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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams huge Island Fair: Speak of the greatest annual island fair occurring the following weekend filled the air as we landed on Guam not too long ago.
The 24th Guam Micronesia Island Fair, held at the Ypao Beach Park, was expected to gather a lot more than 20,000 folks yearly, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held usually prior to Thanksgiving Day, draws hordes of locals and visitors alike.
Showcased in the Friday to Sunday occasion are food and crafts booths, as very well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro historical past 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 Day-to-day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers mentioned that this many years festival is specially 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.
True enough, one particular of the booths in the island fair teaches vacationers and even young 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 nowadays.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams latest population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Existence Television: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the modern entry of pinoy tv and GMA Lifestyle Television, the two subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered by means of its cable networks throughout the world, which includes Guam, the very first two programs 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 initially on Philippine Television.
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 plans available to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who come across comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.
This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Daily life TVs programming additional relevant to the desires of its growing viewership about the globe, says Francia.
The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon although When You Were Mine is headlined by Angelika de la Cruz and Maxene Magalona.
Eight intl genres: The Impostor and When You Had been Mine are just two of the existing offerings from GMA Lifestyle TVs new system line-up underneath the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.
Francia says GMA Lifestyle Television goes beyond drama and extends to seven other genres reality and talk, style, 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 Really like to Love the drama anthology Maynila (hosted by former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza) and the film blocks Pinoy Cine Klasika (hosted by German Moreno) and Reel Existence.
Francia stresses: We at GMA Daily life Tv want to give our subscribers abroad a finish television viewing experience that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the probability to sample all the thrilling Lifestyle flavors we offer on the channel.
