August serves up oysters (sometimes classic, sometimes surprising), invites you to cool art galleries, showcases fashion for everyone, and encourages you to support good causes. Here are CC’s Calendar tips for this weekend. No plans for tonight (14.08.2025)? At “Yet Another Summer Reading Event” at Casino on Sonnenallee 100, six contemporary writers will read their poems and works. And starting tomorrow: flowing cuts and billowing fabrics — with a glance back at past decades of fashion and a step toward the future. From Friday to Sunday (15.–17.08.2025), Marke will be showing its creations at Kulup 26 in Mitte. There, expect special showpieces, exclusive samples, small accessories, and, of course, their brand-new collection. Marke designs unisex, so it’s an invitation to you and all your friends! Plus seafood and wine. If that’s not a formula for a summer Saturday (16.08.), we don’t know what is. Fortunately, it’s Sakana‘s specialty, which they’ll be serving up at an oyster party. Starting in the late afternoon, the pop-up kitchen at Unkompress will serve fresh fish and grilled oysters (directly from Tokyo) alongside live music that bridges the gap between Berlin and Tokyo — DJ Jini provides the perfect soundtrack. On Saturday (16.08.), artists, activists, and friends gather at Refuge Worldwide for a solidarity event to share stories, music, and crafts, and to support people in Sudan, Congo, and Palestine who are fighting for their future under the most difficult conditions.
Among the charitable organizations are the Sudanese Resistance Front‘s “We Must Plant” campaign, Focus Congo, the Community Kitchen Hope in Gaza, and many others. It seems impossible to fully describe the colorful range of offerings. Here’s an attempt: in addition to knitwear from Rknit.Stance, hand-woven textiles, and kimchi delicacies, there will be art prints, candle holders, and keffiyeh headbands. If you like, bring your own clothes for screen printing or get a flash tattoo from Jill Winnie. Food is taken care of anyway: Lebanese and Congolese specialties await you. There is also a lovingly supervised children’s corner. One hundred percent of the proceeds go to the donation goals! And those who can are welcome to donate at the entrance. On Sunday (17.08.), it’s time to say “Au revoir”, not yet to summer, but to Titouan Durand, who has long enchanted Berlin palates with French passion at Kanal 61. For a fitting farewell, he is transforming the restaurant with a penchant for sharing plates into Tito’s Oysters Bar with selected wines from Languedoc-Roussillon and fresh oysters from Saltz. From noon onwards, enjoy this maritime combination (while supplies last). Drop by spontaneously or make a reservation. This weekend is your last chance to explore two rooms of contemporary art, one of which has just opened. Art Auction 14 in the Weserhalle is showing over 40 works by artists from South Korea, Slovakia, and right here in the neighborhood until Saturday (16.08.), curated by Tjioe Meyer Hecken (director of the Wehrmühle) and Jan Gustav Fiedler (director of Spark Art Fair in Vienna). If you like, bid online for works by Finja Sander or Jade Cassidy (and many others) until Sunday evening (17.08.), when the hammer will fall on the final bids. August, on the other hand, will remain for a while longer.
Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: Dotgain.info, Harry Miller, Kanal 61, Unkompress
Casino, Sonnenallee 100, 12045 Berlin–Neukölln, map
Yet Another “Summer” Reading Event 14.08.2025 from 19h
@casinoooooooooooo
Kulup 26, Torstr. 26, 10119 Berlin–Mitte, map
Marke Sample & Archive Sale 15.08.2025 16–19h, 16.–17.08.2025 10–19h.
@marke.brand
@kulup__26
Unkompress, Fichtestr.23, 10967 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Sakana x DJ Jini 16.08.2025 from 17h
@sakana.berlin
@unkompress
@jini_sm
Refuge Worldwide, Niemetzstr.1, 12055 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Soli Event 16.08.2025 12–22h
@refugeworldwide
@sudaneseresistancefront
@focuskongo
@hope_ingaza
@rknit.stance
@jillwinnie
Kanal 61, Erkelenzdamm 61, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Tito’s Oysters Bar 17.08.2025 12–22h. RSVP here (not a must).
@titouan_durand_
@kanal__61
@saltzapp
Weserhalle, Weserstr.56, 12045 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Art Auction 14 until 17.08.2025 20h. Here you can bid on a work of art.
@weserhalle
@tjioe.hecken
@jangustavfiedler
@finjasander
@jadecassidy_
