Backstage Club Düsseldorf - Professionals’ Meet-up

Caring for Culture starts with a Culture of Care: for each one and one another. When facing challenging times, how do we strengthen our (collective) structures to develop a sustainable practice?

Over two days, the Backstage Club invites professionals to come together and reinforce the indispensable links in the artistic ecosystem of research, production, and presentation. The workshops and exchange sessions aim to:

• foster knowledge sharing by involving key experts in the field as facilitators,

• initiate collaborative thinking among the participants on the topics,

• improve awareness among cultural professionals and artists of international opportunities.

Join us if you are:

a professional of performing arts interested in being involved in (international) collaborations;

eager to network with peers from the region and abroad;

willing to explore means of togetherness and principles of solidarity.

Backstage Club is an international workshop series tackling key aspects of transnational collaborations. The event series is open to local and international artists and cultural professionals. Backstage Club is an initiative of NextStage, a Creative Europe funded program. NextStage offers an international incubation program empowering a new generation of managers to consolidate sustainable career paths for emerging and mid-career artists. https://nextstageproject.com/

Backstage Club in Düsseldorf is the third in a series of events, following an edition in Athens (Greece) in April 2024, and one in Budapest (Hungary) in March 2025.

Programme

8.5., 10:00 - 12:30, tanzhaus nrw/ Studio 1 (Erkrather Str. 30, 40233 Düsseldorf)

EU grants and international cooperation projects, workshop

Facilitators:

• Lena Becker, consultant Creative Europe Desk KULTUR/ the national contact point for EU cultural funding

• Brigitta Kovács, creative producer, EU projects’ coordinator for Workshop Foundation Budapest

8.5., 14:00 - 16:00, tanzhaus nrw/ Studio 1 (Erkrather Str. 30, 40233 Düsseldorf)

Partnering - embracing multiplicity, movement lab*

Facilitator:

Bahar Gökte, dancer and choreographer

* For this session no specific equipment is required (come with your street clothes and shoes)

9.5., 10:00 - 12:30, Freiraum (Engelbertstr. 23, 40233 Düsseldorf)

Producers’ regional networking meeting, meet-up

Facilitator:

Sofie Luckhardt, coordination team produktionsbande

9.5., 14:00 - 16:00, Freiraum (Engelbertstr. 23, 40233 Düsseldorf)

The network is your strength, round table

Facilitator:

• Shirin Mirachor, founder and managing director of the cultural institute (A)WAKE Rotterdam

• Meghna Bhardwaj, dancer and choreographer from New Delhi/ Dance Research NRW scholarship holder

The event is free of charge and we ask you to register. You can choose to join for one, more or all the sessions. For registration please use this online form.

The venues are wheelchair-accessible.
We will use the English spoken language.

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Backstage Club is part of NextStage, organised by Workshop Foundation [HU], TooFarEast [GR] and Nedelcu & Hauser/ Kompliz:innen [DE].

NextStage is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.