NYZ: Zen in Four Ways – Chinese Calligraphy Workshop

Fridays | May 9th – June 27th, 2025 | 6:30 – 8:30pm

Join Ines Sun at New York Zendo for an eight-week exploration of Chinese calligraphy, offering a hands-on introduction to four major styles. Each session provides time for focused practice, allowing students to deepen their understanding through direct experience. We’ll begin each session with a welcoming cup of tea in the garden, a gesture reflecting the spirit of literati leisure, followed by a continuation of our Tao Te Ching reading from where we left off last summer.

Towards the end of the course, the class will visit the Chinese and Japanese galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where you will view masterworks of calligraphy, including pieces by Zen monks whose practice connected their breath to their brushstrokes. Among them is Ryōkan Taigu (良寬大愚), one of Ines’ favorite calligraphy artists.

No prior experience necessary, all materials provided. ZSS Health Protocols apply.

Ines Sun began studying calligraphy as a child and later deepened her practice through painting. She weaves together her training in tea ceremony and calligraphy in her installation Heaven Earth Tea Hut (天地茶屋) – an intimate, silent performance where she invites a participant to engage in calligraphy and tea ceremony together.

The schedule will be as follows:

• Seal Style (篆): Friday May 9th and 16th
• Clerical Style (隸): Friday May 23rd and 30th
• Regular Script (楷): Friday June 6th and Saturday June 14th*
• Metropolitan Museum of Art Visit: Friday June 20th
• Semi Cursive and Cursive (行草): Friday June 27th

*Please note that class will be held on Saturday June 14th instead of Friday.

The fee for this course is:

$40 single class
$300 8-week series

To make a payment and register, please use Venmo: Ines Sun @pencilnyc or Zelle: inesthsun@gmail.com

Please call Ines directly at 646-321-8331 with any questions.