Baybayin Basic Creativity Workshop-Class

reposting from good souls like Ishilta Chasi

This is going to be on another Saturday, July 16 · 9:00am - 5:00pm, ISIS International, 3 Marunong Street, Brgy. Central, Quezon City, Philippines

Let us learn and rediscover the ancient script of our ancestors (baybayin). Through fun, indigenous-inspired, artistic processes, participants learn to:

• To read and write baybayin in a creative way
• Pictographic significance of the characters
• Baybayin calligraphy meditation
• Entrusting a life-affirming message to the future generation


WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS SESSION?

• One who wishes to nurture the artist within. No skills on drawing required
• Filipinos who would like to re-connect with their indigenous culture through the Baybayin
• Students and teachers, government or corporate employees or anyone who wish to balance left-brain thinking with right-brain creating
• Anyone who wishes to promote personal well-being and affirm creative growth
• People who would like to contribute to inner and outer environmental health

This basic baybayin workshop is a pre-requisite to the advance baybayin creativity workshops:

BAYBAYIN Glass Painting (Sept/Oct 2011)
BAYBAYIN Mandala (Nov 2011)
BAYBAYIN Musika-Nilay (Jan/Feb 2012)
BAYBAYIN Sayaw-Nilay (Feb 2012)

BAYBAYIN Basic Regular Course Fee: Php950
Early Bird Rate until 10 July 2011: Php700

For inquiries and reservation, contact Ishilta
mobile: 0915.2952826
email: ilishta@yahoo.com


About the facilitators: Leo Castro and Mini Gavino

LEO EMMANUEL CASTRO
Cultural artist; Anthropologist; Executive Director of SANGHABI. Sanghabi means one weave in English. The name serves as the group’s metaphor for the culmination of years of development of ideas and concepts after more than a decade of facilitating workshops, doing performances as well as conducting its own research on Philippine culture.

MINIFRED GAVINO
Developed the Bayabyin Creativity Workshops-Classes along with other artist-teachers. She continues to develop other Baybayin creative works. She has been an artist-teacher-facilitator​ of creative workshops, rituals, performances, games, eco-sensitive team process/orienteering, peace and environmental camps. She traveled with the University of the Philippines’ Kontra-Gapi to Europe, North America, and Asia in promoting Philippine culture through performances and workshops on indigenous music and dances. She is a facilitator-member of SANGHABI and the Co-Program Director of GINHAWA Inc.