Join us for a calligraphy community workshop with artist Zahid Mayo! The workshop will be hosted at Haraz Cafe in Fishtown and will be FREE to attend! Please bring your own materials to work with. Register at the link below.

Zahid Mayo (born 1987) is a Lahore-based visual artist and poet. He was born in rural Punjab, where he learned calligraphy in his early years at school. Mayo is a visual storyteller, artist, and poet who graduated from the National College of Arts, Lahore, in 2013.

The walls of the village were his early surfaces; pieces of chalk from school and left over bits of coal were his first materials. Besides working on canvases, he also paints on a variety of natural and man-made surfaces existing in the environment around him – trees turn into canvases, so do sections of parks, roadsides and bus stops.

His work can be seen in galleries and also in random places like trees, parks, roadsides, sometimes even on human bodies. Zahid Mayo states of his practice: "I am a storyteller and I believe that stories need not always be structured from words. I want to narrate stories through a visual form.