Thievery Corporation describe their music as “outernational,” which is a way of saying it wanders freely. Downtempo electronics shaped by dub, bossa nova, Latin rhythm, hip hop, Indian classical and a few Middle Eastern threads - if you’re paying attention. You hear touches of acid jazz, funk and a bit of psychedelic drift.

The One Month Concept Store arrives this Saturday and then disappears again exactly thirty days later. It’s a neat little universe where fashion, objects, art and specialty coffee all manage to coexist peacefully.

EDARA and Julia Skergeth set the tone together, presenting pieces from their collections, alongside a hat capsule with Mühlbauer and a curated selection of design objects and specialty coffee. Before the public steps inside, we heard a rumour they are hosting a private preview on Friday night for a group of curated creatives and HEIMAT is helping out. So if you’re curious, just ask - we’ll see what we can do.

Expect cocktails, great wine, a DJ set and a curation shaped by the women behind the space, whose exquisite taste tends to attract equally exquisite company. And because the room has more to give than one evening allows, we’ll be curating creative workshops with them every Thursday throughout the month. Keep an eye on upcoming Dispatches for details.

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Social media feeds, AI recommendations, and streaming platforms are changing the way we experience art, fashion, music, and literature. What feels accessible now may also feel fleeting.

This salon invites you to pause and consider what cultural experiences still move us in a world shaped by algorithms and endless content. Is digital accessibility democratizing culture or diluting its meaning. Join the conversation and share the moments online or offline-

When: 22nd of November from 20pm - Midnight

Explore the connection between sound and colour in this immersive, music-inspired painting session. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky, the artist who believed that colour, shape, and rhythm could express emotion like music. This member gathering invites you to paint intuitively in response to festive soundscapes.

When: 23rd of November from 14pm - 17pm

Where: 1010 Vienna, Exact location shared once RSVP’d.

A Friendsgiving you can feel good about - it takes the best of Thanksgiving tradition from the US and leaves behind the usual family debates over recipes, life choices and who should carve the turkey. Popchop, The Hoxton and Eat Wasted host a zero-waste feast where bread turns into pasta, vegetables turn into dessert and natural wine smooths out everything else. Stuffed mini pumpkin, mac and cheese, Scheiterhaufen.

Tickets are 40€, 25% of the proceeds will go to Viennas Gruft. Tickets are almost sold out, so better grab your’s now before it’s too late. 

Taubenkobel has migrated to Vienna for the season and taken over Atelier Augarten, turning it into a dining room for people who like their food with a little theatre. The concept is simple: freedom. The execution is not.

Expect a menu that shifts between art and appetite, served in a space where the architecture does as much talking as the dishes. There are two routes through the evening. The Zwitscherflug menu sits at 120 euros per person. Hochflug takes you higher at 220. Both are worth committing to, especially if you enjoy watching a kitchen stretch its wings a little.

Where: Atelier Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Wien
When: 14 November to 21 December 2025, evenings Mon to Wed

Back by popular demand, we’re keeping the at-home screening night on the roster. And if you’re in the mood for something light, cheerful, and restorative… watch literally anything else. We Need to Talk About Kevin is dread in high definition. Tilda Swinton plays a mother trying to make sense of a son who feels less like a child and more like a slow-moving disaster. Lynne Ramsay pares the story down to its essentials: guilt, denial, and the kind of silence that isn’t peaceful at all. It’s sharp, unsettling, and cinematic - all red, all warning signs, none of them heeded.

Catarratto, Zibibbo and Grillo, all doing what they do best. A little cloudy, a touch of tannin, fruit that feels more suggestive than sweet. The kind of bottle that reminds you why Sicily takes its time with things. It’s bright, a bit wild, and far too easy to finish. In other words: sexy in the way good orange wine should be.

Zielinski & Rozen feels less like a perfumery and more like a quiet workshop disguised as a shop. Shelves of amber bottles, labels that look handwritten, scents that bring up memories you can’t quite place. Wood. Smoke. Pepper. Fig. Oud.

You smell one thing and somehow lose track of twenty minutes. The staff defintely don’t mind - which helps. The Vienna store is small, warm and unbothered by the busy tourists outside. You will leave with a scent that feels strangely inevitable, as if it had been waiting for you rather than the other way around. 

Where: Walfischgasse 6/1/14, 1010, Vienna

Café Florida sits hidden in plain sight on Neustiftgasse 81. The graffiti-scrawled façade gives nothing away, and inside you find a small, low-lit room of vintage furniture and concrete walls - the kind of place you only learn about because a friend with impeccable taste insists on taking you. 

The drinks follow the same logic - Mezcalitas, Größenwahn, house-made infusions, natural wines. Florida hits a sweet spot Vienna rarely manages: relevant, relaxed and uninterested in spectacle. Xaver Kissinger and Javier Mancilla keep the brief short: make it good, keep it human. Florida follows through. Come early, settle in, watch the room assemble around you. 

Where: Neustiftgasse 81, 1070 Vienna

The team behind nineOfive are the kind of people who make hospitality feel effortless, and you sense it the moment you sit down. The pizza oven, meanwhile, is anything but cool. It burns at around 485 degrees Celsius, which explains why the crust arrives blistered in all the right places while still doughy at the centre.

Seventy-two hours of dough fermentation meets seconds of heat, and the result is better than it has any right to be. Start with a marinara if you want to test that we know what we’re talking about. It is the benchmark in any serious pizzeria because there is nothing to hide behind, just dough, tomato, garlic, oregano, and oil - and nineOfive gets it exactly right. Enjoy with whatever bottle the team insists you try. They are usually right.

Where: Mühlgasse 20, 1040 Wien

Cinema

The Filmakademie’s annual Werkschau is back, turning Gartenbaukino and Stadtkino into a three-day parade of student films that range from absurdly brilliant to wonderfully confusing. They are the kind of screenings where you walk out unsure whether you witnessed a masterpiece or a very, very committed inside joke.

That is half the charm. The other half is that it is completely free, which makes it one of the few cultural moments in Vienna where you can simply wander in, sit down, and let someone else’s early ambition wash over you. 

In On the Marionette Theatre, written in 1810 during his years moving between Prussian cities like Berlin and Königsberg, Heinrich von Kleist uses the language of puppetry to outline a theory of grace. For Kleist, marionettes move beautifully not because they are simple, but because they are free of self-consciousness. Humans, by contrast, interrupt their own elegance the moment they become aware of it. He suggests that true ease appears at two points in life: before consciousness or beyond it.

Children have it naturally. Artists recover it only after passing through discipline, failure and a certain philosophical exhaustion. Mastery, in other words, is a return to instinct. In the end, Kleist argues that the most refined movements are the ones that escape conscious control. The hand learns what the mind cannot hold.

John Berger’s Confabulations is one of those books that seems surface level until you realise it’s rearranging how you see things. His line that “we never look at just one thing, but at the relation between things and ourselves” makes the point neatly. So does his reminder that “what seems like clarity is often only habit.”

Berger writes about art, language and attention in an incredibly romantic way. Good for evenings when you want something thoughtful without committing to a full philosophical workout.

May your social calendar be full and your heart always open.

See you next Sunday!

Team HEIMAT