comp arts

• HUM2: Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions


  • Promote arts from the regions
  • Enumerate the government agencies and institutions responsible for promotion and preservation of art
  • Explain how the Philippine government and its people value art, culture, and heritage
• Functions of art


  • Personal
  • Social
  • Aesthetic
  • Utilitarian
  • Economic
  • Historical
  • Cultural
  • Religious
• Art is a national heritage that is essential in building the nation and ensuring democracy
• Art forms remind people of the origins, histories, struggles, and triumphs of the nation
• Philippine Organizations in Arts Promotion and Preservation

  • National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)
  • Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
  • National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP)
  • National Museum of the Philippines
  • National Library of the Philippines (NLP)
  • The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)
  • Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)
• NCCA


  The country's overall policymaking body, coordinating, and grants-giving agency for the preservation, development, and promotion of Philippine arts and culture
• The NCCA, through its committees and subcommittees, ensures that the interest of the various regions are represented
• CCP


  For 50 years, CCP has been serving as the premier venue of the Philippines for the culture and the arts. It has hosted numerous shows and exhibitions on both performances and visual arts.
• Former First Lady Imelda Marcos (Former Chair of the Board of Directors of CCP): '"On the first year, I'll cover the soil. On the second year, I'll drive the pile. On the third year, the building will rise. On the fourth year, the curtain will rise."'
• Resident companies of CCP

  • National Music Competition for Young Artists Foundation (NAMCYA)
  • Ballet Philippines
  • Philippine Ballet Theater
  • Philippine Madrigal Singers
  • Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Tanghalang Pilipino
  • Ramon Obusan Folkloric Group
• These companies regularly stage productions, conduct workshops, and provide outreach to the community
• NHCP


  The NHCP was created with a vision of "a Filipino society with citizens informed of their history, who love their country and are proud of their cultural heritage."
• NHCP


  The NHCP carries out its mandate by promoting "Philippine history and cultural heritage through research, dissemination, conservation, size management, and heraldry works."
• Much of the work done by the NHCP is the identification, conservation, and restoration of historical sites around the different regions of the country
• National Museum of the Philippines

  Located in the heart of Manila, the National Museum of the Philippines is the country's repository of archaeological artifacts, national treasures, and pure specimens found and produced in the country.
• National Museum of the Philippines

  The main task of this institution is to solicit, document, preserve, exhibit, and promote the natural and artificial wonders of the Philippines.
• The National Museum is also responsible for putting up the network of museums around the country to serve as a local destinations of the diverse natural and cultural heritage of the country.
• National Library of the Philippines (NLP)

  Established in 1901, the NLP was then called the American Circulating Library to serve as "memorial to American servicemen who died in Philippine soil."
• National Library of the Philippines (NLP)


  Today, the NLP has the mandate of serving as a "repository of the printed and recorded cultural heritage of the country and other intellectual literary and information sources" and "providing access to these resources for our people's intellectual growth, citizenship building, lifelong learning and the enlightenment."
• The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)

  The history of the national archives goes back to the Treaty of Paris in 1898 "Which stipulated the relinquishment of documents from Spanish to American authorities and provided for the preservation of documents."
• The National Archives of the Philippines (NAP)

  Today, the National Archives of the Philippines is guardian to over 400 documents from the Spanish era dating 1552 to 1900 and various records from the Americans period to the Republic.
• Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)

  To promote and develop our national language, the KWF has annually given the Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon for Filipino poetry, Aklat ng Bayan, and other grants or programs on findings, awards, and projects.
• The Congress shall establish a national language commission composed of representatives of various regions and disciplines which shall undertake, coordinate, and promote research is for the development, propagation, and preservation of Filipino and other Philippine languages.