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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams major Island Fair: Talk of the biggest annual island fair occurring the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam not long ago.
The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Beach Park, was anticipated to collect far more than 20,000 persons yearly, according to the Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held commonly in advance of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and tourists alike.
Showcased in the Friday to Sunday event are meals and crafts booths, as nicely as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro historical past and culture.
Taking portion 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 Every day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers said that this many years festival is specially 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.
Accurate enough, 1 of the booths in the island fair teaches vacationers and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.
These are conventional capabilities that have escaped the youthful 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 Life Tv, both subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered through its cable networks globally, including Guam, the initially two plans 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 accessible 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 Life TVs programming more pertinent to the requirements of its expanding viewership around 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 Were Mine are just two of the present offerings from GMA Daily life TVs new program line-up under the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.
Francia says GMA Daily life Television goes past drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, fashion, cooking, kiddie, sports, information, and religious.
Other drama serials airing in Stories of Existence are Ikaw Sana (Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras, and Pauleen Luna) and Daisy Siete (Sex Bomb Girls with Rochelle Pangilinan) the youth-oriented romantic series Love to Enjoy 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 Existence Television want to present our subscribers abroad a full 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 Lifestyle flavors we offer on the channel.