Open Call: Travel costs for Curators, Programmers & Amplifiers

Are you a performance venue operator, festival programmer, or event organizer who would like to invite curators, programmers, and multipliers to your 2025 program – but lack the financial means to cover travel and accommodation costs? Then you've come to the right place!

What we are looking for: Suggestions for which curators and programmers should be invited for festivals or events that already exist and/or are being planned.

What we have to offer: Payments of the expenses for travel and overnight accommodations for the invited guests.

We look forward to your applications!

Who Is This Open Call Intended For?

Large and small, established and alternative performance venues and festivals, as well as organizers who already work in Berlin’s independent performing arts community that:

• Require support for being able to invite curators, programmers, and amplifiers
• Contribute to the visibility of Berlin-based productions on a national and international level,
• Support encounters and exchanges between the national and international visiting industry professionals and Berlin’s independent performing arts community.

The festival or event must take place between October 2025 and April 2026.

Please note: While we would like to continue our collaboration with the festivals and the performance venues that have already benefited from this support, this opportunity is also open to other members of the community as well. To ensure that as many people as possible can benefit from this opportunity, we encourage everyone to apply – regardless of the size of the festival or event that includes a schedule of ancillary programming.

Application Deadline

Please apply by August 25, 2025, by emailing the completed application form (in German or English, max. 5 MB) to: catherine.launay [at] pap-berlin.de.

Selection and Process

The selection will be made by staff members of the Berlin Performing Arts Program with the support of an external expert/evaluator. A cooperation agreement will be drafted between you and LAFT Berlin in which the financial and direct cost coverages by both partners will be listed. Please bear in mind that the decision to assume all or part of the expenses is dependent upon the overall budget as well as the selection criteria.

For the selection, special attention will be paid to:

• The representation of the various genres of Berlin’s independent performing arts community.
• The local anchoring of the festival or the event.
• The potential for national and international networking.
• The presence and/or representation of a variety of perspectives.

The decision is planned to be announced by the middle of September 2025.

Contact

Catherine Launay
catherine.launay [at] pap-berlin.de