GAMABA 2nd Quarter

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CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS IN THE

REGION – QUARTER 2
National Living Treasures

 Republic Act No. 7355 – Gawad sa Manlilikha ng


Bayan (GAMABA) was institutionalized in April 1992.

 National Commission for the Culture and the Arts


(NCCA) – tasked to administer and implement the
award. The overall policy making and coordinating
agency for the promotion and preservation of the
culture and arts of the country.

 The Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) or the


National Living Treasures Award is given to Filipino
artists who spearhead the promotion, practice, and
preservation of our country’s traditional arts.
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan

 Is conferred on Filipinos who are at the forefront of the practice,


preservation, and promotion of the nation’s traditional folkarts.
 The main objective of the award is to honor and support traditional
folk artists and see to it that their skills and crafts are preserved.
 The award is tied with a program that ensures the transfer of their
skills to the next generation and the promotion of the craft both
locally and internationally.
 In 2014, the Senate of the Philippines adopted Senate Resolution No.
(SRN) 765 - aimed at recognizing the accomplishments of the
country’s living treasures.
Emblem

The award logo is a


representation of the human
form used in traditional cloth.
Below the logo is the phrase
“Manlilikha ng Bayan” written in
Baybayin, an ancient Filipino
script used in the Philippines in
the sixteenth century.
Criteria
PROCESS
The Panel The Nominations The Screening
• Subcomission on Cultural • The ad hoc search committees
Committies and Traditional Arts: • Nominations can are deployed to various priority
1. Office of the Muslim affairs come from the areas in the country to conduct
(OMA) members of the ad searches and document the
hoc panel of candidates’ art or craft. The ad
2. National Commission on
Indigeneous Peoples(NCIP) experts. The sub hoc panel of reviewers
commissions on reevaluates the qualifications of
3. Ad hoc Panel is composed of 5 cultural
members of Gawad sa the candidates and submits
Manlilikha ng Bayan
communities and recommendations to the NCCA
Committee. traditional arts, Board of Commissioners. Once
government and selected, the President of the
4. Four individuals identified by the private institutions,
Committee among scholars, Philippines confers the awardees
Practitioners, and experts in the universities and in a public ceremony in
traditional arts. other persons Malacaṅang Palace
knowledgeable.
Awards and Incentives

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