Do you encounter difficulties submitting applications for project funding to Berlin’s Senate as a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent or deaf artist or culture maker?
Do you have additional expenses for assistance and materials for the application process?
We are happy to help you!
To contact us, please complete the following form.
A member of our team will process your inquiry and get in touch with you.
Costs such as interpretation into German Sign Language (DGS), assistance services or technical aids can be covered by us.
If you have any other questions, the advisement opportunities and workshops offered by the Berlin Performing Arts Program and Diversity Arts Culture are also available to you.
Contact
Contact Person in the Coordination Center
Christin Eckart
access@pap-berlin.de
Tel. +49 (0)30 / 20 45 979 16
About the Opportunity
Do you encounter technical and non-technical barriers as a disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent or deaf artist or culture maker when submitting applications for project fundings and stipends to Berlin’s Senate?
With the pilot project ACCESS – Easing Access to Cultural Funding in Berlin, we will accompany you individually, practically and in accordance with your needs along the way to submitting funding applications in the independent performing arts as well as in selected interdisciplinary programs of Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community. If necessary, we will cover the expenses of any assistance and materials.
If you have any further questions about working and producing within Berlin’s independent performing arts community, we will be happy to refer you to the additional advisement and qualification opportunities available through the Berlin Performing Arts Program as well as through Diversity Arts Culture.
In doing so, the knowledge obtained regarding existing barriers when making funding applications and the required access costs will be continuously evaluated by us through the end of the project in September of 2025 so that a continuation and possible expansion of the project can be assessed. In addition, we are hoping that an evaluation and improvement of the accessibility of our additional events and opportunities and a transfer of this to other areas within the cultural landscape of Berlin will also be possible.
ACCESS – Easing Access to Cultural Funding in Berlin was developed by the Performing Arts Program of LAFT Berlin in cooperation with Diversity Arts Culture and in coordination Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community. The opportunities being offered were evaluated by the sub-working group Cultural Funding of the working group Accessibility and Inclusion of People with Disabilities of Berlin’s Senate.
The project is funded by Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Community and the European Social Fund ESF+ as part of the project "PAP – BECOME Zukunftsfähig und resilient in den freien darstellenden Künsten".
About Us
Since 2013, the Performing Arts Program of LAFT Berlin has been dedicated to the task of informing and advising the members of the independent performing arts community, networking them and providing them with sustainable qualification in non-artistic areas of work. In doing so, the program is also working more strongly to develop and implement accessible opportunities as well as qualification for questions pertaining to the sustainable removal of barriers within artistic working processes. With ACCESS - Easing Access to Cultural Funding in Berlin, we are building upon what we have already learned over the course of our collaboration with FAIRSTAGE as well as Making a Difference.
Diversity Arts Culture is the conceptualization and advisement center for diversity development in the field of culture in Berlin. It was founded in 2017 to initiate and support a diversity-oriented structural change in Berlin’s cultural sector. Its tasks include the advisement of cultural institutions and Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture regarding questions of diversity. It develops antidiscrimination and further education workshops for culture makers as well as empowerment opportunities for marginalized artists. In addition, it also offers antidiscrimination advisement and requests the collection of data pertaining to equality. Diversity Arts Culture is a part of Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung (the Foundation for Continuing Cultural Education and Cultural Advisement).