Experience the pure Cuban joie de vivre and let the magnificent voices of Cuba take effect on you. Together with the extraordinary "Buena Vista Band" and the impressive dance formation "El Grupo de Bailar" as well as over 150 tailor-made costumes, "Pasión de Buena Vista" presents you with a unique stage show that will whisk you away to the streets of the Caribbean dream island.

End the year 2025 with a musical highlight! On Wednesday, December 31, the concert hall in St. Georg, Bad Freienwalde, invites you to the traditional festive New Year's Eve concert at 3:00 p.m.

The Märkisch-Oderland district administration is taking another step into the digital future and is now providing new, user-friendly application assistants on its service portal. These digital services allow citizens to apply for various administrative services online quickly, easily and conveniently from home.

Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the operetta king Johann Strauss, television star and audience favorite Boris Aljinovic has taken on his operetta "Die Fledermaus" and reveals in his entertaining version what really happened in the box office hit and what it is actually about. The Frankfurt Theaterhaus Kleist Forum's own production will celebrate its premiere on Saturday, December 13 in the main auditorium.

The Handwerker-Männerchor Bad Freienwalde e.V. is once again organizing its traditional festive Christmas concert this year. The performance promises to get the audience in the mood for the upcoming festive season with an atmospheric mix of traditional and new songs. The concert will take place on Saturday, December 21, in the Bad Freienwalde concert hall.

The Berlin Palace Concerts will make a guest appearance at Bad Freienwalde Palace on Saturday, December 14, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. In addition to works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Schumann, Peter Tchaikovsky and others, the program includes Ludwig van Beethoven's monumental 9th Symphony, performed in a piano arrangement for four hands.

Experience the historic ambience, festive music and beautiful Christmas atmosphere! The Advent Magic in Bad Freienwalde Castle Park opens its doors from Friday, December 12 to Sunday, December 14, 2025.

This coming weekend, 12/13 December, Friederike Maria Nölting will be performing in the Advent revue "Mit ken König möcht ich tauschn" at the Theater am Rand with songs by the Erzgebirge folk poet and singer Anton Günther, christened the "Bob Dylan of the Erzgebirge" by the three exiled Erzgebirge musicians of the program as a forerunner of modern singer-songwriters.

The Oder-Spree district has successfully completed the Europe-wide tendering process for the operation of local public transport. The previous partners, Busverkehr Oder-Spree GmbH (BOS) and MWM-Solutions GmbH (MWM), won the competition and will continue to be responsible for regional scheduled and on-demand services until the end of 2028.

IHK economic survey: Uncertainties about the future overshadow the entire tourism industry in the state of Brandenburg, which cannot draw a positive conclusion for the summer season this year. "Compared to last year, the assessment of the current business situation has deteriorated significantly," explains Ina Hänsel, President of the Potsdam Chamber of Industry and Commerce, on behalf of the Brandenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce.