Navarra, Spain Launches New Edition of Itinerarios de Caligrafía / Kaligrafia Ibilbideak (ICKI) to Celebrate Handwriting in the Digital Age

‘Calligraphy Itineraries’ will champion handwritten letters. The program, running from January to August 2026, will offer workshops, talks, labs, and artistic interventions.


The project Itinerarios de Caligrafía / Kaligrafia Ibilbideak (ICKI) is launching a new edition. After a first instalment held in 2019, the program once again champions handwritten lettering as an educational, artistic, therapeutic and social tool, while inviting reflection on our identity, learning, memory, health, and technology.


The initiative, led by designer and calligrapher Sonia Beroiz (Kö estudio), in collaboration with cultural, academic, and community organisations, will take place in Navarra between January and August 2026. It will combine workshops, lectures, labs, artistic interventions, and public events. At a time when digital devices and typing dominate visual communication, “calligraphy emerges as a conscious, human gesture full of nuance: writing that thinks, that traces, that connects,” explains the project’s organiser.

I'm really excited to share with you all a new calligraphy conference and event coming up in Spain in 2026 organised by a very talented dear friend of mine called Sonia Beroiz.

Photography credit: Jimena Cuerva.

Topics

This edition will explore the relationship—and the tension—between analogue writing and digital literacy, looking at how these two modes intersect, complement each other, or come into conflict in everyday life. It will also delve into new teaching methodologies for incorporating calligraphy and handwriting both in the classroom and in informal learning spaces, proposing innovative ways to learn and practise.


The program will further examine the effects of calligraphy on cognitive, motor and emotional development, highlighting its role in health, wellbeing and educational support. Finally, the edition will dedicate a significant space to the expressive, creative and identity-forming dimension of writing, understood as a personal imprint: a stroke that becomes a trace, a memory, and a moment suspended in time, transformed by the hand that writes.

Interdisciplinar

The new edition of Itinerarios de Caligrafía will take place in several locations across Navarra, including Civican, civivox Condestable, the Library of Navarra, Centro Huarte, as well as towns such as Tiebas and Marcilla—bringing together both urban and rural settings.


The format includes a range of events: keynote lectures, panel discussions, calligraphy practice workshops, experimental labs exploring the intersection between writing and other disciplines (dance, embroidery, performance), public-space interventions, calligraphic walks, exhibitions, and a final publication.


In line with the project’s commitment to inclusion, the organisers are working to ensure the activities are as accessible as possible. Some sessions and one of the labs will be offered with sign-language interpretation. The project’s communications will also be bilingual, in Spanish and Basque. The confirmed speakers include professionals from fields such as calligraphy, design, education, philosophy, neurology, sociology, artificial intelligence and research—among them Sergio García, Andrés Sohai, Humberto Bustince, Veronika Burian, Laia Soler, Nahia Delgado, Oriol Miró, María Montes, Manu Murie, Glòria Jové, Joan Quirós and Bertha Bermúdez, alongside project lead Sonia Beroiz. Dates and the final program will be announced soon.

Read the original article written in Spanish by Ana Oliveira Lizarribar for Noticias de Navarra. Article translated into Australian English using Chat GPT.

Key Dates & Info

Event Dates

  • January - August 2026, Navarra, Spain

Conference Dates

  • February 19 - 21, 2026

Workshops, Talks, Labs & Artistic Interventions | Locations

  • Several locations across Navarra, including Civican, civivox Condestable, the Library of Navarra, Centro Huarte, as well as towns such as Tiebas and Marcilla—bringing together both urban and rural settings.

Official Website

  • https://itinerariosdecaligrafia.com

Hey! I'm Maria Montes, a Catalan-Australian multilingual, multicultural designer, calligraphy-and-type educator. My creative practice is set by the principles of never stop learning, sharing knowledge and create emotion through my work.


I have been teaching calligraphy independently since 2014. My favourite way of learning is by teaching others. I offer in-person and online calligraphy and lettering courses, corporate in-house workshops, as well as private one-to-one tuitions.

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