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15. May 2025 | 10:00 - 20:00

The Berlin Performing Arts Market 2025

The Performing Arts Market enters its second round on May 15! In this year's edition, the focus is on knowledge, resources and ideas to create new national and international networking opportunities for members of Berlin’s independent performing arts community. We invite all members of the independent performing arts community – especially curators, presenters, operators of performance venues, and producers–from Berlin and around the world.

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Workshops & Seminars

19. May 2025 | 10:00 - 13:00

Taxes in Germany

This seminar will provide an initial overview of the most important tax obligations, clarify the basic terms, and, hopefully, the misunderstandings associated with them, as well as answer questions about issuing invoices and making tax declarations for freelancers.

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Workshops & Seminars

19. May 2025 | 14:00 - 17:00

Money Anxiety and alternative Pension Schemes

Money is not an easy topic, especially when it is scarce: How can we as cultural actors do something for our finances and retirement despite having little income? How we talk about money? How do we cope with the uneasiness and worries about money? What kind of “money mindset” helps us to do something concrete for our finances? In this workshop, we address pragmatic and emotional questions about money and assets.

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How To…

20. May 2025 | 10:00 - 13:00

How To: Music Theater – Funding Tools and Production Venues

What funding programs are especially well-suited to music theater productions? What funding tools will allow me to achieve an interdisciplinary, perhaps international co-financing of my project? Which producing organizations and performance venues are especially suited for music theater productions? In this workshop, the focus will be placed on topics that are typical for music theater and individual questions will be answered.

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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!