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CPAR Lesson 3
CPAR Lesson 3
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
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
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.”