Guides: Information and Networking Day for Korean and Polish Artists and Culture Makers

10:00 am – 2:00 pm for korean artists and culture makers
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm for polish artists and culture makers

The information and networking day for Korean and Polish artists and culture makers will be organized by the project schreiben & leben (writing and living) of Lettrétage and curated by the Korean guide Inky Lee and the Polish guide Dorota Kot. They will speak about their experiences within the context of Berlin’s international arts community as well as provide information about existing advisement and networking opportunities for artists and culture makers in Berlin.

The information and networking day consists of two parts:
the first part is intended for artists and culture makers who speak Korean; the second part is intended for artists and culture makers who speak Polish.

I. First part for korean artists and culture makers curated by guide Inky Lee

10:00 am to 2:00 pm

Let’s meet and support each other!
Inky Lee will share her personal experiences as an independent author in Berlin as well as a whole bunch of tips for working independently as an author.
Daniel Glatzel (conductor, composer and arranger of the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra) will talk about his experiences in Berlin’s independent music community as well as about opportunities and resources for independent musicians.
Lijung (a member of the Butterbutter project) will report on experiences with racism made on a daily basis by Asian people living in Europe. In addition, she will provide information about points of contact, advisement opportunities and community projects that can be turned to for help in cases of racism.
Olivia Hyunsin Kim will provide an introduction to the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK, the German public social insurance fund for artists). In addition, she will talk about her personal experiences in the independent performing arts community and share some tips and tricks for performing artists. Time will be provided for a Q&A session after each topic.

Inky Lee is an author, musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin. Her texts have been published Tanzschreiber.de, Tanzraumberlin Magazine, Coven Berlin, Choom:in, Time Out NY and FLAUNT Magazine, amongst others. From Sepember 2020 to February 2021, she served as the artistic director and an author of the writing platform Right Now that she also initiated and realized in collaboration with Tanzbüro Berlin. She is currently as member of the writing collective Stream at Tanzfabrik Berlin. She has created music with a variety of artists in Berlin. She has worked as a performer and choreographer in NYC and Berlin.

Schedule

10:00 am
Opening remarks and introduction of project schreiben & leben of Lettrétage
With Malte Kleinjung – in German and English

10:15 am
Resources for authors
With Inky Lee – in Korean

10:45 am
Funding and advisement opportunities and resources in the independent music community
With Daniel Glatzel – in English and Korean

12:00 pm
Racism, discrimination, sexism, LGBTQIA+: opportunities for advisement, support and community
With Lijung – in Korean

1:00 pm
Funding and advisement opportunities and resources in the independent performing arts community and an introduction to the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK, the German public social insurance fund for artists)
With Olivia Hyunsin Kim – in Korean

II. Secong part for polish artists and culture makers curated by guide Dorota Kot

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Berlin’s Independent Performing Arts Community: A Springboard and the Ideal Environment for Growth in the Creative Economy. What should you keep in mind when starting out as an artist? Magdalena Ziomek from SmartDe will discuss the KSK, or Künstlersozialkasse, taxes and where funding applications can be made within the Polish fundign landscape.
Berlin offers a great deal of opportunities - how can these be used for your own marketing? Barbara Schackwitz, who works as a coach for Garage Berlin and ISi e.V., will shed some light on the subject.
Artists in Berlin: What is this like in practice? How are artists able to successfully get their careers started in Germany? Anna Kott has worked in Berlin and internationally for many years and will talk about her route to success: how she got started, about her experiences and how she further developed herself.

Dorota Kot is a culture manager, project developer and facilitator with a great deal of passion and experience. Both professionally and privately, she places a great deal of value on the added value in every act and decision. This is why project management in the fields of cultural and social projects is a project very close to her heart. Dorota is the founder of kollek-tief.de. She works for a variety of clients as an adviser (networking, business start-ups), guide and coordinator (in the cultural sector and in community building) on the local and international levels.

Schedule

2:00 pm
Opening remarks and introduction of project schreiben & leben of Lettrétage
With Malte Kleinjung – in German and English

2:15 pm
Introduction to Berlin’s art and culture communities
Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) and insurance, information about international tax laws, applications within the German-Polish funding landscape (2 examples)
With Magdalena Ziomek (SmartDE) – in Polish

3:30 pm
Marketing in the art sector: promoting your own works in the Berlin market
With Barbara Schackwitz – in Polish

4:30 pm
Best practice for artists in Berlin’s independent arts community

About Guides to the Independent Arts Communities

Within the independent arts community as well, opportunities to participate for everyone are still a long way off. For many international and intercultural artists, even the access to relevant knowledge presents a large obstacle along their path to the independent networks and structures. The goal of the project Guides to the Independent Arts Communities – Multilingual Conferences and Gallery Walk is the sustainable support of international artists and culture makers in networking within the independent arts communities as well as the raising of awareness of this issue and further education within existing advisement structures in regions and cities with a large number of international artists and culture makers across Germany. The project comprises the removal of language barriers in sharing knowledge using a multilingual and decentralized network of guides as well as a multilingual collection of information. In addition, there will be an improved networking of the communities with the local art communities that will be achieved through digital and analog symposia and information events as well as through the further education, networking and raising the awareness of points of contact and initiatives with regard to the advisement of international artists and culture makers.

In coperation with schreiben & leben at Lettrétage, Music Pool Berlin and inm – initiative neue musik berlin e. V., Tanzbüro München, Theaterbüro München, NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste e.V., Pop-Büro Region Stuttgart, Freie Tanz- und Theaterszene Stuttgart.