Four Play

Every month: Four Play at KitKatClub is the kind of party Berlin was made for: inclusive, consent-first, and closer to a festival than a club night.
Date
November 06
Time
20:00 - 09:00
Location
KitKat Club, Berlin
District
Mitte
Category
Parties & Club Nights
Format
Sex-positive party / Fetish party / Live performance / monthly
Dresscode
Enforced Dresscode / Sexy / Latex / Leather / Costume / Themed
Entry
Selective door policy / Ticket only at the door / Open to all genders
### Atmosphere & music
- Feels more like a festival than a party
- Colourful, kinky, sex-positive but consent-first
### Safety & community
- Consent-aware environnment
- Clear consent guidelines in place
- Queer & LGBTQIA+ inclusive
- Kink-friendly
### Play & Rules
- Sexual play
- Sensual play
- No recording
- Only yes means yes
Four Play at KitKatClub Berlin started in spring 2016 as an answer to a specific problem. Someone looked at Berlin's kinky scene and found it too serious. Too rigid. Too exclusive for anyone who hadn't already memorized the unwritten rules. Four Play was the corrective: a party built to break through those walls and invite the curious, the inexperienced and the creatively dressed into a space that was safer, warmer and considerably more colorful than what came before.
## A corrective that became an institution
Ten years later, Four Play celebrated its anniversary at KitKatClub on June 5th. What started as a corrective has become one of Berlin's defining kink parties. Not the loudest. Not the most exclusive. But one of the few that has stayed true to what it set out to do, month after month, year after year.
Longevity in Berlin nightlife is rare. Longevity without losing the plot is rarer. Four Play has managed both.
## Closer to a festival than a party
To call it a party is to undersell it. With five or six dance floors spanning Techno, House, Disco, Psytrance, Jazz and Soul, plus performances, interactive stations, and a carefully curated awareness team from kollektiv b_aware moving through the space all night, Four Play operates closer to a festival. Each edition draws thousands. Each edition is built from scratch.
The scale changes how the night feels. You do not stay in one room. You wander. You lose your friends and find them again three floors up. You come out of a Psytrance basement and end up dancing to Soul at 4am. That kind of architecture is the whole point.
## Consent as design principle, not disclaimer
What has stayed constant over a decade is the ethos. Four Play has always been loud about consent. Not as a disclaimer, but as a design principle. Guests are expected to interact. They are also expected to ask first, every time.
The awareness team is not decoration. Kollektiv b_aware is present, visible and trained. If something goes wrong, someone is there. If you need to leave a situation, someone will help you leave it. That infrastructure is what turns a room full of strangers into a space where strangers can trust each other for one night.