Weekend Events for the Whole Family in Berlin, March 17th through 19th

St. Patrick's Day in Berlin

There is not huge parade at the city centre this year, but there is an event on Sunday (from 12:00) at the Sochos Sportplatz, Lessingstraße 5-8, 12169 Berlin (walking distance from U/S Steglitz), home to Berlin's Gaelic Sport groups. The event will include entertainment (pipers included), Gaelic sports, etc. And a small parade (details here) 

Here are few other events worth mentioning outside the realm of Irish Pubs: 

• In pubs - music, drinking and lots of green stuff, e.g. at the The Castle in Wedding throughout the weekend (details ) 

• The UFA Fabrik offers an evening of Irish Music on the 17th; those interested in Irish culture can also find an Irish Film Festival in Moviemento at the weekend. 

• The Funkturm, Berlin's own mini-version of the Eiffel Tower, will be lit in Green Light on Friday , so says the Senate. 

Design from France, colour from Ireland

Nosh: Jewish Food Festival

This might be the most exciting Jewish heritage event of the whole year. OK, perhaps I am just a tiny bit exaggerating, but not too much: Organised by Lauren from Fine Bagels, the Berlin's very first Jewish Food Festival (hopefully not the last one) will start on Friday, March 17th and will continue throughout the week, until next weekend. Jewish Food does not immediately equal kosher food, and in the festival, you'll get to discover the huge variety of Jewish cuisine from around the globe. 

Some events for this weekend include: 

• The Kiddush Dinner Club will have a four-course Jewish dinner at Fine Bagels on Friday, March 17th (details/tickets EUR 38)

• The Breakfast Market in Markthalle IX will be a Jewish one on Sunday (19th) - a fine assortment of Jewish breakfast food (and brunch-y and even sort of lunch-y food), including Jachnun (Yemenite savoury bun), Injara (Ethiopian bread), Lox, and much more. This event, specifically, is also suitable for families. 

• On Sunday night, screening of Oma and Bella in Babylon, a documentary about memories, food, and Jewish life in Germany. 

• Further during the week: meetings with chefs and Jewish cooks, discussion (Wed, 6:30 pm) in the Fraenkelufer Synagogue on Judaism and Vegetarianism; and the Gefilte Ball party.

• And a preview for next weekend, where you'll have to choose between no less than four different private dinner clubs, all Jewish themed, all with different flavours/areas of the world. Full information on the website 

• Here comes my shameless self-promotion : We run culinary tours in Hebrew in Berlin, including in the upcoming Saturday, March 18th. The tours are not part of the festival, but we do include (regularly) explanations about the links between the Jewish and the Berliner cuisine. If you have Hebrew speaking friends, please send them over, no pre-registration required (tour is of course available in English as a private tour, and here we can also focus only on Jewish food and influences in Berlin...). 

Klangwelten Music Festival for Kids

The FEZ hosts this weekend the Klangwelten music festival, which includes dozens of workshops , shows and tryouts for kids with different musical instruments, genres, styles and settings. The festival has something for kids of all ages 

Klangwelten Festival

FEZ, on Straße zum FEZ 2, 12459 Berlin 

Public Transport: take the S3 to Wuhlheide or trams 27, 63 or 67 to Freizeit- und Erholungszentrum. Admission fees apply 

More music: 

• Tyring out instruments, at the Klingendes Museum for kids aged 6 and up  (Behmstr 13, 13357 Berlin near U/S Gesundbrunnen), Saturday, 3pm (details)

• Peter and the Wolf in Urania, Sunday 11:30 (details) 

Furthermore

• Fun run from the Spandau city hall (Rathaus Spandau), Sunday 11:00 ("Lauf der Sympathie") ; also Run for Refugees in the Tempelhofer Feld (10 km, details)

• Museums and Casltes: 

• Saturday afternoon: workshops for the whole family at the Museum of Technology, and on Sunday, demonstrations at the blacksmith's

• We're Building a Mars Rover! - activity for children at the Archenhold Planetarium, Saturday 2 pm 

• Workshop for families at the Communication Museum, Sunday 2 pm (details) 

• Fire! An Igniting Idea, workshop at the Neue Museum, Sunday 2 pm (details)

• "Family Sunday" at the DHM with a guided tour for children, Sunday 2 pm (details)

• Guided tour for children through the Charlottenburg Castle, Sun., 3 pm (details); Also at the same time - guided tour for children with Henrik the Swan in the Oranienburg Castle (details)

• The exhibition "Platz da! Kinder machen Stadt", at Labyrinth Museum ( Osloer Straße 12 13359 Berlin) 

• Music: children concert at Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Sunday 11:00 (details, and thank you Joshua for the tip - if you know about other cool children events, please let me know, preferably per Facebook)  

• Markets: A flea market of children stuff on Sunday at Helmholzplatz 

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I offer tours in Berlin as well as write about the city as well as published several books and articles in general. I am always free for writing gigs - travel writing or any other types of writing and research - or of course to show you the wonderful city I live in