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IriS Romen – Live in Fabisch

24. April 2013 in Berlin, Circus Hotel, Events, Fabisch, Music by Paul

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Something very special on the Fabisch stage this Friday evening, as we welcome IriS Romen to the Circus as part of our regular live music events on Friday evenings. A veteran of the Clärchens Ballhaus stage, IriS is celebrating the release of her first album “Vintage Gal Hour”, from which she will be performing some songs on Friday evening. But words cannot do justice to what you have to look forward to on Friday, so watch this video instead and we will see you there:

IriS Romen – Live in Fabisch at The Circus Hotel
Friday 26th April at 10pm
Admission: Free

Eyewitness History Talk – The Legacy of a Divided Country

19. April 2013 in Berlin, Circus Hotel, Circus News, Circus Talks, Events, Fabisch, History by Paul

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On Tuesday 23rd April 2013 we are extremely pleased to be welcoming to The Circus another eyewitness speaker from the Zeitzeugenbörse (Centre for Witness to Contemporary History). This is part of our monthly series events that we have been running for the past two years, in which we invite speakers to come and join us for a while and tell us their own personal stories about different moments in Berlin and German history.

This month we are delighted to welcome Sieglinde Neff who will be coming to talk to us about her life in Berlin, first in the German Democratic Republic and then, having left illegally during the 1950s, in West Germany. She will share her experiences, including life for young people in East Germany, and the legacy of the division 24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

We are really looking forward to another fascinating evening of personal history in Fabisch, and we hope you will join us. The talk will be in English, is open to all, and is free… although we will be collecting contributions towards our own donation to the ZZB to help them continue in their important work.

Where: Fabisch at The Circus Hotel, Rosenthaler Straße 1 (U8: Rosenthaler Platz)
When: Tue 23rd April at 6.45pm

(Photo credit: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F079010-0037 / CC-BY-SA)

Drink your way around Germany: The Tour de Bier

9. April 2013 in Bars, Beer, Circus Hostel, Events, Goldman's Bar by Paul

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Oh yes. If you love a good tipple then our new event in Goldman’s Bar at The Circus Hostel is going to be right up your street. Every Wednesday we will be hosting the “Tour de Bier”, a journey of two thousand kilometres in three hours, stopping off in places such as Munich, Bremen, Wernigerode and more, to try six of Germany’s different beers. And you can do all of that without leaving the bar!

Every thirty minutes from 9pm there will be a different regional beer on offer, and each guest who takes part will receive their “Drink around Germany Passport”. Each destination visited will get a stamp in the passport, and those who get all six stamps will get a prize.

A great chance to come down to the bar, meet some fellow beer-lovers, and sample some great examples of Germany’s national drink, from the wheat beers of the south, the alt beers of the west, and the strange concoction that is Berlin’s own contribution to national beer culture…

Prost!

Pictoplasma is back in Berlin

8. April 2013 in Art, Berlin, Events, Festivals by Paul

Pictoplasma

As the Kunstbox at The Circus Hostel is no more, we are unfortunately not able to host the wonderful folks from Pictoplasma for their festival this year, although of course we are really looking forward to the invasion of weird and wonderful character art and will be wandering the neighbourhood to check out what is going on.

Pictoplasma is “The world’s leading Festival of contemporary character culture” and is taking place in Berlin from 10-14 April. At the conference there is a mix of artist talks and screenings, and there are also four club nights to keep you entertained long into the evening, but one of our favourite parts is the Character Walk:

“The Festival’s CHARACTER WALK, an exhibition tour through 23+ project spaces, galleries and art venues throughout the city, presents character driven exhibitions by many of the participating conference speakers and international artists, featuring originals, installations, sculptures and limited editions. As a premiere the tour is no longer limited to the Mitte district, but also ventures off into the creative scene of Kreuzberg and Neukölln.”

We will have some maps if you want to explore the character walk, or check out the list of exhibitions on the Pictoplasma website.

The Berlin Half Marathon

5. April 2013 in Berlin, Events, Stuff We Like by Paul

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In 2013 the Berlin Half Marathon is celebrating its 33rd year, and as always we have a good number of guests staying with us who will be getting up on the morning of Sunday 7th April ready to take the challenge. The route leads from Karl Marx Allee past the Television tower and along Unter den Linden and through the Tiergarten to Schloss Charlottenburg, before heading south to the Ku’damm and back towards Mitte and the finish. During the 21km the runners will pass many of the famous sights of Berlin, which makes this one of the most spectacular half marathon courses anywhere in the world, and as Berlin is pretty flat, hopefully one of the quickest as well.

Alongside the running – which is of course the main event – there is loads of music, performances and other fun and games, and if you want to head down into town and cheer the runners on, click on the map below for the full route from the Berlin Half Marathon website. Good luck everyone!

Half Marathon

(Photograph above: © visitBerlin | Scholvien)

Tresor meets Dangerous Drums, 30th March

25. März 2013 in Berlin, Events, Music, Stuff We Like by Paul

Tresor and Dangerous Drums

During this month the legendary Berlin club Tresor is celebrating its 22nd birthday, and for the first Tresor Meets Dangerous Drums event of the year, we have two tickets to giveaway to mark the occasion. The line-up for the event is below – featuring ED2000 of Dangerous Drums and a good friend of the Circus – and if you would like to be there, keep an eye out on our facebook page, or follow us on twitter, for the chance to win the tickets. It’s going to be some night…

Saturday Mar 30, 2013

TRESOR MEETS DANGEROUS DRUMS
& Friends: LIQUID SKY BERLIN

DJS:

PEO DE PITTE : BERLIN DEBUT !! (Flat Out, Fools Gold, Strictly Rhythm, U&A, SWE)

MIJK VAN DIJK (Liquid Sky Berlin)

DJ VELA (Dangerous Drums, Solar Berlin, BLN.FM)

ROLLIN THUNDER (Dangerous Drums)

SOULHUNTER (Dangerous Drums)

ED2000 (Dangerous Drums, Solar Berlin, BLN.FM)

LIVE:

OMSK INFORMATION & DR.WALKER (Liquid Sky Berlin, Djungle Fever, Blim Rec Paris, Force Inc)

Berlin Film Society launches Documentary Donnerstag

22. März 2013 in Events, Film, Stuff We Like by Paul

Documentary Donnerstag

Our mates at the Berlin Film Society are at it again, as they have just announced the launch of DOCUMENTARY DONNERSTAG, a unique programme of award-winning documentary films curated from the most acclaimed international film festivals, and brought to Berlin for your viewing pleasure on a series of Thursday evenings.

The first half of the programme (28th March – 18th April) includes the recently restored version of Shirley Clarke’s groundbreaking PORTAIT OF JASON (1967), the controversial Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winner THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Eugene Jarecki, 2012), Chris Marker’s stunning SANS SOLEIL (1983), and the remarkable SXSW-winning film MARWENCOL (Jeff Malmberg, 2010).

The second half of the programme (2nd – 23rd May) will be announced to Berlin Film Society members via the newsletter on 11th April, with a public announcement made on 18th April.

Documentary Donnerstag is being hosted by Urban Spree in Friedrichshain, there is food and an after party, and entry costs €8 (€4 for Film Society members). The first event is on the 28th March – check out the facebook page – and the film to be showing is Jeff Melmberg’s MARWENCOL:

After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark Hogancamp seeks recovery in “Marwencol”, a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. When Mark and his photographs are discovered, a prestigious New York gallery sets up an art show. Suddenly Mark’s homemade therapy is deemed “art”, forcing him to choose between the safety of his fantasy life in Marwencol and the real world that he’s avoided since the attack.

Berlin Film Society website
Marwencol website

St Patrick’s Day in Berlin and at The Circus

14. März 2013 in Berlin, Circus Hostel, Events, Festivals, Goldman's Bar, Music by Paul

The 17th March is St Patrick’s Day, and as with the good old Irish pub, that you will find from Kigali to Ulan Bator, the annual celebration of all things Irish has been exported around the world. 2013 is the 3rd year in Berlin that the German capital will be celebrating St Patrick’s Day beyond the Irish pubs of the city, with a parade around Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg. Starting at 1pm you will find a programme of live music, Irish food and drink, just a short U-Bahn ride from The Circus. And if you want to hear what it was like last year, check out the podcast from the Mädels with a Microphone.

After the parade and into the evening you should join us down in Goldman’s Bar for our St Patrick’s Day Party, starting at 9pm and featuring live music for a good old Celtic singalong. We have Guinness, Jameson and some special shots prepared for you, so it promises to be another great evening down in the bar. We hope to see you there!

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