Berlin is opening up again, which means more and more events are happening. This is amazing, of course, but also a little overwhelming. After seemingly endless months of nothing going on we now have bars, open airs, art exhibitions, film screenings, live gigs and more to choose from. We forgot what FOMO felt like.
Getting back into the groove of everything and following what’s happening seems like a skill a lot of us have forgotten, or at least are a bit rusty on. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with our list of event picks for next week. Now get out of the house and enjoy that sweet, sweet freedom!
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Wild Frictions: The Politics and
Poetics of Interruption
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Category: Art
Where: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
When: until August 22. 2021
Opening hours : Sunday to Wednesday, 12:00 to 18:00 / Thursdays to Saturdays, 12:00 to 20:00
Admission: Free
Wild Frictions: The Politics and Poetics of Interruption is a group exhibition curated by Sandra Teitge and Amara Antilla featuring the works of almost 20 artists. The works in this group show circulate around the concepts of interruption and disruption, and bridge across mediums ranging from text, video, sound installation, and performance. The show explores the concept of meaning-making and emancipation as non-linear and subversive, existing in the affective spaces in between collective movements or traditional notions of speech and text. In exploring the concepts of play, mischief-making, and subversive acts through the lens of the pandemic, Wild Frictions captures communal anxieties, tensions, and loss of control as tools for potential – tool to create more crevices, disruptions, and in betweens that can open up and be explored. Although it opened in June, the show is ongoing until August 22.
For more information about Wild Frictions, visit the events page.
For more information about Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, visit their website
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ALFILM open air: 200 METERS
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Category: Film
Where: Freiluftkino Kreuzberg
When: 21:30
Admission: €8.50
ALFILM (Arab Film Festival Berlin) presents an open air screening of 200 Meters at Freiluftkino Kreuzberg. The film is the winner of numerous international awards and premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. 200 Meters traces the story of Mustafa (Ali Suliman) and his wife Salwa (Lana Zreik) who live in two separate villages 200 meters apart, divided by the Israeli West Bank barrier. When Mustafa discovers that his son is in the hospital, the distance between him and his family becomes unbearable, so he does everything in his power to get across the wall and return to his family. The film traces an intense emotional story while highlighting the paradoxes and difficulties of living in present-day Palestine.
For more information about ALFILM’s screening of 200 Meters, visit the events page.
For more information about the Arab Film Festival, visit their website.
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Hilly’s Spielplatz:
The Kink-Friendly Play Party
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Category: Sex Life
Where: INSOMNIA Nightclub
When: 19:00
Admission : €30 workshop + kinky play night / €20 : kinky play night only
Hilly’s Spielplatz is a friendly play party for all things kink that happens regularly at INSOMNIA Nightclub. Doors open at 19:00 and the evening kicks off with a meet and greet. As the night progresses, there will be a free workshop on safe and positive bondage where ropes will be provided for those who don’t have their own. And then it’s time to play! Attendees are asked to dress up in their finest fetish gear, bring their favorite toys, mingle, teach, learn, and get kinky. This spielplatz is open to anyone who takes consent and communication very seriously and who is into or interested in kink.
For more information about Hilly’s Spielplatz or the Swinging Between Pain & Safety workshop, visit the events page.
For more information about upcoming party dates, follow Hilly’s Spielplatz on Instagram.
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Evelinn Trouble
open air concert
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Category: Live Music
Where: Festaal Kreuzberg
When: 19:00
Admission: €9.30
Festaal Kreuzberg is opening its beer garden for an open air concert by singer, songwriter, producer, and visual artist, Evelinn Trouble. Evelinn is both poet and performer, taking influence from the likes of Thom Yorke and Patti Smith. She is often described as being both a poetic songwriter and an explosive vocal presence. Her musical background weaves through genres and styles, starting with her mother’s influence as a professional jazz singer, moving into her early musical experience as a vocalist in industrial rock bands, and finally arriving at her current solo project as an emotive, dark vocalist. A risk-taker at heart, none of Evelinn’s releases ever seem to sound the same.
For more information about Evelinn Trouble at Festaal Kreuzberg, visit the events page.
For more information about Evelinn Trouble, visit her website.
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Rosa Vertov and Slipper
open air concert
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Category: Live Music
Where: Haus Der Statistik
When: 18:00
Admission: €10
Future Sailor Concerts and My Little Underground present an open air double-header starting with a performance by Rosa Vertov, an all-female shoegaze/dream-pop band based in Poland. The four-member group’s dreamy, synthy sounds will start off the night and bring you straight into a set by the newly founded Berlin-based band, Slipper. Coming off of their first release in 2020, the group peddle a fine line in feel-good guitar music with the right dosage of sunshine and whimsy.
For more information about the Rosa Vertov and Slipper open air concert, visit the events page.
For more information about Haus Der Statistik’s, visit their website.
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The Most Wuthering Heights
Day Ever
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Category: Performance
Where: Kreuzberg (exact location TBA)
When: 15:00
Admission: Free
For all of those Cathy’s and Kate Bush fans out there, it’s time to take to the moors and pine your hearts away for your proverbial Heathcliff. Berlin’s own Wuthering Heights flash mob will be happening Saturday afternoon, so break out your long red dress and prepare to dance, swoon, sway, and embody the spirit of Kate Bush and her music. Although Berlin is one of the main hubs of this event, the Wuthering Heights flash mob is part of a global movement of Cathy’s and has been a regular occurance in Berlin since 2013. The festivities will take off at 15:00 at a location still TBA in Kreuzberg.
For more information about The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever, visit the events page.
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Tara Nome Doyle and 1k Flowers
picnic concert
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Category: Live Music
Where: Silent Green
When: 18:00
Admission: €15
Tara Nome Doyle and 1k Flowers will be performing at the Silent Green, a quiet green space in the north of Berlin. This open air concert has an unusual format, as it will involve both a picnic and near silence for those not attending. The organizers will provide attendees with high-quality headphones that will feed the sound of the live performances straight into the audience’s ears while they munch on a picnic and enjoy sounds on the Silent Green. The performers are Berlin-based Norweigan-Irish singer-songwriter Tara Nome Doyle, who is coming straight off of her debut album released on Martin Hossback, Alchemy, and 1k Followers, also Berlin-based, who recently collaborated with Tara on a compilation. Ambient, melodic, and emotive, both artists’ sounds are perfectly suited for the experimental format they will be performing in.
For more information on the Tara Nome Doyle and 1k Followers picnic concert, visit the events page.
For full information about Silent Green’s programming, visit their website.
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Concrete Comedy
Stand Up Showcase
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Category: Comedy
Where: KiezKino
When: 19:00
Admission: €8
Concrete Comedy, in association with Mobile Kino Berlin, presents an English-language open air comedy showcase hosted by one of our favourite comedians, Daniel Stern. It takes place in an entirely open air venue in Charlottenburg, which makes a nice change from experiencing comedy in smoky bars and basements (and bonus points for being outside of the Kreuzkölln bubble!). The event is BYOB and kicks off with a scheduled time for drinks and meet-up. At 20:00, Daniel Stern will guide the audience into the line-up for the evening, which features performances by Amelia Jane Hunter and Tyrone Stallone. Hit the spӓti, pack a picnic, and enjoy a night of the best medicine.
For more information on the Concrete Comedy Stand Up Showcase, visit the events page.
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