The Green Week
The Greek Week is a huge international food and agricultural fair. The fair takes place annually at the Messe and includes many unique food stands as well as the opportunity to check out new ideas, products or inventions. There are also many activities for kids.
Admission applies
Messe (Public Transport: Messe Sued, Messe Nord or Kaiserdamm)
Daily until January 29th
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| The Green Weeek (credit Wikipedia) |
In the past few years, several alternative events have also developed, by a coalition of environmental activists, the Slow Food Movement, farmers' rights groups etc. This weekend will also see the Wir haben es Satt! (we've had enough!) Demonstration, which will focus on protest against industrialised agriculture and food conglomerates by presenting alternatives, talks, stands and also just - Berlin style - partying. Among the events:
- Friday, 6 pm onwards: "Schnippeldisko", dancing and talking while cutting and eating vegetables deemed by food conglomerates to be not attractive enough to end up on the shelves. At ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanisitik, Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin-Moabit
- Saturday, 8 - 10 am : Farmers' Breakfast in Markthalle IX
- And Saturday all day, the Wir haben es Satt happening in Potsdamer Platz
Moscow Circus on Ice
A small circus troupe will entertain kids in the Tempodrom on Sunday (with two shows, at 2 pm and 6 pm). This is a mixed review. To be honest, as a mother of a child who's a huge skating enthusiast, I was really looking forward to this one and even went to another city to see them as a Christmas treat for her. I was a bit disappointed. It might be the stage in the other city which was very small (visibility was not that great for people who did not purchase the first rows, accordingly), Tempodrom in that sense is better - you can see well from almost anywhere in the Tempodrom (although as usual, more expensive tickets are better...)
However, there are all kinds of skating tricks and acrobatics, the kids certainly enjoy, including my companion. Thankfully, also no animals forced on ice - it is a human-only circus. If you go, look up Groupon - there are cheaper (half priced) tickets there.
Moscow Circus on Ice
Tempodrom, Sunday 2 pm and 6 pm
Furthermore
- Nature and Animals:
- Torchlight tour in the Zoo Aquarium, Friday at 6:15 pm
- Tour for the whole family in the Britz Gardens, Sat 2 - 4 pm and also on Sunday, 10 am.
- Music and concerts:
- The highly recommended Clown Concert at the Philharmonie, Saturday 3:30 pm (details)
- Musical workshop for kids aged 6 and up at the Klingendes Museum, Saturday 3 pm (details)
- Concert/opera for children with a puppet theatre as well, Sunday, 11:00, Komische Oper
- Museums:
- Saturday and Sunday: Exhibition in the MACHmit! Museum for Children about Swedish children books ; and exhibition about building at the Labyrinth Children's Museum
- Saturday afternoon: workshops for the whole family at the Museum of Technology; a guided tour on Sunday at 11:00
- We're Building a Mars Rover! - crafts in the afternoon at the Archenhold Observatory, Sat. 2 pm (details)
- Family brunch with an opportunity to see an exhibition at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle , Sunday 11:30 - 3 pm
- A workshop around the Robert Doisneau exhibition, Sunday 1 - 3 pm (details)
- A guided tour for children aged 6 to 12 at the Gemaeldegalerie, Sunday 2 pm
- A guided tour for children in the Charlottenburg Palace, Sunday 3 pm ; and at the same time - a textile workshop for kids in the Oranienburg Castle
- Open days in the Phorms private schools: On Thursday afternoon at the Mitte branch (details) and on Satuday at the Zehlendorf one, Harry-S.-Truman-Allee 3 14167 Berlin (details)
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