CASINO for social medicine

CASINO for social medicine is an anticapitalist and collective café and bar located at Sonnenallee 100 in Berlin, Germany. It operates as a community space that combines food and drink with social medicine practices, including NADA community ear acupuncture and peer support groups. The space is open normally from Wednesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 00:00, and all events are free unless marked otherwise. It is run collectively and describes itself as anticapitalist, emphasizing mutual aid and accessibility. The café hosts a variety of events, such as weekly NADA Community Ear Acupuncture sessions, biweekly Arbeitslosen Coworking meetups for job seekers, and other community-oriented activities. It maintains an online presence through Telegram, Instagram, and Ko-fi for donations, and accepts event proposals via an open call form. The project appears to be a grassroots initiative rather than a traditional commercial brand, but it operates as a trademarked commercial offering in the sense of a named collective café and bar. Its activities are documented on its official website, casinoooo.org, and it has a Wikidata entry (Q136399015). The space is part of Berlin's alternative and activist scene, providing free or low-cost resources to local communities.

CASINO for social medicine is a collective café and bar based in Berlin, Germany. It operates at Sonnenallee 100 and describes itself as anticapitalist and collective. The project combines hospitality with social medicine, offering free events and services such as NADA community ear acupuncture, a protocol developed in the 1970s by activists from the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords in Brooklyn, New York, to support communities affected by heroin addiction. The café also hosts biweekly Arbeitslosen Coworking meetups for unemployed individuals to work on job applications and administrative tasks together. The space is open normally from Wednesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 00:00, and all events are free unless marked otherwise. It maintains an online presence through Telegram, Instagram, and Ko-fi, and accepts event proposals via an open call form. The project appears to be a grassroots initiative rather than a traditional commercial brand, but it operates as a named collective café and bar. Its activities are documented on its official website, casinoooo.org, and it has a Wikidata entry (Q136399015).

Anticapitalist, collective, and accessible community café and bar

• NADA Community Ear Acupuncture

  A protocol developed in the 1970s by activists from the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords in Brooklyn, New York, to support local communities affected by heroin addiction. Five small acupuncture needles are inserted into five specific points in each ear and remain in place for approximately 45 minutes.

• Arbeitslosen Coworking

  A biweekly meetup for unemployed individuals to research job ads, do Jobcenter administrative work, and support each other in a collective setting.

1. 1Casino for Social Medicine - September 2026casinoooo.org
2. 2CASINO for social medicinewikidata.org