CONTEMPORARY PHILIPPINE ARTS FROM THE REGIONS

Art Promotion and Preservation

• Art is a national heritage that is essential in building the nation and ensuring democracy.
• Painting, Sculptures, Songs, Dances, Poetry and other art forms remind people of the
origins.
Example:
• The Rizal Monument in Luneta Park or the National Anthem.
• Citizens are conscious and proud of their cultural heritage, they become active agents in
nation building.
• Executive Order 118 created the Presidential Commission on Culture and the Arts in
1987. Five years later, Republic Act 7356 established the National Commission for
Culture and the Arts (NCCA)

National Commission for Culture and the Arts

• Country’s overall policy making body, coordinating, and grants giving agency for the
preservation, development, and promotion of Philippine arts and culture.”
• Serves as the state’s initiative to promote and develop art and culture awareness in the
country
• Its committees and subcommittees ensure that the interest of various regions and
represented.
• There are six arts and cultural government agencies under the NCCA

1. National Commission for Culture and the Arts Country’s overall policy making
body, coordinating, and grants giving agency for the preservation,
development, and promotion of Philippine arts and culture.”

• Serves as the state’s initiative to promote and develop art and culture awareness in the
country

• Its committees and subcommittees ensure that the interest of various regions and
represented.

• There are six arts and cultural government agencies under the NCCA

2. Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)

 Serving as the premier venue in the Philippines for culture and the arts.
 Hosted numerous shows and exhibitions on both performance and visual arts.
  CCP is also responsible for bringing together the different arts from various regions to
the entire country and the whole world.
 Home to nine artistic companies such as the National Music Competition for Young
Artist Foundation (NAMCYA), Ballet Philippines, Philippine Madrigal Singers

 Philippine Ballet Theater, UST Symphony Orchestra, Tanghalang Pilipino, Bayanihan

Philippine National Folk-Dance Company, and Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group.
 These companies regularly stage productions, conduct workshops, and provide outreach
to the community.

3. National Historical Commission of the Philippines

 Created with a vision of “a Filipino society with citizens informed

of their history, who love their country and are cultural heritage.”

 Its mandate by promoting “Philippine history and cultural heritage

through research, dissemination, conservation, site management, and healthy works”.

 Through NHCP, Filipino may have “awareness and appreciation of noble deeds and ideals
of our heroes and other illustrious Filipinos, to instill pride in the Filipino race
 And to rekindle the Filipino spirit to the lesson of history

4. National Museum of the Philippines

• Located at the heart of Manila
• Country’s repository of archeological artifacts, national treasures, and rare specimens
found and produced in the country.
• The main task of this institution is to solicit, document, preserve, exhibit, and promote
the natural and artificial wonders
• Also responsible for putting up a network of museums around the country to serve as a
local destination of the diverse natural and cultural heritage of the country.
• The National Museum has two main divisions- the Natural History Museum and the
National Art Gallery

5. National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

  Established in 1901, NLP was called the American Circulating Library to serve as
“memorial to American servicemen who died in Philippine soil. NLP has mandate of
serving as a “respiratory of the printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country
and other intellectual literary and information sources” and providing “access for these
resources for our people’s intellectual growth, citizenship building, lifelong learning and
enlightenment.”

6. The National Archives of the Philippines

 The National Archives of the Philippines 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.
 The history of the National Archives goes back to the Treaty of Paris 1898 “which
stipulated the relinquishment or cession of document from Spanish to American
authorities and provided for the preservations”

7. Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)

 The KWF or the Commission on the Filipino Language was created via Republic Act No.
7104:
 “Congress shall establish a national language commission composed of representatives of
various regions and disciplines which shall undertake, coordinate and promote researches for
the development, propagation, and preservation of Filipino and other Philippine Languages.
 To promote and develop our national language, the KWF has annually given the given the
Talaang Ginto: Makatang Taon for the Filipino poetry, Aklat ng Bayan, and other grants or
programs on funding, award, and projects.