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GLOBAL VILLAGE LABS

With this program, the Fonds Darstellende Künste supported rural art production in the performing arts, focusing in particular on international contexts.

The Fonds established this pilot project, in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, also in order to draw conclusions about upcoming funding opportunities in rural areas for the performing arts sector.

What was funded?

With this special program, the Fonds Darstellende Künste promoted rural art production in the performing arts, particularly projects that focused on international contexts. Funding was provided for lab projects lasting several days that focused on the mutual exchange of regional and international aspects between science, art and society. Existing regional intercultural perspectives could be included and further developed or research carried out in which global questions were addressed on the basis of local symptoms in rural areas; networks of actors in rural areas were also created. In addition, input from the public was welcomed within the framework of the respective lab for or with the inhabitants of the region.

Who could apply?

Long-standing artistic institutions, ensembles or artists/groups from rural areas or actors from small towns (up to 20,000 inhabitants) with a special focus on rural areas were eligible to apply.

How much could be applied for?

Funding of up to €20,000 could be applied for. In well-founded exceptional cases, applications for funding of up to €25,000 could be submitted for particularly complex projects.

Application and funding deadlines

Application deadline(s):

The projects had to be realized between September 15, 2019 and December 15, 2019.

Funded projects

A listing of all funded projects can be found here.

Documentation

At the end of the funding program, the Fund published a documentation. The publication gives many participants space for their reflections and questions and provides insights into funded projects.

The Fonds Darstellende Künste drafted the call for proposals in close coordination with the member associations Bund Deutscher Amateurtheater (BDAT) and Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Spiel und Theater (BAG).

Jury

  • Sarah Israel

    Dramaturgin, Kuratorin- Berlin

    Sarah Israel

    Dramaturgin, Kuratorin- Berlin

    Sarah Israel arbeitet nach dem Studium der Dramaturgie am Schauspiel Stuttgart. Seit 2012 widmet sie sich Projekten in der Freien Szene und arbeitet mit dem Choreografen und Tänzer Taigué Ahmed zusammen. Zudem entwickelt sie als Dramaturgin (inter-)nationale Tanz- und Theaterproduktionen mit Künstler*innen wie Anna Konjetzky, Daniel Kötter, Thanapol Virulhakul u.w. Von 2015 bis 2018 war sie künstlerische Leiterin und Dramaturgin des Festivals RODEO in München. Seit 2019 hat sie die Leitung des Performing Arts Festivals Berlin inne.

  • Dr. Beate Kegler

    Inistitut für Kulturpolitik, Universität Hildesheim

    © Ernst Weerts

    Dr. Beate Kegler

    Inistitut für Kulturpolitik, Universität Hildesheim

    Dr. Beate Kegler ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Kulturpolitik der Universität Hildesheim. Sie lehrt und forscht im Schwerpunkt zur Kulturellen Bildung in ländlichen Räumen, insbesondere zur kulturpolitischen Bedeutung gesellschaftsgestaltender Kulturarbeit. Aus ihrer Feder entstanden zahlreiche Publikationen, in die ihre Forschungserkenntnisse und auch Erfahrungen aus rund 20-jähriger Praxistätigkeit in der Leitung kultureller Einrichtungen jenseits der Metropolen einfließen.

  • Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Portrait of Micha Kranixfeld © Tony Franz

    Micha Kranixfeld, M.Sc.

    Cultural Scientist | University of Koblenz-Landau

    Micha Kranixfeld works as an artist and cultural scientist. He is a member of the syndicate Gefährliche Liebschaften (Dangerous Liaisons) and the Frl. Wunder AG (Miss Wunder AG), with whom he develops research-based art projects in social fields. In the process, he creates wanderings into the future of work, colorful evenings about meat, or radio plays about the queerness of rural spaces. As a cultural scientist, Micha Kranixfeld conducts research at the University of Koblenz on social art in rural areas and images of rural diversity.