Calligrafight Club prelude: Instead of writing materials, the students used string, videotape, spaghetti, fire, wire, adhesive tape, little round labels and so on. An important part of this little workshop was to get them to work with rhythm and flow, another important part was to make them transform an ancient art into something contemporary, so everything they wrote had to be quotes from movies, books, music and cereal boxes. This workshop didn't have a set goal, which proved bit of a hurdle. On the other hand, we could have called it "Temporary tagging" or something, but I wanted a classic touch and it turned out the students were fed up with graffiti and street art projects, so going that way could have killed it off. Sometimes I'm such a lucky bastard. read on