Mar 17-23: Live Music, Chocolate Festival, Nowruz Spring Festival, and more!
Things to do in Berlin - Mar 17-23!
This Friday is 🌸 Nowruz, the ancient Persian New Year celebrated across many countries, and especially in Iran. As an Iranian, this year feels different. The conflicts in the region weigh heavily on many of us in the diaspora, bringing more reflection than celebration.
I can only hope the new year in the Persian calendar brings peace, healing, and better days for our nation and for others.
What’s in store for you this week:
🎵 The Third Room – Aida Shirazi
🎀 Frack & Spitzenhöschen #17
🎶 MaerzMusik
🎭 Lights Up! The Improvised Musical @ Monbijou Märchenhütten
🍫 Berlin Chocolate Festival
🌸 Nouruz, Newroz, Nauroz - Spring Festival
😱 Exclusive Horror Movie Test-Screening
🎹 Art & Piano
🥞 Stilbruch Kitchen - Brunch
🎫 This Week’s Giveaways
We have 2 tickets to Frack & Spitzenhöschen #17 on Friday, 20th of March, for one subscriber to go with +1. To enter the raffle, simply send an email with the subject “IMAGINE” to this email address.
Win one of 3 tickets to Lights Up! The Improvised Musical on Saturday, 21st of March. To enter, simply send an email with the subject “LIGHTS UP” to this email address.
⭐ The winners will be contacted directly by email by Wednesday evening.
1. The Third Room – Aida Shirazi
Callie's presents The Third Room, a music performance by Iranian-American composer and electronic musician Aida Shirazi. The work spans acoustic and electroacoustic forms. Shirazi draws influences from language, literature, and nature. For each evening, Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist Rey Khatami joins as collaborator, bringing performance, storytelling, and installation elements rooted in lived experience, memory, and socio-political themes. More info.
💵 €15
📅 19 Mar (Thu) - 21 Mar (Sat)
📍 Callie's
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2. Frack & Spitzenhöschen #17
Your imagination on fire! I persuade theatre and variety into a harmonious ménage à trois—where no one sticks to the choreography. Fantastic guest performers join every adventure, from sideshow magic to burlesque icons. Grab your favorite person and enjoy an exciting story with me and my magical creatures. Speaking German helps. Come to the fairy realm. – your Green Fairy. More info.
💵 €39 (single) and €69 (for 2-Person)
📅 20 Mar (Fri) - 📍 Säälchen
📅 28 Mar (Sat) - 📍 Theater im Delphi
3. MaerzMusik
MaerzMusik returns as a festival for contemporary music and sound, welcoming listeners into a space where listening becomes a shared experience. The 2026 edition unfolds as an open artistic forum and laboratory, bringing together composers, artists, musicians, and partners from different contexts. The program includes concerts, performances, installations, and discourse formats across multiple venues. The festival explores how sound can shape new forms of coexistence and renew perception of the world. The program.
💵 Free & Paid
📅 20 Mar (Fri) - 29 Mar (Sun)
📍 Various venues
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4. Lights Up! The Improvised Musical @ Monbijou Märchenhütten
Experience a brand-new, fully improvised two-act musical inspired by your suggestions. Berlin’s Kaleidoscope—an ensemble of musical theatre and opera performers—creates hilarious stories, lovable characters, and catchy tunes live on stage. Since 2022 they’ve sold out Berlin venues, toured Europe, and played Edinburgh Fringe. Don’t miss this one-night-only show at Monbijou Märchenhütten. Performed in English. More info.
💵 €15
📅 21 Mar (Sat) - Show 19:30 (doors 19:00)
5. Berlin Chocolate Festival
The Berlin Chocolate Festival is a two-day event with chocolate and cocoa, featuring street food outside and producers, bakeries, and patisseries inside. You can sample panzerotti with cocoa dough, arrosticini with Belgian chocolate, arancini, chocolate gnocchi, tacos, alfajores, brigadeiros, and croquetas with chorizo and dark chocolate. The festival includes masterclasses, workshops, a children's play area, hot chocolate, and coffee. More info.
💵 €5
📅 21 Mar (Sat) - 22 Mar (Sun)
6. Nouruz, Newroz, Nauroz - Spring Festival
The Humboldt Forum hosts a spring festival celebrating Nouruz, also known as Newroz or Nauroz, the New Year and spring equinox tradition observed for over 3,000 years across Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and beyond. Together with Berlin-based associations, the Forum offers talks, music, dance, workshops, market stalls, and culinary specialties. There are hands-on activities for families, a bazaar with crafts, and a tea bar. More info.
💵 Free
📅 21 Mar (Sat)
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7. Exclusive Horror Movie Test-Screening
X Filme invites a diverse, international group in Berlin to an exclusive work-in-progress screening of their latest English-language horror feature. The production company is seeking feedback before the film is finished and released internationally. Screenings take place in their private office cinema at Köpenicker Str. 20, an intimate setting typically used for reviewing final cuts. Registration is required via the Tally form. Registration form.
💵 Free
📅 18 Mar (Wed) - 20 Mar (Fri)
8. Art & Piano
Art & Piano is an interdisciplinary live performance combining jazz piano, painting, and video art at the Berlin Jewish Community Concert Hall. Ukrainian painter Alexander Glinkin, French-Caribbean jazz pianist Grégory Privat, and German video artist Martin Kohlmann create a journey through images and sounds that explores exile, reflection, and rebirth. The performance runs about 40 minutes, followed by an exhibition viewing and artist meet-and-greet. More info.
💵 €14
📅 19 Mar (Thu), 19:00
Restaurant Suggestion:
Stilbruch Kitchen - Brunch (⭐4/5)
This brunch spot in Friedrichshain, close to RAW-Gelände, is a nice option especially that you can reserve a table for Sunday brunch! The breakfast and brunch menu is quite extensive, with sourdough bread, avocado smash, and plenty of sweet and savory pancake options. What really stood out was the service: kind, attentive, and genuinely friendly. We ordered the Avocado Egg, blueberry pancake, and poached eggs. Everything tasted great, though the food took a bit longer to arrive. Prices are reasonable, around €15-€20 per person, and they accept cards. Overall, warmly recommended.
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