After welcoming National Artist Virgilio Almario as new Chairman to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, new committee members and subcommission officials from the four Subcommissions—Arts, Cultural Dissemination, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Communities and Traditional Arts—were sworn in for the term 2017 to 2019. Committee members of the Subcommission on Cultural Dissemination (SCD) headed by Commissioner Orlando Magno took oath in a ceremony facilitated by Congresswoman Evelina Escudero of the First District of Sorsogon at the Manila Pavilion.
Congressman Christopher de Venecia (rightmost) of the Fourth District of Pangasinan facilitates the oath taking of the Subcommission on the Arts