Open Call: Instructors for the Information Center as of December 2025

Please note: This is the open call for instructors. There is a separate one for advisors.

We are on the lookout for experienced members of Berlin’s independent performing arts community with expertise in production-relevant areas and interest in the communication and passing on of their knowledge as well as ideas for formats.

Since 2013, the Berlin Performing Arts Program has supported members of the independent performing arts community through a diverse range of opportunities including information events, workshops and other qualification opportunities. Our range of opportunities are available to all members of the independent performing arts community, free of charge. We offer orientation, the transfer of knowledge, qualification and networking both for newcomers as well as for more established members of the community.

Our range of opportunities have been financed exclusively through a variety of project fundings since 2013. Our new project, Berlin Performing Arts Program – Support, Advisement and Qualification in Transformation, is funded by Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community and the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and will last until September 2027. For this project, we are on the lookout for instructors who would like to pass on their knowledge and their experience concerning producing independently in a variety of different formats.

Formats 
The planned formats include information and networking events (3 to 4 hours), brief workshops on topic-specific questions (4 hours), longer workshops for a more in-depth consideration of a specialist area (from 8 hours or 1 day) or ongoing seminar series with multiple dates. Additional format ideas are welcome.

Compensation
45 € per hour (net) including preparation and follow-up work. The instructors agree to document and assess the qualification (participation and/or increase of competence). We will conclude fee agreements for the work as instructors.

Work Period
From December 2025, at the earliest, until September 2027, at the latest.

Scope of Work
Depending upon the format, independent work with a framework contract over the entire period and/or individual orders for formats.

Statements of Interest
We ask you to please send your statements of interest by November 3, 2025 so that we can ensure that the qualification opportunities are able to begin being offered as of December. This call is currently planned to be repeated in the spring of 2026. 

We would like to find people with competencies in one or more of the following areas and topics:

• Producing in the field of the independent performing arts in Berlin, nationally and also internationally, if possible
• Project development and strategy planning
• Acquiring funding and preparing funding applications
• Alternative funding opportunities
• Press and PR work, social media marketing
• The foundations of (artistic) freelance work, including legal forms, accounting, taxes, the KSK (Künstlersozialkasse, the German public social insurance fund for artists) and financial management
• Legal consultation
• Diversity development and anti-discrimination
• Access and accessibility
• Working in international teams and contexts
• The fundamentals of event technology
• Working with AI
• The (filmic) documentation of one’s own work, digital archiving
• (Ecological) Sustainability
• Knowledge regarding distribution and networking (marketing strategies, cooperations, guest performance management)
• Long-term career planning and crisis management
• Event management (amongst others, handling problems, exercising domiciliary rights as a host)
• Additional

Beyond the formats and content mentioned, you are also welcome to suggest new themes and ideas for qualification in the independent performing arts. In the Berlin Performing Arts Program, we exclusively offer qualification opportunities in non-artistic areas.

We are on the lookout for instructors with foreign language skills and experience with working methods that are sensitive to diversity. We place value on a collegial and respectful working environment and, as a result, offer space for exchange and discussion regarding the content of the program. In order to support the advisors, we also offer regular networking meetings and qualification opportunities.

The representation of the diversity of society within our structures is our goal. As a result, we expressly invite representatives of marginalized perspectives to submit statements of interest. We ensure the professional equality of people of all genders and want to allow the compatibility of family and career. We are happy to discuss what we can do in order to remove any barriers that still exist.

We are looking forward to receiving statements of interest with:

• A CV that illustrates your professional and artistic development
• Verification of the highest education degree that you have received
• A statement of motivation (1 DIN A4 page) that explains your reasons for wanting to work as an instructor and that speaks to your expertise for certain fields and thematic areas
• Sketches for possible qualification opportunities

The selection will take place in accordance with the following criteria: practice experience in the independent performing arts, experience in advisement, transfer of knowledge, well-founded expertise in the thematic areas named above, working methods that are sensitive to diversity, foreign language skills and experience in working with digital formats.

We ask you to please combine all of the parts of the statement of interest into one PDF document and mark it with the code UBQ2527/D. An initial assignment can take place as early as December 2025, but a later start to the opportunities you are offering is also possible, of course.

Statements of interest must be sent exclusively via email to: dozent*innen [at] pap-berlin.de (dozentinnen[at]pap-berlin[dot]de).