programming much more appropriate to the requirements of its increasing viewership close to the world, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon 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 program line-up below the channels Stories of Life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Existence Tv goes past drama and extends to 7 other genres reality and speak, style, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, information, 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 Enjoy to Enjoy 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 Lifestyle Tv want to offer our subscribers abroad a full television viewing knowledge 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 supply on the channel.