Under the direction of calligraphy master Shoho Teramoto, the Espace Japon shodo club at Université Laval is learning the basics of classical Japanese calligraphy, this thousand-year-old art as popular as painting.
Active since 2017, the shodo club currently has about 30 members. Last fall, their first calligraphy exhibition, held at a gallery in Quebec City, welcomed over 900 visitors.
Japanese calligraphy is often used to write poems, maxims and proverbs, as well as names and titles for works of art. Characters are drawn with brushes and ink on paper or fabric. Each line and dot expresses a feeling, a state of mind.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about this unique art of beautiful writing!