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Tanzparty am KuDamm
A Saturday social dance night at the Traumtänzer dance school on Kurfürstendamm, focused on Standard, Latin and DiscoFox music; singles and couples are welcome, and the halls are air-conditioned.
Date ideas in Berlin you probably haven't tried.
Not the usual dates
- cinema
QUEENS OF THE DEAD
Zombie horror comedy set at a Brooklyn warehouse party, where drag queens and club kids must fight the undead, with drag performer Nina West in a supporting role. Shown in English with German subtitles.
- party
Die Schöne Party – radioeins
A party spread over three floors of Frannz Club in Prenzlauer Berg, presented by the Berlin station radioeins, with tickets sold at the door while available.
- club night
Halloween
Halloween party at a Kreuzberg bar, with DJs Jim Avignon and Julius Nerdinger spinning vinyl records through the night.
- live music
Karl Seglem FolkJazz / Norwegen
Saxophonist Karl Seglem brings his Norwegian folk-jazz band to a Mitte nightclub for a late set that runs close to three hours.
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radioeins: Die Schöne Party
A party across three floors at Frannz Club, hosted with radioeins in Prenzlauer Berg.
- club night
ALLE FARBEN
Berlin DJ Alle Farben, who grew up in Kreuzberg, plays long club sets blending tech house and minimal techno with festival pop-dance anthems. He has played Tomorrowland and Lollapalooza.
- club night
Garage Girls: Trick or Treat?!
A female- and FLINTA-curated Halloween night of UK garage and house at OHM, a techno-oriented club in Mitte. Built around DJs and a dance floor.
- party
Dancing on Our Graves - Halloween Special
A goth and alternative Halloween party across two floors at Badehaus, run by the Berlin goth shop Darkstore, with outfit and makeup contests. Costumes are welcome but not required.
- live music
Klubnacht Berghain
An all-night club event across Berghain and its Panorama Bar, with a long lineup of DJs and some live acts.
- party
TWILIGHT - Party
A themed dance night at Lido built around Twilight soundtrack songs and similar dark pop, emo and 2000s hits.
- workshop
Aktzeichnen in der Berlinischen Galerie
A life drawing session led by Vessela Grigorieva inside the Berlinische Galerie. You bring your own materials and book an online ticket beforehand.
- classical concert
WORLD CHOIR
A choral concert with the World Choir and Kammersymphonie Berlin, led by Tori Longdon and Jamie Wright, in the Konzerthaus Großer Saal on Gendarmenmarkt.
- guided tour
Sonntagsführung - ein Schwerpunkt heute... Dornen, Stacheln, Widerhaken
A German-language guided walk through the botanical garden's greenhouses, looking at how plants use thorns, spines and hooks for defence and climbing.
- comedy
Caveman Du sammeln. Ich jagen!
A comedy show with a caveman premise at Die Wühlmäuse, a Berlin stage for German-language comedy. It is performed in German.
- museum
Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau
Tour of the Metaxy show at the Akademie der Künste, starting from the building as an example of post-1945 reconstruction. The route traces colonial and Nazi history in the Hansaviertel, with art from many countries.
- planetarium
Voyager – Die unendliche Reise
A planetarium dome show that follows the Voyager probes through the outer Solar System at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium. The show is moderated live in German.
- workshop
Einblicke: Workshop zu "De Profundis"
A 90-minute acting taster at the Berliner Ensemble's Gartenhaus, built on games and short scenes from the De Profundis production, which you act out yourselves.
- workshop
Fermentieren in Berlin: für schnelleres Kochen
A plant-based cooking session at Plant-Based Flow in Mitte, teaching how fermentation can speed up everyday cooking. It is advertised in German.
- live music
THE BONES + MURPHY'S LAW
Swedish punk'n'roll band The Bones share a bill with Murphy's Law, a New York band that grew out of the mid-1980s hardcore scene and blends skatepunk with heavier metal.
- talk & lecture
Einsteins Kosmos
A 50-minute planetarium show on Einstein's general relativity and black holes, held at the historic Archenhold observatory in Treptow.
- theatre
Walter Sittler & Johann von Bülow: Ich gebe Ihnen mein Ehrenwort!
A German-language cabaret programme by two performers at the Distel theatre, tracing the history of lying.
- cinema
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
The slasher film Nightmare on Elm Street, screened in its original-language version at a Moabit cinema.
- classical concert
Vera-Lotte Boeckers Universum
A portrait evening for soprano Vera-Lotte Boecker, mixing a conversation with music by her and colleagues, including Trio E.T.A., in the Werner-Otto-Saal.