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Symposium

13. March 2025 | 12:30 - 21:00

Symposium: Professional Producing in Crisis Situations – (In)Security, Leeway, Solidarity and Quick Solutions

The conditions for producing and for production managers have gotten more difficult: fluctuating funding resources, slow communication and last-minute decisions require a large amount of flexibility, strategic thinking and new approaches. This symposium brings together representatives from the fields of art and culture production and additional relevant areas in order to reflect together upon how professional producing can be successful under uncertain conditions as well.

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Workshops & Seminars

5. March 2025 | 10:00 - 13:00

Workshops & Seminars

Practices for Self-Care in the Context of Artistic Freelance Work

Anyone who works on a freelance basis often pushes the limits of their own endurance and is happy to do so. Everyone is talking about self-care, but how can a mindset be created in which we no longer have to remind ourselves of self-care but instead establish care within our structures, both for ourselves as well as for everyone that we are working or living together with? In the form of an action learning series, we will work as a group, communicating and learning together to conduct a task, answer a question or consider a problem of a member of the group.

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How To…

11. March 2025 | 10:00 - 13:00

How To: Strengthen Conflict Skills for Independent Work

Collective work and collaboration in flat hierarchies is often marked by complex roles and multiple functions. How do you establish an honest, appreciative and constructive communication and feedback structure? How can conflicts be avoided, deescalated and, if there is an issue, be resolved amicably? In this workshop, tools for dealing with conflicts with a solution-oriented approach will be provided and individual questions dealing with the specific challenges of your team structure will be answered.

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20. March 2025 | 11:00 - 14:00

How To: Produce in a Manner that is Fair to Parents

How does parent-friendly production work? What conditions need to be created for this? How can people with care obligations advocate for their specific working (im)possibilities? In this workshop in German spoken language Elisa Müller will introduce the new Guidelines for Dealing with Care Responsibility in the Independent Performing Arts and discuss their application into practical work.

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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!