Events on internations.org, in my whatsapp group for visiting wine bars and wine festivals, and playing bridge.
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May 2024
16 May: Das Kleine Grosz Museum
April 2024
4 April: Coffee and three galleries
14 April: A play at Schaubühne
16 April: Unerhörte Musik, BKA
18 April: Three galleries and least two pitstops
23 April: Caspar David Friedrich in Alte Nationalgalerie
24 to 28 April: Berlin Gallery Weekend – see separate post
30 April afternoon: Academy Concert
30 April: Unerhörte Musik, BKA
March 2024
5 March Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater
13 March A Jazz Concert in a Jazz Club
20 March Photo walk Döberitzer Heide
27 March: The Holdovers (organised by me), followed by Indian dinner (organised by Rakesh)
28 March afternoon: The Zone of Interest in my favourite cinema
29 March EITHER Bridge at my Place, OR a jazz concert in B-Flat
30 March organ concert Konzerthaus
31 March Birds (and more) photography walk
February 2024
5 February: Another Film-maker who needs no introduction
11 February: Spring wine fair in Hamburg
18 February: Photowalk in Gropiusstadt (not organised by me. Photos will appear in a separate post)
19 February: A Berlinale film
20 February: A Berlinale film
21 February: Two Berlinale films
27 February: Unerhörte Musik, BKA Theater
January 2024
4 January 11.00: Art between politics and society
10 January 11.00: Two exhibitions and a short walk in Kreuzberg – (Find the map of the walking route here).
18 January 18.00: Opening of a group exhibition in a relatively new exhibition space in Mitte
21 January: Photo-Pub (not organised by me)
CANCELLED: 25 January 14.00: Gallery Walk: 1. Galerie Dittrich & Schlechtriem, 2. Galerie Eigen & Art, 3. Galerie Weißer Elephant, 4. Alfred Ehrhard Stiftung, 5. ifa Galerie, and 6. Telegrafenamt, where Galerie König (Alexandrinenstraße) has opened a kind of satellite exhibition. Find a map of the route here.
30 January 11.00: Ken Loach’s latest masterpiece
31 January 12.30: Free lunch concert
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About playing bridge, and visiting wine bars and wine festivals in Berlin:
I was hoping to start one group on InterNations.org with the purpose of playing bridge, and another one with the purpose of visiting wine bars and wine festivals, but they would not let me do that (why am I not surprised?). The reason I was given was that those purposes are not specific enough. ??? don’t ask.
Consequently, if you are interested in playing bridge with an already existing small group of people, please find more information in this category.
If you are a wine enthusiast and interested in going out for a glass or two of good wine once or twice a month in a wine bar or at a wine festival, I have started a whatsapp group for the purpose. Please let me have your phone number on this email address if you would like to be added to that mailing list. Also see this post.
And finally, for opportunities for birdwatching and -photography, please see this post about bird-watching in English with VHS Volkshochschule and with NABU.
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By the way – is it a sign of the times (which Stephen Fry aptly calls The Age of Infantilism) that internations.org groups with silly titles such as “Berlin Good Vibes, Good Times Group”, and “Berlin Keep Calm I’m Just Offline Group” are considered specific enough (???) to be approved, but a group about playing bridge, and one about visiting wine bars and wine festivals are not specific enough to be approved? How the f… could “play bridge” be made any more specific? Or do they just hate me because I have been critical of them many times over the decades, and even left altogether a couple of times?
March 2024
7 March: Two world premieres in one of Berlin’s best concert halls.
December 2023
1 December 14.00: The annual pop-up mini art fair
5 December 16.00: Current Academy Students, Future Stars #1
5 December 20.00: New Music for Asian string quintet
13 December 16.00: Current Academy Students, Future Stars #2
November 2023
17 November 11.00: Same theme – two locations – #1
17 November 14.30: Same theme – two locations – #2
22 November 18:00: A meditative musical style
24 November 10.00: Breakfast and two photography exhibitions
28 November 20.00: New music for string quartet
October 2023
8 October: Guided tour of highlights of Pergamonmuseum: Photos to come in a separate post.
(Followed by “Vegan Sundays“, and a theatre performance suggested on internations but not posted as events).
12 October: Film in Human Rights Film Festival (not posted by me)
14 October: Gallery event organised by the photography group
If it does not rain, followed by:
14 October 17.00 hrs: IN THE WHATSAPP GROUP for Berlin Wine Enthusiasts: Winzerherbst Tempelhofer Hafen. For more information, e-mail me here.
20 October: Berlinische Galerie (Munch)
26 October: Art and Architecture on a day-trip to Wolfsburg. Städtische Galerie and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg featuring works from Charkiwer Schule der Fotografie. FIND THE ROUTE HERE.
September 2023
2 September: Museum der Bildenden Künste and Spinnerei Leipzig
8 September: Guided tour before the official opening of Fotografiska
Interesting interior preserved (“unter Denkmalschutz”) from the Tacheles days, and promising, judging by the three opening exhibitions. Unfortunately, yet another new establishment designed to keep grown-ups out – with annoying “music” in most parts.
9 September: Wein- und Winzerfest am Dorfteich Lichtenrade
A good opportunity to sample wines from small regional, and beyond, wine producers in idyllic surroundings and a nice atmosphere. I had a most pleasant time with two other InterNations members who actually turned up on time (so I will probably do this again – despite a recurring issue which I could avoid by just going by myself):
When posting an event on internations.org, it is for some inscrutable reason obligatory to state not only a start time (obviously) but also an end time. Now, what to me, but since thinking has become so last century not to everybody, is blatantly obvious is that it is impossible to predict how long, or short, I or anyone else will want to stay in a place. Personally, I don’t like to stay anywhere for more than a couple of hours, max., but in some cases, I randomly allow for the possibility that others might when I state the obligatory end time.
Invariably, there are people who will arrive close to the end time, without having notified anybody that they will be late, and complain that there is no longer anybody there. If I allow too short a time span, others will complain that it is not worth it to go all that way for such a short time.
You can’t win.
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Berlin Art Week 13 to 17 September
See separate post here
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