MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN will be hosting four residencies in 2023 and 2024, as part of the EU-funded residency project “What’s Next?”. In June 2023, music theatre collectives and artists are invited to participate in a one-week-residency in Vienna, Austria. It is an opportunity for international artists to work on their projects in a focused and safe environment […]
weiterlesenIn 2012, the independent scene in Berlin joined forces across all genres to safeguard the substance of the much-vaunted and internationally celebrated creative Berlin. The Koalition der Freien Szene (Coalition of the Independent Scene) is an open platform that discusses and formulates cultural policy demands, develops concepts and organises campaigns in regular meetings. The work […]
weiterlesenThe Independent Music Theatre shares many interests and cultural-political goals with the independent music scene in Berlin. Therefore, the ZMB is also involved in their informal interest group, the “DACH-Musik”, in which the inm e.V. (Initiative Neue Musik), the IG Jazz and Vereinigung Alte Musik e.V. (Early Music Association) work together.
weiterlesenIndependent music theatre belongs to the field of the performing arts and shares a large part of its political interests and goals with it. The ZMB is therefore in close exchange with the LAFT e.V. (Landesverband freie Darstellende Künste Berlin), of which it is also a member. https://www.laft-berlin.de
weiterlesenThe ZMB is one of the driving forces behind the establishment of a nationwide association for independent music theatre. Together with Stimme X e.V. from Hamburg and the Cologne Initiative Musiktheater (KIM) and funded by the Neustart Kultur programme, the ZMB organised three network meetings in 2022. The official founding of the nationwide network of independent music […]
weiterlesenThe ZMB supports the demand of the Koalition der Freien Szene (Coalition of the Independent Scene) for a round table in which sustainable, inclusive, adequate and legally secure funding structures for the independent scene are to be developed together with the Berlin Senate. https://www.koalition-der-freien-szene-berlin.de/forderungen-2022–26/
weiterlesenThe ZMB has joined the initiative for a Berlin Cultural Promotion Act. In a working paper, the initiative has compiled important priorities for a future culture promotion law and has already achieved that the government coalition has spoken out in favour of a culture promotion law. In topic-specific working groups, open questions are currently being worked on. In this […]
weiterlesenA fair allocation of funds for the promotion of independent music theatre is essentially connected to the composition of the respective juries. The ZMB advocates that the procedures for nominating jurors become more transparent and that competences in the field of independent music theatre are taken into account in an appropriate manner.
weiterlesenThe ZMB maintains a close exchange with representatives of the cultural administration. It maintains a regular Jour Fixe with the Department for the Promotion of Artists, Projects and Independent Groups. https://www.berlin.de/sen/kulteu/ueber‑uns/
weiterlesenThe ZMB advocates for a fair and transparent consideration of independent music theatre in the allocation of funds in the various funding programmes of the Senate and the Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Capital Cultural Fund). Music theatre is often more complex and expensive to produce than other forms of performing arts. This circumstance must be taken into account when […]
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