Badlit Writing Workshop

Learn the origins of our ancestors' writing system + learn how to read and write using it!

Known as baybayin in the Tagalog language, badlit or sulat/suwat/suyat/surat was used by the Visayans for ritual pots, signages, short messages, and document signatures.

Register now and learn how to write anything from your name down to full sentences!

About the Instructor:

Minxie Villaver

Minxie Villaver cofounded Karakoa Productions in 2019. She is a managing editor, creative writer, and freelance independent actress with Latin honors in her BA literature degree.

An MA student majoring in literature at Cebu Normal University, she juggles her involvements in the publishing, marketing, and entertainment industries.

Karakoa and Minxie have since been featured in international and local media, such as Esquire PH, Manila Bulletin, Sunstar Cebu, Where the Leaves Fall, Keeta PH, and GMA Network and has collaborated with local institutions such as Museo Sugbo, Baybayin Buhayin, and the University of Cebu in the effort to reclaim precolonial Visayan heritage and native identity.

At the same time, Minxie has been invited as a guest speaker and lecturer for Visayan and Southeast Asian heritage at Centcom Learning Center, Nayong Pilipino, Guang Ming College, Blessed Trinity Achievers' Academy, University of San Jose Recoletos, and University of Cebu to learners ranging from kindergarteners to graduate students.

Her most recent project is the two-act period play "Ang Paglangkub sa Yawa," for which she was the playwright and dramaturg. The play nativizes Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and sets it in 1620s Cebu.

She is currently a video game writer for Bakuyawa Games and a Cebuano language teacher at Baba Bisaya.