Every July, Munich's heart turns Cuban.
Discover Agua Pichi 2027 →The world thinks Munich means Oktoberfest. We're building the counter-week. For seven days in July, Munich beats with a Cuban heart — music, dance, food, language, art. A home for a culture that travels light but needs a place to land.
Refuge is not asylum. Refuge is a place where Cuban music plays year-round, where Cuban food sits on a Bavarian table, where Spanish flows in a Munich bar at 1am. We are eleven friends building that place — one festival, one bar, one community at a time.
The Theresienwiese — Munich's 420,000 m² festival ground where Oktoberfest stands eleven months a year. For one week each July, we picture it like this.
Concept art — what we're building toward, July 2027.
One festival. One year-round home. One movement that holds it all.
The annual heartbeat. Los Van Van headlines Saturday night. Emerging Cuban teachers run the workshops. Four days that become a story you tell for a decade.
aguapichi.com →The year-round home. A piece of Habana on the Isar — every day, not just one week. Cuban kitchen, live music, a stage for what's brewing.
Hear when we open →Monthly socials. Language exchange. Diaspora gatherings. The community that carries the festival the other 51 weeks of the year — and 5% of everything we make goes back to Cuba.
Meet the founders →Music schools in Habana. Dance teachers' families. Local cultural projects on the island. We track it. We publish it. We don't take a culture from a place without giving back to it.
What Corazón Cubano does the other 51 weeks of the year, in Munich:
One night a month, somewhere in Munich. Cuban music, free entry, open floor. Bring a friend, leave with five.
Spanish, German, English — at a table, with coffee. No app, no class. Just people who want to be understood in a second language.
For Cubans in Munich. For the people who carry the island in their chest. A table, a meal, a place to land.
Block the first week of July. Book your flight to Munich. Be first to know the moment tickets drop.