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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams huge Island Fair: Speak 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 Seaside Park, was expected to gather far more than 20,000 individuals yearly, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held usually in advance of Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors 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 history and culture.
Taking part in the weekend festival are cultural delegations from close by islands this kind 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 Day-to-day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers stated that this years festival is especially 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.
Genuine enough, one of the booths in the island fair teaches tourists and even youthful islanders how to husk a coconut, cook coconut candy (bucayo to you and me), and weave.
These are standard competencies that have escaped the young Guamanians of right now.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams latest population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Life Tv: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the current entry of pinoy tv and GMA Existence Television, each subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Life Television premiered by way of its cable networks throughout the world, such as Guam, the very first two applications in a series of locally developed teleseryes dubbed into English.
The work, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA International, is a 1st 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 programs accessible 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 much more related to the wants of its expanding viewership around the world, 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 present offerings from GMA Daily life TVs new program line-up underneath the channels Stories of Lifestyle drama genre.
Francia says GMA Life Television goes past drama and extends to 7 other genres reality and speak, fashion, cooking, kiddie, sports activities, info, 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 Love 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 Life Tv want to present our subscribers abroad a comprehensive 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 Existence flavors we give on the channel.
