Ultimate Frisbee is a dynamic team sport with a Frisbee disk. The end zone game is fast, fair, without physical contact and works without referees even at official tournaments.
Jana Gmelin and Lonnie Lou Jasper have been playing frisbee for many years and invite you to the public sports field at Jahn-Sportpark to discover the best sport in the world! In the training session, they will show you different throws and the basics of the game – you can join in or just watch without any prior knowledge.
Double Much is a celebration of joy, culture, and resistance from five Berlin artists. Rhythmic, creative, and trance-like. Wanna jump?
Double Much began in 2020 when five Berlin-based artists came together in public spaces during the pandemic to rediscover connection through movement. Exploring Double Dutch’s roots in Black culture, clubbing, and resistance, this performance offers a playful yet powerful exploration of joy and creativity as tools for survival. The piece invites audiences to experience the rhythm and energy of this art form as it transcends generations and cultural boundaries.
Children and young people can practise basic motor skills such as cartwheels, somersaults and handstands on a 10 x 2 meter airtrack (an inflatable, springy gymnastics track – similar to a mixture of trampoline and mat). They are accompanied by JayTea as they take their first acrobatic steps such as forward, backward and sideways somersaults – with active support and targeted technique training.
JayTea, Jean-Tayfun Hoffmann, has been passionate about parkour and freerunning for over 15 years. He has been working full-time as an athlete, stuntman and trainer since 2013. During this time, he has been involved in numerous shows, taught over 5,000 students and built up a strong network in the urban sports scene. His goal is to create new perspectives through movement – athletically, personally and socially.
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.
