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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams massive 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 more than 20,000 men and women annually, according to the Guam Guests 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 very well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro background and culture.
Taking aspect 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 Daily News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers explained that this years festival is specifically 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 visitors and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.
These are standard capabilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of today.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams current population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Lifestyle Television: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the recent entry of pinoy tv and GMA Life Television, the two subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Daily life Tv premiered as a result of its cable networks globally, which includes Guam, the very first two programs in a series of locally developed teleseryes dubbed into English.
The effort, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA Worldwide, is a first on Philippine Tv.
Now airing throughout the world 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 programs offered to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who locate comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.
This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Existence TVs programming additional appropriate to the demands of its increasing viewership all around the world, says Francia.
The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon while When You Have 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 Existence TVs new system line-up below the channels Stories of Lifestyle drama genre.
Francia says GMA Lifestyle Tv goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, style, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, information, 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 Like to Enjoy the drama anthology Maynila (hosted by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) and the movie blocks Pinoy Cine Klasika (hosted by German Moreno) and Reel Existence.
Francia stresses: We at GMA Existence Tv want to provide our subscribers abroad a finish tv viewing encounter that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the likelihood to sample all the exciting Lifestyle flavors we give on the channel.
