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Specials

10. February 2025 | 00:00 - 00:00

Open Call: „Introducing Berlin's Independent Performing Arts Community” at the 2025 IETM Plenary Meeting in Berlin

From May 15 to 17, 2025, we are co-organizing the 2025 IETM Plenary Meeting – together with IETM (international network for contemporary performing arts), BFDK (Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste, the Federal Association for the Independent Performing Arts) and ufaFabrik. We are very pleased that this event will take place in Berlin again after 10 years! On May 15, 2025, we would like to offer participants the opportunity to get to know the artistic work, the most important discourses, spaces and structures of the performing arts in the host city of Berlin. We are looking for non-artistic contributions that provide insights into the independent performing arts community in Berlin.

Information Center

Workshops & Seminars

23. January 2025 | 11:00 - 17:00

Workshops & Seminars

From Theory to Practice: Steps to Intersectional Work Structures

This three-day workshop is intended for culture makers, artists and producers who would like to implement power-critical knowledge on a practial basis. The focus will be placed upon initiating sustainable changes as well as setting specific goals for one’s own work environment, realizing them as well as observing this process.

Touring Office

26. January 2025 | 00:00

Open Call & Deadline

Open Call: Shared Trade Fair Stand at the 26th KinderKulturBörse (Children’s Cultural Exchange) in Munich

The KinderKulturBörse, or Children’s Cultural Exchange, has been taking place annually since the year 2000 with up to 90 presenters and 700 visiting industry professionals and is one of the most important networking events for children’s and youth theaterin the German-speaking world.The Performing Arts Program Berlin will be represented in the FEZ in Berlin by a small information booth and is offering Berlin-based artists the opportunity to present themselves and their work at the trade fair stand. We look forward to your applications!

Information Center

27. January 2025 | 13:00 - 16:00

Information Event

An Overview of Funding Tools – What’s Coming Up?

This event in German spoken language will provide an overview of the most important funding opportunities for the coming three months: What funding programs offered by Berlin’s Senate and its districts are currently accepting applications? What funding programs on the German federal level and on the EU level could be of interest now? We will provide a quick overview and answer the most urgent questions regarding the funding tools with deadlines approaching.

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Workshops & Seminars

23. January 2025 | 09:30 - 17:30

Seminar Series: Press and PR Work for Do-It-Yourselfers (fully booked)

This German-language seminar series offers an opportunity to take a closer look at the goals and tasks of press and public relations work. You will learn techniques for creating good material and communicating it to the right audiences.

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!

Berlin Performing Arts Guide

The Berlin Performing Arts Guide provide direct access to the community for audience members, visiting industry professionals and interested parties. The portal provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Berlin’s independent performing arts community. In doing so, structures and initiatives, festivals and industry events as well as performance venues are presented.

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!