Berlin Science Week, Comedy, and Carpet Art - Your Weird & Wonderful Weekend in Berlin

Guten Morgen, globe-trotters and wild wanderers—welcome to Things to Do in Berlin on this fresh Friday, November 7th, 2025! It’s your pal Ollie Bennet, your eternal passport to the world’s weird and wonderful events, coming to you from Berlin, where the city’s buzzing with a heady mix of crisp autumn air, creativity, and caffeine. I’m talking blue skies streaked with lazy clouds, just chilly enough for your favorite scarf and a good excuse to eat ten kinds of Kartoffelsalat.

The city’s pulse today is rapid fire, fueled by Berlin Science Week—a mammoth, curious-cauldron of a festival running till November 10th. Nearly every nook is popping with free talks, interactive experiments, and hands-on activities for wannabe innovators, accidental alchemists, or anyone just after a brainy beer. Trust me, you might just stumble across a Nobel laureate giving a spontaneous street lecture about black holes, or at least someone earnestly trying to make sourdough with quantum physics, as Berlin Science Week’s organizers promise hundreds of events from their two main festival hubs, CAMPUS and FORUM.

If you like your evenings with belly laughs, check out the Interactive English Comedy Show at Z-Bar in Mitte at 8:30 PM—tickets start at €13, and rumor has it the comedians bring as many punchlines as the U-Bahn delays. For the audiophiles and groovers, tonight at MaHalla, catch local legend Philipp Johann Thimm at 8:30 PM, or if you prefer something truly epic, Metropol Berlin is lighting up with the D.A.M Trilogy’s Back to Berlin Tour at 8 PM.

Craving culture? Start early with the Nova Music Festival Exhibition at the former Tempelhof Airport from 11 AM—Berlin.de reports this is a musical deep-dive meets living history, perfect for artsy types and music buffs alike. At 5:30 PM, let Jiyoung Yoon’s guided art tour take you to the moon and back—she swears it’s possible—at Berliner Künstlerprogramm.

For something uniquely Berlin, the historic Stasi headquarters is hosting “I have become a stranger to myself,” a boundary-breaking exhibition running today and tomorrow, serving up surreal art that’ll have you questioning your reflection. And this is Berlin, so when you’re hungry for something with a Persian twist, the Iranian Embassy is unveiling Iran’s rich carpet art with their “Iranian Carpet Art Day”—think color, texture, and heritage you can roll out under your feet or hang in your mind palace.

Now onto Berlin’s heartbeat: recent local news teasers have the city teased up for DesignUp Europe, a major design-tech conference landing next April to coincide with Berlin’s 20th anniversary as UNESCO City of Design—something that’s guaranteed to make your next club-hopping outfit ten times more stylish. Transit riders rejoice: the S-Bahn is reporting minimal delays this week, so the odds of making it to all five events tonight just got better.

Top recommendations: take a brisk walk down Unter den Linden, sneak into the DDR Museum for interactive socialist-era fun, or—Berlin’s hidden gem—sip a mulled wine at Holzmarkt’s riverside stalls and catch a sunset you’ll want to smuggle home.

Local tip: Always look both ways before crossing a bike lane—Berlin cyclists ride like they’re in the finals of the Tour de France, and your döner kebab will not protect you.

Tomorrow, don’t miss the world-famous Berlin Tattoo Festival at Max-Schmeling-Halle, with three days of bold brass, military pageantry, and more kilts and tubas than the average ear can handle.

That’s it from Berlin, where the fun never sleeps and neither do the pigeons. Tune in tomorrow for more quirk, culture, and Ollie’s offbeat adventures.

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