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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams big Island Fair: Speak of the largest annual island fair occurring the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam just lately.
The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Beach Park, was anticipated to gather a lot more than 20,000 people yearly, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held typically in advance of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and vacationers alike.
Showcased in the Friday to Sunday event are food and crafts booths, as properly as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro history and culture.
Taking aspect 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 stated that this years festival is specifically crucial 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.
Correct adequate, 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 traditional capabilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of nowadays.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams latest population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Existence Tv: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the modern entry of pinoy tv and GMA Existence Television, both subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Lifestyle Television premiered as a result of its cable networks throughout the world, together with Guam, the very first two plans 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 International, is a 1st on Philippine Tv.
Now airing globally are the English-dubbed versions of Impostora (The Impostor) and Una Kang Naging Akin (When You Had been Mine).
Francia says the English-dubbed soap operas hope to make the plans obtainable 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 Lifestyle TVs programming more related to the needs of its expanding viewership around the planet, 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 present offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new program line-up beneath the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.
Francia says GMA Daily life Television goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, style, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, 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 Really 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 Daily life.
Francia stresses: We at GMA Lifestyle Tv want to present our subscribers abroad a finish tv viewing experience that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the chance to sample all the exciting Life flavors we give on the channel.
