The Berlin Performing Arts Program is presenting its very own trade fair format for the very first time – the Berlin Performing Arts Market. The new format offers national and international curators and presenters the opportunity to establish contacts with Berlin-based artists and independent performing arts groups with production and touring experience. With its pilot edition this year, the Market is dedicating itself as a field of experimentation committed to the question: how can artistic work be presented to a professional audience in an original and creative way without presenting the art itself?
Do you have projects and ideas where you would like to use innovative, elaborate or the most simple technological means necessary? In this workshop, you can search for the best solutions together with sim, our instructor for technology-heavy projects.
This workshop will present the possibilities and communicate the knowledge necessary in order to be able to communicate well with video designers and stage technicians when working on projects as well as to be able to jump into “operating” the projections yourself.
Are you a newcomer to the independent performing arts community and are you looking for exchange and contacts? Do you have questions about getting started in working as a freelancer, about funding opportunities and about making applications for funding? In this networking format, we invite you to present your work, enter into conversation with experts and maybe even find new collaborators.
2023 was a round birthday for the Berlin Performing Arts Program: we celebrated ten years of intense and successful work in the networking, exchange and empowerment of the independent performing arts in Berlin since the founding of the program in the year 2013. A detailed review of the past year and what's next for us in 2024 can be found here!
From October 20 to 22, 2022, more than 450 participants gathered at Theater Strahl to discuss upcoming challenges of our scene(s), to take a look back at the grown structures of the last 10 years and to exchange ideas about the topics of the present.
For all those who could not be present at our 10th industry get-together: Here you can find selected formats to stream & listen to - enjoy!
With the Performing Arts Program, LAFT Berlin has created an effective instrument for the infrastructural strengthening, professionalization and networking of Berlin‘s independent performing arts community.
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?
