June 16-22: Berlin Jazz Week, Fête de la Musique, Berlinale Open Air, and more!
Things to do in Berlin - Week of June 16
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What’s in store for you this week:
🔭 Night at the Observatory
🎪 The Velvet Creepers present CARAVAN OBSCURA
🎷 Berlin Jazz Week 2026
🚂 English Guided City Tours in a Historic S-Bahn Train From 1928
🎵 Fête de la Musique 2026
🎬 Berlinale Open Air 2026
🎭 Polish Art Week 2026
💿 NACHT VISION by THE CODE x CYBERESQUE
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Perspectives 5 | Chamber Music at Piano Salon Christophori: perspectives celebrates its season finale with fiery piano quintets by Amy Beach and Johannes Brahms. Award-winning international musicians perform Friday, June 19, 20:00, at the Piano Salon Christophori in Wedding. Tickets include drinks. More info.
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1. Night at the Observatory
The Archenhold-Sternwarte in Treptower Park - Germany's oldest and largest public observatory - hosts regular evening stargazing sessions using a 500 mm Cassegrain reflecting telescope. Visitors observe planets, the moon, nebulae, and galaxies up close while expert guides explain what's visible and share background on the instruments and the observatory's history (in German). More info.
💵 €12
📅 18 Jun (Thu) & more dates
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2. The Velvet Creepers present CARAVAN OBSCURA
Berlin’s legendary Queer Cabaret is taking over ZIRKUS MOND for one surreal summer weekend. ROLL UP! ROLL UP! WE ARE GOING TO THE BIG TOP! Follow the lanterns, follow the sound, to the hidden Zirkus. Join us for a magical night of circus nostalgia for a sizzling summer soirée. Every performer is a shapeshifter, gender, creature, human, divine. So follow the road where the strange things are. Caravan Obscura is coming. More info.
💵 €35
📅 19 Jun (Fri) - 20 Jun (Sat)
3. Berlin Jazz Week 2026
Berlin Jazz Week returns for its eighth edition, running June 20-26 across jazz clubs and open-air venues around the city. This year's theme is "Collective improv(e)ment", with the Berlin jazz scene presenting itself organically - rather than through a fixed curatorial structure - through concerts, improvised sets, and genre-crossing combinations. Some evenings also include discussions alongside the performances. More info.
💵 Varies
📅 20 Jun (Sat) - 26 Jun (Fri)
📍 Various Venues
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4. English Guided City Tours in a Historic S-Bahn Train From 1928
The volunteers from Historische S-Bahn Berlin e.V. for the first time offer rides with an English guide in their historic train from 1928. They start 10:55 at Ostbahnhof via Charlottenburg and Grunewald to Wannsee and from back via Schöneberg and the S-Bahn Tunnel to Nordbahnhof (arr. 12:30). At 15:00 their train starts from Nordbahnhof in reverse direction (arr: 16.45). The English guide is in coach 3. More info.
💵 €20 (tickets)
📅 20 Jun (Sat)
📍 10:55 at Ostbahnhof and 15:00 at Nordbahnhof
5. Fête de la Musique 2026
On June 21, around 300 stages fill streets, squares, and parks across Berlin for the Fête de la Musique, the free outdoor music festival that has been part of the city's calendar since 1995. Musicians and bands of all genres perform in public spaces throughout the day. The event continues past midnight through the Fête de la Nuit, with around 30 venues including Else, Kater, and Wilde Renate extending the program indoors for those who want to keep going. More info.
💵 Free
📅 21 Jun (Sun)
📍 Various Locations
6. Berlinale Open Air 2026
Freiluftkino Friedrichshain hosts the Berlinale Open Air from June 21 to 24, screening four films from the 76th Berlinale in its outdoor cinema in Friedrichshain. The 4 movies are: No Good Men, Sunny Dancer, Lola and Bilidikid, State Security. More info.
💵 €11 (tickets)
📅 21 Jun (Sun) - 24 Jun (Wed)
7. Polish Art Week 2026
Polish Art Week brings together contemporary and experimental work from Polish artists alongside the international independent scene. The week covers concerts, audiovisual art, and collaborative or improvisational performances built around crossing genre boundaries, as well as educational workshops and community-oriented events. More info.
💵 Varies
📅 22 Jun (Mon) - 28 Jun (Sun)
📍 Various Venues
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8. NACHT VISION by THE CODE x CYBERESQUE
OHM hosts a techno night organized by THE CODE in collaboration with Berlin clubwear label Cyberesque, timed to coincide with the release of their new DRAKAI collection. Fashion performances by Miss Aneris, Kye Pai, and others present the new collection alongside techno music. More info.
💵 €17
📅 19 Jun (Fri)
📍 OHM
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