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20.5.2025

Mai 2025

Jam cats Session with The Blue Mockingbirds

This month for the JAM CATS we have
The Blue Mockingbirds !

With
Anton Kerkhof (cl)
Antoine Lissoir (sax, cl)
Timothé Le Maire (tb)
Guillaume Gillain (g)
Jérémie Fabre (bj)
Félix Heymans (kb, tu)
Leonie Evans (voc, wbd)

Aaand the one and only
DJ Dizzy Ella!

19:30 | Doors open & DJ
20:30 - 21:15 | BAND
? Short break & DJ set ?
21:45 - 2:30 | JAM CATS SESSION & Party

? THE BAND ?
Formed in February 2019 in New Orleans, the Blue Mockingbirds take their name from America's jazziest bird, a bird with the ability to imitate other birds. They compose and rearrange centuries-old gems with taste. The band will be in full force with the extraordinaire Leonie Evans, singer and multi-instrumentist. Their music is an ode to the city of New Orleans, between tradition and modernity, perfumed with spices and bathed in the slow waters of the Mississippi.

HEY, YOU COOL CATS!
The Jam Cats live session is a dancing jam session with a different opening band each time. It carries on the legacy of old jazz mingling live sessions and DJ sets.
We want everyone to have fun, dancers and musicians alike with a stage open for early Jazz, Swing, RnB, and other fun styles to dance to with a focus on Balboa since we are operating with Bellmer Balboa. However, we are a separate event and we often cross over between different sub-genres of jazz and swing.
The jam will be run by members of the Syncopation Society to ensure that the party flows, allowing everyone to dance,
or sit back and enjoy the music.

? DISCLAIMER FOR MUSICIANS
Coming to the JAM CATS grants you free entrance. Just keep in mind that this is a DANCE EVENT and it means being reactive and keeping your solos short and sweet.
If you'd like to play, please make it clear to one of the organisers, or to the band leader. Approach one of the musicians on stage to see when is a good time to step in. There's a piano on the stage with atmospheric amplification.

? CODE OF CONDUCT:
The official restrictions are lifted for now, but we still recommend doing a test before you come anyway.
It is our aim to create a safe, respectful and welcoming environment for everybody. Within the Syncopation Society, we are working to develop an anti-racist and feminist common ground. Through self-education, we are striving to recognise and stop racist, discriminatory, sexist and homophobic behaviour, as well as other forms of social injustice. We want to remove the barriers established by economic inequality. Important to us is also that the venue of the festival is accessible for people with all kinds of physical conditions.
We want to celebrate diversity in all its forms. We invite you to do the same. We seek to recognise unconscious bias and act against obvious or micro-aggressions of others. As we might not be aware of everything, please help us and let us know if you are missing essentials that you need to feel included and comfortable, or if you experience or witness an unpleasant situation. We are always available for you.
As a collective made up of musicians, DJs and dancers the Syncopation Society feels deeply that it is vital, not only to give recognition to the creators of the music we perform and dance to but to also acknowledge the world in which they lived and the struggles they faced, due to historical and structural racism. We aim to keep educating ourselves on Black heritage. Avoiding cultural appropriation requires an amount of reverence and acknowledgement of history and context. This challenge is important to us in many aspects of life.

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Beautiful Balboa beats and tunes
on every Tuesday !

Fast, mid-tempo and slow.

All styles of Jazz.

If you like to party
and enjoy Swing dancing and Jazz music,
you will have a good time at Bellmer Balboa.

Generous donations for bands and djs
are highly appreciated and expected !

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Enter the RAW-area at the corner
of Revaler Straße & Simon-Dach-Straße
down the stairs and then
> it's the first bar to your right.

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Smut Slam Berlin: "USE YOUR WORDS" (May 19)

Smut Slam Berlin: speaking truth into filth (and vice versa) since 2017!

Berlin’s only community dirty storytelling open mic is back with the theme of "USE YOUR WORDS." Negotiating scenes, making noise, sexting hardcore, crafting the perfect mindf*ck... SmutSlam has always encouraged folks to use their words as much as possible. This month we want you to showcase it with your stories, too!

** POP-UP MARKET IN THE LOUNGE: a small assortment of print AND audio smut/erotica creators and vendors will share their wares for your reading/listening enjoyment. Market doors open at 7pm, make some time for that!

TICKETS AT THE DOOR ARE CASH ONLY.

Tickets: €15-20 sliding scale donation per person (adv purchase), or €20 cash at the door. Low-income €10 rush tickets available at the door ONLY, if any tickets remain unsold at time of show.

Advance tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../smut-slam-berlin-use-your...

(To buy tickets for more than one person, enter total amount of donation, and include names of additional people in the designated field during checkout)

* * PLEASE NOTE: tickets are transferable but NON-REFUNDABLE for any reason.

Location: Crack Bellmer, Revaler Str 99, Berlin(Main entry at Revaler Str & Simon-Dach-Str, 8-10 minutes' walk from S Warschauer Str)More accurate map here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wjKdmTeEpoA6PiL76?g_st=ic

(cover photo by Marc Seestadt)

GUEST JUDGES: TBA

** Prizes from Other Nature alternativer Sexladen and The Berliner!** Fuckbucket prize from Satisfyer

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS7-8 pm: get tested, save your seat, enjoy our craft table AND the pop-up erotica market, grab your drink8-10:30pm: Smut Slam, in the old-fashioned way (with one short intermission)10:30-whenever: stay for a little longer, we don't have to worry about neighbors here!

The Smut Slam features real-life, first-person sex stories from the audience, stories from guests and sometimes even celebrity judges, and also readings from THE FUCKBUCKET, a convenient and funnily named receptacle for all your anonymous questions and confessions!

IMPORTANT: Smut Slam is queer-friendly, kink- AND vanilla-friendly, fat-friendly, sex worker-friendly, virgin-friendly, polyamory-friendly, we're really, really friendly. We welcome people with all types and amounts of sexual experiences. We DO NOT welcome stories or fuckbuckets involving racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia or any other kind of discrimination, or nonconsensual objectification or fetishization. All activities discussed must be CONSENSUAL.

SMUT SLAM is CREATED by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright/performer, sex activist and educator, and former phone sex operator. When not performing, riding the train, or actually having sex herself, Cameryn writes Sidewalk Smut: custom type-written erotica as street performance and literary art.

WE PRACTICE SAFER SMUT! DO NOT ATTEND if you are feeling poorly! There will be more slams!* ** We encourage mask use indoors. This remains one of the best ways to protect yourself against getting sick from COVID or any of the other airborne diseases going around.*** Crack Bellmer has a government-certified machine that exchanges all the air in the room every 10-15 minutes. Included in that system is a HEPA filter.*** TESTING NOTICE: Please bring photo of same-day negative test results, or come early to take a self-test at the door (for €1, thank you!). We will have Smutterlings on hand to assist. IF YOU TEST POSITIVE, we will have to send you home.** As always, we are closely watching current COVID-19 rates, and as things change, one way or the other, we may loosen or tighten our pandemic protocols. We will never surprise you with changes, but tell you in advance, so you can make informed decisions. Smut Slam keeps both comfort and well-being in mind, for the community!

PLEASE NOTE: We have a strong Code of Conduct for everyone at a slam. We try very hard to run the event accordingly, and we want attendees to actually pay attention so you can help us create this safer space: https://docs.google.com/.../120FTNtC47HhNIEP91TXp.../edit... Please do take a moment to read this statement, thank you!

ACCESSIBILITY: The venue space is wheelchair accessible.

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Scandal! at the Strip Club

Lineup:
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Slut Riot

aftershow w/ Fluid Vision:

Lovejoy & Geza
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Genres: House, Electro
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Scandal! at the Strip Club. An immersive murder mystery show.

In the heart of Berlin, Spring 2025. Tension at the strip club arises: the world is at the mercy of an economic recession. Between conspiracy theories, drug-induced hysteria, and competition with the odds in no one’s favor, the strippers have gone wild. It's no surprise that the DJ was found un-alived.

The strippers and the club manager don't like calling the cops so they'll rely on you to find out who did. Six suspects, every one has a motive, but only one is the real killer. We invite you to join this immersive show to become a slutty detective and save the strip club from its decay.

How it works? Enter our club for the night and get to know the suspects. Each of them has both a motive and the clues you need to solve the mystery. Listen closely and solve the case to collect your surprise!

And after the show... Stay for the afterparty! Once again we teamed up with Fluid Vision to bring you four hours of unapologetic dancing.

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