Kreuzberg is a mag­net and melt­ing pot of sheer cre­ativ­ity. The people who live and work in our favor­ite dis­trict of Ber­lin all seem to be at least a little bit crazy about their lives here. Whether hanging out at Görl­itzer Park or rav­ing the night away at your favor­ite club, it’s the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers and styles of liv­ing that make it excit­ing to be in Kreuzberg.

Cre­at­ive Match Kreuzberg is a series of event that wants to show­case this cre­at­ive energy and invites artists, vis­it­ors and musi­cians to par­ti­cip­ate. Twelve nights in twelve dif­fer­ent loc­a­tions. Some of the dates have already passed, but we want to intro­duce you to some of the high­lights of the upcom­ing weeks that we will most likely attend. Our friends from iGNANT have covered many nights before and we’re happy to join them around for the next batch of events.

Pho­to­graphy, art install­a­tions, con­certs, per­form­ances, design: whatever you heart is beat­ing for, you’ll find it around here. But cre­ativ­ity in the Kreuzberg sense goes bey­ond the usual dis­play of works — here, it might be just as import­ant to see the whole pro­cess of cre­ation. Check out the iGNANT cov­er­age of the “behind the scenes” works of the par­ti­cip­at­ing artists to see what goes on along­side the events. One of my favor­ite videos is the fea­ture of Manuel Oster­holt (a.k.a. SUPERBLAST) who presents his pho­to­graphy from all around the world.

iGNAN​.TV x Cre­at­ive Match Kreuzberg 2012 feat. SUPERBLAST from SUPERIEST on Vimeo.

CMK might also be a good excuse to check out vari­ous loc­a­tions around the Kiez. I’m sure there’s an inter­est­ing spot here an there you haven’t been to yet, we’re giv­ing you the oppor­tun­ity to see them in the best pos­sible light. These are the events we’re def­in­itely going to check out:

25/10: Loftus Hall Swing — 22 h — The Loftus Hall is pre­par­ing for an even­ing full of Swing spirit! Pol­ish Cof­fee from Bud­apest are going to play their Gipsy-Style dance music so you’ll be able to hear some­thing dif­fer­ent from Techno for a change.

31/10: The Wye Fash­ion Mon­ster — 21 h — Fash­ion install­a­tions, a Hal­loween mask ball and a party at the former post office in Kreuzberg. Sounds like this is some­thing we def­in­itely can’t miss out on.

10/11: Suol/KeineMusik Art­club­night at Water­gate — 24 h — The last event of the series will be presen­ted by the two most pop­u­lar techno labels of Berlin-Mitte, Suol and KeineMusik, embed­ded into the scenery of stun­ning Watergate-Club and with no less than a dozen dif­fer­ent forms of art that will be cre­ated dur­ing the night.

Check out the pro­gram for all of the events and head over to the offi­cial web­site for a full overview.