Whether you want to look, listen, dance, laugh, or ride, this week’s line-up of events has you covered. We’re diving deep into queer films, getting critical on the Berlin streets with our bikes, and dancing the night away at open airs. It’s great to see the city coming back to life, so let’s make hay while the sun shines.
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Terre Thaemlitz: Soulnessless
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Category: Music
Where: Prenzlauer Berg’s Kleiner Wasserspeicher
When: Doors at 20:00
Admission: €5
Berlin-based platform, Creamcake’s Paradise Lost concert and sound installation series launches with a screening of Japan-based multimedia artist Terre Thaemlitz’ film, Soulnessless. Terre is a producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ, and the owner of Comatonse Recordings. The film screening will take place at Prenzlauer Berg’s Kleiner Wasserspeicher, which is an unusual and interesting location. Creamcake’s Paradise Lost series will host a multitude of interdisciplinary artists whose works explore the themes of dystopia and apocalypse, transition and redemption, and care and recovery put forth in response to the pandemic.
For more information about Creamcake’s Paradise Lost series, visit their website.
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Queeres B Film Festival
presents Cocoon (Kokon)
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Category: Film
Where: Freiluftkino Kreuzberg
When: 21:30
Admission: €8.50
The Queeres B film festival, celebrating queer films through the ages in Berlin, is hosting an open air screening of Cocoon (Kokon) at Freiluftkino Kreuzberg. The film was written and directed by Leonie Krippendorff and was featured in the last Berlinale’s Generation section. Cocoon is a feel-good coming-of-age story about a young girl, Nora, growing up in Kreuzberg and slowly discovering her sexuality. After floating through her life as a silent observer, Nora starts to feel alive when she meets a new classmate, Romy, and starts to discover both her identity and her own body. The film’s title symbolises the themes of the film perfectly and the segments of hand-held camera work and sunny Kreuzberg summer setting add the perfect glow to this empowering story about adolescence.
For more information about screening times at the Freiluftkino Kreuzberg, visit their website.
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Matthias & Maxime open air screening
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Category: Film
Where: Kino Zukunft
When: 20:00
Admission: €6
Kino Zukunft in Friedrichshain will be showing an open air screening of the latest film from director Xavier Dolan, Matthias & Maxime. The first screening of the film was at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2019, where it competed for a Palme d’Or. The film follows the story of two young men who are asked to kiss for a short student film. After the kiss, both men share a lingering feeling of attraction and start to question their own sexuality and friendship. Their friendship group reacts strongly to the filmed kiss, as well as to the two friends’ shifting relationship, and Matthias and Maxime’s lives change forever.
For more information about screening times at Kino Zukunft, visit their website.
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Critical Mass
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Category: Protest
Where: Mariannenplatz / Kreuzberg
When: 20:00
Admission: Free
Critical Mass is a protest that takes place on the last Friday of each month. A huge group of cyclists gather to protest against the systematic disadvantage that cyclists experience worldwide, and collectively stand up for their rights as equal road users. The slew of protestors ride together as tightly-knit as possible in a single lane of the highway or on local roads while adhering to traffic rules and regulations. The protest is peaceful and is not meant to provoke other drivers, rather to reclaim a piece of the publicly accessible roads that cyclists have the right to drive upon safely. The group gathers around the fire station at Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg and then drives through Berlin as a group.
For more information about this month’s Critical Mass protest, visit the event page.
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Saturday 31/07
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SHOWSTOPPERS
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Category: Sex Life/Comedy
Where: Tipsy Bear
When: Doors at 20:00
Admission : €10
There’s a new drag show in town, and this Saturday the weekly event, SHOWSTOPPERS, will be happening at the Tipsy Bear in Prenzlauer Berg. The doors open at 20:00 for a night filled with drag, burlesque, and comedy. This week’s line-up features performances by Twat Butcher, Eddy Piss, Antina Christ, Miss Steak, and Turkish Delight. We cannot get over how good these drag names are – absolute top marks.
For more information about this week’s line-up at SHOWSTOPPERS, visit the event page.
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DICE 2021: Orbital Entities Volume 1
with Midori Hirano, Verónica Mota Galindo and Happy New Tears
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Category: Conference/Music
Where: Prinzessinnengarten Jacob
When: 19:00
Admission : Free
DICE Conference + Festival is hosting the first event of the festival with an open air event at Prinzessinnengarten Jacobi in Neukölln. DICE is one of Berlin’s quintessential summer festivals that bridges music and discourse in order to facilitate a more equitable and inclusive model for music spaces. The festival aims to put underrepresented voices in the foreground and celebrate critical dialogue about music, performance, and artistic practices. The first in a series of events hosted by the conference and festival will be a conversation between artists Midori Hirano and Verónica Mota Galindo, followed by a DJ set from Happy New Tears.
To get the details for Friday’s event, visit the event page and to learn more about DICE, visit their website.
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Sunday 01/08
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Art Bei Ton: EXPERIENCE 3
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Category: Live Music
Where: Suicide Club
When: Doors at 16:00
Admission : €15
To mark their third anniversary together, Art Bei Ton is hosting an open air event featuring residents, friends, and artists supported by the organization. Featuring a line-up of deep and hypnotic techno, an interactive installation, and an exhibition entitled Together: Sex, Nature and Digital World, the event promises to be multifaceted and dynamic. Sets by Claudio PRC, Blazej Malinowski, Mary Yuzovskaya, Aksamit, as well as Art Bei Ton residents Ina Kacz and Hypnotic Black Magic will be played throughout the evening.
For more information about Art Bei Ton: EXPERIENCE 3, visit the event page.
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