Event Series: Sustainability and independent artistic production – Sustainability and Seif-Management - Can You Be A Resource Yourself?

Over the course of five online formats that build upon each other, the Berlin Performing Arts Program will deal with the topics of sustainability and artistic production. Building upon discussion from the time before the pandemic, climate- and resource-relevant challenges for artists, production managers, members of the community and the institutions of the independent performing arts will be analyzed. Climate-conscious action and sustainable transformation will be placed in a cultural policy context and together, approaches will be elaborated, demands will be formulated and perspectives beyond the current crisis will be presented.

Smaller structures often think that sustainability is a luxury that they cannot afford, even if all participants place a high value upon it. What are the basic problems facing the operators of smaller performance venues, independent groups or independent artists? In conversation with experts, we will examine the steps that smaller organizations can take as weil in order to shape their work from the standpoints of social and ecological sustainability. In doing so, the idea of the Common Good Economy will be presented. The Common Good Economy is based on an open-ended, participative and locally growing process with a global impact: an economic system that is based upon values that promote the
common good.

Schedule

11:00 am: lntroductory greetings and an overview of the series of events

11:05 am: Challenges for Smaller Structures
Short presentation by Dagmar Domrös (LAFT Berlin, Theater o.N.)

11:15 am: An lntroduction to the Common Good Economy
Presentation by Urte Töpfer (certified common good adviser) and Lyam Bittar (editor with a common good balance)

11:45 am: Topic-specific advisement conversations and exchange in small groups in order to apply the principles of the Common Good Economy using specific examples.
(We ask the participants to send us specific questions in advance insofar as this possible.)