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I did not want to keep talking about pen shows and similar events. I thought I had already written a tad too much on the matter, but about t...

Last September I started a collaboration with the magazine Shumi-no Bungubako (趣味の文具箱) under the generic title “Confessions of a Spanish Pen...

I can count up to eight pen shows (but what is a pen show, anyway?) held this past November—Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid, Budapest, Paris, Melbou...

To anyone who has read my texts on the Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) over the years, it will come as no surprise that I am not parti...

Come Fall and my time for pen shows starts. Paris , Tokyo, and finally Madrid. From Friday 15th to Sunday 17th, the Madrid Pen Sh...

Today I woke up to very sad news: Mr. Niikura has passed away. He was 84 years old. Mr. Niikura teaching at a Wagner meeting in 2010....

But not the Olympic Games--the Paris Pen Show. Last weekend (October 5th and 6th), the first Paris Pen Show was celebrated at the Hôtel d...

During the weekend between November 10 th and 12 th , the 19 th edition of the Madrid Pen Show took place at the Meliá Castilla hotel . A...

The 2023 Tokyo International Pen Show (TIPS) took place during the first weekend of November 3rd to 5th, and it´s time to reflect on it and ...

After the pen show of hope in 2021 , the 2022 edition of the Madrid Pen Show had to be the show to return to some form of normalcy. And it s...

Comes November and the Spanish pen community get ready for the big party, for the “fiesta mayor”, the Madrid Pen Show . And it also happens ...

The following picture shows the fundamental difference between pen shows in in the East and in the West: Pens, pens, and pens. Madrid...