CCC Presents! What is Writing? A Series of Questions for Calligraphers

CCC Presents!
A Free Online Lecture Series Sponsored by the Chicago Calligraphy Collective
THIS EVENT WILL BE RECORDED.

What is Writing? A Series of Questions for Calligraphers
Presented by Tim Brookes, Founder of the Endangered Alphabet Project

Synopsis of talk: The word “calligraphy,” and even the word “writing,” mean different things to different people across the world, and our Western definitions — and therefore our understandings — are among the most limited and least interesting. Tim is on a crusade to try to understand all that writing can be, and the only people who are likely to understand are those who write by hand, with care and intention, with skill and with a sense of both tradition and creativity.

Tim’s Bio: Tim was born in England and educated at Oxford. He moved to the United States in 1980. Since then he has been a soccer coach, an editor, a guitarist, a travel writer, and NPR commentator, and since 2009, the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. He is the author of 20 books and over 1,000 articles, essays, and other odds and ends. He lives on the shore of Lake Champlain.

More information may be found at:

The Endangered Alphabets Project

www.endangeredalphabets.com

and The Atlas of Endangered Alphabets at

www.endangeredalphabets.net

Check out his new book Writing Beyond Writing at

Twitter: @EAlphabets

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1190077011746159

Instagram: @EndangeredAlphas

Event Venue

Online