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• Rodel P. Nacianceno


  • Filipino performing artist, executive, and film maker, best known for playing the lead parts in FPJ's Ang Probinsyano
• Manny Pacquiao


  • Filipino professional boxer and Senator of the Philippines
• Whang-Od


  • Tattoo artist who received the 2018 Dangal ng Haraya Award for Intangible Culture Heritage by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts
• Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan


  Award given by media to recognize different artists and their contributions
• The Philippines are rich in culture since the pre-Spanish era. Ancestors are the living heritage or culture bearers of this country. They developed these native art forms which portray the significant life of the Filipinos.
• In this lesson, you will learn about our sixteen (16) National Living Treasures, known as the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (GAMABA) awardees from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts or NCCA. The awardees produce art forms that are woven into everyday life. These show how pre-colonial traditions continue through to the present time.
• Republic Act No. 7355 (Manlilikha ng Bayan Act)


  Established in 1992, it refers to citizens engaged in any traditional art uniquely Filipino, whose distinct skills have reached such a high level of technical and artistic excellence, and have passed it on to in his or her community with the same degree of technical and artistic competence
• National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA)


  The highest policy and coordinating body for culture and the arts of the state. It has to search for the finest traditional artist of the land who adopts a program that will ensure the transfer of their skills to others, undertakes measures to promote a genuine appreciation of and crafts and give pride among our people about the genius of Manlilikha ng Bayan.
• Culture as part of our Philippine identity includes a variety of arts that are enhanced by our National Living Treasure artists who are recognized for their special contributions to the national heritage. These are Filipino citizens who are engaged in any traditional art forms and have contributed to the development of cultural diversity and the creativity of humanity.
• Surat Mangyan and Ambahan poetry

  Preserve the Hanunuo Mangyan script and Ambahan (poem consisting of seven-syllable lines) and promote it on every occasion so that the art will not be lost but preserved for posterity.
• Ginaw Bilog


  • Most popular in writing ambahan (a metaphoric poem comprising seven-syllable lines) on traditionally used bamboo tubes. His poems about advising the young, bidding a friend goodbye, and asking for a place to stay show how Filipinos express their affection to their family and friends.
• Samaon Sulaiman


  • Master of the kutyapi, a two-stringed lute. Also proficient in playing other instruments such as the kulintang, agong (a suspended gong with a wide rim), gandingan (agong with a narrow rim), and tambul.
• Lang Dulay


  • Credited with preserving her people's traditional T'nalak using abaca fibers as fine as hair which traditionally has three primary colors, red, black, and the original colors of abaca leave recreated by her nimble hands-the crocodiles, butterflies, and flowers.
• Uwang Ahadas


  • Mastered playing the kwintangan (a type of musical instrument made of logs used to call abundant harvest of grains), usually played by a woman. Also chanted the Sugidanon Epic of the Panay Bukidnon, continuously working for the documentation of the oral literature, in particular the epics, of his people.
• Federico Caballero


  • Learned Suguidanon, a Central Panay epic, and kept the local oral traditions through his chants. The epic was usually chanted by a binukot, a woman of high status, but Caballero is known to preserve this tradition.
• Alonzo Saclag


  • Mastered local musical instruments, along with dance patterns associated with rituals. To pass this tradition, Saclag took a formal education reaching radio stations and creating Kalinga Budong Dance Troupe.
• Hajja Amina Appi


  • Recognized as the master mat weaver, creating colorful mats with complex geometric patterns that showcased her precise sense of design, proportion, and symmetry and sensitivity to color.
• GAMABA


  Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan
• The Philippines through the effort of NCCA introduced the sixteen (16) Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan or GAMABA Awardees
• GAMABA Awardees have contributed significant art forms that are timeless amidst our fast-paced environment and multifaceted culture
• Contemporary arts


  • Reflect our unique identity
  • Show the diverse heritage and cultural traditions
• Contemporary arts


  • Weaving patterns by Haja Amina Appi, Magdalena Gamayo and Lang Dulay
• Artwork


  • Shows the exemplary skills of the artists
  • Like Eduardo Mutuc, Uwang Ahadas and Samaon Sulaiman who mastered their skills in arts
• Art forms


  • Show the ways of life of the Filipinos
  • Communal agreements in Kalinga as shown by the musical instruments and dance patterns as mastered by Alonzo Saclag
  • Ways of life of the people in Panay and the status of women through Suguidanon by Federico Caballero
• Values are usually reflected in literary arts themselves and the processes that artists have to go through to produce such arts
• Values reflected in literary arts

  • Poem (Ginaw Bilog)
• Values are not only reflected in the art product but also on the process in which it is created
• Process of creating art

  • Textile weaving by Darhata Sawabi of Sulu
  • Carvings by Eduardo Mutuc
• Traditional art


  • Inspires us to make the existing art as an inspiration to enhance the art or create our own artwork
  • As evident in the works of Teofilo Garcia as a gourd hatmaker and Salinta Monon as a respected textile weaver
• The arts do not only express an idea or feelings, but they also carry significant contributions that are imbibed through generations and inspired the contemporary arts that we use and see today
• Masino Intaray

  • Epic chanter and storyteller, outstanding master of the basal (gong music), kulilal (highly lyrical poem) and bagit (instrumental music played on the kusyapi), also played the aroding (mouth harp) and babarak (ring flute)
• Samaon sulaiman

  • Achieved the highest level of excellence in the art of kutiyapi or kudyapi (two-stringed lute) playing and also proficient in kulintang, agong (suspended bossed gong with wide rim), gandingan (bossed gong with narrow rim), palendag (lip-valley flute), and tambul.
• Uwang Ahadas

  • Referred to for his ability and mastery in playing different Yakan instruments (made of bamboo, wood, and metal) and for imparting his insight to the youngsters of his locale. He keeps on performing and instruct despite his diminishing visual perception, keeping the Yakan melodic custom alive and thriving.
• Salinta Monon


  She was awarded for fully demonstrating the creative and expressive aspects of the Bagobo abaca ikat (to tie or bond) weaving called inabal (traditional textile of Bagobo) at a time when such art was threatened with extinction.