The document outlines the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan, a prestigious award recognizing traditional Filipino artists who preserve and promote indigenous crafts and arts. It details guidelines for identifying award recipients, including criteria for artistic excellence and community engagement in passing on traditional skills. The document emphasizes the importance of these artists in contributing to national identity and cultural heritage.

1. National Treasures Award :
Gawad sa Manlilikha ng
Bayan

2. At the end of the module, students
can:
1.Enumerate the guidelines involved
in declaring an individual as a
national living treasure.
2.Discuss the nature and purpose of
the award in nation building.

3. Republic Act 7355
• This institutionalized the National Living Treasures
Award or the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan. Through
this law, the NCAA “conducts the search for the finest
traditional artists of land, adopts a program that will
ensure the transfer of their skills to others, and
undertakes measures to promote a genuine
appreciation of and instill pride among our people
about the genius of the Manlilikha ng Bayan.

4. Recipient of National Living Treasures Award
or the Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan is
described :
•As a “citizen engaged in any traditional art
uniquely Filipino whose distinctive skills have
reached such a high level of technical and
artistic excellence and have passed on to and
widely practiced by the present generation in
his/her community with the same degree of
technical and artistic competence.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. D. He or she must possess a mastery 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 other members of the community their skills
in the folk art for which the community is
traditionally known.

8. Question:
1. Explain the importance of the rule that “ she 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”.

9. 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 displayed excellence in the practice of his or
her art, thus achieving important contributions for its
development.

10. 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.

11. Question
1. Explain this sentence “He or she has been
instrumental in the revitalization of his of his or
her community’s artistic tradition.”