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14. April 2024 | 00:00 - 00:00
For the pilot edition of the Berlin Performing Arts Market on May 13, 2024, the Berlin Performing Arts Program is looking for creative and original ideas and formats that Berlin-based artists and groups working in the independent performing arts can use to present themselves and their work to a national and international audience of industry professionals.
Touring Office
16. April 2024 | 09:00 - 18:00
This year, the KinderKulturBörse will take place for the first time in Berlin at the FEZ Centre for Children, Youth and Family. The KinderKulturBörse, or Children’s Cultural Exchange, has been taking place annually since the year 2000 with up to 90 presenters and 700 visiting industry professionals and is one of the most important networking events for children’s and youth theaterin the German-speaking world.
Information Center
17. April 2024 | 10:00 - 18:00
Workshop
No matter whether we are talking about a job interview, interviews or a brief self-presentation in the lobby – when you need to present yourself to an audience, simple tricks can help you to present yourself effectively and share projects and visions briefly and successfully. The workshop will provide a better understanding of the possibilities and effectiveness of your self-presentation and you will learn easily applied tips about speaking and presenting yourself in public.
Information Center
19. April 2024 | 11:00 - 14:00
Workshop
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.
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!

To stream & listen

Industry Get-Together
20. October 2022 - 22. October 2022
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!

Information Center

From legal and tax advice to experienced production managers to marketing and concept strategists.

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Performing Arts Programm Berlin

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?