CPAR - ACTIVITY #1

2nd Quarter, SY 2022-2023

STRAND/YEAR & SECTION Scheduled Day/Time

STEM 12 A Wednesday/11:00 AM – 12:00 NN
AUTO 12 A Tuesday/1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
HUMSS 12 B Tuesday/2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
HUMSS 12 A Tuesday/3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
HE 12 A Tuesday/4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Important Note: Study the Lesson 9 below for the discussion this week. Write some important KEY POINTS
in your notebook.
Lesson 9 – National Living Treasures Award: Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA)
The Philippines also honors artists who are engaged in folk or traditional arts and who have reached a high
level of technical skill and artistic excellence. The award is called the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan
(GAMABA), or National Living Treasures Award.
 The categories for GAMABA are folk architecture, maritime transport, weaving, carving, performing
arts, literature, graphic and plastic arts, ornament, textile or fiber art, pottery, and other artistic
expressions of traditional culture.
 In response to this pressing concern of art and cultural preservation, the Philippine government in 1992
enacted Republic Act 7355. This institutionalized the National Living Treasures Award or the Gawad sa
Manlilikha ng Bayan.
 The process of awarding a Manlilikha ng Bayan is similar to that of the Order of the National Artists.
 In April 1992, the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or the National Living Treasures Award was
institutionalized through Republic Act No. 7355. Tasked with the administration and implementation of
the Award is the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the highest policy-making and
coordinating body for culture and the arts of the State.
 First awarded in 1993 to three outstanding artists in music and poetry, the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
Bayan has its roots in the 1988 National Folk Artists Award organized by the Rotary Club of Makati-
Ayala.
 As envisioned under R.A. 7355, “Manlilikha ng Bayan” shall mean a citizen engaged in any traditional
art uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have reached such a high level of technical and artistic
excellence, have been passed on to, and widely practiced by the present generation in his/her
community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence.
(Reference: http://gwhs-stg02.i.gov.ph/~s2govnccaph/about-culture-and-arts/culture-profile/gamaba/)

The recipients of this great national honor are exemplary individuals whose life, works, and identity are
described as part of our national character. NCCA cited, “as Filipinos, they bring age-old customs, crafts and
ways of living to the attention and appreciation of Filipino life.

The NCCA follows these guidelines in identifying and recognizing a person as a Manlilikha ng Bayan in the
field of folk epic literature, music, textile, and mat weaving, dance, metal work, and casque production:
a. He or she is an inhabitant of an indigenous/traditional cultural community anywhere in the
Philippines that has preserved indigenous customs, beliefs, rituals and traditions and/or has
syncretized whatever external elements that have influenced it.
b. He or she must have engaged in a folk art tradition that has been in existence and documented for
at least 50 years.
c. He or she must have consistently performed or produced, over a significant period, works of
superior and distinctive quality.
d. He or she must possess a maatery of tools and materials needed by the art, and must have an
established reputation in the art as master and maker of works of extraordinary technical quality.
e. He or she must have passed on and/or will pass on to the other members of the community their
skills in the folk art for which the community is traditionally known.

A recipient of the National Living Treasures Award or the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, as also cited,
is generally described as “citizen engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have
reached such a high level of technical and artistic excellence and have been passed on to and widely practiced
by the present in his/her community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence.”

A traditional artist who possesses all the qualities of a Manlilikha ng Bayan candidate, but due to age or
infirmity (deterioration) has left him or her incapable of teaching further his or her craft, may still be recognized
if the following are met:
 a. He or she had created a significant body of works and/or has consistently dsiplayed excellence in the
practice of his or her art, thus achieving important contributions for its development.
b. He or she has been instrumental in the revitalization of his or her community’s artistic tradition.
c. He or she has passed on to the other members of the community skills in the folk art for which the
community is traditionally known.
d. His or her community has recognized him or her as master and teacher of his or her craft.

Answer the following questions. Write it in a ONE WHOLE SHEET of yellow paper.

1. What Republic Act created the National Living Treasures Award or Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan?
2. What are the categories included in the National Living Treasures Award or the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
Bayan?
3. Explain the importance of the rule that “he or she must have passed on and/or will pass on to other
members of the community their skills in the folk art for which the community is traditionally known.”
4. Explain this sentence: “He or she has been instrumental in the revitalization of his or her community’s
artistic tradition.”