Programm
Hila was recently playing with the Hot Club of Berlin and we couldn't wait to hear more of her playing! She is doing us the honor to open the jam with a fine set of musicians from the Time Rag Department and the Jungle Jazz Band. It should be a pretty eventful evening!
And for our great dancing pleasure we'll have the fantastic Jean Bartolome to refresh our ears.
So dig it, cats and kittens, and don't miss out.
TIMETABLE:
19:30 | Doors open & Dj Jean B
21:00 - 22:00 | BAND
≈ Short break & DJ set ≈
22:30 - 00:00 | JAM CATS SESSION & Party with Dj Jean B
♫ THE JAM CATS SESSION ♫
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 simply 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 implies being reactive and keeping your solos short and sweet. If you are up for it, be prepared to be reactive on stage. If you want to play, make it clear and talk to 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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Smut Slam Berlin: throwing a piece of gravel at the bedroom window of your mind since 2017!
Berlin’s only community dirty storytelling open mic is celebrating spring on Monday, April 15, with the theme "AWAKENINGS." We want to hear your tales of realizations and rising knowledge, the end of sleep, the beginning of awareness, or even just those sleepy morning trysts.
Tickets: €15-20 sliding scale donation per person in advance, €20 cash at the door. Low-income €10 rush tickets available at the door ONLY, if any tickets remain unsold at time of show.
Buy them at: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../smut-slam-berlin...
Location: Crack Bellmer, Revaler Str 99, Berlin
(Main entry at Revaler Str & Simon-Dach-Str, 8-10 minutes' walk from S Warschauer Str)
(cover photo by Marc Seestadt)
JUDGES: TBA
** Prizes from Other Nature alternativer Sxladen and njoy toys!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
7-8 pm: get tested, save your seat, enjoy our reading lounge, grab your drink
8-10:30pm: 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!
With this month's guest host Maree J. Hamilton, SmutSlam features real-life, first-person sx 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, k!nk- AND vanilla-friendly, fat-friendly, sx worker-friendly, virgin-friendly, polyamory-friendly, we're really, really friendly. We welcome people with all types and amounts of sxual experiences. We DO NOT welcome stories or fuckbuckets involving racism, sxism, homophobia, transphobia or any other kind of discrimination, or nonconsensual objectification or fetishization. All activities discussed must be CONSENSUAL.
SMUTSLAM is CREATED by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright/performer, sx activist and educator, and former phone sx operator. When not performing, riding the train, or actually having sx herself, Cameryn writes Sidewalk Smvt: custom type-written erotica as street performance and literary art.
WE PRACTICE SAFER SMVT! 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 is wheelchair accessible; we are checking about accessibility of toilets.
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Smut Slam Berlin: throwing a piece of gravel at the bedroom window of your mind since 2017!
Berlin’s only community dirty storytelling open mic is celebrating spring on Monday, April 15, with the theme "AWAKENINGS." We want to hear your tales of realizations and rising knowledge, the end of sleep, the beginning of awareness, or even just those sleepy morning trysts.
Tickets: €15-20 sliding scale donation per person in advance, €20 cash at the door. Low-income €10 rush tickets available at the door ONLY, if any tickets remain unsold at time of show.
Buy them at: https://www.eventbrite.com/.../smut-slam-berlin...
Location: Crack Bellmer, Revaler Str 99, Berlin
(Main entry at Revaler Str & Simon-Dach-Str, 8-10 minutes' walk from S Warschauer Str)
(cover photo by Marc Seestadt)
JUDGES: TBA
** Prizes from Other Nature alternativer Sxladen and njoy toys!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
7-8 pm: get tested, save your seat, enjoy our reading lounge, grab your drink
8-10:30pm: 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!
With this month's guest host Maree J. Hamilton, SmutSlam features real-life, first-person sx 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, k!nk- AND vanilla-friendly, fat-friendly, sx worker-friendly, virgin-friendly, polyamory-friendly, we're really, really friendly. We welcome people with all types and amounts of sxual experiences. We DO NOT welcome stories or fuckbuckets involving racism, sxism, homophobia, transphobia or any other kind of discrimination, or nonconsensual objectification or fetishization. All activities discussed must be CONSENSUAL.
SMUTSLAM is CREATED by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright/performer, sx activist and educator, and former phone sx operator. When not performing, riding the train, or actually having sx herself, Cameryn writes Sidewalk Smvt: custom type-written erotica as street performance and literary art.
WE PRACTICE SAFER SMVT! 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 is wheelchair accessible; we are checking about accessibility of toilets.
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On the 13th of April, we’re back in Berlin for another boogie. This time around we’re joined by local talent and all around good guy Eltouss - an artist who’s steadily establishing himself as one of the names to watch in the scene. For this special occasion, we’ve also invited our dear friend Jacob Dahm, who’ll join Petter Bladlund and Daniel Lien on a flugzeug over from Stockholm. Oufffy music, good people and a whole lot of fun.
Looking forward to seeing both old and new friends on the dance floor ㋛
Eltouss
https://soundcloud.com/eltouss
https://www.instagram.com/eltouss_/
Jacob Dahm
https://www.instagram.com/jacobdahm/
Petter Bladlund
https://soundcloud.com/petter-bladlund
https://www.instagram.com/pbladlund/
Daniel Lien
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-lien
https://www.instagram.com/_yunglien/
bar from 7. djs from 10.
bring a friend, not an attitude.
doors: free entry until 10pm and flexi after.
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