What if people with evening jobs automatically received financial support for individual childcare?
What if raising children was socially recognised as work, paid for and taken into account in pension payments?
What if there were no continuity criteria for the awarding of grants, scholarships, prizes and awards?
What if no one thinks that care responsibilities, the need for a bread-and-butter job or illness led to less relevant art?
What if all theatres and stages follow the example of the Theaterhaus Jena: generalised evening rehearsals, weekend rehearsals and rehearsal schedules created at short notice are not the norm at theatres?
What if children are no longer a career risk for women?
What if the flexible, mobile, autonomous artist, free from all care responsibilities, is no longer the benchmark for our production methods?
In two think tanks (23–24 September 2023 at Kampnagel Hamburg and 7–9 October 2023 at Alte Feuerwache Berlin), recipients and producers from the independent theatre scene, whose everyday lives are shaped by care work, met with representatives from the fields of festival management, event organisation and artistic direction. The resulting publication brings together guidelines and suggestions for transforming production methods, funding structures and performance venues in order to break down barriers for parents and other people with care responsibilities. download TOOLKIT WITH CARE
Credits:
artistic direction / research: Sylvi Kretzschmar / Teresa Monfared / Liz Rech
participants / experts: Angela Kecinski, Anja Kolmanics, Anne Kersting, Bernadett Kis, Carla Nettlnbrecker, Frida Guilia Franceschini, Kaja Jackstedt, Lotte Dohmen, Marcia Breuer, Maria Walser, Nora Elberfeld, Sara Dec, Sarah Lasaki, Sascia Bailer, Thorsten Eibeler, Pirkko Husemann
participants / mentors: Carolin Hochleichter, Eva Stüting, Franziska Werner, Frauke Rubarth, Kathrin Tiedemann.
patron: Annika Mendrala
process support: Moritz von Rappard
assistence: Carlotta Ortinger, Tetje Hübenthal
toolkit design: Miriam Neubauer
collaboration: Bühnenmütter e.V. with BEYOND RE:production
The Artist Labs are an initiative of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, financed by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.
photos: Julian Hülser
