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'''<span style="color:red;font-size:12pt;">Class is on hiatus until the new year. See you then!</span>'''
[[File:Variegated.jpg|300px|thumb|right]]
[[File:Eachday.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Ball point pens can be beautiful too.]]
[[File:Colapen.png|300px|thumb|right|Colapen. Make a great pen from a soft-drink can.]]
===What===
===What===
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of using a pen, exercises in making marks on the page, and introductions to forms of italic and blackletter. In later classes we'll make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?
Learn to use pen and paper for all they're worth. Make beautiful words. We'll start with basics of pen use and introductions to calligraphic scripts. In later classes we can make our own [http://www.popcanpen.com/how_to/howto_make%20_pen.html cola pens], 3D print letters, or laser-cut a letterpress font. Would you like to help design a NoiseBridge font?  
====What to bring====
Recommended, but not required:
* A phone/mp3/music player, headphones, and a few of your favorite songs
* A ball point pen and blank printer paper
* Any calligraphy pen, markers, ink you already have
* Clothes that you don't mind getting a little ink on, a smock, or a very steady hand.
I will have some pens and paper too, so don't sweat it if you come last minute.
 
===When===
===When===
Thursday Evenings from 7:00-9:00pm.
Thursday Evenings at 6:00pm. (We are just getting started, so if this doesn't work for you, please [http://wanderingstan.com/contact contact me].)
 
Except on the 3rd Thursday of each month, when we have a shortened one-hour class. ([[Five Minutes of Fame]] starts at 8:00pm.)
 
===Where===
===Where===
Church classroom at [[Noisebridge]]. (In the far back, around the corner from the Kitchen.)
Noisebridge, 2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station). Map: [[Getting Here]]
 
2169 Mission St., San Francisco, 94114 (at 18th St., near 16th St. BART station).  
 
First time visitors should read this for getting in: [[Getting Here | Explicit directions and how to get inside]]
 
===Cost===
===Cost===
Instruction is free!  
Instruction is free! It's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.  
 
And the materials are almost free--it's a myth that you need expensive tools to make beautiful letters. We'll learn how to do it even with a ball-point pen and paper. (Many banks provide such pens for free. :) However, use of traditional pens will also be covered, and a few will be available for loan during the class.
 
===Instructor===
===Instructor===
[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refugee from the startup world.
[[User:wanderingstan|Stan James]], a longtime letter lover, current refuge from the startup world.
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