Our picks of events, camps, and places in Berlin.
Performance
A poetic play in spoken German and sign language, with audio description built in, about two office mates who find there is more than one way to understand each other.
Dorothy, a scarecrow, a tin man and a frightened lion head for the Wizard in a modern take on the musical classic, and nothing turns out as it seems.
Five mountain animals are sure their new neighbor is gruesome and grumpy, then an invitation to his housewarming party arrives that one of them can't resist.
Four cast-off animals hit the road to become musicians in Bremen in this Grimm puppet show, told as a road movie full of blues.
Berliner Puppentheater brings a grumpy troll to a Märkisches Viertel library for an afternoon puppet show. So what has him so cross?
Workshop
Make a portrait of you and your gang at the craft table, then wander an exhibition of women artists.
Festival
Make a paper lantern at the library, then head out to the courtyard where storytellers bring a phoenix tale to life with real flames.
Outdoors
Kids carry their lanterns through the Mühlenkiez streets to music, and the walk finishes back at the library with something warm to drink.
Make lanterns, bake bread on a stick at the campfire, and follow St. Martin on horseback through the park after dark.
The cathedral's children's choir acts out the legend of St. Martin, then families carry their lanterns across the Lustgarten.
Andersen's Little Match Girl becomes an old Berliner on New Year's Eve, in a puppet show built around a richly detailed city set.
Eighteen young circus artists swing, spin and balance through acts about freedom and belonging, with more shows promised in December.
A bear and a doll come to life in an attic to the piano music of Shostakovich, and at the end the kids show they can dance to it.
A wordless show where cardboard boxes become tigers, dragons and cardboard people, made for the youngest theatergoers and needing no German. See what else a box can turn into.
Prokofiev's classic tale played live by six musicians and told by a narrator, starting with a samba-flavored warm-up that introduces every instrument.
Crafting, building, robots and music at FEZ in Wuhlheide, with big ideas like kids' rights and a fairer future folded into the games, plus a stamp rally to chase.
Sing St. Martin songs with a brass ensemble, carry your lantern across the estate, and finish with food and drinks in the farmyard.
A Czech illustrator reads from her picture book, then kids map their walk to the library on a giant paper roll, one sense at a time.
Germany's first family pop band invites kids and grown-ups to sing, dance and join in, with songs about friendship and courage. One house rule to know before you go.
Museum
Thatched houses, medieval crafts, and rare-breed sheep and pigs.
