Anna Lisa Grebe
Frautentag has almost arrived, and as always, the city has some amazing events dedicated to celebrating women. Whether you’re looking for FLINTA*-friendly ways to celebrate, exhibitions and acts to see or spaces to show your solidarity, these are our picks for the best events this International Women’s Day (IWD).
The Dames at Klunkerkranich
Queer cabaret duo The Dames are lighting Klunkerkranich up with an evening filled with piano, karaoke, games, live music, singalongs and storytelling. Nzambisa will also be on the decks before and after the performances playing a vinyl set filled with jazz, grooves and world sounds. This promises to be the high-energy celebration IWD deserves!
- Klunkerkranich, Karl-Marx-Straße 66, 16:00-1:00, details
SHOOTING SNOWWHITE // a f*cking modern fairytale
Part of Ballhaus Prinzenallee’s F Festival (F for *uck the Patriarchy) centered around the theme ‘Feminist Futures, Forgotten (Hi)stories’, SHOOTING SNOWWHITE is a powerful solo performance that reimagines the classic fairytale through a feminist lens. Oscillating between dance and physical theater, horror and humor, the performance calls attention to, breaks down and reclaims repressive structures in order to radically rewrite and resists them.
- Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Prinzenallee 33, 18:00, details
Purple Ride Berlin
IMAGO/Sabine Gudath
This sunny day-long bike-ride across the city for Berlin’s powerful FLINTA* community is a great way to come together for independence, visibility, access to public space and a feminist perspective on mobility. Starting and ending at Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg, this bike demo is a great way to make a big statement.
- Mariannenplatz, 12:00-15:00, details
Community Gathering at Arkaoda
For the perfect balance between community and celebration, head to Arkaoda for their community gathering, featuring live music, DJ sets, workshops, an exhibition, trivia and even food! Literally nothing is missing from this FLITNA* fest.
- Arakoda, Karl-Marx-Platz 16-18, 15:00-1:00, details
Feminist Guided Tour at Hamburger Bahnhof
In honour of IWD, Hamburger Bahnhof are offering a feminist guided tour of the works in Guilia Andreani’s exhibition, Sabotage. The tour will be focused on bringing a female, feminist lens to history through engaging with Andreani’s paintings, created and installed in order to question and fracture official narratives and truths.
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr 50, 16:00-17:00, details
Women’s Day at Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg will be hosting a thrilling combination of sports, dance performances and delicious street food in celebration of Women’s Day. Access to the daylong event is free, but even more priceless is feeling the sun beaming on your vitamin-D- depleted face on top of one of Berlin’s best viewpoints.
- Teufelsberg, 11:00-16:00, Teufelsseechaussee 10, details
International Women’s Day Open Day
To mark this important holiday, the museum’s Pei Building will host two thematically poignant guided tours throughout the day: From Hildegard von Bingen’s Green Power to the Women of Wyhl’s Anti-Nuclear Movement and Spotlight On! Feminist Perspectives on the Exhibition ‘Roads not Taken’. The tours will take place in the exhibitions, exploring how women, as philosophers, artists, scientists, or activists, have engaged with nature and shaped our understanding of it in different contexts, as well as.The tours address the historyies of women’s rights and movements in Germany from both feminist and gender history perspectives.
- Deutsches Historisches Museum, Unter den Linden 2, details
International Women’s Day with Estrogun x Club Stamina at OXI
If you’re looking to dance your way through IWD, this femme-packed lineup at OXI are making things hot on the dancefloor. Prague’s Estrogun and London’s Club Stamina are coming to Berlin to celebrate IWD and they plan on making their trips worthwhile. Expect a night of headbobbing, shaking and jaw-numbing smiles.
- OXI, Wiesenweg 1-4, Starts Saturday at 23:00, details
Film still from If I had Legs I’d Kick You directed by Mary Bronstein
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
Now in its 9th edition, the Final Girls Berlin film festival is the city’s go-to event for transgressive, experimental screenings and conversations surrounding the horror genre, all with a focus on female-identifying and nonbinary directors and actors. During the four-day annual series, founders Sara Neidorf and Eli Lewy screen features and short films by local and international filmmakers and host workshops and talks, facilitating an exciting and community-driven cinematic experience. Check out the full program to select the right film for your IWD celebration.
- City Kino Wedding, Mullerstr 24, details
