As part of our slideshows which you will find in the hallways of the Circus Hostel, we have put together a brief history of Rosenthaler Platz – our neighbourhood – which is based on the wonderfully-detailed essay on the topic prepared with help from Jakob Hübner and the Centrum Judaicum here in Berlin. If you’ve got a lunch break approaching and you would like an interesting read with your sandwiches, then you can find the essay here, otherwise scroll down and see our brief history of the Rosenthaler Platz below:
In amongst all the excitement of the opening of the Apartments last week, we missed the second birthday of this lovely blog, and so we thought we would use the chance to not only say “Happy Birthday” to ourselves, but have a look back at a year in the Circus through our blog posts. Now quite a lot of things have happened to us over the past twelve months, so we have decided to split this into two and begin with the first six months of the year.
Just down the street from the Circus is the U-Bahn station at Weinmeisterstrasse, which is home until the 7th September to an exhibition of photographs from the artist and photographer 
On the weekend of the 24th, 25th and 26th June 2011, the Circus along with many of our neighbours will be celebrating our corner of Berlin at the ROSENTAGE, a cultural and neighbourhood festival around the Rosenthaler Platz. The idea is that the neighbourhood will use the weekend to show off the many creative and cultural things taking place in and around the Platz. So far most participants are still confirming what they will be getting up to, but some things that we have in the planning for the Circus include:
As you might remember, on the Slow Travel Day a couple of weeks ago there was an Urban Sketching Tour around the Rosenthaler Platz, led by some members of the Berlin chapter of the 
