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What Is A Gamaba

Gamaba is the National Living Treasures Award in the Philippines that recognizes traditional artists. It is administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The NCCA identifies exceptional traditional artists and ensures their skills are passed on to others. Teofilo Garcia is a hat maker from Abra province who learned the craft of making durable upo hats from his grandfather at age 15. He was awarded the Gamaba in 2012 and demonstrates his craft in the Philippines and abroad. The award honors master craftspeople in weaving, literature/performing arts, and plastic arts who preserve Philippine cultural heritage.

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What Is A Gamaba

Gamaba is the National Living Treasures Award in the Philippines that recognizes traditional artists. It is administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The NCCA identifies exceptional traditional artists and ensures their skills are passed on to others. Teofilo Garcia is a hat maker from Abra province who learned the craft of making durable upo hats from his grandfather at age 15. He was awarded the Gamaba in 2012 and demonstrates his craft in the Philippines and abroad. The award honors master craftspeople in weaving, literature/performing arts, and plastic arts who preserve Philippine cultural heritage.

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WHAT IS

GAMABA?
Gawad sa
Manlilikha ng Bayan
National Living Treasures
Award
• Was institutionalized through Republic Act No. 7355.
Tasked with the administration and implementation of
the award is the National Commission for Culture and
the Arts (NCCA), the highest policy-making and
coordinating body for culture and the Arts of the State.
• The NCCA through Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan
Committee and Ad Hoc Panel of Experts, conducts a
search for the finest traditional artists of the land,
adopt 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 Manlilikha ng Bayan.
TEOFILO GARCIA
Born: March 27,1941, San Quintin
Abra
Parents: Franciso Garcia and
Concepcion Callos
-He attended Villa Mercedes
Elementary School until 4th grade
• At the age of 15, he learned the art Kattukong or
Tabungaw hat making from his grandfather
Hipolito
• Transform the harvested upo into durable hats
protecting people, especially farmers who are
exposed for long hours under the heat of the sun
TEOFILO GARCIA

• a farmer in the town of San Quintin, in Abra


Province
• Transform the harvested upo into durable hats
protecting people, especially farmers who are
exposed for long hours under the heat of the sun
• He was bestowed a tiltle of “Gawad ng
Manlilikha ng Bayad” in the year 2012.
• He has been invited to give talks and
demonstrations in the Philippines and abroad
• The hat called kattukong is a weatherproof and
made from upo (tagalog) tabungaw (ilocano)
also known as Bottle Gourd
MANLILIKHA NG BAYAN

WEAVING
• Lang Dulay
• Salinta Monon
• Darhata Sawabi
• Haja Amina
• Magdalena Gamayo
LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
• Ginaw Bilog
• Masino Intaray
• Samaon Sulaiman
• Alonzo Saclag
• Federico Caballero
• Uwang Ahadas
• PLASTIC ARTS
• Eduardo Mutuc
• Teofilo Garcia

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