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MANILA, Philippines -- Guams major Island Fair: Speak of the greatest annual island fair taking place 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 more than 20,000 persons yearly, according to the Guam Guests Bureau (GVB).
The island fair, held normally 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 well as song and dance performances that hark back to Chamorro background 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 Each day News, GVB cultural heritage officer Sonja Sellers mentioned that this a long time festival is particularly significant 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 adequate, 1 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 abilities that have escaped the young Guamanians of nowadays.
By the way, about 80,000 of Guams existing population of 170,000 are Filipinos.
GMA Lifestyle Television: Filipinos in Guam welcomed the latest entry of pinoy tv and GMA Lifestyle Television, both subsidiaries of GMA Network, to the island.
GMA Lifestyle Tv premiered through its cable networks throughout the world, such as Guam, the very first two programs in a series of locally generated teleseryes dubbed into English.
The work, according to Joseph T. Francia, vice- president and head of operations for GMA Worldwide, is a first on Philippine Television.
Now airing worldwide 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 obtainable to non-Filipino speakers and younger Pinoy viewers who discover comprehending the native language a bit of a challenge.
This initiative is in line with our thrust to make GMA Existence TVs programming far more related to the demands of its expanding viewership about the world, says Francia.
The Impostor stars kapuso actresses Iza Calzado and Sunshine Dizon whilst When You Have been 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 Daily life TVs new program line-up beneath the channels Stories of Existence drama genre.
Francia says GMA Existence Tv 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 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 Enjoy to 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 Lifestyle.
Francia stresses: We at GMA Lifestyle Television want to supply our subscribers abroad a total television viewing knowledge that suits the Filipino taste. With our new programming genres, we are confident that the viewers will have the opportunity to sample all the fascinating Life flavors we supply on the channel.
