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C A S I N O
https://t.me/casinoagainstallodds
anticapitalist, collective café and bar for social medicine
antikapitalistisches, kollektives café und bar für sozialmedizin
café y bar colectivo, anticapitalista y de medicina social
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C A S I N O for S O C I A L M E D I C I N E
⌹ ⌻ ⌺ E V E N T S ⌹ ⌻ ⌺
NOVEMBER 2025
cafe and bar opened Wednesdays to Saturdays 12:00 till 24:00
all events are free unless marked otherwise
(more access details at the bottom of the page)
Wednesday 5.11.
5-6:30pm
weekly Arabic lessons
> Come learn basic Levantine Arabic with Fadi. Start deciphering the Arabic script, learn how to introduce yourself and practice some conversational phrases.
Mutual aid
5-6pm
monthly Open Consultations
> If you'd like to pitch the Casino an event, discuss an offering, or brainstorm your ideas, this is your chance to meet with someone from our Events team.
7-9pm
monthly University of Tiny Moments
Semester about Care, Repair and Survival
> Shared survival — with Isaac, Kasia, Alicja, and Bain. What makes survival meaningful? What elements of survival are in our control? Together, we will explore survival as solidarity in a necropolitical world and as skill - from filtering water, and making fire, to coping with our ethical responsibility for the lives of others. We will listen to stories from the Polish-Belarusian borderlands and reflect on how to act with care in moments of crisis.
Peer Education.
Thursday 6.11.
1-5pm
Kollektivbibliothek meets Casino
> Kollektivbibliothek is a living library with an intention to serve as a collective tool for the political imagination. Come meet us, help us catalogue, borrow books, hear about the project or chat over a coffee about the world. We like books and we like to conspire
Meetup
2-4pm
weekly Writers' bloc
> Weekly meet up for would-be writers seeking community accountability in starting (and finishing) their individual writing projects of any genre. For two hours each week the Writers' Bloc will meet to write together, share intentions for our writing, and come up with prompts, feedback, and encouragement tailored to every specific writers literary aspirations. All are welcome, come with or without a preformed idea of what you might want to write.
Meetup
2-6pm
weekly Self-directed group art therapy
> Self organised art therapy is an open space for painting, drawing, or any kind of crafty practice. Some materials will be brought, so you can just show up and explore your expression together with others in a quiet and cosy atmosphere. You don't have to be there the full time. It is hosted by Tchivett with the intention is to create a group that might evolve towrds a self organised collective. Drop in.
Mutual aid.
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education
> Reading aloud through texts that are part AUPE's Understanding Capitalism curriculum. This is part of an ongoing course and primarily consists of a read-aloud session, not discussion. Today, join us to read about how fascism abroad always comes home. Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop.
Peer education
8-10pm
Kunstler-Kunstlerin
> Monthly performance matinee for the unfinished, the in-progress, the first tries, the hundredth attempt
Friday 7.11.
2-4pm
Peri-Menopause support group
> Let's come together to discuss and share knowledge & wisdom about the sensitive topics of perimenopause and menopause. This is going to be the first session of (hopefully) a series of facilitated containers in which we will discuss perimenopause from different perspectives and particularly through the eyes of migrants & BiPoc communities. Kholoud, Setareh, and Elham will facilitate the session that will focus on community and scientific knowledge, technological resources, and above all community building. This is a BIPoC safe space that is open for everybody.
Peer education and meetup
4-5:30pm
weekly NADA acupuncture
> NADA ear acupuncture is a simple method of treatment, where five small acupuncture needles are inserted on 5 points of the ear for ca 30mins. NADA acupuncture has a long history of being used to ease symptoms of substance withdrawal, as a support in traumatic situation, stress in general, and for various types of emotional disbalances
Mutual aid. 5-20€ sliding scale
6-10pm
Juden und Homosexuellen fur Palästina
> A night of drag performance in support of Palestinian and Black lives.
Fundraiser
Saturday 8.11.
2-5pm
Letter writing fundraiser in solidarity with the Ulm 5
> Write letters to our imprisoned comrades, contribute to their legal defence and support families in Gaza. A variety of printed matter, clothing and ceramics will be available, and the afternoon will close with a poetry reading.
Fundraiser
CALP and Italien Dockworkers panel discussion
> Brigata Transfemminista and Berlin Migrants Strikers are hosting an open assembly "Building International Solidarity — strike, boycott, organize" An open circle of political exchange featuring the participation of CALP, the Italian Dockworkers from Genova, as well as spokepeople from Sozialismus von Unten, Gaza Komitee, No Allianz with Genocide, Klima4Palästina, and Gewerkschafterinnen4Gaza.*
Fundraiser
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Monday 10.11.
AI for societal good?
> We're looking to have a casual discussion about AI as a tool, it's potential in changing the world and our ideas for how to use it in the struggle for justice, ecological harmony and a classless society
Meetup
Wednesday 12.11.
5-6:30pm
weekly Arabic lessons
> Come learn basic Levantine Arabic with Fadi. Start deciphering the Arabic script, learn how to introduce yourself and practice some conversational phrases.
Mutual aid
6:30-10pm
Kufa for a medical help to Uganda
8-10pm
Patterns of Resistance
> A 9-parts workshop for organizations and organizers standing in solidarity with Palestine. What would it feel ike to be a part of a global revolution? If we want to experience it in the future, how must we behave today? First session on aligning our hearts and our brains. Ideally, come with a comrade. Information and registration at [email protected]
Meetup. In English with whisper translation to Arabic possible
Thursday 13.11.
1-5pm
Kollektivbibliothek meets Casino
> Kollektivbibliothek is a living library with an intention to serve as a collective tool for the political imagination. Come meet us, help us catalogue, borrow books, hear about the project or chat over a coffee about the world. We like books and we like to conspire
Meetup
2-4pm
weekly Writers' bloc
> Weekly meet up for would-be writers seeking community accountability in starting (and finishing) their individual writing projects of any genre. For two hours each week the Writers'' Bloc will meet to write together, share intentions for our writing, and come up with prompts, feedback, and encouragement tailored to every specific writers literary aspirations. All are welcome, come with or without a preformed idea of what you might want to write.
Meetup
2-6pm
weekly Self-directed group art therapy
> Self organised art therapy is an open space for painting, drawing, or any kind of crafty practice. Some materials will be brought, so you can just show up and explore your expression together with others in a quiet and cosy atmosphere. You don't have to be there the full time. It is hosted by Tchivett with the intention is to create a group that might evolve towrds a self organised collective. Drop in.
Mutual aid
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education
> Come talk about what it looks like to navigate big emotions around capitalism, and work together to build stronger support networks! This is a short presentation on strategies of community-based care, followed by a workshop on creating pod maps for building our own personalized support systems. Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop.
Peer education
Friday 14.11.
4-5:30pm
weekly NADA acupuncture
> NADA ear acupuncture is a simple method of treatment, where five small acupuncture needles are inserted on 5 points of the ear for ca 30mins. NADA acupuncture has a long history of being used to ease symptoms of substance withdrawal, as a support in traumatic situation, stress in general, and for various types of emotional disbalances
Mutual aid. 5-20€ sliding scale
Saturday 15.11.
12-2pm
biweekly Frantz Fanon Reading group
> In the course of the next weeks we will read “Black Skin, White Masks” by Franz Fanon (the 2008 translation edition). First, we aim to make space to understand the chapter of the week. Feel free to bring passages that you have questions about. Drop ins welcome
Peer education
7-10pm
Fun and Dance
> FUN AND DANCE 4.0 hosted by Banana Saxophone features 3 comics & 3 dancers to tickle and wiggle your funny bones; a variete style inquiry into both Fun and Dance. This evening is a hybrid of comedy, dance, and clown based critique. It is a place for the genres of contemporary dance and humor to cross pollinate, infect, inform and impregnate one another. 4.0 lineup includes: Asya Ashman & Therese Bendjus, Maya Upchurch, Veroniqa Tikhonova, Deo Katunga, Ozan Pekmezki, Daria Iuriichuk
10-20€ suggested entry. No one will be turned away for lack of funds
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Wednesday 19.11.
4-6pm
monthly basket weaving circle
> Come learn how to make raffia baskets. Or work on your basket in progress in company. Special edition to say goodbye to the master weaver Lisa
5 euros contributions towards materials appreciated
Meetup
5-6:30pm
weekly Arabic lessons
> Come learn basic Levantine Arabic with Fadi. Start deciphering the Arabic script, learn how to introduce yourself and practice some conversational phrases.
Mutual aid
6:30-8:30
monthly Philosophy cafe
> The Philosophy Café engages a philosophical practice that centers intuition, the analysis of convergences and divergences in conceptual creation, and the (re-)application of our philosophical practice to our daily lives. Together, we will explore, connect, and collaborate in order to reveal the common and the unique patterns of thought that we construct with others, and that we would like to create.
Meetup
Thursday 20.11.
1-5pm
Kollektivbibliothek meets Casino
> Kollektivbibliothek is a living library with an intention to serve as a collective tool for the political imagination. Come meet us, help us catalogue, borrow books, hear about the project or chat over a coffee about the world. We like books and we like to conspire
Meetup
2-4pm
weekly Writers' bloc
> Weekly meet up for would-be writers seeking community accountability in starting (and finishing) their individual writing projects of any genre. For two hours each week the Writers' Bloc will meet to write together, share intentions for our writing, and come up with prompts, feedback, and encouragement tailored to every specific writers literary aspirations. All are welcome, come with or without a preformed idea of what you might want to write.
Meetup
2-6pm
weekly Self-directed group art therapy
> Self organised art therapy is an open space for painting, drawing, or any kind of crafty practice. Some materials will be brought, so you can just show up and explore your expression together with others in a quiet and cosy atmosphere. You don't have to be there the full time. It is hosted by Tchivett with the intention is to create a group that might evolve towrds a self organised collective. Drop in.
Mutual aid
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education
> Reading aloud through texts that are part AUPE's Understanding Capitalism curriculum. This is part of an ongoing course and primarily consists of a read-aloud session, not discussion. Today, join us to read about how fascism abroad always comes home. Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop.
Peer education
8-10pm
Gaza Biennale Opening
Friday 21.11.
1-4pm
ASMR [Anarchist School of Medicine and Rest/Revolt/Repair]
4-5:30pm
weekly NADA acupuncture
> NADA ear acupuncture is a simple method of treatment, where five small acupuncture needles are inserted on 5 points of the ear for ca 30mins. NADA acupuncture has a long history of being used to ease symptoms of substance withdrawal, as a support in traumatic situation, stress in general, and for various types of emotional disbalances
Mutual aid. 5-20€ sliding scale
6.30-10pm
Amalgam fundraiser and dance
Saturday 22.11.
Ecoslay
Wednesday 26.11.
5-6:30pm
weekly Arabic lessons
> Come learn basic Levantine Arabic with Fadi. Start deciphering the Arabic script, learn how to introduce yourself and practice some conversational phrases.
Mutual aid
7-9 pm
Community Threads
> A knitting circle for everyone who would like to connect
Meetup
Thursday 27.11.
2-4pm
weekly Writers' bloc
> Weekly meet up for would-be writers seeking community accountability in starting (and finishing) their individual writing projects of any genre. For two hours each week the Writers' Bloc will meet to write together, share intentions for our writing, and come up with prompts, feedback, and encouragement tailored to every specific writers literary aspirations. All are welcome, come with or without a preformed idea of what you might want to write.
Meetup
1-5pm
Kollektivbibliothek meets Casino
> Kollektivbibliothek is a living library with an intention to serve as a collective tool for the political imagination. Come meet us, help us catalogue, borrow books, hear about the project or chat over a coffee about the world. We like books and we like to conspire
Meetup
1-5pm
zine bellen
> Part of gaza biennale programming
Friday 28.11.
1-4pm
ASMR [Anarchist School of Medicine and Rest/Revolt/Repair]
4-5:30pm
weekly NADA acupuncture
> NADA ear acupuncture is a simple method of treatment, where five small acupuncture needles are inserted on 5 points of the ear for ca 30mins. NADA acupuncture has a long history of being used to ease symptoms of substance withdrawal, as a support in traumatic situation, stress in general, and for various types of emotional disbalances
Mutual aid. 5-20€ sliding scale
Saturday 29.11.
12-2pm
biweekly Frantz Fanon Reading group
> In the course of the next weeks we will read “Black Skin, White Masks” by Franz Fanon (the 2008 translation edition). First, we aim to make space to understand the chapter of the week. Feel free to bring passages that you have questions about. Drop ins welcome
Peer education
7.30-10pm
Gundled Zine launch and Tankdance concert
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some ACCESS DETAILS:
📮 address: Sonnenallee 100, 12045 Beriin (https://g.co/kgs/T4L41Yb)
closest bus station: Erkstrasse (M41, M43), ca 1min walk
closest ubahn station: Rathaus Neukolln (U7), ca 7min walk
📡 the space is on street level, access through door without any steps
door is more than 90cm and opens inside
various seating options, including sofas, wooden chairs and cushy benches
🌡 permanently non-smoking, functioning air change system
we use low scent cleaning supplies
🧲 bathrooms are in the basement, only accessible through a flight of stairs (10)
not gender-assigned
no toilet equipped for wheelchair users
💌 facemasks available for free at the bar
🎠 dogs allowed
we kindly ask their humans to check in with people around them about their comfort and possible allergies
🎈no personal identification required to enter
we do not call the police
🍎 all events in the Against All Odds series are free
guest event entry determined by the organizers
that said: nobody is turned away for lack of funds
💥 all bartenders, organizers and other staff are currently volunteers
⏰ wifi exists
🧰to give us (anonymous) feedback, use this form: https://office.casinoooo.org/apps/forms/LrLGPxdzt5H5Nmbr/edit
our conflict resolution process is still in the works
If you have questions or if you would like to attend an event and might need assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
(information last updated: April 2025)