From June 25 to September 12, the inner courtyard of the Rathaus Köpenick becomes the backdrop for the “Jazz in Town” festival. More than three hundred performers from fourteen countries will entertain visitors with their musical talents, among them Jon Secada and Curtis Stigers from the US and African-American Berlin resident Jocelyn B. Smith.
Guests at the festival concerts enjoy extensive gastronomic service at their tables, with a wide variety of food and drink provided by the friendly Köpenicker Ratskeller team
For more information go to: http://jazz-in-town-berlin.de/en/
Classical jewels under the open sky: during the 19th Classic Open-Air Festival, popular melodies and worldwide hits of Italian opera, swing music, and cinema soundtracks will fill the air at the historic Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin this July.
From July 15th to the 19th famous musicians and orchestras will perform from all over Europe including star soloists Lucia Aliberti and Helen Schneider.
For more information including tickets go to: http://www.classicopenair.de/
Located nearly 50 kilometers to the north of Mexico City, Teotihuacan has had UNESCO heritage status since 1987 and is the most frequently visited of Mexico’s 170 accessible archaeological sites. “Teotihuacan – Mexico’s Mysterious Pyramid City” presents more than 450 outstanding objects giving a comprehensive insight into the art, everyday life and religion of this enigmatic culture will be on view in Berlin, and in Europe for the first time.
Fashion Week is going underground. On July 8, the Thursday during Fashion Week, sixteen creative young designers and labels will show the latest works of their “Underground Fashion” in a subway station at Alexanderplatz.
Since 2005 once in a year Berlins “U-Bahn” becomes the meeting point of the innovative fashion scene: young independent-fashion -designers and -labels present fashion shots of their new collections in a running underground train.
Chevrolet is hosting the event with models from the agency Rockstar Models presenting varieties of street style ranging from burlesque and gothic to urban. Step into the Underground and experience the most freaky underground fashion show of the Berlin Fashion Week! (Admission to the event 18+ only)
For more information including tickets go to: www.underground-catwalk.com
“Cabaret”, the finest tribute to the Berlin of the 1930s, is returning to the stage in Berlin. For seven weeks beginning on July 15, the Kit Kat girls, party-girl Sally Bowles, and the shady master of ceremonies will reappear at the Tipi by the Federal Chancellery. The popular musical is known as the “essence of Berlin,” and will be performed again at the end of the year.
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Berlin’s art landscape has now been enriched by one more collection. In the “me Collectors Room“, a specially conceived exhibition house in Berlin’s Mitte district, Thomas Olbricht has recently begun presenting one of the most comprehensive private collections in all of Europe with works from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the most recent contemporary period.The building itself — situated in Auguststrasse at the heart of Berlin, provides a permanent domicile for the collection and in consequence, also scope for other international private collections.
Like most of the world, Germans will closely follow the matches of the FiFa WorldCup played from June 11 until July 11 in South Africa. Reminiscent of 2006, Berlin will again offer a large FIFA Fan Fest with public viewing at the Straße des 17. Juni, starting on June 26 though the final match on July 11. Naturally, most bars, beer gardens and restaurants will be showing the matches live on big screens.
Berlin’s approximately 30 beach bars invite locals and visitors to enjoy white sand (imported from the Baltic), and cool drinks while lounging in deck chairs set up at the many locations along the city’s rivers and canals.
The Soho House Berlin
Located in a 1928 Bauhaus building in the trendy Mitte district, the Soho House Berlin opened May 10, 2010, as a private members club and 40-room hotel. With black and white tiled floors, oversized seating, exposed concrete beams, and fireplaces, the design blends 1930s Berlin glamour with an eclectic industrial style. A special highlight is the heated rooftop pool.
The Soho House Berlin joins a series of trendy, individually designed, as well as reasonably priced boutique hotels, all of which just recently opened. These include the 51-room Casa Camper designed by Fernando Amat and Jordi Tio, and the Circus Hotel, offering iPods loaded with the best of Berlin music, bikes, and a garden courtyard.Other hotels popular with urban travelers are the Hotel Amano with its stylish roof top bar, and serviced apartments, the Cosmo Hotel, an 84-room luxury design hotel, and the trendy Hotel Michelberger, featuring custom-designed furniture and a beer garden.
Starting on November 1, 2010, Air Berlin will start its twice-weekly non-stop service from Miami to Berlin. Air Berlin will be the third carrier to offer a non-stop connection from the USA to the German capital, joining Continental and Delta, which have serviced Berlin Tegel from New York since 2005.
The flights from Berlin and Miami will operate on Mondays and Thursdays utilizing an Airbus A330-200, with 276 seats in economy class and 24 in business class. From the Berlin hub, Air Berlin passengers can conveniently connect to Europe’s premier cities such as Zurich, Vienna, Stockholm, Oslo, plus seven airports in Germany. www.airberlin.com
Exotic art, enchanting revues, and outstanding museums—spring in Berlin is taking off with a multitude of cultural highpoints. For example, the past meets the present as the Nikolaikirche, the oldest church in the city, is reopened after a costly restoration. The Martin-Gropius-Bau is providing insights into the world of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, while the 2nd Extended Opera and Theatre Night is the perfect invitation to discover Berlin’s stages.
Here are just some of the things you can do in Berlin this spring:
