Children’s activities at BIOS

• Teens 13-17/ Saturday 11:30 – 13:00  Running Up That Hill 

Borrowing the spirit of Kate Bush’s classic, this session dives straight into the messy, high-stakes art of teenage relationships, dealing with adults, and actually getting heard in a crowded world. We look at how to build your own propulsion instead of just drifting with whatever digital or physical current happens to pull you along. Through hands-on zine-making and literally making maps with markers and collage techniques that evoke psychogeography and emotional topography, we flip gravity on its head—treating it not as dead weight, but as the grounding force we need to anchor our communication, spaces, and collective rights.

Participants: Up to 20 children.

• Kids 7-10/ Saturday 14:30-16:00 Cloudbusting

We head outside for some proper cloud spotting, using the open sky to kick off a playful, grounded look at kids’ rights to clean air, shared environments, and public commons. Channeling a bit of Kate Bush and the chaotic, lovable energy of Adventure Time’s Lumpy Space Princess, we take it back inside to notebooks for free-style poetry, lyrics, and comics. It’s all about mixing wild imagination with real-world ideas, figuring out how to make our everyday spaces feel a bit more free, puffy, and collectively ours.

Participants: Up to 20 children.

• Kids/ Teens 10-14/ Saturday 16:00 -17:30 ERROR 404: SAVE THE CLOUD MUSEUM : An interactive archaeological mystery for children

Format: Tabletop escape-room-inspired educational workshop

A digital museum has gathered together every work of art and archaeological object in the world. But the system is malfunctioning.  Images have become disconnected from their stories, labels have changed places, and figures are trapped in the wrong narratives. In 75 minutes, the system will automatically reboot—and every file marked as “problematic” will be permanently deleted. Working together as the world’s first digital archaeologists, the children must examine mysterious artefacts, decipher visual clues, reconstruct fragmented myths and uncover connections between seemingly unrelated objects before the system reboots—and all memory of human civilization is lost forever. 

Participants: Up to 15 children.