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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 ⌹ ⌻ ⌺
OCTOBER 2025
cafe and bar opened Wednesdays to Saturdays 12:00 till 24:00
(access details at the bottom of the page)
Wednesday 1.10.
6-7pm
monthly basket weaving circle
> Learn how to make raffia baskets. Or bring your own and weave in company. Last session lead by Lisa before she returns to the other side of the planet. Come say bye
5 euros towards materials appreciated
7-9pm
monthly University of Tiny Moments
Semester about Care, Repair and Survival
> Come to talk about self care while you craft.
Free. Peer Education.
Thursday 2.10.
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
2-6pm
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.
Free. Mutual aid. Tchivett speaks English, French and German
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.
5-7pm
monthly Making a website help desk
> Do you wish to reach out to people, unmediated by billionaires and their algorithms? Come share and learn from Rain about how we can reclaim control of our online identities.
Free. Mutual aid
5-7pm
Ask a witch
> An open talk about magic with Viky and Haga
Free. 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. We'll be learning about how colonialism in the Global South relates to authoritarianism and militarized policing in the imperial core -- especially looking at the case of Palestine. Reading materials here (https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-boomerang-comes-back/) and pp 35-46 here (https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf). Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop.
Free. Peer education
8-10pm
Kunstler-Kunstlerin
> Monthly performance matinee for the unfinished, the in-progress, the first tries, the hundredth attempt
Friday 3.10.
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
6-7:30pm
Write your name in Arabic
> Do you want to start learning Levantine Arabic? Start with a simple game that’ll teach you how to introduce yourself and start deciphering the Arabic script. First of free language lessons by Fadi.
Peer education
Saturday 4.10.
12-3pm
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. Then we go into a discussion based on the text. This week’s chapter: foreword & introduction (reading optional). Drop-ins welcome
Free. Peer education.
3-10pm
Qantara Collective Gaza fundraiser
> Qantara Collective is a transnational network of friends, artist and activists raising funds for Palestinian families. Show up and be part of an evening where food, art, drag, music and collective care meet solidarity with Gaza.
Fundraiser
Sunday 5.10.
5:30-10pm
FLŌD, folk music night
> FLŌD is a solo project from the foggy mountains of Finistère, Brittany. Drawing on Irish and other folk traditions, it combines original songs celebrating the Land, freedom and resistance with tunes from the Irish and Breton repertoire. The gig will be followed by an open Irish trad session
Contributions towards the touring artist appreciated.
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Wednesday 8.10.
will mark a year since we opened.... we are preparing a special celebration at the beginning of November
in the meantime...
to celebrate us in a true Casino fashion...
come by the place and talk to someone you haven't met before
Thursday 9.10.
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education & fundraiser Kufa for Sudan
> Sudan is enduring one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. Families across the country - especially in Darfur and the White Nile areas - are facing famine, displacement and deadly disease outbreaks. In Tawila, those fleeing the war recently from El Fasher suffer from hunger, disease and malnutrition. Help is urgently needed to provide food, water and medicine to camps for displaced people. The need is overwhelming and hunger and cholera are spreading faster than aid can reach. With your help, Hope and Haven Refugees Association can scale up their response on the ground to reach thousands more people. Please consider joining our Kufa on Thursday to donate and collectively read revolutionary texts from the Autonomous University at Casino Cafe. Every contribution - big or small - goes directly to food, medicine, and survival support for the most vulnerable.
> 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. Reading text (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ES0tOPC_Jui65zIiZTdDrBgXm5yVXFHP/view?usp=sharing) and as audio (https://on.soundcloud.com/X7L9hBm9PVoTXfG1A)
Free. Peer education
Friday 10.10.
10-4pm
Growing Stronger in Times of Crisis
> Empowerment through Gentle Yoga and Creative Expression with Linocut Printing for TIN BIPoC, with Alina Georgescu. In this workshop, we will practice gentle yoga exercises focusing on the joints and eyes. Afterwards, we will print images using linocut. Linocut allows you to create powerful images with minimal resources—whether political, poetic, or personal. It's an intuitive form that allows for a great deal of expression, even without prior experience. Please bring a yoga mat. If yoga isn't possible for you, you can also participate in the linocut printing session. Please do a rapid test before coming to the event. If you have cold symptoms, please don’t attend. TIN BIPoC (trans, inter*, and non-binary Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) only. Refistration and information at [email protected]
Mutual aid. German, whisper translation possible
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 45mins. 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 11.10.
6-10pm
Art Worker Solidarity Union Hall #2: How Do We Self-Organise?
> An evening with and for culture workers and organizers, where we can learn from another and offer support and solidarity. The event will also celebrate the release of a new publication generated by AG Art Worker Solidarity entitled ‘How Do We Self-Organize?’ Food will be served with donations going to support a family in Gaza.
Meetup
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Wednesday 15.9.
7-9pm
Coalition Disrupt mass criminalization
> An informational event about mutual aid and defense in fast-track courtrooms event
Free. Peer education
Thursday 16.9.
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
2-6pm
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.
Free. Mutual aid. Tchivett speaks English, French and German
Friday 17.10.
2-4pm
Method-in-a-Manifesto Helpdesk
> Is there a particular part of your story that you want to understand better in global context? Does your body talk to you in a certain kind of way and you wanna understand its message? You have a thread to pull and pulled in the proper way you can unravel the whole world, look at the parts, and better know your part in the dance of collective liberation. This help desk offers tactical research skills and tips for deep listening practices, toward self-other-whole liberation. For anyone feeing stuck, lost, powerless, flooded w grief, rage, overwhelm or dissociative panic. These are a revolutionary’s toolkit. Let’s map our way back to ourselves, and chart a collective course home
Free. Mutual aid. Annie speaks English, Swedish and Spanish
4-5pm
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 40/45mins. 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
7-9pm
Love in a Fucked Up World
> Book launch nat skoczylas in conversation with Dean Spade about his latest book, accompanied by Kufa for Gaza. How do we divest from cultural programming that gives us harmful expectations about sex, dating, romance and friendship? How do we recover from the messed up dynamics we were trained in by childhood caregivers? How do we bring our best thinking about freedom into step with our desires for healing and connection? Love in a F*cked-Up World is a resounding call to action and a practical manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands, so we can stick together while we work for survival and liberation.
Saturday 18.10.
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. Then we go into a discussion based on the text. This week’s reading: first half (~10p) of Chapter 1 (reading optional)
Drop-ins welcome. Free. Community education.
2-5pm
How to Break an Addiction
> Join author Annie Xibos Spencer in conversation with Dean Spade around Annie’s book How To Break An Addiction (Common Notion: 2024). HTBAA looks at what the opioid epidemic can teach us about the deeper addiction at the heart of social life. It argues that capitalism itself functions as an addiction, and that the task isn’t just to fight against it, but to begin imagining (seeing and thinking) and enacting new and renewed ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth. The book weaves memoir, research, theory, and harm reduction practice into a vision for collective healing and transformation.
7-10pm
Stand with GenZ212!
Join us for an evening of Moroccan film, good food, and meaningful dialogue in support of the GenZ212 movement — a generation fighting for education, health care, and justice.
All funds raised will go towards those who are attacked and arrested by the Moroccan authorities, whilst demanding basic human rights for a dignified life.
Bring your friends, share a meal, and learn how you can stand in solidarity and support their fight from afar.
Fundraiser
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Wednesday 22.10.
6-7pm
monthly basket weaving circle
> Learn how to make raffia baskets. Or bring your own and weave in company.
5 euros towards materials appreciated
5-9pm
Burnout in activism: sharing session
> In this collective reading and sharing sessions by un/learning group we will gather strategies for our movement work. This is a part of a four-part series but can be attended individually. This session will focus on disability justice, mutual aid and community care
Meetup
6-9pm
Kollektivbibliothek: catalog making workshop
Thursday 23.9.
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
2-6pm
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.
Free. Mutual aid. Tchivett speaks English, French and German
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education
> Please join us to read aloud through texts that are part of the Autonomous University of Political Education's (AUPE) Understanding Capitalism curriculum. This is part of an ongoing course and primarily consists of a read-aloud session, not discussion. Today, we'll be reading about Indigenous land enclosure. Texts here. Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop
Free. Peer education
Friday 24.10.
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 45mins. 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 25.10.
12-6pm
Bakesale for Palestine
> Have a brunch, contribute to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Our regular fundraiser for medical help in Gaza. A variety of sweet and savory treats are available, good company guranteed, musical surprises possible
Fundraiser
7-9pm
Philosophy cafe
> The Philosophy Café centers intuition, daily life, and collaboration in the patterns of our thoughts. More info: https://berlincafephilosophy.blogspot.com/
Meetup
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Wednesday 29.10.
5-6pm
Song sharing circle
> Join an open discussion for music lovers, listen to music and talk about what it means to you. Bring a song to share that’s been on repeat this week. Reflect and talk about the music that helps you through tough times. Get new music recommendations. Hosted by Jordan, a music therapist
Free. Mutual aid
6-9pm
Kollektivbibliothek: catalog making workshop
Thursday 30.10.
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.
Free. Mutual aid. Tchivett speaks English, French and German
6-8pm
Autonomous University of Political Education
> Please join us to read aloud through texts that are part of the Autonomous University of Political Education's (AUPE) Understanding Capitalism curriculum. This is part of an ongoing course and primarily consists of a read-aloud session, not discussion. Today, we'll be reading about ecological collapse. Texts here and here. Please come prepared with a medium from which you can read the texts, like a print out, phone, ipad, e-reader, or laptop
Free. Peer education
Friday 31.10.
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 45mins. 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 1.11.
12-3pm
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. Then we go into a discussion based on the text. Drop-ins welcome
Free. Peer education
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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)