Cultural Legislations: The Aquino Years

Title: Republic Act No. 7355
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: April 3, 1992
Description:

Providing for the recognition of the national living treasures, otherwise known as the Manlilikha ng Bayan, and the promotion and development of traditional folk arts

Title: Republic Act No. 7356
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: April 3, 1992
Description:

The law creating the National Commission for Culture and the Arts

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 204
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Jan. 14, 1988
Description:

Declaring January 15, 1998 as a Non-Working Special Day in the City of Cebu

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 206
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Jan. 15, 1988
Description:

Declaring February 1988 as the Buy Philippine-Made Products Month

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 245
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: April 12, 1988
Description:

Declaring 1989 as the Philippine Fiesta Year

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 250
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: April 20, 1988
Description:

Declaring the period from July 3-9, 1988 and thereafter the second week of July of every year as "Cultural Communities Week"

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 269
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: June10, 1988
Description:

Proclaiming the period from 1988 to 1998 as "The Decade on the Centennials of Filipino Nationalism, Nationhood and the Philippine Revolutionary Movement"

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 329
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Sept. 22, 1988
Description:

Declaring the period 1988 as the Philippine Decade of Culture and creating a Committee for its appropriate observance

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 356
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Jan. 13, 1989
Description:

Declaring the Month of February of every year as "Ati-Atihan Month" in the province of Aklan

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 683
Date signed: Jan. 28, 1991
Description:

Declaring the month of February of every year as National Arts Month

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 730
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: May 27, 1991
Description:

Declaring the Period from June 6 to 12, 1991 as "Nationalism Week"

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 798
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Sept. 12, 1991
Description:

Declaring October as Museums and Galleries Month

Title: Presidential Proclamation No. 1173
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Description:

Declaring the period November 26 to December 2 as National Music Week for Young Artists

Title: Presidential Executive Order No. 118
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Jan. 30, 1987
Description:

Creating the Presidential Commission on Culture and the Arts

Title: Presidential Executive Order No. 420
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Sept. 7, 1990
Description:

Converting the Philippine High School for the Arts into a regular government agency repealing Presidential Decree 1287 and for other purposes

Title: Presidential Executive Order No. 395
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Feb. 20, 1990
Description:

Establishing the President's Annual Summer Youth Program, providing for the components thereof, and creating a steering committee for the purpose

Title: Presidential Administrative Order No. 66
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: March 30, 1988
Description:

Creating the National Organizing Committee for the appropriate celebration of the United Nations World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 and the Holding of the First International Festival and Conference of Indigenous and Traditional Cultures in Manila on 20-25 October 1988

Title: Presidential Administrative Order No. 98
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Nov. 8, 1988
Description:

Amending A.O. 66 dated March 30, 1988, entitled "Creating the national Organizing Committee for the appropriate celebration of the United Nations World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 and the Holding of the First International Festival and Conference of Indigenous and Traditional Cultures in Manila on 20-25 October 1988

Title: Presidential Administrative Order No. 208
Signatory: President Corazon C. Aquino
Date signed: Feb. 1, 1991
Description:

Constituting a National Organizing Committee for Values education through culture, arts and media and for other purposes