The Next Day #24: Berlin Weekend Guide
From 02 until 05 November
Hallo!
Our weekend guide almost didn't make it due to technical issues, but here it is, albeit a bit late. We won't dwell on this intro. For those seeking live music, the Jazzfest and Pitchfork Music Festival are the highlights this week, but there are plenty of shows to suit all tastes in the coming days. If you're in the mood for dancing, two standout events are the party at 'arkaoda' featuring DJ Marcelle, and DJs Dasha Rush and Nobu at Berghain.
There are some good new exhibitions opening, a free museum day on Sunday, and an unmissable guided tour at Julia Stoschek with Lisa Long today!
To round off the weekend, enjoy a pizza feast at the MORE Natural Wine and Estelle Dining unlimited pizza event.
If you haven't had the chance to visit the new Fotografiska Berlin, this is your opportunity: Every first Tuesday of the month, the entrance is free.
Tschüss,
Lalai & Mateus
🪩 Parties
Modern Obscure Music Label Party
Barcelona's Modern Obscure Music label hosts its second night at Berlin's arkaoda club, featuring a special guest, Dutch DJ Marcelle. Known for eclectic mixes, she'll take us on a unique sonic journey. Label founder Pedro Vian performs new compositions, and Berlin's Moon & Mann selectors close the night with their lively sets. Don't miss this night of experimental music and dance. 🎧 DJ Marcelle
Friday, 03.11, 10 pm - 6 am. arkaoda, Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 Berlin. Ticket: 12€
10 YRS Rebellion der Träumer
Celebrate Rebellion der Träumer's 10-year anniversary with a 45-hour party. The opening ceremony begins with a yoga meditation session and a dance meditation. It's a perfect dancefloor for those who like downtempo and deep house. 🎧 Rebellion der Träumer.
Sat-Mon, 1 pm - 12 pm. Renate, Alt Stralau 70, Friedrichshain, 10245 Berlin.
A New Wave: Absurd Lustre x Format Wars
This dub and ambient party at arkaoda perfectly captures the essence of autumn. Featuring Format Was in the upstairs bar and Absurde Lustre in the intimate lower dance floor. After 5 years, Newworldaquarium, the dub, ambient, and house producer, is back in Berlin with his 'Wake n Bake' sound. From 6 to 9 PM, enjoy à la carte dining options alongside the music. 🎧 Wake & Bake by Newworldaquarium
Sunday, 05.11, 5 pm - 3 am. arkaoda, Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 Berlin. Ticket: 15€.
…. more parties:
3hd 2023: “Fools and Their Folly” by Creamcake. Friday, 03.11, 9 pm - 9 am. Berghain/Panorama Bar.
Dasha Rush, fk4m4a, DJ Nobu, and The Carry Nation. Sat-Mon, 04-06.11, 11:59 pm - 8 am. Klubnatch, Berghain/Panorama Bar.
🎸 Concerts
Bixiga 70
Bixiga 70 is a Brazilian big band that uniquely blends elements of African, Afrobeat, Brazilian, Latin, and jazz music. Their show is absolutely worth attending. Don't miss the opening act, "Luísa e os Alquimistas," with their bregapunk style. 🎧 Vapor by Bixiga 70
Thursday, 02.11, doors open 8 pm. Gretchen, Obentrautstrasse 19-21, 10963 Berlin. Ticket: 25€.
Jazzfest
The motto for the 60th JazzFest Berlin this year is 'Spinning Time.' This four-day festival brings together 36 international talents and projects from Berlin's avant-garde music scene, offering fresh directions for the ever-evolving genre. Some of the highlights include Eve Risser, the legendary drummer Andrew Cyrille, the trombonist Conny Bauer, and the Brazilian icon, Joyce Moreno. 🎧 Andrew Cyrille
Thu-Sun, 2-5.11, various locations. You can check the full program here.
Pitchfork Music Festival
It’s the perfect music festival for indie-pop and rock band enthusiasts. We highly recommend checking out the beautiful voice of Annahstasia, the queer rap of Mykki Blanco, the dream pop of Ghostly Kisses and Fazerdaze, and the noise rock of Mandy, Indiana. For those who prefer electronic music, you can dance to Hagop Tchaparian and Weval. 🎧 Revival by Annahstasia
Until Sunday, 05.11, Astra Kulturhaus, silent green, Zenner, and Festsaal Kreuzberg. Tickets: 25/35€.
Abyss X 'Freedom Doll' Launch
Abyss X presents 'Freedom Doll,' an immersive, genre-blending live performance exploring modern womxnhood and post-internet life. The night includes live performances by Texan multidisciplinary art collective House of Kenzo for their Berlin debut, as well as viola player Battle-ax. Prepare for an adventurous evening.🎧 Abyss X
Friday, 03.11, 10 pm-2:30 am, Trauma Kino Bar. Heidestrasse 50, 10557 Berlin. Ticket: 18€.
… more concerts?
Liam Byrne | Andreas Arend. Saturday, 04.11, KM28. 🎧 Liam Byrne
Alice Phoebe Lu presents Shelter. Sunday, 05.11, 8 pm. Columbiahalle. Ticket: 32,35€. 🎧 Shelter
🎭 Performing Arts
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
The songs of this legendary production are known for their iconic status. Its seemingly trivial tale of love, betrayal, business, and morals underwent an equally audacious and intelligent revision with respect to its social criticism. Directed by Barrie Kosky. In German with English surtitles.
Fri-Sat, 3-4.11, 7:30 pm. and Sun 5.11, 4 pm. Berliner Ensemble Grosses Haus, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz, 1 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 20€ to 53€.
reden über sex
An evening in Berlin. Three women and three men meet once a month to talk about sex. They all agree that human sexuality is of great importance to human beings. In their discussion, they share their sensual moments of awakening, their sexual experiences, secret fantasies, and most ardent desires. It’s a play about intimacy and urban loneliness, about the attempt to say the unsayable, about the concealing of desires and the eroticism of discussing them. Directed by: Marius von Mayenburg.
Sunday 5.11. 6 pm. In German with mobile surtitles in English. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Tickets: 7€ to 35€.
… more:
Ophelia’s Got Talent by Florentina Holzinger. 02.11, 7:30 pm; 25-26.11 and 20-21.12. Volksbühne. Worth trying at the door with the signal “Suche Karte” if it’s sold out.
🖼️ Exhibitions
Julia Stoschek Foundation Guided Tour
Don't miss today's guided tour with JS Berlin's Artistic Director, Lisa Long, to visit the exhibitions 'Unbold: Performance as Rupture' and 'Double Feature: Young-Jun Tak. Drinks and bar 6-10 pm.
Thursday, 02.11, 7 pm. Julia Stoschek Foundation, Leipziger Str. 60, 10117 Berlin. Free admission.
Camila Sposati – Breath Pieces (Part II)
Camila Sposati's exhibition in Berlin represents a renewed voyage into the profound intricacies of sound, the natural world and the symbiotic interweaving of culture, history, science, and politics. Showcasing 15 pieces, a result of her research in different territories and cultures, the exhibition unfolds as a meticulous dissection in itself, with Sposati probing into the annals of history, materials, and elemental forces.
Opening Thursday, 02.11, from 7 – 9 pm. ArtistTalk with Camila Sposati, and the curators Bettina Korintenberg and Marcelo Rezende. From 3.11 to 4.2.24. ifa Gallery Berlin, Linienstrasse 139/140, 10115 Berlin. Free admission.
Jimmy DeSana
The Queer photographer Jimmy DeSana worked in New York from 1973 until his premature death from AIDS-related illness in 1990. DeSana became a chronicler of Queer New York subculture in the 1970s and 1980s through his photographs.
Opening and Talk: Friday, 3.11, 6–9 pm. Talk: 7 pm. Talk with AA Bronson (artist and founding member of General Idea), Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe University Frankfurt), and Christian Liclair (Texte zur Kunst). 04.11 – 22.12. Meyer Riegger, Schaperstrasse 14, 10719 Berlin. Free admission.
Sara Buckner - Jeden kleinen Finger, sogar
Sarah Buckner’s new works feature mythical figures, literary heroines, and real-life characters, transformed in the artist’s imagination and imbued with meaning gleaned from her own life. The majority of figures in these new works remain female, among them literary heroines such as Odysseus’ waiting wife Penelope, described by Homer, or Virgil’s tragic princess Dido.
Opening Friday, 3.11, 6-9 pm. From 4.11 to 2.12. Tue – Sat, 11 am-6 pm. Esther Schipper, Potsdamer Strasse 81E, 10785 Berlin. Free admittance.
… more to enjoy the free entry on Museum Sonntag:
Let Them Eat Cake (videos) and Edvard Munch: Magic of the North, Berlinische Galerie.
Lee Ufan, Hambuger Bahnhof.
General Idea: Retrospective, Gropius Bau.
Secessions: Klimt, Stuck, Liebermann, Alte Nationalgalerie.
Flow: The Exhibition on Menstruation, Museum Europäischer Kulturen.
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories: Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia, HKW.
POLY. A fluid show, and EMMA TALBOT: In the end, in the beginning. Kindl.
🍕 Food
All You Can Eat Pizza Party
This is the kind of event we all love! MORE Natural Wine is bringing back its 'All You Can Eat Pizza' party at Estelle Dining. Enjoy delicious fall and forest-themed pizzas with ingredients like game meat, pumpkin, mushrooms, chestnuts, pears, and more, all served alongside fantastic natural wines by the glass.
Sunday, 05.11, from 5 pm. Estelle Dining, Kopenhagener Str. 12A, 10437 Berlin. Ticket needed to entry: 25 €.
What we are doing, reading, and planning for November:
🎭 Theater: The Silence, by and directed by Falk Richter - German World Premiere. 19.11, 8 pm. Schaubühne.
📚 Talk/Literature: On Three - On Friendship as a Way of Life with Didier Eribon, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Édouard Louis. literature festival, 14.11, 7:30 pm. Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
📽️ Cinema: Drifter, by Hannes Hirsch.
📖 Mateus is reading AA Bronson´s House of Shame.
💁🏻♀️ Lalai Persson
🎹 Jungle, 06.11, Verti Hall Music.
🤘 Synästhesie Festival. 10-11.11, Kulturbraurei Berlin.
🎚️ Glass Dance Festival to see GusGus and Austra, 10-11.11, Astra Kulturhaus.
📖 Lalai is reading “Atlas of AI”, Kate Crawford.
📌 Save the Date
🎹 Jungle. Monday, 06.11, 8 pm. Verti Music Hall. Ticket: 49,20€. 🎧 Volcano
🎸 Weyes Blood. Monday, 06.11, 8 pm. Astra Kulturhaus. Ticket: 28 €. 🎧 And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
🎹 Erland Cooper. Tuesday, 07.11, 7 pm. Zenner. Ticket: 26,44 €. 🎧 Folded Landscapes.
🎛️ Sofia Kourtesis. Wednesday, 08.11, 8 pm. Funkhaus. Ticket: 22 €. 🎧 Madres
🎙️ Little Dragon, 15.11, Astra. Ticket: 38,25 €. 🎧 Slugs of Love.
🎛️ Four Tet (4 hours Set), 25.11 Tempodrom. Ticket: 53,65 €. 🎧 Live from Lost Village.
🔊 yeule, 09.12, Zenner. Ticket: 26 €. 🎧 softscars.
🎚 Soulwax, 19.01, Huxleys Neue Welt. Ticket: 34,80 €. 🎧 This is Soulwax.
🪗 Beirut, 16-17.02.24, Tempodrom. Ticket: 49,50 €. Tour "Hadsel" - the new album to be released on 10.11. 🎧 So many plans.