Freie Szene Tage - The Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community
September 10 to 21, 2025
Freie Szene Tage (the Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community) is an annual campaign that is created jointly by the community and coordinated by the Berlin Performing Arts Program.
For the season opening in September, the audience is invited to discover the Berlin Independent Performing Arts Community from unusual perspectives. The program mainly consists of open formats, such as venue tours, rehearsal visits, workshops, open house events, participatory art in public spaces, presentations of neighborhood projects, and much more. The calendar of the Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community highlights accessible offerings for specific performances, including audio descriptions, touch tours, relaxed performances, translations, and childcare.
Whether on the big stage, in living room theaters, dance studios, industrial wastelands, allotment gardens, community centers, schools, or in circus tents: The community-wide campaign places the focus on the locations of the Independent Performing Arts Community as places of encounter and movement, as places of exchange and societal transformation.
The next edition will take place from September 10 to 21, 2025.
Dates
The next edition will take place from September 10 to 21, 2025.
An archived version of the 2024 program can be found here:
Open Call for Audience Campaigns 2025
We would like to invite the operators of Berlin’s performance venues of the independent performing arts community to send us contributions for the upcoming schedule of events for the Berlin Days of the Independent Performing Arts Community. Contributions from other actors in the scene, as well as from related fields such as socio culture or urban practice, are also welcome.
Discover more
The online portal Berlin Bühnen brings together the schedules of over 100 Berlin theaters, operas and concert halls on one website, in one calendar. The joint schedule offers an overview of Berlin’s diverse theater landscape
DRAUSSENSTADT is a platform for open air events in Berlin. No matter whether they are known locations, vacant lots, open air stages or summer cinemas – DRAUSSENSTADT bundles, presents and supports Berlin’s urban culture outdoors.
Theater Scoutings Berlin offers a monthly schedule of programming consisting of accompanied visits to theaters, tours of performance venues and opportunities for discussions following performances – providing an ideal starting point for beginning to discover the world of independent dance and theater venues in Berlin.
Community and Neighborhood Projects of the Berlin Performing Arts Program
The Berlin Performing Arts Program launched the pilot project ‚Community and Neighborhood Projects‘ to deepen the relationship between the independent performing arts community and its audience and to forge new connections to the city’s diverse communities.
About Us
The Berlin Performing Arts Program is a program of LAFT Berlin – Landesverband freie darstellende Künste Berlin e. V.
The Program offers a wide range of opportunities for the structural strengthening, professionalization, and networking of Berlin’s Independent Performing Arts Community. Our goal is to increase and sustain the visibility of artistic work in Berlin as a creative hub, consolidate and share knowledge, and create new connections both within the Independent Performing Arts Community and beyond.
The Performing Arts Program – Performing Arts in Focus (PAP-PAFO) is supported by the State of Berlin – Senate Department for Culture and Community) from funds of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) within the program „Strengthening the Innovation Potential in Culture III (INP III)“.
