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Audience Formats

27. April 2025 | 00:00 - 00:00

Open Call for Audience Campaigns: Spielraum – the 2025 Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community)

The Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community event is entering its second round! During the period of time from September 10 to September 21, 2025, we once again would like to present the diversity of Berlin’s independent performing arts community to a broad audience. We would like to invite the operators of Berlin’s performance venues to send us contributions for our upcoming schedule of events. Contributions from other actors in the scene, as well as from related fields such as socio culture or urban practice, are also welcome.

Information Center

3. April 2025 | 11:00 - 14:00

Information Event

Network Event

Qualification Opportunities in Cultural Education

Where and how can I further educate and qualify myself if I would like to work in the field of cultural education? What organizations and opportunities exist in Berlin? Is it possible to participate in these while also working at a job and how much will it cost me? Over the course of this information event, you will meet three different providers and will have the opportunity to inform yourselves and discuss courses, events and certifications.

Information Center

Workshops & Seminars

10. April 2025 | 10:00 - 18:00

Workshops & Seminars

Cultural Education As A Secondary Source of Income

Projects in the field of cultural education can represent an exciting secondary source of income for artists. But how do you successfully come into contact with daycare facilities, schools, support associations and community institutions? This workshop in German spoken language will demonstrate the opportunities and special features that collaboration with these cooperation partners can offer and what things are of significance over the course of an educational and artistic project.

Information Center

Transnational

16. April 2025 | 15:00 - 18:00

Network Event

Getting Started as a Transnational Artist

How can you get your foot in the door in the independent performing arts community as an international artist? How does one deal with the challenges in freelance work, the bureaucracy and, last but not least, the stress that reorienting oneself within a new system can bring? Our host Martha Hincapié Charry will share her experiences as an international artist with a Colombian background and will welcome the participants to an open round of exchange on how to deal with the challenges when getting started in Berlin.

Specials

15. May 2025 | 00:00 - 00:00

IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025 – REHEARSING FUTURES

The next IETM Plenary Meeting will take place in Berlin for the first time in over ten years. From May 15 to 17, 2025, international guests, as well as members of the local and national independent performing arts communities, will come together to discuss current questions and challenges facing the international independent scene(s) under the overarching theme REHEARSING FUTURES. Together with IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts), BFDK (Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste – the Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts), and ufaFabrik, the Berlin Performing Arts Program is co-organizing the 2025 IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting.

OUT NOW! The Berlin Performing Arts Guide

The Guide provides a current and comprehensive overview of the independent performing arts community. Structures and initiatives, festivals, community events and performance venues will be introduced there. In addition to the online platform, the guide also appears annually as an accompanying publication. The latest version is now available!

We hope that this guide serves as a useful tool and that you enjoy your journey of discovery!

The Berlin Performing Arts Guide

The Performing Arts Guide offers detailed insights into various festivals, get togethers, and initiatives of Berlin’s independent scene, along with a comprehensive list of venues for better orientation. In addition to the online platform, the guide is also published annually as a print edition.

Theaterscoutings Berlin

The monthly program of Theaterscoutings Berlin opens up new perspectives on artistic works and institutions of the independent arts community with talks, experimental formats, workshops and venue tours.

Proberaumplattform Berlin

The Berlin Rehearsal Space Platform is the digital marketplace for everyone looking to offer or use rehearsal spaces in Berlin. This comprehensive directory provides a decisive overview in the form of words and images of the spaces being offered throughout the entire city of Berlin along with detailed information about the respective conditions on-site.

Publications

No matter whether we are talking about a symposium or a cooperation event, one questions is always at the forefront of the work of the Berlin Performing Arts Program: what and how can we learn from each other and how can we then integrate it sustainably within our own work?

LAFT Berlin: Administration and Connections for the Independent Performing Arts Community

The LAFT Berlin – Landesverband der freien darstellen Künste Berlin e.V. is the Legal Entity Behind the Berlin Performing Arts Program. Furthermore, the LAFT Berlin represents the interests of its more than 500 members, including the essential performance venues, groups and individual artists of Berlin in dealing with politicians and the public.

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Current information on events, calls for applications, and cultural policy developments in the independent performing arts in Berlin is available through our various newsletters. LAFT Berlin, Theaterscoutings Berlin, the Rehearsal Space Platform Berlin, and the Performing Arts Festival Berlin regularly provide updates on important topics such as funding opportunities, programs, and events. Here you can sign up for our newsletters!