{"id":2983,"date":"2021-04-14T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/the-weekend-in-berlin-july-14-july-15-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:49:00","slug":"the-weekend-in-berlin-july-14-july-15-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/the-weekend-in-berlin-july-14-july-15-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend in Berlin, July 14-July 15 : uberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post single hentry\">\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\">The Weekend in Berlin, July 14-July 15<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/><noscript>[&lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/storify.com\/uberlin\/the-weekend-in-berlin-july-14-july-15&#8243; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;&gt;View the story &#8220;The Weekend in Berlin, July 14-July 15&#8243; on Storify&lt;\/a&gt;]&lt;br \/&gt; &lt;h1&gt;The Weekend in Berlin, July 14-July 15&lt;\/h1&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Open wide for some culture!!! This weekend, Berlin plays host to roller derby, alternative Olympics, an open-air short film festival and a Brazilian feijoada party &#8211; scroll down to find out what that is!&lt;\/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;Storified by \u00fcberlin &amp;middot; Tue, Jul 10 2012 05:44:53&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Saturday 14th July&lt;\/h2&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Berlin Bombshells VS. London Brawling!&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&#8221;London calling to the faraway towns&lt;br \/&gt;Now war is declared \u2013 and battle come down&#8221;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Spiel gegen London Brawling am 14. Juli | Bear City Roller Derby&amp;quot;London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared &#8211; and battle come down&amp;quot; Der Name ist Programm: wenn London Brawling gegen unsere&#8230;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;I&#8217;m going to go ahead and admit that I don&#8217;t understand roller derby. I think the rules were explained in &lt;i&gt;Whip It&lt;\/i&gt;, but I was probably staring too hard at Drew Barrymore to listen. But I understand this much: &lt;b&gt;roller derby is COOL&lt;\/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;We know a bunch of the Bombshells, so we&#8217;re happy to support them in their grudge match against (boo!) London Brawling. According to this video, (I think)&amp;nbsp;the Brits beat Berlin&#8217;s own last time &#8211; so you&#8217;d better show up and show them the bears mean business.&lt;b&gt; Growl.&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;London Rollergirls:Brawl Saints v Berlin Bombshellslrglive&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Future Shorts Film Festival&lt;\/b&gt; &lt;div&gt;An al-fresco date with the Berlin Film Society&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;undefinedStaticflickr&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;The &lt;b&gt;Berlin Film&amp;nbsp;Society&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;hosting the world\u2019s biggest pop-up&amp;nbsp;film festival in one of Berlin\u2019s best open-air&amp;nbsp;cinemas, Freiluftkino Insel im Cassiopeia.&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Summer Season of the Future Shorts&amp;nbsp;Film Festival mixes up new,&amp;nbsp;award-winning short films from around the&amp;nbsp;world, in a programme that is the same&amp;nbsp;duration as a feature film! &lt;b&gt;For more info, check out the &lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/ https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/316717651745526\/&#8221;&gt;&lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/316717651745526\/&#8221;&gt;&lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/316717651745526\/&#8221;&gt;Facebook event&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/a&gt; or click through to the Berlin Film Society website below.&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;Berlin Film Societyberlin film society, berlin film club, berlin film klub, berlin film societie,&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;h2&gt;Sunday&amp;nbsp;15th July&lt;\/h2&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Berlin Slowlympics Warm Ups&lt;\/b&gt; &lt;div&gt;Slow Travel Berlin gets in gear for its&amp;nbsp;local response to the global games&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;throwing wet shoesveader&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;No matter what happens at this year&#8217;s Olympics, my abiding memory of it will be the time, six years ago, when I refused to sign a petition supporting the London bid. My point, that London hardly needed to attract any more visitors, inflamed the clipboard toting-chump in front of me&#8230; &lt;i&gt;Anyway&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;rather than just whine about the games, like me and other Engl\u00e4nders, &lt;b&gt;Slow Travel Berlin&lt;\/b&gt; have come up with an alternative: the &lt;b&gt;Slowlympics.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&#8221;Timed to coincide with the city\u2019s very own screenings of the London Olympics, the Slowlympics will pay homage to the ancient games while making a tongue-in-cheek statement on our culture\u2019s obsession with speed&#8230;.&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;Suggested Games For Adults&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Currywurst \/ Doener Eating Competition&amp;nbsp;&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Teebeutelweitwurf (Tea Bag Throwing)&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Slow Bicycle Race&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 200m backward Sprint&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Extreme Ping Pong&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Individual Fall Down&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Double Footed Hurdles&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Bonving (Shoe Throwing)&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Hipster Carrying&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Toe Wrestling&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Wetball (netball with water balloons)&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Pea Rolling (rolling a pea with the nose)&lt;br \/&gt;\u2022 Standweitsprung (Standing Long Jump)&#8221;&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;There&#8217;s a Warm Up event this Sunday, where you can get a preview of the sporting hilarity (laughletics?) involved. Unfortunately we can&#8217;t make it, but our team of fatty expatties will be at the main event (4th August). For more information, and to support a worthwhile cause, &lt;b&gt;check out the Slowlympics betterplace page:&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;The Berlin SlowlympicsSlow Travel Berlin is delighted to announce another unique event for 2012: The Slowlympics! Timed to coincide with the city&#8217;s very own sc&#8230;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vam Bora at Agora Collective&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;A night of feijoada, caipirinhas and bossa nova&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;undefinedStaticflickr&lt;\/div&gt; &lt;div&gt;If you&#8217;ve ever met us in the (sallow)&amp;nbsp;flesh, you won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that we&#8217;re *not* Brazilian. However, we do share a passion for baille funk, &lt;i&gt;City of God&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and Brazilian waxes (OK, that&#8217;s just James). And we&#8217;ll be helping Neuk\u00f6lln co-working\/art space &lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.agoracollective.org\/&#8221;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Agora Collective&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;celebrate its first birthday in the tradition of its founders&#8217; home country:&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;a &lt;i&gt;feijoada&lt;\/i&gt; (Brazilian stew) party.&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We&#8217;ll be there stuffing our faces with stew and caipirinhas, feeling all self-conscious as the beautiful people bossa nova &#8211; to join us, &lt;b&gt;RSVP to&amp;nbsp;becca@agoracollective.org&amp;nbsp;by Friday. 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