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? How do you find access to funding opportunities when language presents an obstacle and where can you find support options when it comes to questions about permits, freelance tax number (Steuernummer), foreign tax number (Ausländersteuer)? Where can you find help when experiencing discrimination or exclusion? How can you adjust and revisit your work and concept in order to attract more opportunities?

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. The participants are warmly invited to bring their most urgent questions regarding freelance activity with them.

In Spanish, Portuguese and English spoken language