This Open Call is aimed at immigrant artists who want to work with children with refugee experience! Play!Berlin is looking for artists from different disciplines, including visual arts, dance, music and theater, who have experience with immigration and a strong desire to work in an empathetic and inclusive way. The artist should curate an art project from the initial idea to the final presentation.

Project overview:
Play!Berlin focuses on collaborative exploration and research with children in social housing, focusing on their interests, desires and needs. The project consists of two blocks taking place in different social housing and hotels. Each block consists of 9 sessions, with 3-4 different workshops during each session, ending with an open presentation at Heizhaus in Uferstudios.

Compensation:
The selected artist will receive a compensation of 1440 euros for curating a block. In addition, there is a budget for workshop leaders as well as materials and equipment.

How to apply:
Send applications in pdf format to play.berlin.info@gmail.com, including a short biography, a project proposal, and a portfolio.

Deadline for applications is November 30th, 2023!

Selection procedure:
Applications will be reviewed by the Play!Berlin team and the selected artists will be invited for a short interview within 2 weeks. If you have any questions, please contact: play.berlin.info@gmail.com.

After four months of reconception under Johanna Withelm as the new editorial director, the TanzRaumBerlin magazine of our partner, the Tanzbüro, presents itself for the first time in a new look! Take a look at the new issue, which thematically deals with beginnings.

The ZTB e.V. invites you to the Flutgraben on April 15th! A hybrid mix of infotainment, exchange, performances and party will inform about current projects, developments and needs in the Berlin dance landscape.

Free admission, everyone is welcome!

From February 1, all 18- to 23-year-olds in Berlin have been able to use a 50 euros worth of cultural credit - in the form of the #YouthCultureCard, for which you can register until February 28. We are happy to be a part of the initiative! Until April 30, you can also visit us at the House with your youth culture card and redeem your culture credit. You can find all the information at www.jugendkulturkarte.berlin - we look forward to seeing you.

Good news for the European network project Life Long Burning: Thanks to renewed funding, it will also be possible from 2023-2027 to drive forward the transformation of contemporary dance with various dance organizations in Europe. The project, which has been running since 2012, aims to expand existing structures and establish new sustainable structures in contemporary dance.

On Tuesday, August 1 and Thursday, August 3 from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm, the Finnish non-binary artist, choregrapher and performer Lin Da aka Lin Martikainen is holding a workshop lab within the frame of their 2-week LLB residency at Uferstudios.

Lin Da about the workshop: „This research is part of my ongoing choreographic process/practice that combines different disciplines, objects, sculptures, text and dance. Currently I'm especially interested in exploring with the negative spaces of mouth, navel and anus. The workshop consists of proposals for moving, touching and „connecting” with these openings of the body. I invite you to approach all the (task based) exercises with the way that is suitable for you. The workshop is intended to people who have experience and interest towards movement, dance and body based arts. Consent, curiosity and kindness are things that I wish to nurture together with the people participating in the workshop lab.“

The participation is free of charge.
You can take part both days or just on Tuesday.
The days include 15min break.

More info about Lin: https://www.lindamartikainen.com/
For questions and registration contact: lin.martikainen@uniarts.fi

The residency is an Artistic Exchange Residencies by Uferstudios GmbH Berlin in collaboration with Moving in November, Helsinki within the European Network Project “Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found”.