Events in Bern
Leute kennenlernen in Bern: real events, updated live
A running list of real events in Bern: language exchanges, jam sessions, game nights and more. Every listing below is a real room you can walk into. Tap one to see the details and RSVP.
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Language Exchange di Berna 🌍
Meet people from all over the world, practice languages, and make genuine connections. Every Tuesday. Whether you want to practice German,…
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Laufgruppe SocialRunBern at Maru ar Aare
A deliberately low-barrier running group, focused on the joy of movement, the shared experience, and talking to each other rather than spee…
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Pub Quiz at Shamrock (Friday)
Teams form on the night, and turning up without one is normal because nobody wants a table of two against a table of eight. It runs in Engl…
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Connect & Cheers 🥂
Twice a month, wind down your week with us on a Friday evening. 🍷 Enjoy relaxed drinks, easygoing conversation, and the chance to meet new…
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Eine Partie Schach gefällig? at Bibliothek Länggasse
Chess for adults, run as a course rather than a casual games night: expect someone to show you things, not just a room with the boards set…
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PATT games night at Cafe Hueber
They carry about 170 board and card games into Cafe Hueber and lend them out for the evening. You do not need to know any of the games. Sa…
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Austauschrunde Videospiele / Let's talk videogames (DE/EN)
A bilingual (German/English) conversation meetup held every two weeks. Members talk through a different video-game theme each session over…
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Bern Connect & Games @Erupt 🎲🃏♟️🧩🀄
**Come for the games, stay for the people.** ALL GAMES WELCOME! (board, card, party, strategy, ...) **The concept is as easy as that:** b…
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Cowork, Coffee & Connect ☕💻
**Ditch the home office. Grab a coffee. Get things done — together. ☕💻** Join us for one of our favourite kinds of mornings: No agenda, n…
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Tierzeichnen
For everyone who likes to draw and wants to get better at it — a drawing and painting workshop for big and small, for newcomers and the pra…
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Blind Date – Eine Kulturentführung
An evening of Bern culture where the destination stays secret until you arrive. It opens the doors of one Bern cultural institution and tak…
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ChaosTreff at the Hackerspace
Chaostreff Bern is the local hackerspace club and this is their open Tuesday. Their own page says the room is open and visitors are welcom…
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Aktzeichnen at Atelier MaloBolo
An open life-drawing session with short poses from two to fifteen minutes and a live model. No registration needed, and there is plenty of…
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Tuesday Jam
Public jam session at 5ème étage in the Matte. The bar opens at 20:00 and there is risotto for 5 francs. At 21:00 a band plays an opening s…
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Bottige-Träff at Kirche Oberbottigen
A drop-in gathering at the church in Oberbottigen, on the western edge of Bern, for people of all ages. It does not run during school holid…
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Qigong mittwochs im Stiftsgarten
A midday Qigong hour in the Stiftsgarten, the garden below Bern's Münsterplattform. Participants imitate the movements and character of fiv…
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Offener Gartennachmittag
The Offener Garten Tiefenau association opens its community garden by the former Tiefenau hospital every Wednesday from 14:00 to 17:00. Som…
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Offener Stiftsgarten
The Stiftsgarten is a green garden tucked below the Münsterplattform in Bern's old town, and on select evenings it simply opens its gate. I…
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Fitness und Spiel für alle at Turnhalle Hochfeld
An evening gym session in a Bern school hall, for anyone aged 16 and over. The programme rotates through five city school gyms, and each da…
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Mittwuch Znacht at Breitsch-Träff
A community dinner for people from the quarter and anyone else. Sit down, eat together, meet people. The first Wednesday of the month is v…
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Open Mic at Mahogany Hall
A long-running open stage, popular with performers and with the crowd that turns up for it. Any style is welcome on the stage. Write to inf…
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Contact Impro Jam at Studio Créarte
Every Wednesday evening people meet at Studio Créarte on Mühlenplatz to dance and improvise together. Doors open at 20:00, the opening circ…
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Berner Wanderwege guided hikes: Grenzwanderung (1st run)
Guided day hikes led by named guides, all over the Bernese region and beyond. Each hike is graded and the walking time is published, so you…
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Gemeinsam statt einsam
An open meeting point in the Bibliothek Länggasse for games, knitting, chatting, reading, storytelling and crafts. Young or old, alone, wit…
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Game Night Bern
A low-barrier board and party game night in a pub. The games are easy to learn, so you do not need to know the rules beforehand. Come alone…
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Forró am Donschtig
A Brazilian forró evening, run under the motto Forró in Bern, for Bern, with Bern. Each evening follows the same shape: an open-level class…
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swing2do at Restaurant Veranda
A Lindy Hop social dance evening in the garden room of Restaurant Veranda: sometimes cosy, sometimes wild, sometimes poppy, sometimes soulf…
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Bal Folk Practica Bern
A bal folk practice session in the Stube im Progr. It's a good opportunity to deepen your bal folk skills, dance, and try something new. Mu…
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Karaoke Night at The Shamrock
Put your own name up when you get there and sing when you are called. There is no team to join and no partner to bring, so arriving on your…
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Bern - Bollywood Dance Workout
It is a workout built on Bollywood choreography, an hour early on Wednesday evenings, and her page says all levels and all genders are welc…
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Go spielen
Go, the Asian board game, has only seven rules and is correspondingly easy to learn. The group is open to anyone interested, and the sets a…
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Jass- und Spielnachmittage at Kirchgemeindehaus Nydegg
An afternoon of Jass and other card and board games. No rules knowledge is needed: experienced Jass players explain the rules as you go, an…
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Fusion Mischief Party
Fusion Mischief Party is a partner-dance party that opens with a workshop and then continues as an open social. Fusion is an open style of…
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Strategie-Spiele at Villa Stucki
Longer strategy games rather than quick party ones, running until the games end. The group is made up of people who already play, so it sui…
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Balberna at The Rhythm Rebels
A monthly Friday-night Balboa and Shag social in the studio of The Rhythm Rebels, Bern's independent swing dance school near the main stati…
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Märitkafi at Breitsch-Träff
A Saturday morning coffee at the neighbourhood centre, run by volunteers, with the stated aim of being a room for real encounters between e…
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Toastmasters of Berne
A public speaking club. Guests are not expected to speak, prepare anything or bring anything, so spending your first evening just watching…
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Kutüsch Sunday gathering at Breitsch-Träff
Kutüsch is an independent Kurdish-Turkish-Swiss cultural association that keeps Breitsch-Träff open every Sunday afternoon as a meeting poi…
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Sonntags-Stammtisch at Ristorante Cavallo Star
A chance to spend Sunday afternoon in company. There is no registration and no programme: people simply gather around the table and talk ov…
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Swing ONO mit Lindy Hop
A Lindy Hop social in the vaulted cellar of ONO in Bern's old town, with DJ Tom on the decks. Lindy Hop is a dynamic, down-to-earth partner…
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Lichtspiel-Sonntag
Weekly short-film programme from the Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern archive. Each week is a single analogue short reel, shown as a surprise p…
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Indie Game Devs DevTreff at Erupt
An evening for people who make games, where indie developers show each other what they are working on. Their own wording is that developers…
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Monday Blues at Mahogany Hall
A blues dance evening built around a live jam session, a meeting point between musicians and dancers. Bring an instrument, dancing feet, or…
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Stricken fuer alle at Breitsch-Traeff
An evening of free knitting around one table, equally for people who have knitted for decades and people who have never held needles. An ex…
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muévete SalsaBar
A salsa práctica run by muévete, in a relaxed, familiar atmosphere. It is a practice night rather than a club night: people pair up, rotate…
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Bärndüütsch at denk:mal
denk:mal is an autonomous school in Bern and this is their Bernese dialect hour. It is taught in Bernese, not in English, and that is the…
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Erzählcafé Herbst/Winter
A storytelling café built around a moderated exchange on a topic, where personal experiences are shared and the conversation continues afte…
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Sprach-Treff Englisch at Bibliothek Länggasse
An hour of speaking English out loud with whoever turns up. Every level is welcome, no registration needed, and there is nothing you need t…
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Beer on Tuesday at Restaurant Beaulieu
This is the Bern edition of a series held in multiple Swiss cities. Email the organiser before attending — this lets the restaurant know th…
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MILONGA@PROGR
Eric Müller and Jeusa Vasconcelos have run this tango evening for about twenty years. It is a milonga, which means a social dance rather th…
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Sprachencafé «Sprache öffnet Ihnen das Tor zur Welt»
A drop-in conversation café for anyone who wants to use their French, English, Spanish or Italian more often. No registration needed, and i…
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Sip & Smash at L'Ovestino
Free ping pong evening at L'Ovestino in Bern. Bring your own bat or borrow one there, and you can just as well come to sit and watch. No si…
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Meditationsabend im Shambhala Zentrum
Open meditation evening at the Shambhala Meditation Centre on Münstergasse 41. The practice is basic mindfulness meditation while sitting,…
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queer eat&meet mit Stammtisch für trans und intergeschlechtliche Menschen
A long-running dinner evening at the Villa Bernau in Köniz, which hab queer bern calls the traditional meeting point of Bern's queer commun…
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Bern-Fribourg Hash House Harriers
A run and walk built around the social side rather than the running. It welcomes slow runners, power walkers and other walkers, all shapes…
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Café littéraire
A book club where everyone reads the same chosen book and then talks it over together. Each evening has one title picked in advance, so you…
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Poetry Slam at Mahogany Hall
A spoken-word contest at Bern's oldest music club, run with a playful twist on the usual format. Self-written texts are performed against e…
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Café français
A drop-in French conversation evening at Musigbistrot in the Monbijou neighbourhood, run by the same organiser as the Café español gatherin…
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Board Game Meetup at Erupt
It runs every second Thursday from 18:00. The shelf is the point: staff will pull something short off it and teach it to the table in about…
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Spieleabend at ETG Bern
A games evening open to everyone, whatever your skill level: strategists and lucky ones, pros and beginners are equally welcome. The room c…
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Bilderclub at Zentrum Paul Klee
An open group of art-interested people that meets at the Zentrum Paul Klee to spend a whole session with a single artwork. The session is s…
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Tangolounge
Milonga at the Tanzlounge with a traditional Tanda and Cortina sequence. Experienced DJs play music mostly from the Epoca de Oro, the era o…
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BEswingt at Aula PROGR
The flagship night of Bern's Lindy Hop scene in the Aula of the PROGR cultural centre. A live band plays music from the swing era in a hall…
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Bern Monthly Bitcoin Meetup
There are no organised talks, just relaxed exchange and discussion rounds around the topic of Bitcoin. Anyone is welcome to come by, even w…
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Murder Night Bern: Corporate Conspiracy
An interactive murder-mystery social game at Mr Pickwick Pub, with a new fictional case each edition (Corporate Conspiracy, The Devil's Con…
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Salsa-Tanz & Bar
A Caribbean-Cuban Sunday evening for salsa fans: hot atmosphere, cold drinks. DJ Qu'Eríco brings the musical ingredients from the Latino ki…
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Pilzbestimmungsabend Zollikofen
An identification evening of the Verein für Pilzkunde Bern, in the club's own room in Zollikofen just north of the city. Bring in mushrooms…
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Pilzbestimmungsabend Bümpliz
An autumn evening in the parish hall where people bring in what they found in the woods and work out together what it is. Beginners and exp…
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Forró für aui
A Forró evening on Mondays at PROGR, independent from BE.Forró, which dances on Thursdays at the Aula des Schulhauses Breitfeld. Open to an…
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Sprach-Treff Italienisch at Bibliothek Länggasse
An Italian conversation table moderated by Silvana Favalli, for practising and listening to Italian in a relaxed atmosphere and meeting new…
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Introduction to Bowen Systems Theory
A relaxed introduction to Bowen Systems Theory, exploring how our patterns play out in relationships, families and groups, and how they can…
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Schwooferei
Ballroom dance evening: waltz, ChaChaCha, Discofox and other ballroom styles, plus laughing, chatting and casual dancing throughout the nig…
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Bachata Day Party Bern
A Sunday afternoon of bachata at Dance Passion down on the Aare, built as an open-level workshop first and a social dance straight afterwar…
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Sprechrunde Ernährung at the OGG
An open discussion round about food, eating, drinking, cooking and shopping. It exists for questions you would rather talk through with rea…
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RPG-Höck: You meet in a Tavern!
A meetup for Bern's roleplaying crowd. Purely social: people meet for a drink and talk about the hobby, nobody actually plays. Signing up i…
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Offene Bühne, Karaoke at the Rössli
An open stage and karaoke night, with fifteen minutes on stage for anyone who wants it and almost no limit on what you bring — music, comed…
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LugBE-Treff — Linux User Group Bern
The get-together of the Linux User Group Bern (LugBE), known informally as the Penguins of Bern. Expect discussion, tech talk, making conta…
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Irish Session
Live Irish folk music and an open jam session, where everyone who wants to play sits down together at one long table. Bring an instrument,…
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«hallo ruum»-Event
Want to give your visions room? Have ideas but don't yet know where to start, or lack the nerve for the first step? The ruum gives you the…
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Community Zmittag
A lunch meetup for the ruum community: good conversation and an exchange among like-minded people, and a good chance to meet other self-emp…
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Quartierznacht
Monthly neighbourhood get-together on the Galenica car park at Untermattweg 8 in Bern, on the first Friday of the month from 18:00 to 21:00…
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Strick-Café at Träffer Schosshalde
A drop-in knitting café, open to everyone with no registration needed. All skill levels are welcome, with expert help on hand from Dora Len…
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Frauenbeiz Bern
A dinner where women cook for women, running since 1986. All women are warmly welcome, whether alone or in a group. Sign up beforehand by…
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Berner Altstadt-Slam
Monthly open list poetry slam at ONO Das Kulturlokal on Kramgasse 6 in Bern. On the open list, familiar faces and brand new poets perform t…
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Zazen introduction evening with Zen-Gruppe Bern
An introduction evening for zazen in the Soto Zen tradition. No experience is needed, but you have to register by email first. It is on the…
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«…eifach Midwuch» at Villa Bernau
A monthly first-Wednesday evening at Villa Bernau in Köniz, run as a self-service bar. Card games get going in the late afternoon, the bar…
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Table Magique!
Open regulars' table at Hallers Brasserie in Bern. No sign-up and no prior knowledge needed, just come by. Arrive from 17:30 or whenever su…
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OM Chanting Bern
A group chanting circle in a parish hall in Bern's old town, using the transforming power of OM to activate participants' own capacity to h…
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Spiel-Café at Altes Pfarrhaus Muri
A games afternoon at a former parsonage in Muri bei Bern, now run as a café bar and community space with a garden. Expect Brändi Dog, Jasse…
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Musical Canvas at Le CAP
An evening where live piano improvisation and painting happen in the same room. To the sound of improvised piano, you make your own paintin…
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Stompin' at Mahogany
It is lindy hop, balboa and shag, so the bouncy end of swing dancing. Doors and the music start at the same time, so there is no warm-up ho…
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Offene Meditationsabende with Maria Regli
An open meditation evening drawing on mindfulness, Tibetan Buddhist and Zen techniques, with breathing and body exercises, and ending with…
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Spielnachmittag für Erwachsene at Kirchgemeindehaus Wabern
A games afternoon for adults. Jass, Rummikub and other board and card games are played, open to anyone who likes to play. A Zvieri and a st…
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Effinger Community-Treffen
A community meeting for the Effinger coworking space, open to people who are not members too. It covers what is going on, ideas, and what h…
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Club Quiz at Gaskessel Bern
A pub-style team trivia night. You grab a few friends, take a table, and work through four rounds of ten questions written down on a quiz s…
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Pen & Paper Intro Game Day
A relaxed afternoon for anyone curious about tabletop role-playing but who has never tried it. Several starter tables run in parallel, each…
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Stricktreff
A knitting evening in a Bern yarn shop, run under the motto of knitting together, talking shop and enjoying it. Bring your own project; the…
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Punsch, Muffins und Shag at the Cevi Bern Pavillon
A small, warm swing evening built around Collegiate Shag, the fast, playful partner dance. Each edition opens with a taster session led by…
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Swing Time Friday at The Rhythm Rebels
A relaxed Friday-night Lindy Hop social on the top floor of The Rhythm Rebels studio, a cosy evening for dancers of every level, with a bar…
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Books & Dragons
Step into a world of adventure at this tabletop role-playing afternoon — think Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu and more, told collabora…
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Funktionelles Intervalltraining Outdoor
Functional interval training outdoors in the park: TRX, battle rope, animal moves, stair runs and bodyweight work. All levels are welcome.…
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Café español
A drop-in Spanish conversation evening at Musigbistrot in the Monbijou neighbourhood, hosted by Katja. Native and non-native Spanish speake…
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Intervall Lauftraining
A 45 minute interval run at the BärenPark: stairs, short sprints and progressive accelerations, for all levels. It is an early morning sess…
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TND = Tuesday Night Drinks at Turnhalle
Look for the small red TND sign on one of the tables and sit down. People arrive and leave throughout the evening, so turning up late or he…
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Deutsche Konversationsgruppe at Grosse Schanze
An hour or two of speaking German out loud rather than a lesson, and all levels are welcome. Look for the red meetup sign on a table in fro…
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Shut Up & Write at Generationenhaus
The shape of it is the whole idea. Everyone says hello, then writes in silence for an hour, then stops and talks about how it went. It does…
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Functional Group Training
Indoor functional training in the Turnhalle: kettlebells, rings and rope climbing. All levels are welcome. There is a free trial session.
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Language Exchange Bern!
Practise languages with other people who want to as well. Say which two languages you prefer to speak, join that table, then switch between…
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Balance of Powers Bern
A live social strategy/negotiation game at Mr Pickwick Pub, subtitled by the organisers 'Mingle, Negotiate & Make Friends'. Each participan…
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Berndeutsch Conversation Group 🇨🇭
We meet in the evening to practice Swiss German dialect together in a relaxed atmosphere. We love practicing Swiss German. Sometimes native…
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Spieleabend mit Schachturnier at Sous le Pont
A games evening built around a chess tournament, concentrated but relaxed. Everyone is welcome at the board, from occasional players to sea…
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Brättspiuabe "bim Nachbar"
A board and card game evening. No own games need to be brought: games are provided and explained, covering both new releases and rediscover…
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Spielabend und Spielnacht at Bibliothek Ostermundigen
A board-game evening at Bibliothek Ostermundigen, held together with the Ludothek. A game expert brings new and familiar games and introduc…
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Tierzeichnen abends at Naturhistorisches Museum Bern
An evening drawing and painting workshop at the Naturhistorisches Museum Bern's Atelier im Naturlabor, open to anyone from complete beginne…
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Gfrörli Club at the Altenbergsteg
A winter swimming group that meets in the Aare by the Altenbergsteg. Swimmers gather at the little park beside the bridge, go in together a…