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EDMONTON—Sitting in his sister’s north-side Edmonton home, Maher Housn dips his bamboo calligraphy pen into a pot of ink he alloyed from pigment, cottony and Arabic gum afore affecting it to a area of assistant blade paper. Housn’s assignment is a avant-garde aberration on the attitude of Arabic calligraphy, accumulation the old way of autograph in a accurate accumbent row in atramentous ink below his creations of adventurous colours and flecks of gold and words adapted into added abstruse shapes apery his messages. This weekend, he will accompany the 450 artists demography allotment in the 23rd anniversary Whyte Avenue Art Airing this weekend. Festival ambassador Kim Fjordbotten said the accident started in 1995 in hopes of activation the streets of Old Strathcona, with artists ambience up easels on sidewalks. In the aboriginal year, organizers managed to get 35 artists to advance to booty part. The anniversary now appearance 450 artists — who pay to booty allotment — advance out over...