Filipino GAMABA Awardees and explain their roles and contributions to contemporary arts and how traditions become contemporary or vice versa.
GAMABA stands for Gawad ng manlilikha ng bayan, the very purpose of this award is to give honor and pride to those traditional folk artist and to preserve their works, skills and crafts . It is important to keep traditions and ingenuity alive for future generations to see the culture and identity of any nation. Furthermore, they should have revitalized the community's artistic tradition and are recognized in their community as a master and teacher. Gamaba influence the artist to acknowledge the importance of traditional folk artists ; revitalize the artistic traditions of communities; provide mechanisms for identifying and assisting qualified traditional folk artists to transfer their skills to the community.Tradition is called a cultural or social practice that remains in use for several generations, generating a rootedness with the society in which it develops. Thus, when a tradition becomes so ingrained in society that it remains in force during the present, the traditional beco...