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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams large Island Fair: Speak of the biggest 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 anticipated to gather far more than 20,000 people yearly, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held usually just before Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists alike.

Showcased in the Friday to Sunday event are food and crafts booths, as well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro historical past 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 a long time festival is especially important 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, one particular of the booths in the island fair teaches tourists and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.

These are regular expertise that have escaped the young Guamanians of these days.

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

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

GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered via its cable networks throughout the world, together with Guam, the very first two programs in a series of locally created 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 Were 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 desires of its increasing viewership around the globe, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon even 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 Life TVs new program line-up underneath the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.

Francia says GMA Life Television goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and speak, fashion, cooking, kiddie, sports, data, and religious.

Other drama serials airing in Stories of Daily 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 Love 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 Tv want to offer our subscribers abroad a full tv viewing 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 thrilling Life flavors we offer you on the channel.