Kid's Oasis

Kid’s Oasis is a free workshop for kids coming with their families to the Glass Art Society Conference in Berlin in May 2024. The Youth Team from Berlin Glas e.V. will offer activities, including glass fusing and painting on glass. 

The Glass Art Society is the largest international global network of glass artists, designers educators, and scientists. Their annual conference takes place in a new city each year, and in 2024 the conference will come to Berlin. The three-day meeting is the oldest and largest platform of its kind and we expect around 600 participants. We would like to encourage participants to bring their families, and Berlin Glas would like to offer a programme for the children. 

Since 2012, Berlin Glas e.V. created various youth programs such as Kids Blow Glas, for teenagers between 13 and 18, who come to the studio to learn glass blowing, Kiez Mobil, which offers free fusing glass workshops in Berlin’s underserved communities at youth clubs, schools and refugee homes, and Kiez Praktikum, which gives young students an opportunity to have a two-week internship. We have been a venue for Girl’s Day since 2016. 

Kid’s Oasis will be a special meeting point for children to experience the material their parents came all the way to Berlin to learn about! Glass is both precious and difficult to manipulate, and everyone who experiences making art with glass is uplifted. Since 2014, Berlin Glas’s youth programme participates in open events, such as 48hrs Neukölln, Lette Platz Strassenfest, and Girl’s Day. Berlin Glas is the first and only art glass studio in the city and we are offering a very special, rare chance for these children to learn something new. 

Our aim is to involve the young public accompanying their families to the GAS Conference, therefore giving the opportunity to younger generations to discover and experiment the unique material of glass. 

The GAS Conferences have been held since 1971, and very few have had programs for the younger generations. We would like to bring a new perspective on this, by involving them completely and give them an opportunity to be part of the Conference as future possible glass lovers. 

The GAS Conference is expecting around 600 participants, and the workshops will be curated to welcome the kids coming along, so approximately 200 children in the total of the three days.