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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams massive Island Fair: Speak of the biggest annual island fair occurring the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam lately.

The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Seaside Park, was anticipated to collect a lot more than 20,000 persons annually, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held typically prior to Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists 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 portion in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from close by 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 Daily News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers stated that this many years festival is in particular 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 adequate, one particular of the booths in the island fair teaches tourists and even young islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are regular abilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of nowadays.

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

GMA Life Tv: 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, including Guam, the very first two applications in a series of locally produced teleseryes dubbed into English.

The effort, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA International, is a first 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 discover comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Daily life TVs programming much more pertinent to the desires of its rising viewership all around the globe, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon while When You Have 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 Life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Lifestyle Tv goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, style, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, info, 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 Really 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 Life Television want to present 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 exciting Life flavors we offer on the channel.