• To set impetus in its key areas, the BFDK implements projects and offers selected funding opportunities to support our members and the development of the independent performing art sector.

Background

collects, pools and shares knowledge on aspects of the law that are important for those working in the independent performing arts.

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Systemcheck

researches the working conditions and social security of self-employed and hybrid workers in the performing arts and develops recommendations for action in order to improve them.

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Illustration
Illustration

tanz + theater machen stark 

promotes local alliances that work with children and young people from situations of economic risk.

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Verbindungen fördern

supports transregional alliances in the independent performing arts by providing financial resources and promoting networking, further training, professionalisation and knowledge exchange with each other.

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Completed projects (partly in German only)

Performing Arts – Performing Future 

2022 - 2023

offered advice and knowledge transfer around the topic of sustainability in the independent performing arts, organises workshops and brought stakeholders and experts from the area together.

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Labore

2022

untersuchten mit künstlerischen Mitteln übergreifende Themen des BFDK. Insgesamt fünf Kollektive der freien darstellenden Künste wirkten in dem „Labor Arbeitswelten“ und in dem „Labor Landarbeit“. (only in German)

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Performing Exchange (PEX)

2019 - 2022

strengthened stakeholders in the independent performing arts in rural areas and promoted participation and cultural diversity beyond the big cities.

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ON THE ROAD 

2017 - 2018

war ein kostenfreies Fort- und Weiterbildungsangebot des BFDK für alle Akteur*innen der freien darstellenden Künste, das an verschiedenen Orten in Deutschland Neugierige zu Austausch und Lernen einlud.

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