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Touring Office

6. January 2025 | 00:00

Open Call: "Bridging The Scenes" Delegation Trip to the Malá Inventura Festival 2025 in Prague

Berlin Meets Prague! As part of "Bridging the Scenes" and with the goal of further networking the independent performing arts communities in Prague and Berlin, we are offering eight Berlin-based producers and curators working within the independent performing arts community with the opportunity to attend the Czech Malá Inventura festival in Prague. Local experts for the performing arts will introduce the group to the city and bring them into contact with colleagues and the local independent performing arts community.

Pause

21. December 2024 | 00:00

Winter Break

From December 21, 2024 to January 12, 2025 we are on winter break and will start again in the new year from January 13 with our tried and true formats!

Information Center

How To…

17. January 2025 | 11:00 - 14:00

Workshop

How To: Produce in a Manner that is Fair to Parents

How can you produce in a manner that is fair to parents? What prerequisites have to be achieved in order to do so? How can people with care obligations advocate for their specific working (im)possibilities? This How To provides an opportunity to take the new "Guidelines for Dealing with Care Responsibility in the Independent Performing Arts" into consideration as well as to formulate needs based upon your own respective experiences.

Information Center

Workshops & Seminars

21. January 2025 | 10:00 - 16:00

Workshops & Seminars

Distribution and Marketing with Little Money

Dieser zweiteilige Workshop in englischer Lautsprache soll Künstler*innen dabei helfen, Projekte mit kleinem oder gar keinem Budget zu bewerben und einem internationalen Publikum zugänglich zu machen.

Information Center

Workshops & Seminars

23. January 2025 | 09:30 - 17:30

Seminar Series: Press and PR Work for Do-It-Yourselfers

This German-language seminar series offers an opportunity to take a closer look at the goals and tasks of press and public relations work. You will learn techniques for creating good material and communicating it to the right audiences.

OUT NOW! The Berlin Performing Arts Guide

The Guide provides a current and comprehensive overview of the independent performing arts community. Structures and initiatives, festivals, community events and performance venues will be introduced there. In addition to the online platform, the guide also appears annually as an accompanying publication. The latest version is now available!

We hope that this guide serves as a useful tool and that you enjoy your journey of discovery!

Theaterscoutings Berlin

The monthly program of Theaterscoutings Berlin opens up new perspectives on artistic works and institutions of the independent arts community with talks, experimental formats, workshops and venue tours.

Performing Arts Guide

The Performing Arts Guide provide direct access to the community for audience members, visiting industry professionals and interested parties. The portal provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Berlin’s independent performing arts community. In doing so, structures and initiatives, festivals and industry events as well as performance venues are presented.

Proberaumplattform Berlin

The Berlin Rehearsal Space Platform is the digital marketplace for everyone looking to offer or use rehearsal spaces in Berlin. This comprehensive directory provides a decisive overview in the form of words and images of the spaces being offered throughout the entire city of Berlin along with detailed information about the respective conditions on-site.

Publications

No matter whether we are talking about a symposium or a cooperation event, one questions is always at the forefront of the work of the Berlin Performing Arts Program: what and how can we learn from each other and how can we then integrate it sustainably within our own work?

LAFT Berlin: Administration and Connections for the Independent Performing Arts Community

The LAFT Berlin – Landesverband der freien darstellen Künste Berlin e.V. is the Legal Entity Behind the Berlin Performing Arts Program. Furthermore, the LAFT Berlin represents the interests of its more than 500 members, including the essential performance venues, groups and individual artists of Berlin in dealing with politicians and the public.

Current information on events, calls for applications, and cultural policy developments in the independent performing arts in Berlin is available through our various newsletters. LAFT Berlin, Theaterscoutings Berlin, the Rehearsal Space Platform Berlin, and the Performing Arts Festival Berlin regularly provide updates on important topics such as funding opportunities, programs, and events. Here you can sign up for our newsletters!