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2019
Architectural Photography – Re/Visiting 1987’s VisionsThe participants of this course will use fine-art photography to approach the International Building Exhibition in Berlin (IBA 87), explore its concepts and ideas, and implement them artistically. Our focus will...
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An Approach to Situational Time-Based ArtsIn some parts of the vast music world, a rejection of traditional forms, which began in the 1960s, is continuing today, sped along in part by the explosive advance of technologies. This trend expanded artists’...
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Baglama Masterclass with Erdal ErzincanErdal Erzincan, one of the most prominent modern Anatolian music performers and baglama players, will share with his students his newly composed pieces of music in different chord renditions for the baglama.
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StorySinging - Storytelling in Classical Vocal RepertoireThis workshop represents a combination of classical vocal repertoire and the art of storytelling which allows you to explore and develop your musical artistry through the poetic and creative possibilities that oral...
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Curating Sound Art - Exhibiting the AuditiveThis workshop conveys substantial knowledge in curatorial practice of an exceptional art form that occupies the margins of the visual arts and music and whose presentation requires special skills.
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Learning From Trolls: Fashion Design UpdatesFollowing the subversion of Internet trolling, this course attempts to amplify common yet problematic modes in fashion design practice, implement them in an intervention and learn from the irritation this creates...
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New Work LeadershipIn this workshop we want to explore processes and mindsets to get a better understanding of creative leadership. Further we want to show new tools and strategies for New Work leadership.
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Guide to Play Baroque - Playing Technique and Performance for String PlayersIn this workshop string players and educators will learn how to read Baroque music and translate the script into an adequate sound experience by using techniques specific for the string instrument. Besides that...
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Writing Ashram for PHDs and Post-DocsDuring the Writing Ashram workshop you will practice a monastic lifestyle to write extensively and push forward your text project. The daily schedule consists of defined writing times, physical exercises out in...
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The Black Sheep - A Performance SeminarWe can only experience the strangeness and differences in comparison to something that has been accepted before. A black sheep is interesting because the majority of the sheep is white. In the seminar, participants...
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The Drama WorksThis comprehensive four-day workshop guides participants through a series of precisely patterned exercises, where each of them demonstrates the essential elements of the dramatist’s craft, e.g. character, structure...
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Intensive Opera Audition Training with Prof. Gerd UeckerAre you aimed to performing in a German speaking opera house? These high-level course with an excellent concept and team will help young singers to prepare for this demanding profession. The focus will particularly...
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IBA 87 Revisited - Postmodernism in ArchitectureThe seminar will deal with the International Building Exhibition Berlin 1987 through interdisciplinary practices and strategies. Visual artists, architects and designers are invited to discuss the Postmodernism...
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Artspeak: English Language WorkshopInternational art English may be everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy! In this workshop you can boost your language skills by analysing artworks in the classroom as well as visiting exhibitions and discussing
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ideas...2018
Intensive Opera Audition Training with Prof. Cheryl StuderAre you aimed to performing in a German speaking opera house? These high-level course with an excellent concept and team will help young singers to prepare for this demanding profession. The focus will particularly...
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Berghain & Beyond - A Critical Investigation Of Berlin TechnoBerlin is recognized to be the world’s Techno capital, but for all that where does the story begin? Together - through reading texts, watching films, going on excursions and applying different approaches to musical...
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Virtual Reality - How To Design Virtual Spatial SystemsThe workshop conveys substantial knowledge about virtual reality and how it can be used as a design tool. Participants will learn how to generate 3D models from real life objects, how to build web based narrative...
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Finding the Stories - A Photography WorkshopThis workshop combines photo analysis, theory and practical photographic work. Together we will clarify the constitution of a narrative and the process of how the meaning of a photograph is being created. In addition
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Aesthetic Transformation & Sources of InspirationThis seminar allows immersing into an interdisciplinary process of aesthetic transformations with the Berlin city space as a starting point. A focus lies on the idea-generating process. How does inspiration come...
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Starting & Leading Your Own Successful Creative BusinessThis practical course helps the creatives to plan, shape, communicate, launch and lead their new creative business. It is also suitable for freelancers who want to re-start their existing creative business.
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Iron Printing in Blue - A Cyanotype WorkshopIn this practical workshop participants will go through the whole cyanotype process and will explore its application in their own artistic activity. The focus will also lie on the discussion of the cyanotype techniques...
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Your Berlin Story - An Alternative Creative Non-Fiction Writing WorkshopCome to Berlin, have a great weekend full of good content, and then write it all down as a well-crafted autobiographical piece. Under the guidance of Joseph Pearson - blogger and essayist - this alternative writing...
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Visual Identity For Women ArtistsIn this workshop you will get a general design guidelines overview and learn how to use them as a tool for your personal public profile. You will study and discuss examples of visual identities and develop your...
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Self-Marketing for Women ArtistsSelf-marketing means knowing the specifics of your own work and being able to promote it: what makes it special, is it worth exhibiting or buying? With special focus on female self-marketing, we will take a look...
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Workshop with Prof. Valérie FavreParticipants of this workshop will get a deep insight into the field of painting and develop special qualities of seeing through analyzing art works of the old and new masters. Explore new creative ways in describing...
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Transitions - Drawing and SpaceThis drawing workshop will explore transition spaces of urban Berlin and experiment with the drawing process in an open and interpretive manner. The emphasis will be put on practical artistic work in combination...
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Exp. Seminar Experiments in PerceptionThe Exp. Seminar will introduce basic knowledge in auditory and visual perception through demonstrations and reenactments of scientific experiments and perceptual phenomena. Furthermore, related artistic, architectural,...
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Cyber-aesthetic MethodsHow can we develop our own methodology towards strategies for network aesthetics using social cybernetic feedback available today? In the seminar, we will take a look at ideas, motivations and different ways of...
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Two Steps Further: Network Meeting of Cultural Management AlumniTogether with the colleagues, Cultural Management Alumni with at least five years of work experience will practice, deepen their knowledge and understanding of the diverse Berlin theatre landscape and network. The...
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Art, Money and Me. For Artists, Creative Thinkers and Cultural InstitutionsToday, it is increasingly important for artists and creative thinkers to be aware of the synergetic power between art, money and self-marketing. The workshop provides them access to the most relevant fundraising
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(Re)Discovering the CityThis four-day workshop looks at the ways in which we can both be inspired by and change our relationship to the city. We will discuss artistic strategies such as pyschogeography, situationism and urban intervention
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Storytelling - An IntroductionThe practice of storytelling enhances communicational and presentational skills, develops imagination and the ability to improvise. Participants of this workshop will learn the basic steps of oral storytelling and...
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CUT//ACT: Video (and) ActivismHave you ever wondered how media has changed over time, and how "video" has been used as a political tool? In this course, you will learn both, not least by producing an activist video yourself! You may improve...
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Intensive Opera Audition Training Masterclass with Prof. Cheryl StuderIs it your goal to have a position in a German-speaking opera house where nowadays half of the opera performances world wide occur? Our high-level Masterclasses will prepare young professional opera singers particularly...
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How To Be A Stupid - The Clown's IntelligenceClowning offers to the theatre practitioner an immense spectrum of new possibilities, a freedom that we can’t find in any other art form.
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Intensive Opera Audition Training Masterclass with Prof. Gerd UeckerIs it your goal to have a position in a German-speaking opera house where nowadays half of the opera performances world wide occur? Our high-level Masterclasses will prepare young professional opera singers particularly...
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Curating Sound Art - Exhibiting the AuditiveThe workshop conveys substantial knowledge for the curatorial practice of this exceptional art form handling the history of sound art and various positions within it, the role of the technology as well as common...
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Digital Self Marketing for MusiciansLearn about digital marketing and how one, as an artist, can effectively and successfully create and manage a brand. In this seminar, Dietrich Pflüger and Moritz ‘Mo’ Sauer will teach you the basics of brand...
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Writing Ashram for PhD-students, Post-Docs, and other Professional WritersYou are onto a big text project and want to enhance your writing productivity? Then join this Monastery-like Writing Development Residence. In the Writing Ashram you practice a monastic lifestyle to write extensively...
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Stereoscopic EtudesThis course will investigate exemplary strategies of stereo 3D image making as artistic expression. We will realise this by exploring practical excercises of making and spectating.
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The Art of Collecting ArtThis seminar is designed for emerging collectors seeking to improve their capacities for assessing quality in art. After a thorough theoretical examination of criteria that have been proposed by internet-platforms...
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Financing & Touring Performing Art ProjectsThis three day course on cultural funding in Germany includes application writing, project calculation, networking, conversation exercise and touring of work. It is designed for young or emerging artists, managers...
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The Drama WorksThis comprehensive four-day workshop guides participants through a series of precisely patterned exercises, each of which demonstrate key aspects of the essential elements of the dramatist’s craft; for example...
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Art and Money. Fundraising Concepts and Practice for Artists and InstitutionsThis workshop provides artists and creative minds access to the most relevant fundraising concepts and strategies. It includes concrete examples of modern fundraising practice, case studies and exercises.
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Exhibition Structure - Structure in ExhibitionStructures of exhibitions emerge on different levels, including architecture, graphic-, spacial- and media-design plus planning and organisation. The workshop highlights various aspects of exhibition design, which...
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Storytelling - An IntroductionWhat are the basic steps of oral storytelling? This workshop examines how we can give a story its voice back. Storytelling enhances communication and presentational skills, as well as developing imagination and...
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Self Marketing in the International Art SceneSelf-marketing means knowing your work and communicating it: what makes it special, why should somebody decide to feature or buy it? We will look at how to create oppurtunities and how to present the work. We will...
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Leadership for Innovation. Creating Change in OrganizationsThis three-day workshop shows participants strategies and tools for creative leadership and post-hierarchical management. We will explore the structures, processes and mindsets that can be established or changed...
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Starting and Leading your own Successful Creative BusinessWorking with the tried and tested "Creative Enterprise Toolkit" by the British innovation body NESTA, this practical four-day course helps creative minds to plan, shape, communicate, launch, and lead their new creative...
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'Streit' as a Design Method"Streit" (conflict/dissent/dispute) is often perceived to be a threat, a destructive force that shouldn’t be unleashed. This workshop explores a different understanding of this term as we try to study its creative...
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EGO - Visual Identity for ArtistsAs an artist you need to represent yourself and your work occasionally. In this three-day workshop you will learn about the basic elements of visual identity and how to use them. You will study and discuss contemporary...
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Transit Zone Pavilion - A Public Intervention Project With SoundThis seven-day public intervention workshop offers an opportunity for artistic practices by emphasizing on sound. Participants will be encouraged to reflect and intervene on public space and daily life, focusing...
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Organ à la carteA five-day workshop on the most important organs in and around Berlin by Prof. Paolo Crivellaro and Prof. Leo van Doeselaar. Each day is devoted to a major composer in organ history and concentrates on an instrument...
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Apps in Music EducationIn this workshop, we will introduce you to new educational settings and recent music technologies. Teachers and musicians are invited to enhance their toolset in musical projects with mobile technologies.
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Berlin Techno - Between Myth and RealityBerlin is in many respects a centre for Electronic Dance Music (EDM), combining a vivid, internationally recognized club scene, numerous record stores and special synthesizer shops, and local music hard- and software...
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Workshop with Valérie FavreParticipants of this workshop will get a deep insight into the field of painting and will elaborate the special qualities of seeing within a laboratory of the old and new masters. Find new creative ways in describing...
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Transitions - Drawing and SpaceThis drawing workshop will explore spaces of transition in urban Berlin and will experiment with drawing in an open interpretive manner. The emphasis will be on practical artistic work paired with critical discourse.
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Song to ToolsThis workshop will continue researching how musical composition, improvisation and production techniques can be applied as generative composition tools in any creative work. Specifically, this class will elaborate...
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Explore Berlin through Narrative: A Creative Non-Fiction WorkshopWhat is your Berlin story? This writing workshop explores the German capital through the genre of ‘creative non-fiction’, or essays based on real experiences. Students study the city, get lost in plot, then...
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What will we do when the World endsMany of us find ourselves contemplating an environment (political, social, environmental), that is undergoing radical change. In this four day workshop, we will form a research lab together, bringing our own fears,...
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Digital MaterialityIn this workshop we will analyse digital technologies from their material properties to help grasp what they are, how they are changing us and how we can change them as well. We will explore the ever diversifying,...
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The Other - The Training of Being IrritatedIn this seminar we will exercise ourselves in being irritated and astonished and in finding things striking. We will use the careful beginner’s spirit and an open perception of the Other to view the familiar in...
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Opera Audition Preparation Masterclass with Prof. Gerd UeckerIt is your goal to have a position in a German-speaking opera house? Then this intensive and innovative master class for young professional singers is just right for you! This high-level course with Prof. Gerd Uecker...
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Digital Self-Marketing for MusiciansLearn about digital marketing and how one, as an artist, can effectively and successfully create and manage a brand. In this seminar, Dietrich Pflüger and Moritz ‘Mo’ Sauer will teach you the basics of brand...
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Opera Audition Preparation Masterclass with Prof. Cheryl StuderIt is your goal to have a position in a German-speaking opera house? Then this intensive and innovative master class for young professional singers is just right for you! This high-level course with Prof. Cheryl...
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Leadership for Innovation. How to manage Creative TeamsThis three-day workshop shows participants strategies and tools for creative leadership and post-hierarchical management. We explore which structures and processes enable teams to collaborate effectively and thrive...
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The Art of Collecting Art - A Brief but Useful GuideThis is a compact two-day seminar that will be of interest to emerging collectors seeking to improve their capacities for assessing quality in art.
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Financing & Touring Performing Art ProjectsA three-day course on cultural funding in Germany. Course content includes application writing, project calculation, networking and touring of work. For young or emerging artists, managers or producers in the field...
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Writing Ashram - a monastic Writing Development ResidenceIn a Writing Ashram we use the method of a monastic lifestyle to enhance writing productivity. This special work environment allows you to deepen your writing process, improve your self regulation, enforce your...
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The Drama WorksThis comprehensive four day workshop guides you through a series of precisely patterned exercises that demonstrate the essential elements of the dramatist’s craft. The Drama Works is for participants of all levels;...
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Art and Money. Fundraising Concepts and Practice for Artists and InstitutionsThe workshop provides artists and creative thinkers access to the most relevant fundraising concepts and strategies. It includes concrete examples of modern fundraising practice, case studies and exercises.
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Self-Marketing in the International Art SceneSelf Marketing means knowing your work and communicating it: what makes it special, why buy? We will deal with the do's/don’ts of formal sales and informal networking situations, money talk and negotiation, as...
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Service Design Advanced Course: Deepening Service Design SkillsThis course is a service design seminar geared towards those with a basic level of experience as service designers. Throughout the course participants will strengthen their skills in the development of user-centric...
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Transit Zone Pavilion - A Public Intervention Project With SoundThis seven day public intervention workshop emphasizing on sound, offers an opportunity for artistic practices. Participants will be encouraged to reflect and intervene on public space and daily life, focusing on...
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Starting and Leading your own Successful Creative BusinessWorking with the "Creative Enterprise Toolkit" by the British innovation body NESTA and learning from the Cultural Leadership Programme, this practically oriented course will enable participants to develop entrepreneurial...
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KlangKunstBühne spezial: She She PopIn one-week intensive working phases, participants are given the opportunity to watch over the shoulders of intermedial active artists like the Russian director and famous voice and speech coach Jurij Vasiljev or...
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Creating Business Models based on User-Centered ServicesThe creative industries are becoming more service-focused as never before and designers as well as entrepreneurs need to adapt. This workshop will give you a deep understanding of the methods and tools of Service...
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Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: City WritingHow to write polished non-fiction about Berlin? How to summon the desires and exhilaration of city life on the printed page? Participants workshop their own essays - conjuring the senses of Berlin - to imagine the...
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KlangKunstBühne spezial: Jurij VasiljevIn one-week intensive working phases, participants are given the opportunity to watch over the shoulders of intermedial active artists like the Russian director and famous voice and speech coach Jurij Vasiljev or...
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Workshop with Valérie Favre & Robert LucanderGuided by these two famous artists, participants of this workshop will get a deep insight into the field of painting and will have the possibility to discuss their own work with Valérie Favre and Robert Lucander...
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Channel your Creativity. Develop a Business Concept in Three DaysThe workshop gives aspiring entrepreneurs tangible tools and creative confidence to develop their own business ideas. The coaches, co-founders of Dark Horse Innovation, show participants how to use their talents...
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À la recherche du temps perdu - A Digital Graphic NovelIn this workshop we will create a Digital Graphic Novel based on extracts of "À la recherche du temps perdu" by Marcel Proust by using the animated GIF format. Oscillating between past present and future, we are...
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