GOOD TO KNOW:

The presale tickets are SOLD OUT. But don't worry. There are still enough tickets at the door. Just be there early. 

We start ON TIME.

If you want your own midsummer flower crown, come before 7:30pm and bring some flowers for the headpiece! There will be an open flower crown creation workshop for you.

🧚🏿‍♂ CONSCIOUS MIDSUMMER CELEBRATION 🧚🏾‍♀️

With rose golden tinted tunes by San Miguel Berlin
Mystic ambient dance wave by Schieferstein
Sexy Solstice Kirtan by Secret River
Magic midsummer ceremony by Sun Moon Alchemy
Sacred sauna to sweat and purify and
Solstice drinks, raw cacao and healthy snacks by UHU - Urban Healing Unit

Location: Urban Healing Unit 🦉

Friday, june 21st is the day of the summer solstice. On this day, the sun reaches its zenit on the tropic of cancer (nördlicher Wendekreis). The old germanic and northern tribes celebrated Solstice as a mystic day. People used to roll burning wheels down hills into the water to celebrate the sun at its peak and getting weaker from this day on until winter solstice. The Saxons used to lit huge bonfires. 

Among the celtic people solstice is known as Litha, the time of battle between light and dark. Today's pagan people use this day to reflect on their own lightness and shadow and the lightness and shadow in the world. 

In scandinavia the solstice fest is called midsummer. According to a law from 1953 midsummer is celebrated on the saturday between the 20th and the 26th of june. The friday eve before that is called midsommarafton and it was believed that nature was magic in this night, with pixies dancing on the meadows and trolls standing behind the trees. Especially the dew collected in this night was believed to have magical healing powers. 
Also Shakespeare's play "a midsummer night's dream" plays in an enchanted forest full of magical creatures... 

And this is what we are going to do too!

Fairies and pixies, monkeys and magicians, you beautiful tribe - it's time to gather around the fire and celebrate the longest night of the year! ✨🧚🏾‍♀️🐒🌻🧝🏻‍♀️🌱🧙🏿‍♂️🔥🧙🏽‍♀️🌱🧝‍♂️🌻🐒🧚‍♂️✨


🌻 MONKEY PLAN 🌻

If the weather is nice, we will be outside for the first half of the event and go inside later for the Kirtan and the DJ sets.

Open Air:

19:00 Arrive (Opening of Sauna and Bar inside)
19:30 Creating Midsummer Gods & Goddesses Headpieces 
with Katrin Fürst
20:30 Midsummer Ritual: Anja Mury Sun Moon Alchemy

Inside: 
21:20 Opening: Karolina Darshan
21:30 Solstice Kirtan: Secret River
22:00 Salon: San Miguel Berlin
Nest: Schieferstein
01:00 Closing


🌻 MONKEY TICKETS 🌻


In order to keep the space safe we decided to limit the number of tickets. If you want to make sure you will get in no matter when you arrive, buy your ticket online. We also offer special rates for the online tickets. 

There will be also a number of tickets at the door but once it's getting too full we have to stop letting people in. Last time the space was already at its maximum capacity and we expect it too get rather full again.

The cheapest and safest way is to reserve your ticket online through the billetto link above.


🌻 WANNA DANCE, BUT GOT NO MON(K)EY? 🌻


Get in touch, at least 5-7 days before the event. Maybe you can help out with something in exchange for your ticket!


🌻 MONKEY RULES 🌻


In order to sustain a safe space for monkeying around we ask you to respect the following guidelines:

1. Please treat yourself and others with respect and care
2. Please keep noble silence on the dance floor and the sauna (chanting, sounding, monkey sounds are welcome!)
3. If you must say something during the dance say it with your body or give your friend a sign to move into the chill out room
4. Don't stand around on the dancefloor. The dancefloor is for dancing!
5. Please smoke your monkey cigarettes outside!
6. Please respect the neighbor's need for silence. After 10pm be quiet in the yard, also when you leave, walking down Moosdorfstraße, please do so quietly. Thank you for your respect and care!

7. No mobiles and cameras please!

🌻 MONKEY TRANSPORT 🌻


Look for 'Moos Space' on Google Maps!


By Public Transport


Take the S-Bahn to S Treptower Park. 
From there you can either take the exit towards the park and then walk through Treptower Park, crossing Puschkinallee. Walk parallel to the big street (B96a), cross it and enter Moosdorfstraße on the right, walk until the end, turn left and enter the yard. The entrance is at the end of the building on the right side. Enter and walk the stairs up to the 2nd floor.

Or you take the exit towards the street at Treptower park, turn left, walk along the B96a, after the cinema turn left again, cross the street and take the first right (Moosdorfstraße). Proceed as indicated above.



By Car


You can try to park on the parking strip on B96a next to Treptower park.




🌻 MONKEY PEOPLE 🌻

Monkey Host:

KAROLINA DARSHAN
✩ https://www.facebook.com/Karolina.Darshan.Deep ✩


Karolina is a Berlin-based conscious club space holder (Ecstatic Dance Open Air, The Blue Monkey) and kundalini yoga teacher (The Yog, UHU - Urban Healing Unit). A music lover, club kid and seeker for consciousness expansion since her early youth, she found her path in kundalini yoga, ayurveda, conscious dance and music, all powerful practices for transformation and healing. With her Indian electro art band Secret River she sings Indian raags, Sufi songs and kirtan.
As a Blue Monkey maya sign her gift is the energy of lightness, play and magic. This energy she wants to give back to the world with all her heart.

Monkey DJs:

SAN MIGUEL
✩ https://soundcloud.com/san.miguel.berlin ✩

San Miguel’s musical signature is defined by his various interests and influences of his travels through time and space which manifests itself into a soundscape of hypnotic spheres and deep driven basses. Often combined with folkloric elements and a range of organic instruments, his sound weaves unique tales that carries the audience gently and straight into an ecstatic dance experience. He is a master for clashing the styles and shows a deep instinct for timing and suspense as he draws a bow throughout his mixes that will move any dance-floor that thrives on powerful global beats and psychedelic rhythms. That special composition led him release his own productions on labels such as Lump Records, Underyourskin Records, Pipe & Pochet, LNDKHN, Cosmic Awakenings, Serafin Audio Imprint and Souq Records.

SCHIEFERSTEIN
✩ https://soundcloud.com/user-202550229 ✩

Looking back at a long career as an East-Berliner artist, the DJ and producer Schieferstein has turned his focus solely to music a couple of years ago, combining his fine sense for aesthetics and creative skills with his curiosity and talent for creating and mixing heart- and body moving soundscapes and ecstatic dance DJ sets from ambient and downbeat until psy trance peaking points. Strongly inspired by Indian and Oriental music, they are often featuring mysterious instruments of which quite a few Schieferstein learned to play himself, not only during his 10 years spent in a Vaishanava temple. Thus, live instruments and voices always play an important part in his creations. 


Monkey Priestress of Ceremony
✩ ANJA MURY ✩

Anja Mury is a passionate world traveller, sacred space provider, light worker and devoted to her path of unravelling the truth.
On one of her journeys she became acquainted with the plant Medicine of Raw Cacao. The heart-opening wisdom of Cacao connected her back to nature. Dancing the 5 Elements Anja understood that all these elements are not just to be found in our surroundings, but also in each one of us.
She believes that dance has the capability to heal our bodies from old traumas that we hold tightly within us. Anja uses dance as a tool to enter our inner landscapes.
She loves to create sacred space for everyone to feel nurtured and secure while being on a transformational journey. Anja is the creatrix of SoulDance, a series of dance workshops for people who are wanting to give their life more meaning.
Anja is a certified 5 Elements Dance teacher. She is a shamanic apprentice and practices energy healing methods Light-Grids, Reiki & Theta-Healing. She holds regular workshops and sacred cacao ceremonies in Berlin, London, at holistic European festivals and seasonally in Koh Phangan in Thailand.


Monkey Kirtan:

SECRET RIVER
✩ https://www.facebook.com/SecretRiverSarasvati ✩

Bertolt Schieferstein and Karolina Darshan met in India at music school. Realizing that they share a deep passion for classical Indian, oriental and Sufi sounds as well as electronic tunes they started making music together, featuring voice, Sitar, Duduk, Sarangi and more...

🌻 MONKEY FAQ 🌻


Can I bring my kid?

Please don’t. We love kids - but this is not a family event. It‘s for people who want to relax and decompress without having to take care of kids, theirs or others.

Mothers and fathers are welcome of course - but without offspring. Please organize someone to take care of your kid and take the event just for yourself... 

If your offspring is 18+ they can of course come!

For families we recommend EcstaticDance Sunday, Tribal Gathering Berlin 2019 or Body Love Festival 18 – 23 July 2019


What should I wear?

Whatever you feel comfortable and sexy in! If you like to dance like a crazy monkey maiden, make sure that you can move in your outfit! 

And if you wish, masquerade as a fairy, pixie, magician or magic monkey to celebrate this midsummer night's dream!

If you want to use the sauna we recommend to bring a sarong or light bathrobe in which you can dance and chill without having to get fully dressed again every time in between your sauna visits. A light dress or some shorts that you can quickly put on and off are also a good choice!


How to use the sauna?

Bring a towel to sit on and to dry yourself after the shower. You can also rent one at Uhu for 2€.

There is a small changing room where you can change. You can leave your things in the wardrobe. There are even some lockers which you can use. First come first serve.

The sauna will probably be quite full so please take care of yourself and your friends and make space for others after your visit so everybody can enjoy the spa.


Will there be anything to eat and drink?

Urban Healing Unit provides yummy raw cacao, organic lemonades, juices and the delicious vegetarian Uhu soup made with love. It's a classic - You have to try it! There will probably also be a magic midsummer night's potion - containing some high quality alcohol. If you chose to try it please drink responsibly. 

Please don't bring own drinks! Hot and cool drinks are provided by Urban Healing Unit.


What is The Blue Monkey all about?


As the 11th kin (energetic quality) of the maya calendar, Chuen or Ba'atz, the Blue Monkey stands for the lightness and playfulness of the child that is not yet conditioned by society. Open and innocent, it just follows its impulses.

It is this energy that served as inspiration for The Blue Monkey. A Monkey day is a good day for dance, music, play and monkeying around. For a “Conscious Carnival”, a space in which we can drop our societal masks and flow together. We feel that this energy of lightness and playfulness is needed very much in our world today. At the same time we want to keep it conscious and safe and and thus offer an alternative to Berlin's regular club life that nourishes our need for ecstasy without the unbalanced overindulging.