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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams big Island Fair: Talk of the greatest annual island fair happening the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam not long ago.

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

The island fair, held normally in advance of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors 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 background and culture.

Taking element 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 Daily News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers explained that this years festival is particularly essential 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.

Real sufficient, 1 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 capabilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of today.

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

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

GMA Lifestyle Television premiered via its cable networks throughout the world, which includes Guam, the initial two programs in a series of locally made 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 Television.

Now airing worldwide 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 offered to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who come across 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 appropriate to the needs of its rising viewership all around the globe, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon though 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 present offerings from GMA Existence TVs new system line-up underneath the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.

Francia says GMA Existence Tv goes beyond drama and extends to 7 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 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 Life.

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