CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

MODIFIED SELF-LEARNING MODULE

WEEK 8

Most Essential Learning Competency:

Promotes arts from the regions
Most Essential Learning Competency Code:
CAR11/12CAP-0c -e-9

Introduction
To promote Arts in the Philippine regions means to patronage and to provide an environment and
different platform for preservation, production circulation and distribution of art.

There are numerous agencies that help promote Philippine arts, history, and its culture. Some of
these agencies are the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP), National Commission for
Culture and Arts (NCCA), and National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).

Each agency has its own job that can help in keeping Philippine arts and culture known to a lot of
people not just here in the Philippines. The agencies are all connected and share a common main
purpose which is to preserve and promote Philippine culture and arts and ensure a nationwide
participation in the part of Filipino citizens.

There are also other support systems such as institutions, art organization, media and alternative
platforms that provide linkages to patronage

TASK 1: Picture analysis

Direction: Analyze the picture, then answer the following questions in a whole sheet of paper.
1. Describe the scenario in the picture.
2. What do you feel upon looking at the picture?
3. How will you be able to help the man in the picture?

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 GOVERNMENT AGIENCIES THAT PROMOTE PHILIPPINE ARTS

1. National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)

Background: The National Commission for Culture and the Arts of the
Philippines is the official government agency for culture in the
Philippines.
Function: It is the overall policy making body, coordinating, and grants giving
agency for the preservation, development and promotion of
Philippine arts and culture; an executing agency for the policies it
formulates.

2. National Museum of the Philippines

Background: The National Museum, a Trust of the Government, is an educational,
scientific and cultural institution that acquires, documents,
preserves, exhibits, and fosters scholarly study and public
appreciation of works of art, specimens, and cultural and historical
artifacts representative of our unique to the cultural heritage of the
Filipino people and the natural history of the Philippines.

Function: It is mandated to establish, manage and develop museums

comprising the National Museum Complex and the National
Planetarium in Manila, as well as regional museums in key locations
around the country. Currently, the National Museum national
network comprise nineteen regional, branch and site museums
throughout the archipelago.

The National Museum manages and develops the national reference

collections in the areas of cultural heritage (fine arts, anthropology
and archaeology) and natural history (botany, zoology, geology, and

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 paleontology), and carries out permanent research programs in
biodiversity, geological history, human origins, pre-historical and
historical archaeology, maritime and underwater cultural heritage,
ethnology, art history, and moveable and immoveable cultural
properties.

3. National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)

Background: The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (Filipino:
Pambansang Komisyong Pangkasaysayan ng Pilipinas, abbreviated
NHCP) is a government agency of the Philippines. The NHCP
undertakes the commemoration of significant events and personages
in Philippine history and safeguard the blazoning of the national
government and its political divisions and instrumentalities.

Function: By virtue of Republic Act 10086, is responsible for the conservation

and preservation of the country’s historical legacies. Its major
thrusts encompass an ambitious cultural program on historical
studies, curatorial works, architectural conservation, Philippine
heraldry, historical information dissemination activities, restoration
and preservation of relics and memorabilia of heroes and other
renowned Filipinos.

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4. The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)
Background: The National Archives of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang
Sinupan ng Pilipinas and abbreviated NAP) is an agency of the
Republic of the Philippines mandated to collect, store, preserve and
make available archival records of the Government and other
primary sources pertaining to the history and development of the
country.

Function: It is the primary record management agency, tasked to formulate and

implement the records schedule and vital records protection
programs for the government.

5. The National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

Background: The National Library of the Philippines (Filipino: Pambansang
Aklatan ng Pilipinas or Aklatang Pambansa ng Pilipinas,
abbreviated NLP) is the official national library of the Philippines.

Function: Its role is to acquire, organize, conserve, and preserve Filipiniana

materials and provide equitable access to library resources through
a system of public libraries throughout the country The library is
notable for being the home of the original copies of the defining
works of José Rizal: Noli Me Tangere, El Filibusterismo and Mi
último adiós.

6. Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)

Background: The Cultural Center of the Philippines is the country’s premier arts
institution mandated to conserve, develop and promote arts and
culture in the Philippines.

Function: CCP provides performance and exhibition venues for various local
and international. Its artistic programs include the production of
performances, festivals, exhibitions, cultural research, outreach,
preservation, and publication of materials on Philippine art and
culture.

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7. Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (FWF)
Background: The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino is the official regulating body of
the Filipino language and the official government institution tasked
with developing, preserving, and promoting the various local
Philippine languages.

Function: Its purpose was to prepare for the nationwide teaching of the
Tagalog-based national language (Wikang Pambansa na batay sa
Tagalog) by creating a dictionary and a grammar book with a
standardized orthography. In the School Year of 1940-41, the
teaching of the national language (Wikang Pambansa), with its new
standardized orthography, was set by law in the fourth year of all
high schools in both public and private schools throughout the
country.

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TASK 2. Slogan making
Direction: Think of an art, made by a Filipino, in your community. In a clean sheet of short bond
paper, make a slogan promoting it. Your slogan should be written in Iloko so the people in your
community can understand it. Your output will be assessed using the rubric below. (100 points)