Time to Shine is a live storytelling and comedy show created by people from the kink, queer, fetish and sex-work communities. Each edition takes one theme and explores it through humour, honesty and personal performance.
Kink doesn’t have to be the punchline, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be funny.
Below you’ll find all upcoming Time to Shine events in Berlin and on tour. Click through for full details and tickets.
Time to Shine Upcoming Shows
After sold-out editions in Berlin, Time to Shine brings its Dirty Talk special to Hamburg. This edition explores the strange, intimate craft of talking filth. Part fantasy, part confession, part game of nerves. Through stand-up, storytelling and performance, hosts L’aDios and Terry Saunders share real experiences of desire, awkwardness, power and vulnerability.
Date: 17 April 2026
Location: UWE, Klubhaus Sankt Pauli,
20359 Hamburg
Authentic, curious, and gleefully irascible, storyteller and comedian Desiree Burch leads a madcap voyage through menopause, mid-life, and all the mandatory metamorphosis in her new standup hour, “The Golden Wrath”. Desiree brings childlike wonder and crone-like wit to the experiences of losing sleep, relevance, knee cartilage, oestrogen, youth, and illusions in a laugh-packed hour that celebrates the fury and freedom found when you accept that time has ruined your plans, even as you roll up your sleeves to fight it anyway.
Date: 26 April 2026
Location: 19:77 Vegan Riot Bar,
Weserstraße, Berlin
The next edition of Time to Shine lands in June. If you’ve been before, you know the room fills with people in latex, leather, and everything in between, ready to laugh at the things other people find unsayable.
If you haven’t, this is your invitation. Made by people from the fetish, kink, and queer scenes, and built for the same crowd. Hosted by Terry Saunders and L’aDios, who between them have over twenty years of experience on stage in comedy, cabaret, and kink spaces of New York, London and now Berlin.