Rehearsal Space Café: The world of Insurance

Being properly insured is one of the most important aspects when it comes to running rehearsal spaces, but is one that is often neglected. After all, it is no easy task to find your way through the “jungle of insurance” and sometimes it is easier to simply arrange for standard coverage. In this introduction, Thomas Jacoby will talk us through the various options that a company has and answer specific questions dealing with the topic of insurance.

Thomas Jacoby has worked independently as an insurance broker and financial services provider since 1998 and develops custom insurance concepts for companies working in a wide variety of industries.

PAUL is the Performing Artists' Urban Laboratory, a place that invites its visitors to feel at home. Surrounded by workshops and the buildings of the Estrel, PAUL seems like a small oasis, a safe haven in the rough Berlin sea: a place where you can feel safe to try yourself out, far away from the daily "hustles" of the Berlin art scene. A little less under pressure, a little less anonymous. Residencies, where we offer rehearsal rooms, our dramaturgical advice and our networks as support, have been gratefully taken up by a wide variety of artists. Their feedback continues to nourish our desire to expand these support possibilities and make them more widely available. In just a few years, little PAUL has made a name for himself in the independent scene by offering a supportive, open space, and not least through The Wall Series.

The Rehearsal Space Café is the Stammtisch, or regulars' table, for space providers throughout the city, providing an opportunity to converse with colleagues about the everyday joys and burdens of "offering space", learning about which solutions others have developed to deal with identical problems, to network and to discuss the occupancy rate and prices. To be brief, to discuss everything that concerns you in a pleasant round of like-minded colleagues.