The History of Writing
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Information
Addressed to
5th and 6th grade students
Dates
November 2019 - May 2020
Duration
3 hours
Cost
Free
Application and selection process: Applications should be send to education@onassis.org by 15 October, 2019. Responses will be given by 1 November, 2019.
Introduction
A chisel? Or a quill pen? What’s your favorite tool to write with? The history of writing is the history of humankind itself, which has always sought ways to communicate. Long before emails, SMS, emoticons, and messaging apps, people drew symbols and created different systems for writing their messages. Discover them!
Would you like to see your name written in Linear B? Throughout history, humans have used different methods to communicate in writing, including paintings, symbols, systems, and words.
The Phoenician alphabet, the Rosetta Stone, cave paintings, and many other inventions and writings systems will prove to you and your classmates that humans have always sought to communicate. In this workshop, you’ll get to examine quill pens, chisels, and strange inks, and will become a calligrapher yourself, creating your own rare manuscript with pens, brushes, and real ink on aged paper, as if you were living in a bygone era.
Photo © Yiannis Soulis
Credits
Each school group that is selected will take part in one 3-hour workshop.
