摘要:On paper,SAMBAYANAN 2000,a project of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA),promised to be a realization of the various proposals and resolutions made by the country’s artists and cultural and development workers gathered for the conference on Culture and the Arts for Philippines 2000 (CAP 2000). The conference was spearheaded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) in 1994 under the leadership of then CCP Artistic Director,Ms. Deanna Ongpin Recto,now First Secretary at UNESCO in Paris,France.