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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams big Island Fair: Talk of the biggest annual island fair taking place 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 expected to gather much more than 20,000 people annually, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held usually prior to Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and vacationers 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 component 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 mentioned that this years 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.
Real adequate, a single 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 young Guamanians of today.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams latest population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Lifestyle Television: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the modern entry of pinoy tv and GMA Existence Television, the two subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Daily life Television premiered as a result of its cable networks worldwide, such as Guam, the initial two programs in a series of locally created 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 Television.
Now airing worldwide 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 plans available to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who find comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.
This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Existence TVs programming much more related to the wants of its developing viewership close to the globe, says Francia.
The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon though 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 present offerings from GMA Life TVs new system line-up under the channels Stories of Daily life drama genre.
Francia says GMA Existence Television goes beyond drama and extends to 7 other genres reality and talk, style, cooking, kiddie, sports, 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 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 Life.
Francia stresses: We at GMA Existence Television want to supply our subscribers abroad a complete tv viewing encounter that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the opportunity to sample all the fascinating Existence flavors we supply on the channel.