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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams major Island Fair: Speak of the largest 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 Beach Park, was anticipated to gather far more than 20,000 folks annually, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held typically ahead of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists alike.

Showcased in the Friday to Sunday occasion are food and crafts booths, as effectively as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro historical past and culture.

Taking aspect in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from nearby 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 explained that this a long time festival is particularly 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.

Accurate adequate, a single 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 traditional skills that have escaped the young Guamanians of nowadays.

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

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

GMA Existence Television premiered by means of its cable networks throughout the world, like Guam, the very first two applications in a series of locally produced teleseryes dubbed into English.

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

Now airing globally 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 offered to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who uncover comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.

This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Existence TVs programming far more related to the desires of its growing viewership about the planet, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon whilst 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 latest offerings from GMA Daily life TVs new system line-up below the channels Stories of Daily life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Daily life Television goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and speak, 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 Really 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 Existence.

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