In the hall, the children and their parents can let off steam and have fun in a self-built indoor playground with lots of opportunities for balancing, climbing and crawling as well as a variety of play equipment. At the beginning, our supervisors lead a game together. Afterwards, the children and parents can move around freely and try things out.
The handball department of SG Rotation Prenzlauer Berg e.V. trains children from the age of one, from crawling and romping around with a ball to handball-specific training. Children, teenagers and adults train together in the neighborhood.
Sport and culture move people – physically, mentally and socially. But how exactly are these areas politically represented, promoted and organized? What role do associations, public administration and civic engagement play? And how are current budget cuts affecting their work?
The panel brings together experts from the fields of sport, culture and politics to discuss structural parallels, synergies and common challenges. The focus: funding logics, the fostering of democracy and strategies for a solidary representation of interests.
Organized in cooperation with BKK – Berliner Kulturkonferenz e. V.
The traditional Irish sport of hurling is one of the fastest team sports in the world. Using long wooden sticks (hurls), the players pass a small leather ball (the sliothar) to each other and try to score as many goals as possible against the opposing team. The movements are reminiscent of field hockey and lacrosse and require skill, speed and creativity.
Since 2014, people from Ireland, Germany and all over the world have been playing hurling and Gaelic football together in the BerlinGAA club – whether they have been active since childhood or just picked it up. As well as enjoying the sport, the club understands itself as a social community.
As part of the »training session«, the members of BerlinGAA will tell anecdotes from the multifaceted history of the sport and demonstrate the rules and movements. Afterwards, spectators are invited to join in and try their hand at passes with Hurl and Sliothar.
The experimental short film »Fest der Liebe« is an attack on the prologue to Leni Riefenstahl’s »Fest der Schönheit«. The film questions the cinematic style of »Fest der Schönheit« and parodies the propagandistic content and values conveyed by the work of the controversial filmmaker from the Nazi era. Parallels to the aesthetic models of the current cultural and media landscape are unmistakable: both male and female bodies still – or again – have to conform to certain norms and an ideal image that hardly or not at all deviates from that of the Riefenstahl era. »Fest der Liebe« is not about toned muscles and graceful movements, but about the question of whether there is an Eros beyond the norm.
Tom Weller is a lecturer in sports education, trainer in queer fitness groups, author and filmmaker and studied sport, history and film directing in Cologne. In his projects, he works primarily on queer history and body politics.
www.tom-weller.de
A full-size volleyball court in the sports hall for players of all abilities to bounce, hit and smash balls in mixed teams.
Pickleball for All!!!
A sport for everyone, for young and old, for indoors and outdoors, quick to learn, without expensive equipment, without competition or pressure to perform, which is fun for everyone! A bit of tennis, a bit of table tennis, a bit of badminton – voilá, here comes Pickleball!
The rapidly growing pickleball community in Berlin is now spread across seven clubs, of which BTV Olympia Pickleball is the largest.
The sport with the dubious name that most people last played in the school gym. Come as teams or individuals, come as a sporty or non-sporty person. Come as children, teenagers and adults. We play a tournament format, but the focus is on having fun.
Our festival courtyard becomes a foosball pub! Dare to sit at the table with world champion Sarah Riebschläger or practice in pairs.
Sarah Riebschläger is a player in the German national team, came first in the women’s doubles at the 2021 German Championships, became world champion in 2022 and was ranked 4th in the women’s world rankings in 2023. She started playing table football in pubs in 2012, played for the Berlin club TK Piranyards and in the Bundesliga at Yard Berlin.
Before the queer ping pong showdown this weekend, we’re already setting up the tables. At the Tischntennisclub Geräuschkulisse you can book your table by the hour, train your topspin, practice mixed doubles or just play like in the park (without the wind).
Tehran in April 2006: The first official friendly takes place between the Iranian women’s football team and a local Berlin girl’s team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female fans. The entire stadium is electric, charged with a high voltage of girl power. A couple of men hang around in front of the gates, trying to sneak a peek over the fence. They are barred from entering today. It has taken a year’s hard work on the parts of both teams of young women to make this happen. But now, after overcoming numerous obstacles, they are really playing. And these 90 minutes are about more than just a football game. Both the desire for self-determination and equality are being expressed here and it is clear: change is possible.
