Angenise will demonstrate various ways to create beautiful keepsakes such as a bookmark, greeting card and place card while demonstrating use of a nib vs. a brush pen.

In this gentle reflective session, we’ll explore expressive lettering as a way to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with what you need more of in this season of your life. 

Through simple guided writing and creative reflection exercises, you’ll discern a meaningful word to explore through expressive repetition, rhythmic slow strokes, and presence. 

Designed for both curious beginners and experienced creatives, this practice offers a calming space to pause, and notice what’s been stirring beneath the surface. Leave with a visual anchor, a clear direction, and a practice you can return to again and again. 

Join London-based calligraphy teacher, Laura Edralin, for a session exploring the mindfulness of mark-making with brush pen drills. As simple as it sounds, yet incredibly soothing when guided by a creative vision - not just focussing on the practice of improving techniques. We will be creating our own artworks using brush script strokes and familiarising ourselves with drills as a form of tapping into our flow state before playfully exploring strokes within frames, shapes, silhouettes and seeing where the moment takes us…

1. 1. Set up and tune in
   2. Basic strokes
   3. Advanced strokes
   4. Creative placement
   5. Free-flow play
   6. Final piece (optional)

In fact, let’s reduce the stress-signals of the word ‘drills’ and replace with ‘frills’. After all, these are fun-drills to practice, play and get creative with.

You’ll explore the most common challenges in flourishing through clear, visual, and easy-to-follow guidance. These carefully chosen tips are designed to support steady progress and deepen your understanding of form. Along the way, you may discover the insight you need to continue your flourishing journey with greater ease, awareness, and the right technical direction.

Calligraphy and Its Effects on Body & Soul

Join Syed Sha AbulHassan Quadri, professional calligrapher and penmanship artist, for a special live demonstration based on his upcoming book “Calligraphy and Its Effects on Body & Soul.”

In this session, Syed explores calligraphy beyond aesthetics as a practice that engages the mind, disciplines the body, and nurtures inner stillness. Drawing from traditional methods of the Golden Age of Penmanship, he demonstrates how structured movement, rhythm, and mindful repetition transform writing into a meditative experience.

With over a decade of dedication to the pointed pen and having taught more than 1,200 students worldwide, Syed brings both depth and simplicity to his approac bridging classical techniques with a modern understanding of mindfulness and well-being.

This demonstration offers a glimpse into his ongoing work, where calligraphy is not just seen as an art form, but as a path toward focus, patience, and inner balance.