DIY Courses, Workshops & City Tours in Cologne

Creative Art Workshop, DIY Courses, Wine Tastings, City Tours in Cologne

Sometimes Netflix just isn't enough. Sometimes you want to do something with your own hands, try something out, create something or at least pretend to, and go home at the end of the evening with a real result that you can touch. That's exactly what the Active and Creative category is for, and Cologne has so much to offer in this area that even the most chronic couch potter will get weak at some point. The pottery scene in Cologne, for example, is surprisingly lively. At the wabi:sabi pottery studio, you can regularly book courses and workshops, work on the wheel and ask yourself why you didn't do this much earlier. Atelier Strade in Ehrenfeld is similarly well-established, offering regular pottery courses for beginners and advanced potters and focusing on small groups, which makes the difference between real guidance and just watching. If you prefer printing to sculpting, the Druckschwestern are one of the coolest addresses in the city: the Cologne-based screen printing manufactory offers regular workshops where you can learn how to put your own motifs on fabric or paper using real screen printing, not transfer foil from the internet. If you prefer painting to printing, Kunstraum 54 is a good address for creative workshops on painting and collaborative art projects that show that creativity doesn't require talent, just a desire to try things out. For those who prefer a more collaborative and low-threshold approach, Flowland offers regular creative workshop events where you can learn new things, meet new people and end up with something that feels like a small personal masterpiece. If you want to combine your active evening with a little more puzzles and adrenaline kicks, Cologne also has a dense escape room scene: Team X in the city center is considered one of the best escape theaters in Germany and has won several international awards, with elaborately designed rooms and scripts that take the format far beyond the usual lock-picking. If you are looking for even more choice, Indizio Cologne offers five different escape rooms in one place, from mystery to virtual reality. In short, the Active and Creative category in Cologne's calendar of events is not a stopgap, but a fully-fledged program for anyone who wants to experience an evening that feels like more than just consumption. It's all about taking part, making things and sometimes even cheerfully failing, and that's exactly what makes it so good.