The Next Day #75: Berlin Weekend Guide
Must-Go Events in Berlin: November 7-10
Hi, 🥶
Finishing up this newsletter while freezing in my living room, thanks to Heimstaden’s incompetence. I hope you’re warmer at home—especially with all the news about the U.S. elections. It’s hard to ignore it today! 💔
But thankfully, art and culture are here to keep us going. Take care of each other, and let’s celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall—a powerful reminder that history can shift.
Mateus focused on performances directed by women this week, with all but Drama featuring exclusively female casts. Scroll through the guide and find the perfect event to warm your week!
❗❗Save the Date: On November 16, we’re hosting another Art Walk with our friends at BlueLobster. We’ll visit four art galleries in Schöneberg, most with fresh exhibits. Secure your spot here!❗❗
Tchüss,
Lalai & Mateus
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Kali Malone presents All Life Long
Wednesday, 06.11.2024, Gedächtniskirche, Breitscheidplatz, 10789 Berlin. Tickets: 39€.
This concert features Berlin's iconic organ with an ensemble and microtonal brass, creating a space for deep reflection and contemplation at the Gedächtniskirche. 🎧 All Life Long
J.A.W with Meshell Ndegeocello & aja monet
Wed-Thu, 06-07.11. Musikbrauerei, Greifswalder Str., 23A, 10405 Berlin. Tickets: 25,50€.
Meshell Ndegeocello brings her Baldwin tribute, 🎧 ‘No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin,’ to Berlin. The concert blends jazz, funk, and soul with Baldwin's texts, creating a reflective space on race and justice. The night features concerts by aja monet, Samora Pinderhughes, and the duo Jake & Abe.
London Grammar: The Greatest Love Tour
Thursday, 07.11, 8 pm. Velodrom, Paul-Heyse-Strasse 26, 10407 Berlin. Tickets: from 51,75€.
It's the perfect soundtrack for TV dramas. What can be said about Hannah Reid's vocals? 🎧 Into Gold
Khruangbin: A La Sala Tour
Thu-Fri, 07-08.11, 8 pm. Tempodrom, Möckernstrasse 10, 10963 Berlin. Tickets: from 104,15€ - “waiting list.”
Expect funky beats and hypnotic tunes that'll get you grooving. 🎧 A La Sala
Cantata Ayabás by Andrea Botelho with Chora Berlin Choir
Saturday, 09.11, 7 pm; Sunday, 10.11, 4 pm. Schloss Britz, Alt-Britz 81, Neukölln, 12359 Berlin. Tickets: 10/15€.
'Cantata Ayabás' is a musical work that mixes elements of classical music with Afro-Brazilian traditions. Composed by Andréa Huguenin Botelho, the cantata is dedicated to the Ayabás, the goddesses of Candomblé, and is performed by a female choir and orchestra, deeply honoring Afro-Brazilian heritage.
Tapir! - Support: Anna Stucky
Sunday, 10.11, 8 pm. Privatclub, Skalitzer Str. 85-86, 10997 Berlin. Tickets: 27,10€.
Tapir! is an indie British band mixing music, theater, and myth in 🎧 ‘The Pilgrim, Their God and the King of My Decrepit Mountain,’ an imaginative fable that transports listeners to eerie, whimsical worlds—a perfect indie pick to wrap up the weekend on a sweet note.
Always, Already There: An Incubator for Afrodiasporic New Music
Until Sunday, 10.11, various times. HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin.
'Always, Already There' is a week-long festival spotlighting Afrodiasporic contemporary composers through concerts, rehearsals, workshops, and lectures. It aims to bridge cultural gaps in Europe, inviting audiences to explore the diversity of Afrodiasporic music. 🎧 Elaine Mitchener
eavesdrop festival
Wed-Thu, 06-07.11, 8 pm. Silent Green, Gerichtstrasse 35, Wedding. Tickets: 17,17€/Day ticket or 33,90€/festival pass.
The 🎧 ‘eavesdrop festival’ offers two days of experimental electronic music, with artists exploring everything from turntablism and analog synthesizers to AI voice synthesis. It’s a mix of innovative sounds, blending vocal techniques, and sound installations that showcase the future of electronic music. 🎧 Audrey Chen
8MM Musik Night Presents: A Night of Synästhesie
Opening night: Friday, 08.11, from 7 pm. 8MM, Schönhauser Alle, 177b. Tickets: 15,48€. Festival: Saturday, 09.11, Roadrunners, Watt, and 8MM Bar, Prenzlauer Berg. Ticket: 37,22€.
This year, the Synästhesie Festival returns in the coziest and new format. ‘A Night of Synästhesie’ takes over the ‘kiez’ around 8MM Bar, with events spread across three venues on the same block. This event is for you if you like psychedelia, post-punk, new wave, shoegaze, and garage rock. The highlights are 🎧 Dummy and 🎧Tempers.
Philo Tsoungui and Ludwig Wandinger
Thursday, 07.11, 8 pm. Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin. Free admission, including for the exhibition.
Percussionists Philo Tsoungui and Ludwig Wandinger are the guests for the new music series at Neue Nationalgalerie. This live concert complements the ‘Extreme Tension’ exhibition, celebrating jazz and avant-garde themes like rhythmic experimentation, collaboration, and improvisation.
Barbara Morgenstern presents In anderem Licht
Friday, 08.11, 7 pm. Zwingli-Kirche, Rudolfstrasse 14, 10245 Berlin. Tickets: 16,50€.
Barbara Morgenstern returns with her last album 🎧 ‘In anderem Licht,’ mixing ambient pop and classical sounds. In Zwingli-Kirche’s beautiful acoustics, she’ll perform with a whole ensemble of piano, strings, and electronic touches.
Femme Bass Mafia x Kwia
Saturday, 09.11, 8 pm - 2 am. Kwia, Maybachufer 16, 12047 Berlin. Tickets: 10€.
🎧 Femme Bass Mafia hosts an intimate evening at Kwia featuring ambient and experimental music. The lineup includes live and hybrid performances by Xades, 🎧 LUZ1E, 🎧 Ponyo, 🎧 Katia Fis, and others. The event promises a cozy atmosphere with soothing sounds.
La Casita with JakoJako (live) and 2001 Space Odyssey (live)
Thursday, 07.11, 10 pm - 5 am. OHM, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin. Tickets: 15€.
The Queer record label and party 🎧 La Casita promises to warm us this Thursday with live sets by 🎧 JakoJako and 🎧 2001 Space Odyssey, along with DJs Golden Medusa, VCO, and THIRTEEN DOZE at this interdisciplinary audiovisual night. Saturday will feature Life Classics with Hunee at OHM.
Toy Tonics
Friday, 08.11, 10 pm - 8 am. Panorama Bar, 70 Am Wriezener Bahnhof; Friedrichshain.
Toy Tonics is back at Panorama Bar, bringing groovy, swinging beats with 122-130 bpm tracks that put you to dance. UK’s 🎧 Dan Shake infuses funk, disco, and soul with acid synths and basslines, while 🎧 Gee Lane, Guinny, and Ruffillo add a mix of house, Italo disco, and funk.
O Mato x Atipik Weekender
Sat-Mon, 09-11.11, 9 pm - 9 am. Hoppetosse, Eichenstrasse 4; Treptow; 12435 Berlin.
Get down to Hoppetosse for an extended weekend of soulful jams and feel-good house music from JO SZT, Paul G, Alexia, and more. If you're looking for a dance floor to hibernate on this weekend, you've found it.
as long as you want by Sheena McGrandles
Premiere: Wednesday, 6.11, Thu-Sat, 07-09.11, 8:30 pm. HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 34 10963 Berlin Tickets: 22€.
The duet “as long as you want” by Sheena McGrandles and Eli Cohen is a choreographic study of lesbian temporalities. The work is inspired by a body of erotic fantasy literature – assembling a cross-temporal arch of female poetic voices. Ancient poet Sappho meets contemporary thinkers such as Anne Carson and Sara Torres alongside kink and punk practices, including Shibari, gay shadow dance, and pogo.
DRAMA, by Constanza Macras
Wednesday, 06.11 at 7:30 pm. German and English with English and German surtitles. Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 10178 Berlin. Tickets: 11€ - 33€.
The figures in DRAMA nurture the anthropological desire to cut up popular culture to discover the arc of suspense between high art and low and the untiring energy of the glamour dancers of the Argentinian revue of the 1920s.
It's Britney, Bitch!
Friday, 08.11, 7:30 pm. Directed by Lena Brasch. In German with English surtitles. Berliner Ensemble. Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 16€ to 37€.
"It's Britney, Bitch!" is an evening of music and stories about unhappy love and dependency, about truth and truthfulness in pop, about fathers of daughters and daughters of fathers. It is a show about Britney Spears and Britney in all of us.
Die Räuberinnen (The Robbers)
Saturday, 09.11, 7:30 pm. Directed by Leonie Böhm. In German with English surtitles, Maxim Gorki Theater, Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 12€ - 40€.
As Schiller wrote, a person is truly free when acting, and this freedom is what everyone craves. For director Leonie Böhm, the theatre offers a fantastic space for this search for freedom—a place where we can act and experiment, live and together.
Rineke Dijkstra. Still — Moving Portraits 1992 – 2024
Opening: Thursday, 07.11, 7 pm. Exhibition until 10.02.25. Berlinische, Alte Jakobstrasse 124-128, 10969 Berlin. Free admission during the opening.
Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition explores themes of transition and authenticity through portraiture. Works like ‘New Mothers, Bullfighters,’ and ‘Almerisa’ reveal moments of individuality and change, while ‘The Park Series’ captures Berlin's Tiergarten. Rineke Dijkstra's exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler opens on Saturday, coinciding with her solo show at the Berlinische Galerie.
Long Evening at Gropius Bau
Thursday, 07.11, 7 - 10 pm. In German and English. Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin. Free admission, but the exhibition can only be visited with a ticket - 9€.
The Long Evening begins with Field Narratives’ gathering in the bookshop, followed by Rirkrit Tiravanija’s film ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours.’ Tiravanija’s demo station hosts a performance by John Bock, a reading by manuel arturo abreu, and wraps up with a DJ set by malengo.
Andrea Pichl: Values of Economy
Opening: Thursday, 07.11, 7 pm. Exhibition until 04.05.25. Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstrasse 50, 10557 Berlin.
Andrea Pichl’s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof explores post-1989 East-West German transitions through an architectural installation. By recontextualizing everyday, mass-produced items, Pichl questions power dynamics, public vs. private space, and how utopias can become dystopias, echoing themes of Joseph Beuys.
Candice Breitz: A Song for Esther
Sunday, 10.11, 8 pm. KM28, Karl-Marx-Strasse, 28, Neukölln, 12043, Berlin. Entry by donation. Limited seating; arrive early.
Candice Breitz’s ‘A Song for Esther’ is a performative lecture honoring Holocaust survivor and activist Esther Bejarano, exploring themes of resistance and solidarity. Followed by a discussion with Bani Abidi.
Marc Martin: SO WHAT?!
Until 30.01.25. Mon-Sat, 10 am - 8 pm. Eisenherz Bookshop, Motzstrasse 23, 10777. Free admission.
When the former MMA champion, Mathis Chevalier, trains with Jona James, the two athletes shake things up. With a smile, the young trans boxer raises his arm in victory as a sign of hope. With photos by French photographer Marc Martin, the book SO WHAT?! is available in French and German from éditions Agua.
Visual Narratives: Group exhibition
Opening: Friday, 8.11, from 5 pm to 10 pm, Saturday, 9.11 – 5 pm to 7 pm, Tuesday 12.11 – 5 pm to 7 pm, Thursday 14.11 – 5 pm to 7 pm and Sunday, 17.11 4pm to 6 pm. Bardo Projektraum, Jessnerstraße 33, 10247. Free admission.
Visual Narratives - The Creative Journeys of Migrant Women in Germany. Curated by: Fernanda Porto, Marera & artISIa. With works by Fernanda Porto, Kseniia Antipina, Ilinca Barbato, Mila Belino, Daniela Lella, Laura Soria, and others.
Enjoy free admission to the Julia Stoschek Foundation this Thursday from 6 to 10 pm, including a guided tour. No reservation needed. Two exhibitions are on view: Double Feature: Theodoulos Polyviou and After Images.
35 Jahre Mauerfall: Festival for Freedom
Sat-Sun, 09-10.11. Route: Kapelle-Ufer, Schiffbauerdamm, Brandenburg Gate Ebertstrasse, and Zimmerstrasse.
The ‘Festival for Freedom’ celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall with a massive musical event on November 9, inviting Berliners to join a giant band and play the “soundtrack of 1989” across a 4-km route. The next day, the “Campus of Democracy” opens with Pussy Riot performing and hosting discussions, guided tours, and installations at the former Stasi HQ, creating a vibrant celebration of democracy and freedom. You can check out the entire program here.
Vegan Sunday
Sunday, 10.11, 12 - 8 pm. Eierhäuschen, Kiehnwerderallee 2, 12437 Berlin. Ticket: 1€ (Kulturbeitrag)
Vegans and street food lovers: “Vegan Sunday” is wrapping up the year with a special 10th-anniversary edition. Expect tasty vegan treats—savory, sweet, and healthy—plus vegan lifestyle brands, all in a laid-back setting by the Spree.
Beyond the Surface #9
Sunday, 10.11, 7 - 11 pm. Honey Lou Bar, Anzegreuberstrasse 3, 12043. Ticket: 15€.
If making friends in Berlin feels tough, try Beyond the Surface, a connection event to skip small talk and dive into authentic conversations. Led by ‘Intimacy Cards’ creator Sharlene Durfey, it uses prompts that help strangers connect with ease.
Don’t miss our special concerts & performing arts guide to save the date.
🎙️ Nadine Shah: You'll like her if you're a PJ Harvey and Marianne Faithfull fan.
Monday, 11.11, Quasimodo. Tickets: 29,30€. 🎧 Fifthy Underneath
♫ Most Wanted:Music: Berlin's top music business conference, with talks, showcases, and a Bus Tour offering exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the city's music scene. 12-14.11, Kulturbrauerei. Tickets: Conference 50/199€; Showcases: 15/25€.
🎤 Childish Gambino mixes diverse sounds and influences into something uniquely his own. It’s a sonic kaleidoscope. It’s probably the last chance to see him in concert.
Wednesday, 13.11, Uber Arena. Tickets: 94/305€. 🎧 Bando Stone and the New World
✨ Radical Sounds Latin America highlights experimental Latin American artists and researchers, bridging Latin and diasporic realities in Europe through music, performance, and theory. 17-22.11. Various locations. Tickets: Free Admission/15€.
Great newsletter on events in Berlin (experimental music, arts, culture and the likes).