Event Series: Sustainability and independent artistic production – We're Not Here To Talk About Trees!

Over the course of five online formats that build upon each other, the Berlin Performing Arts Program will deal with the topics of sustainability and artistic production. Building upon discussion from the time before the pandemic, climate- and resource-relevant challenges for artists, production managers, members of the community and the institutions of the independent performing arts will be analyzed. Climate-conscious action and sustainable transformation will be placed in a cultural policy context and together, approaches will be elaborated, demands will be formulated and perspectives beyond the current crisis will be presented.

Program

11:00 am Introductory greetings and an overview of the series of events

11:05 am Keynote speech: What does the term “sustainability” means, particularly as a guiding principle for political, economic and ecological action in the field of the independent performing arts? Summary of the state of the debate during the German Federal Congress and approaches to assess the current situation.
(Pierwoss and Teitge have worked together for years in their artistic projects to answer questions regarding political, societal and financial economies of waste management and put together the utopic space for sustainability at this year’s German Federal Congress of the Independent Performing Arts.)

11:20 am Presentation: Considerations for a resource-friendly and sustainable cultural landscape in the time after the pandemic. (Daniel Wesener, Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)

11:35 am Discussion with Jonas Seifert (PACT Zollverein): We want to become a sustainably producing cultural institution! But how?

11:45 am Open Discussion

From 12:00 pm Exchanges between the participants in small groups.