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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams big Island Fair: Talk of the biggest 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 Beach Park, was anticipated to gather a lot more than 20,000 folks annually, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).

The island fair, held generally prior to Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors alike.

Showcased in the Friday to Sunday occasion are meals and crafts booths, as nicely as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro background and culture.

Taking portion 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 said that this many years festival is in particular 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, one particular 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 conventional abilities that have escaped the youthful Guamanians of right now.

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

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

GMA Lifestyle Television premiered by means of its cable networks throughout the world, which includes Guam, the 1st two applications in a series of locally generated teleseryes dubbed into English.

The effort, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA Worldwide, is a 1st on Philippine Television.

Now airing globally 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 find 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 desires of its rising viewership about the globe, says Francia.

The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon while 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 current offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new program line-up underneath the channels Stories of Life drama genre.

Francia says GMA Existence 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 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 Lifestyle Tv want to supply our subscribers abroad a full tv viewing expertise that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the possibility to sample all the exciting Existence flavors we provide on the channel.