Excited to be at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive (@bampfa BAMPFA) for my Chinese Calligraphy workshop, “Rethinking Abstraction” 1pm, Sunday, May 10th.
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RSVPs is full; waitlist open. In the Crane forum, bottom of the wooden stairs from the lobby. Anyone can come walk by!
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Besides handouts and a reading list, we’ll have video projection of my calligraphy demo in real time on the wall (if tech cooperates)!
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The workshop introduces fundamental techniques, materials, and aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, focusing on the unique qualities that allow it to simultaneously represent the concrete and express the abstract. No knowledge of Chinese necessary.
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/event/rethinking-abstraction-chinese-calligraphy-workshop
I do not believe in straight lines - not when writing calligraphy (except clerical script) and not when parting my hair 彡
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Tech run through for Rethinking Abstraction: Chinese Calligraphy Workshop @bampfa
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Registration is full; there is a waitlist. Demonstration will be visible to all museum visitors from lobby and Crane auditorium.
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Thanks to BAMPFA Art Lab’s @alaynoboots for all the help with this event and these photos of my angled (hair) lines
movement in time, all dance and music
meaning in time, both literature and poetry
being and time, one art
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UC Berkeley Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA)
Chinese Calligraphy workshop
April 23, 2026
Wonderful to have an interdisciplinary meeting of UC Berkeley colleagues from humanities, IT, paleontology museum, events, and many other departments over cultural activities like calligraphy.
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Grateful to UC Berkeley’s Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA) staff organization for hosting an inaugural Chinese Calligraphy workshop on April 23rd, at Anchor House’s Transfer Student Center.
Excited to introduce Chinese calligraphy and discuss the concept of abstraction in two weeks
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Grateful to @bampfa for the opportunity to be part of a public conversation in the community
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/event/rethinking-abstraction-chinese-calligraphy-workshop
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Participant list is full but teaching demo will be visible from auditorium and lobby
In honor of this ancient art, way of seeing and writing, for all the poetry and prose, history, philosophy and aesthetics; and for every teacher who helped me along this path…I teach
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Calligraphy and Tea @teance_fine_teas
1st and 3rd Sundays
10:30am-12noon
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#practiceforthrsakeofpractice #師生關係 #練習 #studentteacherrelationship #teahouse
When dots become lines, and lines, -• dots
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Standard to semicursive script 以
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Sunday 4/19 class, on abstraction
10:30am-12noon, $25 includes tea
No knowledge of Chinese necessary
@teance_fine_teas
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Info+sign up: /calligraphy-and-tea-with-dr-peiting-c-li.html
You are invited to the cultivation of the self and community through practice of “calligraphy and tea” at Teance. This bi-weekly group will be a shared space for calligraphy practitioners and the new, calligraphy curious alike.
Joined by an openness to the unfolding of things, Chinese calligraphy helps create attention and presence through the ritual of embodied practice.
Please sign up directly with the instructor
April 19th
May Travel Break
June 7th & 21st
July 5th & 9th
$25 per person per session (tea will be severed without extra charge!)
Intimate class size - limit to 10 people.
All materials provided for additional $5, or bring your own.
Group will be led by Dr. Peiting C. Li, PhD - instructor of Chinese Calligraphy at the UC Berkeley Art Studio.
Bio
Peiting C. Li is a practitioner of Chinese calligraphy whose journey has spanned nearly two decades, including studying with teachers in Shanghai, Taipei, and the Bay Area. She currently teaches calligraphy at the UC Berkeley Art Studio. She received a PhD in history of modern China, and is working on a book about healing and art from a cross-cultural perspective. Recently, her essay on calligraphy practice, “Speak, Ink” was published in the Seattle design magazine, Arcade.
#teancefineteas #calligraphy #calligrapycommunity #書法 #teaandcalligraphy
