Annual Friendsgiving 2026

How to find the space. Please walk through the construction on Uferstr. Look out for ur posters directing you all the way to the back. See the piano saloon sign and go into that yard. Then go on to the right all the way. Don't go through left door, that's chamberlain music. Keep going straight down Then turn right.

BERLIN, GERMANY — The annual Heauxdown is back! The dynamic duo Angel Maxine and The Incredible, Edible, Akynos are cooking up something good with the 2026 edition of Heauxgiving, the Black Sex Worker Collective's (BSWC) annual Friendsgiving celebration and community fundraiser. This year, we're bringing the festivities to a new location: Alte Kantine Gesundbrunnen in Berlin-Wedding!

Doors open at 5 PM with appetizers, soup, salad, and music to get everyone warmed up for an evening of delicious food, live entertainment, dancing, and community celebration.

This year's special musical guest is ASTAN KA, bringing her unique sound to the Heauxgiving stage!

Astan Meyer aka Astan KA @tisskeen the French-Malian multi-disciplinary artist blending rap, jazz, trip-hop and edgy Malian blues with an experimental vocal range. Her stage presence doesn't just captivate — it convinces you that change is possible, and that it starts with all of us. Astan is an artistic performer taking part in musical theater pieces as well as various film projects. She is part of different Berlin based collectives such as Sonic Interventions, Cassette Heads or African Acid Is the Future.

Come hungry, because we're not playing around in the kitchen!

The Incredible, Edible, Akynos and Angel Maxine, the culinary duo behind The Jamerican, will be catering this year's festivities with a masterful holiday menu featuring beloved classics like creamy mac and cheese, holiday turkey, candied yams, fried chicken, and some exciting new additions to the mile-long spread.

The Jamerican brings its signature Jamaican-American culinary flair to this annual feast, combining traditional holiday favorites with the flavors, creativity, and hospitality that have made its food a community favorite.

And if you're worried about eating too much, don't worry! DJ VANTA LYNX will be spinning tunes to help you dance off that holiday weight until 11 PM. Come ready to eat, drink, dance, and celebrate!

Let's get one thing straight: Heauxgiving isn't about celebrating the sanitized Thanksgiving story we were taught in American public schools. We're not here to romanticize colonialism or erase the histories of Indigenous peoples.

This is Black Thanksgiving.

For us, Thanksgiving has always been about something much more meaningful: gathering with chosen family, friends, loved ones, and community. It's about catching up with

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Chefs Akynos (The Jamerican) w/ regular cooking partner Angel Maxine

Menu (subject to change):

Traditional Turkey

fried chicken

potato salad

Candied Yams

Mac and cheese

cornbread

fried fish*

stuffing

rice and peas

Jollof rice

white rice

soup

salad

Holiday cake

Curry goat*

oxtail*

and lord only knows what else might appear

HOUSE RULES

1. Be friendly, this is a holiday get together
2. No transphobia, homophobia, whorephobia, racism or any other kind of foolishness will be tolerated
3. While serving your plates pls wear a mask. No one wants you talking over their food
4. Empty your trash. There will be a bag for compost, regular trash and recycling
5. Keep the noise level to a minimum. We know how the neighbors can be
6. Your children are invited but please change their pampers away from the food areas
7. Be prepared to buy all drinks at the bar

For the safety of the community please take a covid test before entering. We will have self test available.

Info: SOUP AND SALAD and appetizers

Info: Akynos and The BSWC will say some words to open the evening

Info: Enjoy the traditional thanksgiving meal Turkey, curry dishes, cornbread, rices, potato salad, greens, mac and cheese, yams etc

Event venue

Alte Kantine Gesundbrunnen, Uferstraße 8-11, Berlin, Germany

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