Turn an ordinary tote bag into the best thing you own that also carries snacks. In this creative hands-on session, Angenise will guide you through combining modern calligraphy with loose floral elements to design a custom tote you’ll actually want to carry everywhere.

Perfect for beginners and experienced creatives alike, this class focuses on playful exploration rather than perfection. You’ll learn simple lettering and decorative techniques that work beautifully on fabric, along with tips for creating balanced, eye-catching compositions.

Expect a relaxed atmosphere, lots of creativity, and the joy of making something both artistic and practical. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with a finished tote bag, new creative skills, and probably several people asking where you bought it.

A little paint. A little lettering. A surprisingly good time.

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 this calm, meditative workshop where you’ll learn simple decorative off-hand flourish drawing with a dip pen. “Off-hand flourish” was a free-style, unplanned art practice popular in 19th-century America, and today it’s a wonderful way to slow down and enjoy the process.

In this class, you’ll create elegant designs, including feather quills, floral decor, and floral wreaths. You’ll also explore mixing and layering different inks to add sparkle, color, and gold-like highlights in a way that feels fun and personal.

This course is designed for beginners and anyone who wants a mindful creative experience. We’ll focus less on perfection and more on breathing, rhythm, and letting your hand discover the marks it wants to make.

The workshop will explore the history and

evolution of calligraphy, tracing its journey

from traditional to modern styles. Participants will

also engage in a practical session, experiencing

the richness of Arabic calligraphy through guided

stroke practice

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.

This is a practical demo where I’ll explain principles to better understand alphabets based on the construction of its letterforms with the writing tool. I'll cover concepts such as: slant, contrast, cursive and script alphabets, scale versus ratio, and ligatures. We will finish the session talking about calligraphic color and how to apply this notion into a meditative calligraphy practice.

I'll provide a link to download a ZIP folder containing the following materials:

— Workbook to be printed (PDF file

— Materials needed for my session (PDF file)

Devanagari workshop

Brush lettering workshop

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.

Hello, and welcome. My name is Shreya, and I’m so glad you’re thinking about joining this workshop.

We’re going to spend our time together exploring glass pens. If those words look very new to you, that’s okay. You’ll know what they are by the end. And if you’ve worked with them before, there will still be new things to try 💛

We’ll cover:

• How to hold and use monoline tools

• How a glass pen works

• How to mix and choose colors

• How to blend colors together

• And, if we have time, how to layer them for depth

I’ll be with you the whole time, and we’ll go at a pace that feels right.

See you soon 💕

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.

Copperplate Flourishing

Pen Tai-Chi Vic paints huge elaborate murals down to detailing a watch face. Both can be physically and mentally demanding. Over the years through breathing and thinking ahead of the line he is inking, Vic finds there is a methodical approach to each line. This has a similarity to Tai-Chi. The art of slowing down with meaningful movements. In this simple workshop, we will look at breathing and using specific words to calm and be mindful. We will also create scrollwork through arm and wrist movements. You are encouraged to ink, paint or draw at your own pace throughout. Large or small. There are no rules! You can also use this in your everyday. Without pens or brushes. Simply by finger movements and visualisation. It is a great way to control anxiety and stressful situations wherever you are.