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Symposia & Cooperations

24. November 2025 | 00:00 - 00:00

Symposium on Artistic Community Work

Over the course of a symposium in cooperation with the Neuköllner Oper, we would like to dedicate ourselves to precisely this topic, which we have already tried out on a practical basis with the Freie Szene Tagen (The Berlin Independent Performing Arts Community Days) and the community and neighborhood projects: different varieties of the communicative dialogues between artistic production contexts and audiences.

Audience Formats

10. September 2025 | 00:00 - 00:00

Specials

SPIELRAUM – The Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community in Berlin

From September 10 to 21 SPIELRAUM will provide opportunities for getting to know the independent performing arts community from other perspectives – with events that invite the audience to get to know the artists, to participate and to engage in shared reflection alongside the art that is taking place on stage. A wide variety of different formats will open up new perspectives both on the art itself as well as upon the locations of the independent performing arts community as places for exchanges and places that hold within them the power of societal transformation.

Information Center

How To…

11. September 2025 | 11:00 - 14:00

How To: Producing in Berlin

How do you build an artistic strategy in Berlin’s Freie Szene? How do you structure your projects, navigate funding opportunities, and communicate your artistic practice within the city’s unique cultural landscape? This format provides insight and practical tools to help you plan effectively, understand the funding system, and articulate your work clearly.

Information Center

Workshops & Seminars

11. September 2025 | 13:00 - 17:00

Money Anxiety and Alternative Pension Schemes

Money is not an easy topic, especially when it is scarce: How can we as cultural actors do something for our finances and retirement despite having little income? How we talk about money? How do we cope with the uneasiness and worries about money? What kind of “money mindset” helps us to do something concrete for our finances? In this workshop, we address pragmatic and emotional questions about money and assets.

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The Berlin Performing Arts Guide 2025/26

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!

The Berlin Performing Arts Guide

The Performing Arts Guide offers detailed insights into various festivals, get togethers, and initiatives of Berlin’s independent scene, along with a comprehensive list of venues for better orientation. In addition to the online platform, the guide is also published annually as a print edition.

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.

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.

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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!