About PLAYBerlin

PLAYBerlin is a Berlin-based platform, facilitating creative exchange between artists, musicians, venues, and producers in Berlin.

We organize regular events and opportunities, connect creative people in Berlin, and provide practical help and advice about the city for artists and musicians.

Berlin attracts thousands of artists, musicians, and passersby – it’s a nomadic city that’s always becoming but never is. It’s calm and peaceful, there’s minimum external stimulation, it’s cheap. Berlin doesn’t demand anything from people and it doesn’t offer anything definite. That’s why it’s so full of creative potential, but also can be hermetic and introvert at times. 

We conceived PLAYBerlin as a way to infuse more movement and play into our environment. Our activity is very much event-based, improvised, and anti-nostalgic.  We want to bring different scenes together, but do not associate ourselves to any of them. instead, we invite people to collaboratively create situations where something new and different takes shape of an inspiring event, an improvised opportunity to be playful and disassociate from any fixed image or scene. It’s not about preparation or prior knowledge, but more about the skill to be playful, to be open to change and movement.

We run several projects created to fulfill this goal and allow these situations to happen more often: PLAYBerlin.Com magazine, TAMTAMTAM events, and PLAYBerlin Artist Support.

Our collaboration with ThisIsLike.Com ensures that all our activities and artists are linked to a larger international context.

PLAYBerlin’s projects:

PLAYBERLIN.COM MAGAZINE

PLAYBerlin.Com serves to document the activities generated by PLAYBerlin and TAMTAMTAM crowd, to provide a snapshot of the events, projects, ideas, and people that have the ability to inspire and move. 

We always welcome new contributions, tips, and ideas, so please feel free to contact us.

MONTHLY TAMTAMTAM PARTIES

Our monthly TAMTAMTAM parties bring together the local Berlin creative community and guests, featuring performances, live music, dance shows, video art, and great people.

TAMTAMTAM is a nomadic party event, the only central idea is the constant change and movement. It blends curated content with improvisation. We invite musicians, performers, the audience and let them create an event that would provide inspiration and entertainment for everyone involved. 

PLAYBERLIN ARTIST SUPPORT

PLAYBerlin provides support and opportunities for artists and musicians in Berlin. We are willing to share our knowledge, contacts and infrastructure, to help you promote your events and connect with the right people. A lot of practical information is available online  on PLAYBerlin.Com Berlin Guide and ThisIsLike.Com but feel free to contact us if you need more support. 

THIS IS LIKE… A FREE ASSOCIATIVE NETWORK

ThisIsLike.Com is the associative knowledge network that connects scenes and subcultures together. It relates the local Berlin activity to the larger international context. Using the site, you can find artists, venues, bands, events that are similar to each other and discover new things this way.

The idea at the forefront of ThisIsLike.Com is the relationship between items, people and places. The knowledge as the event, the associative impulse connecting discrete elements together.

Our Contacts

info (att) playberlin (dot) com
join our Facebook Group PLAYBerlin 
+49 15 777 8650 77 

Make sure you subscribe to our newsletter to receive all the latest announcements and invites to great parties.
 

PLAYBerlin is:

Johannes Wengel ( http://vogelstrauss.com )
Stefan Mark Färber ( http://boredoms.org )
Dmitry Paranyushkin ( http://deemeetree.com )
Paul Schoen
Brandon Johnson
John-Erik Jordan
Eric Green
Mollie HD
Jessica Taylor
Sarah Lewis
Ligia Manuela Lewis
…and our friends

Check out the other projects we’re involved with:
ThisIsLike.Com associative guide
Animal-band Vogelstrauß 

The artists who performed at TAMTAMTAM events (the order of appearance):
Vogelstrauß (animal band)
Mark Boombastik (live)
Eric Green (performance)
Ligia Manuela Lewis (dance)
REVEЯSO (performance)
Justin Palermo & Sarane Lecompte (video)
Special Rider (music)
Isabel Lewis (performance)
Dee Mee Tree (performance & video)
Fichte (music)
Kirsty Kross (performance)
Grischa Lichtenberger (music)
Theo & Claire (music)
Mystery Jets / Crystal Wolf Fighters (music)
Brandon Johnson & Eric Green (music performance)
GTUK (music)
Brandon Dougherty (music)
BATALJ (music)
The People of Ze Korg (music)
Jessica Taylor (performance)
Mitsu Salmon (performance)
O Tannenbaum DJs (music)