Weekend Events for the Whole Family in Berlin, October 27th - 31st (including Halloween in Berlin)

Halloween and a Long Weekend

Halloween is on the coming Tuesday, and Germany celebrates! No, not really. Many Germans, even in this age and day of Hollywood movies and candies everywhere, have no idea what's Halloween is. There is, however, a holiday on Tuesday (including a day off in schools, kitas, etc. - the shops are also closed) , because of the Reformation Day - celebrating 500 years to the Lutheran Reformation. 

This opening paragraph is not meant to depress you, but to prepare you, that while there are quite a few nice Halloween activities I have collected, Halloween here is nothing like you might expect/remember from home. 

Most importantly, in some neighbourhoods, people (especially older ones) have not heard of Trick/Treating, and are pretty surprised to see the kids coming, and the kids, on their behalf, also don't come as often as one might expect. In other neighbourhoods, there is a more regular pace of trick-and-treating. 

In Berlin, things are actually more vivid in the 18+ Halloween scene - because no single self-respecting club will pass on the opportunity to have a nice (or a scary...) fancy dress party, right? 

A few of the activities for the whole family: 

• Every day till Monday (except Sunday of course): scavenger hunt, spooky activities, crafts and light installations in the Das Schloss Shopping centre in Steglitz 

•  Halloween crafts in Klax , Prenzlauer Berg - on Saturday

• Not far from there, the Black Dog comics shop will run its Halloween event on Saturday 

• One of my favourite Halloween events in Berlin is the party in the Botanical Gardens, on Sunday, between 11:00 and 6 pm. The event features stations with mildly scary (not really) tricks played by our flora-and-fauna-friends, food, pumpkins and a lot of hillarity. 

• The Hard Rock Cafe on the KuDamm will run their "Lil Monsters Ball", a Halloween-themed brunch for the whole family, on Sunday, 9:30 - 11:30 

• Children make up in the  Hagendubel on Wilmersdorfer Str on Monday, 3 - 6 pm 

• The Schönhauser Arcaden Shopping Centre (near the Schönhauser Allee Station) runs crafts and games activities on Friday, Saturday and Monday. On Monday evening, at 6pm, a Halloween Parade, with bands and lots of customised children, will leave the centre and walk through the neighbourhood to Helmholzplatz, where there will be fireworks. 

• The Bergwerk adventure centre  offers activities on both Monday and Tuesday, including scary route and a scavenger hunt ; on Monday evening, also for adults. 

•  The Pearl club offers "grownup" parties throughout the weekend, but on Tuesday they will have an event for kids, starting at 2 pm  

• On Tuesday, the big Radio Teddy Halloween Party in Stralau 1, with a lot of surprises for the kids. Admission fees apply 

• Halloween in the Tierpark, Tuesday from 5 pm 

• And in the FEZ on Tuesday from 7 pm 

• Adults with or Without Children: 

• The Rope Course in Jungfernheide is organising a fun-run on Tuesday, the Halloween-Run, which features scary stuff as well as a children course. 

• No Kids: 

• Every self-respecting club throws a Halloween Party, not necessarily on Tuesday, though. 

• Berlin's largest Halloween party (according to the organisers, but I believe them) is in the Kulturbrauerei, on Friday and Saturday 

• The Insel in Treptow will open a spooky weekend with a party on Friday , also in the Duncker

• Saturday will see parties at Cafe Moskau, the Weekend, Kino International , Birgit, and many other venues. 

Birgit's Halloween Party

• At least some places respect tradition: the new craft brewery, Two Fellas, in Pankow, will run a Halloween party on Tuesday, with pairing of candies and beers and costume competition. If Berlimama was not a mama Trick-or-Treating with her kids on that day, I think you'd find her there... 

Furthermore

• More Funfairs and Street Parties: 

  
  

• Museums and Casltes

• Every Saturday: workshops for children (from 2:30 onwards) at the Museum of Technology; Every Sunday, 11:00 and 3:00 - guided tour (in German) in the museum; And because the the Reformation Day, there will be children activities also on the 31st 

• Tour for children in the Charlottenburg Castle, Sunday, 3 pm ; and at the same time (Sun, 3pm), children fairy-tales theatre in the Grunewald Mansion 

• Free admission and activities in the German Historical Museum, which celebrates its 30th Anniversary on Sunday 

• Workshops for kids ages 8 and up in the Martin Gropius Bau on Sunday, with the Wenzel Hablik exhibition , Sunday, 1 pm 

• Music: 
• Every Saturday , 12:00, the "Mighty Wurlitzer" in the Musical Instruments Museum

• Sports: 
• A cross-country fun run, including a children course, on Sat/Sun in the area between Potsdam and Berlin

• Markets and Food: 

• Fri / Sat / Sun: Wine Festival on Breite Str. in Pankow

• Market with produce from the community garden "Himmelbeet" on Saturday

• Message in a Bottle is a new hummus/gallery joint, and on Saturday, there is a Masabaha / Shashuka Brunch. Knaackstr., near the Kulturbrauerei. 

• Flowmarkt in Maybachufer, on Sunday 

• Street food market in the Kulturbrauerei 

Hebrew / Israeli / Jewish Heritage 

Later in the week...

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