DYKE PING – HOMO PONG!At the Sportfest – Tournament Edition of Queer Ping Pong, the table becomes a playing field for exchange, attitude and queer joy. The focus is on a FLINTA*-focused tournament that combines sporting ambition with collective lightness. Under the motto My opponents are an inspiration, dykes, allies and communities will come together for an afternoon full of movement, encounters and beats (13:00 T**lin, 15:00 SXCL). 13:00-17:00 Tournament17:00-19:00 Open Play Register in advance via queerpingpong@gmail.com Queer Ping Pong brings club culture to the plate in daylight – accessible, participatory, low-threshold and fun. With spin or without – come to play, watch, cheer or just be together. Take your rackets with you. There are also rackets available on site – anyone can join in. DJ SXCL is a versatile musician from Reunion Island. Producer and disc jockey since 2017, they have been morphing their style with time to fit their eclectic taste. Going from house to progressive trance, to electro and more recently to old-school techno. T**lin is a queer feminist, human rights activist and passionate sound lover. Queeriental is her label for DJ sets and performances between oriental beats and Middle Eastern sounds, in several languages.

Six Sportfest artists meet on a sporty panel that sets the pace: with whistles, stopwatches and topic changes in a sprint. Here, the balls are passed to each other without competition and sweaty team spirit is developed around the various projects.

Alisa Tretau (moderation) realizes cultural projects at the interface of art, society and political practice. She recently published the website nichtnurmuetter.de.

This workshop combines self-defence techniques with reflection on everyday safety strategies. It is led by Birgit Tönnies (Seitenwechsel e.V.), a pioneer of women’s martial arts in Berlin and trainer since 1983, a multiple-time German and European champion in karate and kickboxing. Together with theatre makers Natasha Borenko and Lidiia Golovanova, the group will practice physical techniques and explore everyday situations through guided exercises and discussion. The workshop is part of an artistic research for the participatory performance »Self defence. No offence.« (19.+21.6.).

We invite FLINTA+ people to take part. Whether you are experienced or new to self-defence, we’ll be happy to meet you. We can have up to 20 participants, please register.

* FLINTA+ stands for: Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans*, and Agender people.

After three weeks of Sportfest let’s celebrate! With Magic Dyke* (Daddy Dyke, Boy dis Troy, Irn Bruce, Fountain Fantasy) followed by DJ Gilda. Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for lesbians, queer women, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren’t. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin.

How can I go crazy and still come across as likeable?! Verena Unbehaun’s music deals with the current feeling of being lost: the values of her left-wing parents’ home, which were once only supposedly reliable but remain deeply rooted to this day, are disintegrating, but even back then, in her childhood, they were much a beautiful illusion. The »perfect world« of her grandfather from Lüneburg with his operetta compositions—the counter-concept and equally illusory—saved her as a child through family crises. This strange mixture of light entertainment and the intellectual ideals of her 1968 teacher father (who was himself a composer of peace songs and »no nuclear power«-songs) forms the ambivalence in Verena Unbehaun’s song lyrics and her performance.As confusing as it has always been to find a reliable truth between yesterday and the day before yesterday, it’s good that it’s now being turned into music. And everyone sitting together at the bar drinking beer. Some in egg costumes. UNBEHAUN are singer and lyricist Verena Unbehaun and musician Stefan Hillebrand. In 2026, they released their first record on the Staatsakt music label. They are now teaming up again with director Patrick Wengenroth—as they did in the »Planet Porno« days at TD, HAU, Sophiensäle and Schaubühne—to celebrate an evening of madness, profundity and triviality.

For its third edition, »The Listening Biennial« brings together sonic, visual and performative works by an international cohort of artists for a week-long program of creative and reparative listening. Challenging current attention economies with their crisis capitalism, the Biennial offers a restorative space for deep breaths and slow talk, and for listening-with the vibrant matters of our planetary world. Comprised of artistic installations throughout the building of Ballhaus Ost, an informal talk series taking place under the trees, and an evening program of live performances and experimental sounds, we invite audiences into a listening journey full of poetic voices, stories, noises and songs. In particular, »The Listening Biennial« works at building greater listening cultures, nurturing radical openness and compassionate action. The Listening Biennial is an artistic, research project focusing on listening as a creative, critical capacity. It is compris of a network of partner institutions aednd cultural venues around the world in support of greater listening cultures and practices. P R O G R A M Exhibition:Mi 3.9. – So 7.9. 13:00 – 18:00 (Free entrance) Talks & Conversations:Do 4.9. – Sa 6.9. 18:00 – 19:30 (Free entrance) Live Performances:Doors 19:30 / Start 20:00 Mi 3.9.: Siegmar Zacharias, Mariana CarvalhoDo 4.9.: Stefan Roigk, Brandon LaBelle, Isuru Kumarasinghe & Sara MikolaiFr 5.9.: Lílian Campesato, Agustín Genoud, Kirstin BurckhardtSa 6.9.: Miguel Buenrostro, Yara Mekawei, Ola Zielińska Installations: Mario Asef, Max Bloching, Tatiana Fiodorova, Helen Hine, Annette le Fort, Nicole L’Huillier, Silvia Maglioni / Graeme Thomson, Israel Martínez, Oficina de Autonomia, ~pes (Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Pablo Torres Gómez) Audio works: Florence Cats/Lilja María Ásmundsdóttir (Belgium/Iceland), Rachel S. Y. Chen (Singapore), Kaur Chimuk (India), Čhoakkeladd (Kashmir), Mariana Pinto Coelho Dias (Portugal), MycoDyke (India), Hear & Found (Thailand), Shwe Wutt Hmon (Myanmar), Lynn Nandar Htoo (Myanmar), Lagos Sound Artists Collective (Nigeria), Okui Lala, Ana Estrada, Nasrikah (Malaysia/ Australia/Indonesia), Nicole L’Huillier (Chile/Germany), Chong Li-chuan (Singapore), Subash Thebe Limbu (Nepal), Elena Lucca (Argentina), Imaad Majeed (Sri Lanka), Yara Mekawei (Egypt), Graciela Muñoz (Chile), Jacqueline Nova (Belgium/Colombia), Lujáne Vaqar Pagganwala (Pakistan), Amanda Piña (Austria/México), Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakh), Superlative Futures – Wong Zihao & Diancong Liu (Singapore), Irazema H. Vera (Peru), Valentina Villarroel (Chile), YIM Sui Fong (Hong Kong), zeropowercut (Patna, India). Curated by: Mario Asef, Brandon LaBelle, Alecia Neo, Soledad Garcia Saavedra, Suvani Suri

We invite you to join us for an info zoom: Ozi Ozar, Anne Brammen, and Daniel Schrader will present Ballhaus Ost and opportunities for collaboration with focus on the upcoming submission dates for the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (1.10.) and the Bezirksamt Pankow (15.10.). Please register by 10.9. at info@ballhausost.de. Information for artists you also find here.

Antonia Baehr »Hallo Du!« 2025 / UABryan Eubanks »The Permanent Computer« 2025 / UARolando Hernández Guzmán »Amoxohtoca II« 2025 / UAPauline Oliveros »Portraits of Maulwerker« 2008, neue Version 2025 / UA The compositions in the programme of the new edition of the successful maulwerker performing music series focus on the responsibilities and freedoms in open processes, the influence of one’s own behaviour on the musical dynamics of the whole and the social processes reflected therein. Such interactive music, which requires the performers to participate in the creation of the works, can only succeed if the participants get involved and truly articulate themselves. The result is not only a collective expression, but also a portrait of the group. Maulwerker, collective for vocal experiments, integrate elements of performance art, intermedial art and choreography into their music. On September 14, a public discussion will take place following the performance. Moderator: Ariane Jeßulat, guests: Antonia Baehr, Bryan Eubanks, Christian Kesten. In English.

Tuesday 16.9.18:00-19:30 Thaiboxing | Muay Thai (Janne Kummer)Wednesday 17.9.18:00-19:30 Queer Functional Training (Philisha Kay)20:00-21:30 Musical Dance Mix Workout (Mathilda Kleo Colada)Thursday 18.9.17:00-21:00 PLAY BadmintonFriday 19.9.17:00-21:00 PLAY ping pongSaturday 20.9.13:00-18:00 dodgeball tournament CANCELLED Participation free of charge. Registration at sport@ballhausost.de The undisciplined fighter: Martial arts as a tool for trauma work with Janne Kummer explores the potential of empowerment through collective physical movement, using martial arts as a starting point to experiment with and transgress into different forms of movement exploration. All bodies and fitness levels are welcome, no experience in martial arts is needed. dienen. Alle Körper und Fitnessniveaus sind willkommen, keine Erfahrung im Kampfsport notwendig.Access information: in German and English spoken language, for FLINTA*s Softer Hards. Queer Functional Training with Philisha Kay expands functional training through artistic and research-based explorations of bodybuilding. Varying bodyweight exercises from calisthenics and resistance training are combined with theoretical impulses and experimental creative reflections.Access information: in spoken English, for FLINTA*s Musical Dance Mix Workout with Mathilda Kleo Colada is an energetic dance workout where you have the opportunity to feel like a Broadway star for about an hour. MDMW is a mix of different dance styles and a group fitness workout. You don’t need any previous experience to take part.Access information: in spoken English, for FLINTA*s For PLAY Badminton the net is stretched in the sports hall. The court is marked out. The shuttlecocks are provided. 60-minute time slots, bookable for everyone.(Courts can be booked hourly between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.)Access information: for all ages At PLAY ping pong, the tables are ready and waiting for you and you can book your table by the hour, practice your topspin, practise mixed doubles or just play like in the park (without the wind).(Tables can be booked hourly between 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.)Access information: for all ages

»Der Fröhliche Weinberg« premiered in 1925 – the same year that Adolf Hitler’s hate pamphlet »Mein Kampf« was published. In his comedy, playwright Carl Zuckmayer sings the praises of German Gemütlichkeit, but barely mentions the fascist threat. »Back then, we still believed we could laugh it off at the top of our lungs – until one day there was nothing left to laugh about«, he states in 1961. Exactly 100 years later, the performance collective Boys* in Sync takes Carl Zuckmayer’s German vineyard idyll as an opportunity to reflect on theater and the joy of laughter. While right-wing governments are swinging into power in many places around the world, the artists from Poland, Sweden, Norway and Germany are producing their very own »international comedy«: In SECOND SEASON, they shed light with seriousness and queer pleasure on the stories we tell in the theater – and why it never matters… The Berlin performance is part of the »BOYS* IN SYNC Going Home Tour«: For one month, the artists will travel through five different European countries with their narrative performance. This project is supported by Performing Arts Hub Norway, Arts and Culture Norway, Nordic Culture Point and Kulturstöd Göteborg. BOYS* IN SYNC is a performance collective with members from Germany, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden and Denmark. Their works move between the poles of queer body practice, pop aesthetics and documentary performance. Permanent members are the puppeteer Ragni Halle, the actors Livia Hiselius and Jay Tebogo Fiskerstrand, the musician Gregers Hansen, the dancer Jakob Krog and the director Simon David Zeller. Since 2019, the group has been invited to the Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Fast Forward Festival Dresden, Performing Arts Festival Berlin, Frie Felts Festival Copenhagen and Autor:innentheatertage Berlin, among others.Most recently, Boys* were in sync with ZAPFENSTREICH at Ballhaus Ost. www.boysinsync.com