PAF Media Library
The PAF 2021 discussion formats invite you to re-watch and re-listen! In our media library you can dive into exciting and enduring issues of the independent performing arts community.
All contributions were broadcast live from the festival studio at Circus Schatzinsel during the festival week.
A Conversation About Questions of Power and Diversity in the Performing Arts
In this talk, culture maker Tessa Hartig of AfroPolitan Berlin discusses current issues of power and diversity with freelance curator Fatima Çalışkan and Christian Römer of the Böll Foundation with a view to the theater sector.
Part of the talk series WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? on the situation of the performing arts in the pandemic in the frame of the Theatertreffen and Performing Arts Festival Berlin
Corona Update #3000 – wie geht es weiter?
A Conversation about the Future of the Performing Arts in Berlin
In this talk, freelance choreographer Rose Beermann discusses current developments and the future of the performing arts in Berlin with State Secretary for Culture Dr. Torsten Wöhlert, Artistic Director of Sophiensæle Franziska Werner and Janina Benduski from LAFT Berlin.
Part of the talk series WHAT ARE WE WAITING FOR? on the situation of the performing arts in the pandemic in the frame of the Theatertreffen and Performing Arts Festival Berlin
Gespräch #1 Stadtraum
Urban Space as a Stage for the Performing Arts
In this talk, the artists Julia Lehmann from Studio Urbanistan (Leipzig) and Mirrianne Mahn from yellowdressproudactions (Frankfurt) discuss the potentials and limits of an appropriation of urban space for the performing arts with dramaturg and curator Melmun Bajarchuu (Berlin).
Gespräch #2 Freiraum
Flexibility, Aesthetic and Open Space in Contemporary Circus
In this conversation, multidisciplinary performer and artistic researcher Ana Jordão (Berlin) and aerialist Romy Seibt of the collective still hungry (Berlin) talk with stage and set designer För Künkel (Berlin) about aesthetic freedoms and the potential of contemporary circus to negotiate social issues in its own way.
Gespräch #3 Schutzräume
Safe Space – The Opening of Spaces During the Pandemic
In this conversation, Lewamm Ghebremariam, representing Clubcommission Berlin, and artist Maria Moschus of the Mantis Performance Kollektiv (Berlin/Leipzig) talk with dramaturg and curator Felizitas Stilleke (Berlin) about opening safe spaces in the pandemic.
Politiker:innen Frühstück
Performing Arts Programm Berlin
In the super election year 2021, a lot is at stake in terms of cultural policy: Post-pandemic perspectives for actors in the performing arts, for independent groups and their institutions will be discussed with Regina Kittler (Die Linke), Dr. Robbin Juhnke (CDU), Daniel Wesener (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) and other guests.
PAF Radio
The contributions of PAF Radio can still be listened to as well and offer background reports, interviews and insights into Berlin's independent performing arts community.