❤️ We are happy and grateful to win the Club Commission's Tag Der Clubkultur award for a fourth time! A big thank you to everyone who contributes to our radio, workshops and events, the whole team behind Refuge Worldwide and Oona Bar & also to the jury who selected us.

🎉 Check out our Tag Der Clubkultur 2024 program here, and find two workshops and an open decks session with applications now open for all.

🚂✈️🛣🚕🛸From Berlin to Tashkent and back again - we are heading back out on the road to connect with some of our favourite venues and festivals this Autumn/Winter. Details are here.

📌 Find out what is going on in Berlin this weekend, including Music Of The Struggle: South Africans In Exile at SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, and a demo organised by Mera25 for Global Earth Day.

🏠 Over on Weserstraße you can catch music from Future East Festival, Hot Concept, Tape Dub and the AT-XYA crew.

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📌 Workshops at our Niemetzstraße location in October:

📸 Nightlife photography with Frankie Casillo, (04 Oct) apply here.

🗣 Public speaking with BLEACH, (07 Oct) apply here.

📝 Poetry writing workshop with Cat Hepburn, no experience required / FLINTA* only, (15 Oct) apply here.

Plus:

🔈Explaining the Acoustic Mastery Behind Open Ground [hosted at Open Ground, Wuppertal], (05 Oct) apply here.

(All workshops are free to attend)

📩 Contact hello@refugeworldwide.com

🥪 Italian sandwich pop-up today at Oona Bar, serving from 12pm until sold out, plus music and DJs until 9pm.

Soundtracking your food is Cobra di Ma, Neetu, Jimmy Trash, Radio Vampiro, Nacho Guzman, Ben Total and Miss Borgia.

🍸 We've got negronis and campari & soda on happy hour at the bar. (Happy hour runs all day here 👍)

🎧 Listen live if you can't make it down!

💃🏽 Tonight from 21:00 and open at Oona Bar until 01:00... Miércoles de Salsa is back! Music from Calamidades Lola, El Vago, Efanistea and CARICUAO, (plus 3€ mezcal shots and Oaxaca Mocca @ 8€ all night).

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📝Find a list of music collectives to support during emergency relief efforts across Lebanon, compiled by Peter Kirn. Peter is live on air today 11AM-1PM CET.

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🎦 We are delighted to host AL. Berlin (Off) Festival at our Niemetzstraße space this week, starting tonight.

For folks that are unfamiliar, AL. Berlin is a cultural collective active in Berlin since 2019, one that aims to support and connect people through art, music and various knowledge productions, with the Contemporary Moment of South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA).

Find out more.

📡 Events this weekend at Oona Bar, always free to drop by -

· Friday: AL.FESTIVAL.2024 Take Over
· Saturday: Andreya Casablanca (LP Release Party) at 15:00-20:00, plus a very happy birthday (takeover) for Vio PRG (20:00)
· Sunday: Assila Beer launch party

📌 Weserstraße 166, 12045 Neukölln

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🌶 "Hot Mic: Refuge Worldwide’s Spicy Blend"🌶

Created in collaboration with our Weserstraße neighbours, Crazy Bastard, we present a custom Refuge hot sauce, inspired by Nigerian pepper mix but with a twist! There is a launch party on Oct 20 at Oona Bar but you can grab a bottle (or two) now if you are dropping by the radio station.

📌 A weekend of film festivals, AL.Berlin at Festsaal Kreuzberg, the launch of Berlin’s first Arabic Beer at Oona Bar, a fundraiser at Oyoun, plus the Miss Read Art Book Fair & Festival for Independent Publishing. All of this and more in our latest Berlin round-up.

📡 Events this week at Oona Bar, always free to drop by -

· Wednesday: Radical Sounds Latin America Showcase ft. Dengue Dengue Dengue
· Thursday: Fiestuki Ambient Amigas with mosca muerta & Ezeta
· Friday: saHHara Showcase
· Saturday: Random Jams with Oscar Atanga, Alex OB, Gavsborg, YUI, SONKO, Ronja and Michi
· Sunday: Refuge Worldwide x Crazy Bastard Hot Sauce Launch Party 🌶

📌 Weserstraße 166, 12045 Neukölln

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📌 On November 16th at our Niemetzstraße space, we invite you to attend a special event curated by Josiane and Ana Lucao: A Day Of Hope And Joy, Celebration of Congolese Culture and attention to the critical issues in the Congo.

Entry will be donation-based, (please RSVP to join), with all proceeds going towards Musique pour la Paix et la Santé. Full information is on our website.

📡 Music coming from a big crew of sweethearts this week at Oona Bar. Always free to drop by -

· Thursday: Riki Ross, Ambient Sleepers, George Snow, Sound Metaphors
· Friday Part I: Groove Service - Peeps & Friends with Sarah Farina, krstn, Mosebo
· Friday Part II: Groove Therapy - Prosekko Papi, Pretty Gordo, Bruder Jakob
· Saturday: Bubble World hosted by Christa Belle
· Sunday: closed

📌 Weserstraße 166, 12045 Neukölln

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📌 This week, Nour Sokhon launches “Beirut Birds” at Savvy Contemporary, there is a funding drive for people stuck at Camp Tegel, and a panel discussion on 'German Media’s Role in Dehumanization During Genocide'. All of this and more in our latest Berlin round-up.

📌 This Saturday (November 2nd), Root Radio and Refuge Worldwide will once again collaborate in Berlin. Join us between 3PM and 2AM to raise funds for relief efforts in Lebanon and Gaza. There wil be music, art, film screenings and food.

All proceeds from the event will be donated to a small number of trusted groups working on the ground in Lebanon and Palestine.

🌐 Please note the event location will not be announced publicly, you can reach out to hello@refugeworldwide.com for further information.

🌍 The first edition of a new Climate Cafe will take place at our Niemetzstraße space next week (05 Nov). Sign-up form is open here.

Climate Cafe is a (cosy) sharing space for intense and complex feelings associated with a changing climate and warming world. Tea and soft drinks provided, but please note spaces are limited for this first session. Hosted by Eilidh McLaughlin.

📡 Great music coming up on the radio this weekend. Swing by for a drink and check out the sounds:

· Friday evening: Fiestuki Día de Muertxs - a really special line up of all stars from Brazil, Germany and México as the Fiestuki crew say hasta pronto with their last party of the year in Berlin.

· Saturday evening: Walking on Gemshells duo Gabi & Jopo bring a selection of warm music, from shoegaze to slow jams, R&B to funk. Guest selectors include Hitoshi, staś, Zsuzanna & Lily, and Zoë McPherson.

📌 Weserstraße 166, 12045 Neukölln

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📌 This Sunday at Oona Bar we are collecting clothes for Berliner Stadtmission, as well as welcoming Natalie from Eva’s Obdach, a women’s shelter in Neukölln, for an interview on the radio.

Music and drinks as usual, please see the website for more info on suitable items to bring.

📡 A lot happening at the moment. If you need us, we are here.

📍Berlin stories this week features several soli events, film festivals and an XJAZZ concert.

🏠 Oona Bar tonight has a Taboo Takeover, bringing you jazz and R&B, before Jeyrototo and Lyndon Lewis & Cam are in the booth for disco and boogie. Saturday night sees ELSI's Luca Carluccio & mescal wave station, Einhundert crew and also MPeach dropping by to share music.

🌐 Sunday we have the clothing drive to support Berlin's shelters during winter, full details here. Please see the website for other forthcoming fundraisers.

📌 Weserstraße 166, 12045 Neukölln

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