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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Connect & Cheers đ„
Every Friday, wind down your week with us for relaxed drinks, easygoing conversation, and the chance to meet new people and catch up with fâŠ
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Language Exchange di Berna đ
Meet people from all over the world, practice languages, and make genuine connections. Every Tuesday. Whether you want to practice German,âŠ
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Speed Friending
New to Bern or want to expand your social circle? Join our Speed Friending for interesting conversations in a fun, welcoming atmosphere. MâŠ
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Berndeutsch Conversation Group đšđ
We meet in the evening to practise Swiss German together in a relaxed atmosphere. Native speakers sometimes join and are very welcome. AllâŠ
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Bern Connect & Games @Erupt đČđâïžđ§©đ
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Cowork, Coffee & Connect âđ»
**Ditch the home office. Grab a coffee. Get things done â together. âđ»** Join us for one of our favourite kinds of mornings: No agenda, nâŠ
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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. SaâŠ
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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 speakeâŠ
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Magic am Dienstag
A weekly Magic: The Gathering draft night at Brasserie Lorraine. Players draft the current set together (occasionally another set, or TinyâŠ
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Books & Dragons
Step into a world of adventure at this tabletop role-playing afternoon â think Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu and more, told collaboraâŠ
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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. We meet at Erupt Lounge, Parkterrasse 14, lookâŠ
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Sprach-Treff Deutsch at Bibliothek LĂ€nggasse
An hour of speaking German out loud with whoever turns up, aimed at levels A1-B1. No registration needed, and there is nothing you need toâŠ
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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 speeâŠ
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BrÀttspiu 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 rediscoverâŠ
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Eine Partie Schach gefÀllig? at Bibliothek LÀnggasse
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 setâŠ
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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 heâŠ
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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 watchingâŠ
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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 shapesâŠ
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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 afterwarâŠ
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Blind Date â Eine KulturentfĂŒhrung
An evening of Bern culture where the destination stays secret until you arrive. It opens the doors of one Bern cultural institution and takâŠ
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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 aboutâŠ
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Schwooferei
Ballroom dance evening: waltz, ChaChaCha, Discofox and other ballroom styles, plus laughing, chatting and casual dancing throughout the nigâŠ
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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 hallâŠ
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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 suiâŠ
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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 CafĂ© español gatherinâŠ
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Trilingual Silent Book Club
Bring whatever you are already reading, in German, French or English. The first stretch is silent. Everybody sits at the same table and reâŠ
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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 doesâŠ
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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 barâŠ
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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 aâŠ
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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, orâŠ
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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 byâŠ
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BĂ€rndĂŒĂŒtsch 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 theâŠ
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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 pâŠ
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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 aâŠ
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Sprach-Treff Englisch at Bibliothek LĂ€nggasse
An hour of speaking English out loud with whoever turns up. Every level is welcome, no registration needed, and there is nothing you need tâŠ
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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 iâŠ
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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 ofâŠ
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StorySLAM Bern
A live storytelling night in the Lorraine. Anyone can take part: put your name in the hat at the start of the evening, and if it is drawn yâŠ
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muévete SalsaBar
A salsa prĂĄctica run by muĂ©vete, in a relaxed, familiar atmosphere. It is a practice night rather than a club night: people pair up, rotateâŠ
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Frauenbeiz Bern
A dinner cooked for FLINTA people (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people), running since 1986. Everyone in that gâŠ
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Tuesday Jam
Public jam session at 5Ăšme Ă©tage in the Matte. The bar opens at 20:00 and there is risotto for 5 francs. At 21:00 a band plays an opening sâŠ
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Fitness und Spiel fĂŒr alle at Turnhalle Laubegg
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 daâŠ
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MILONGA@PROGR
Eric MĂŒller and Jeusa Vasconcelos have run this tango evening for about twenty years. It is a milonga, which means a social dance rather thâŠ
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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 developersâŠ
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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.âŠ
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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 yourâŠ
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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 paintinâŠ
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Sprachencafé «Sprache öffnet Ihnen das Tor zur Welt»
A drop-in conversation cafĂ© for anyone who wants to use their French, English, Spanish or Italian more often. No registration needed, and iâŠ
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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 siâŠ
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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 partnerâŠ
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Inline Night Bern
A free group inline-skating tour through Bern, run by the local skating association. Skaters gather and set off together on a route confirmâŠ
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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 hoâŠ
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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 suâŠ
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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 youâŠ
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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 exâŠ
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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 aloneâŠ
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Sprach-Treff Français at Bibliothek LÀnggasse
An hour of speaking French out loud with whoever turns up. Every level is welcome, no registration needed, and there is nothing you need toâŠ
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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,âŠ
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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 welcâŠ
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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. SomâŠ
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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; theâŠ
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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 21:00âŠ
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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 sâŠ
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Offene BĂŒhne, 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 â music, comedâŠ
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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 soulfâŠ
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Let's talk videogames
A bilingual (German/English) conversation meetup held every two weeks. Members talk through a different video-game theme each session overâŠ
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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 hâŠ
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«âŠeifach 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 barâŠ
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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 wâŠ
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Salsa-Tanz & Bar
A Caribbean-Cuban Sunday evening for salsa fans: hot atmosphere, cold drinks. DJ Qu'ErĂco brings the musical ingredients from the Latino kiâŠ
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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. MuâŠ
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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 oâŠ
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Contact Impro Jam at Studio Créarte
Every Wednesday evening people meet at Studio CrĂ©arte on MĂŒhlenplatz to dance and improvise together. Doors open at 20:00, the opening circâŠ
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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 statiâŠ
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Intervall Lauftraining
A 45 minute interval run at the BĂ€renPark: stairs, short sprints and progressive accelerations, for all levels. It is an early morning sessâŠ
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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 withâŠ
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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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Beer on Tuesday at Restaurant Beaulieu
This is the Bern edition of a series held in multiple Swiss cities. Email the organiser before attending â this lets the restaurant know thâŠ
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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 introducâŠ
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Sprach-Treff Italienisch at Bibliothek LĂ€nggasse
An Italian conversation table moderated by Silvana Favalli, for practising and listening to Italian in a relaxed atmosphere and meeting newâŠ
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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 ofâŠ
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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 seaâŠ
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LugBE-Treff â 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 contaâŠ
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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 infâŠ
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queer eat&meet mit Stammtisch fĂŒr 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 communâŠ
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Karl has the Blues
A blues dance evening that opens with a crash course for complete beginners, followed by a live concert and blues DJs for the rest of the nâŠ