Pia: painting vulvas, and finally talking about women's health
A room full of paintings, painting sessions with friends, and a long time working in women's health at Clue. How Pia brought it all together in one workshop.
Read →Notes from the workshop
Guides to what is worth doing in Berlin, what makes a team session land, and the makers behind it all.
Lotus leaf painting in Berlin: Kirsten and a craft almost nobody teaches
Real lotus leaves from Thailand, hand-made frames from a Bangkok atelier, paint you work in with a sponge and your fingers. How Kirsten of Himapan Berlin keeps a rare craft alive and brings it to you.
Read →Team building that actually works: why your next team event should be a workshop
Bar nights and escape rooms are fine. But if you want real team cohesion, put everyone at one table, give them clay, ink or wax, and let them make something together.
Read →Mampe: 195 years of Berlin, poured into six glasses
Berlin's oldest liquor manufacturer runs tours of its Kreuzberg distillery that end in a tasting — from twelve euros for an hour to a gin seminar where you bottle your own.
Read →Celina: nine crafts, one quiet room in Soldiner Kiez
A film-school graduate who made props for television, now teaching bookbinding, stained glass and straw stars out of her own studio on Koloniestraße.
Read →Angelo: roasting coffee in a pot on Schönhauser Allee
Roasted East-African style in a pot, ground fresh, taken home. Tastings on Saturdays — and a room with panoramic windows that other hosts can rent.
Read →Five Berlin workshops to book when it's too cold to be outside
Ceramics, cyanotypes, coffee roasting and more — indoor makers worth a winter afternoon.
Read →What actually makes a good team workshop
After a few hundred sessions, the ones that work have four things in common — and none of them is the craft itself.
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