Calligraphy is a way of writing — and a way of returning. The brush responds to breath, posture, and the quiet of the mind; ink keeps a record of a moment that can never be repeated.

In this two-hour workshop, calligraphy artist Rae Hsu guides you from seeing to writing — no experience and no Chinese needed.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆

Reading ink — how to look at calligraphy: stroke, structure, and the breath between black and white

One character, many lives — how a single character travelled three thousand years, from oracle-bone pictograms to flowing cursive

Calligraphy as meditation — posture, breath, and holding the brush; the hand on paper, the whole body moving with it

Writing — practice with words of stillness — 靜心 stillness · 自由 freedom · 自在 at ease · 愛 love · 當下 this moment — or bring a word of your own, and Rae will show you how to write it, stroke by stroke

Tea to close — a cup of Taiwanese wild plants tea together. Your finished piece goes home with you.

𝗗𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀

Saturdays 14:00–16:00 ｜ 22.8.  · 12.9.
MUYŌ Tea House · Uudenmaankatu 15, 00120 Helsinki
€35 — all materials and tea included ｜ 6 seats per session（*Sessions may be cancelled in advance if there are not enough registrations.）

About the Exhibition:

First Path 初道
Rae Hsu Calligraphy Exhibition — Finland

One stroke. Only this moment.

Calligraphy cannot be undone, layered, copied, or corrected. The paper is thin and translucent — fragile, and yet resilient.

Between black and white alone, the fineness of nature becomes visible: its delicacy, its flow.

After fifteen years of practice, I began to loosen the rules of the tradition, borrowing materials and vocabulary from nature — developing Incense Script, incense in place of a brush and fire in place of ink, letting time and chance take part in the writing; and Worm-Eaten Script, letting go of the self, crawling slowly as an insect crawls.

Ten years of meditation run through every piece. No work is ever repeated. There is only this moment.

The word is dharma. All dharmas are empty.

The texts are drawn from Buddhist and Taoist thought — the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Tao Te Ching.

First Path is new grass breaking through soil. A first appearance, and a way of writing. An experiment, an attempt, and a return to the original mind.

𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
21.8.–18.9.2026
Thu & Fri 13:00–18:00
MUYŌ Tea House
Uudenmaankatu 15, Helsinki