1 question
2 free space
3 decide
4 connect
5 learning
6 try it out
7 listening
8 join
SPACES
21.–22.09.2023
LaPROF is an association for independent artists and theater groups in Hesse. Free theater groups and free artists are not at a large theater. They make theater and art in smaller houses, in schools, on market places or even on the internet.
2023 LaPROF organizes the Branchentreff in Wiesbaden for the first time.
The Branchentreff will be an event where artists and performers can meet. The Branchentreff will be a meeting place for people to talk about how they are doing in their work. They can talk about what help they need or what they can learn from others.
At the Branchentreff they can make contacts with others with whom they might want to work together one day.
Artists, students, politicians, funding institutions and associations that work for justice are invited.
There are several things happening at the Branch Meeting. There will be food free of charge. There will be workshops where you can learn for your work.
In panel discussions artists and experts from different fields exchange about different topics. They talk about the condition of guest performances, about the need of Safer Spaces, about digital performances and about collective leadership.You can come and listen to the discussions and also ask questions.
There are consultations for example about insurances.
In the market of possibilities you can get to know different associations, initiatives and funding institutions.
In the talk show format with cultural politicians and artists you can listen and ask questions.
The program lasts from Friday evening to Saturday evening.It is also possible to watch theater performances. At the same time the MADE.Festival takes place. The MADE.Festival is a theater festival with plays from Hessen. The festival is organized together with independent theaters in Wiesbaden, the Hessian State Theater and the Wiesbaden Cultural Office.
Independent theater groups do not necessarily show their plays in big houses and city theaters. They show their plays in marketplaces, in pubs, on websites, next to monuments or they take walks. So independent theater groups perform in very many different places and spaces.
In different places there are different rules. Some rules are known to many people. Some rules are invisible and not written down anywhere. Some rules exclude people. We want to talk about which rules are good and which are not so good. We want to talk about where theater can be played everywhere. We want to talk about who plays theater where. We want to talk about how theater is played and made in these different places.
17 – 19 h
Freiräume(n)
10–12 h
Free performing arts and guest-performances
This is the start of the branch meeting. In this conversation, artists and organizers talk together about spaces. What spaces are there for theater pieces? What rules do these spaces have? What spaces do we want for plays? Who has which spaces? Who needs which spaces? How can spaces be created or cleared?
Keynote: Paola Wechs (Free Urbanist)
Moderation: Philipp Schulte (Hessian Theatre Academy)
Bárbara Luci Carvalho (protagon e.V.)
Ines Wuttke (FLUX)
Heike Meister (raumstation 3539 Gießen)
Mareike Buchmann (Performance artist & movement researcher)
Language: German / in german spoken language
In this conversation we talk about guest performances. Independent theater groups travel to different cities and countries and show their plays there. This is very exhausting and needs a lot of different support. In this conversation we would like to talk about what kind of help independent theater companies need to show their plays in different places. What do artists need to be able to go on tour. How does funding have to change?
Moderation: Katja Hergenhahn (MADE.festival)
Thomas Best (DIE STROMER, Darmstadt)
Tümay Kılınçel (Choreographie, Performance)
Johanna Kiesel (INTHEGA Hessen)
Language: german / in german spoken language
10–12 h
Safer Space (WT)
In this conversation we will talk about Safer Spaces. Safer Spaces is a name that comes from the anti-racism movement. Safer Spaces are spaces where people are not hurt mentally and physically. Many people are hurt every day because of their origin, language, religion, skin color, disability, gender or sexual identity or sexual orientation. This happens consciously and unconsciously. Safer spaces are spaces into which only people who share these experiences are allowed. In the theater, a lot of psychological injuries also take place. In the conversation we want to talk about how we* can make safer spaces.
Moderation: Sharon Jamila Hutchinson (Visual and Performing Arts, Cultural Politics)
Ana Paula dos Santos (Photographer)
Dr. Sakhile Matlhare (Sakhile&Me)
Sulti (Climate-Antiracist Activist)
Language: German & English / in german and english spoken language
14–16 h
collective leadership
In the big theaters, there is often only one boss. This is not so good for the people who work for the boss. There are a lot of injustices and injuries that can happen because of that. Free groups often do it differently. In free theater groups there are often many bosses. They think about how they can decide together. In this conversation we talk about how we can decide together. What becomes more difficult, what becomes better? What do we need for this?
Moderation: Martina Ruhsam (JLU)
Andrea Rohrberg (Coach)
Elke Weber (SheShePop)
Markus Dross (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt)
Language: in german / in german spoken language
14–16 h
body in digital space
In this conversation we talk about digital media and the theater. There are pieces of theater that are on the Internet. So you don't have to go to a theater anymore to watch theater. Many artists use also different modern technologies for their shows. The artists are thinking a lot about what the new technologies are doing to us humans. We also want to talk about what our bodies have to do with it. We want to talk about how our bodies and which bodies are connected to the internet, for example. Who has control over these technologies and who doesn't. You can make politics with these technologies. We want to talk about how that works.
Moderation: Janne Kummer
Post-Organic Bauplan
Shasti
Vanessa Amoah Opoku (Media Artist)
Language: in English / in english spoken language
17–18:30 h
federal state election 2023
State elections are coming up soon.
In this interview, politicians from the SPD, CDU, Bündnis90 die Grünen, LINKE and FDP talk about the work of independent theater groups and independent artists. We ask the politicians what they want to do for independent theater groups. We ask them what plans they have to help independent theater groups. We talk about how they helped in the last years and what worked and what did not. We ask the politicians how they can help the artists, so that there are many different plays to see in Hessen in the future.
Moderation: Cécile Schortmann (3Sat)
Andreas Hofmeister (CDU)
Elisabeth Kula (LINKE)
Mirjam Schmidt (GRÜNE)
Gernot Grumbach (SPD)
Dr. Stefan Naas (FDP)
Language: German / in german spoken language
** whisper translation into English will be provided
WORKSHOP
10–13 h
collective leadership
Andrea Rohrberg, coach and supervisor. She knows how to make decisions together. If companies or theaters have questions about how it works to have not only one boss, Andrea Rohrberg can help them. She also knows what to do when there are many bosses and there are disputes. In the workshop Andrea Rohrberg will talk about her work. In the workshop we can try out together how to decide together. Andrea Rohrberg has many tips and tricks.
Speaker: Andrea Rohrberg
Language: German /English will be decided in the group
Registration at site
14–17 h
Rethinking the Stage!
Many theatre performances exclude many people. For example, in most plays you have to be able to hear or see. Or you have to be able to understand very difficult language. These are barriers that exclude people.
Aesthetic of Access means the beauty of access. Nils from the company Un-Label has a lot of experience and many ideas how artists can break down these barriers.
Un-Label
Speaker: Nils Rottgardt
Language: German / in german spoken language
registration at site
MORE FORMATS
12–14 h
16–17 h
18:30–19:30 h
PEOPLE
Free registration for the event: anmeldung@laprof.de
From Frankfurt main station - Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden can be reached from Frankfurt by S-Bahn (S1, S9 - approx. 45 minutes).
The fastest way is to take the VIA RB10 (35 minutes), which runs every half hour. From Wiesbaden to Frankfurt, the trains run regularly until about 11 pm.
Wiesbaden main station - Altes Gericht
On foot 12 minutes
By bus:
You can reach the Altes Gericht from Wiesbaden main railway station with the Bus lines 6 (Wiesbaden) and 3 (Wiesbaden Nordfriedhof) and 16 (Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg Hofgartenplatz) to the Adelheidstraße stop. From here it is a minute's walk back along Moritzstraße and the first junction turn right onto Gerichtsstraße. The large building on the left is the Alte Gericht.
The building is not barrier-free.
The event will take place in an old courthouse in which the "Heimathafen" has now set up a co-working space, a shared office.
The main entrance of the building is only accessible via several staircases. There is a lift entrance on the corner of Albrechtsstraße and Moritzstraße. If you need help with steps or need a wheelchair or pushchair friendly environment - please write to us in advance and we will arrange for escort and pick-up.
There is seating in the backyard for breaks.
All program points are free of charge
1 question
2 free space
3 decide
4 connect
5 learning
6 try it out
7 listening
8 join
SPACES
21.–22.09.2023
LaPROF is an association for independent artists and theater groups in Hesse. Free theater groups and free artists are not at a large theater. They make theater and art in smaller houses, in schools, on market places or even on the internet.
2023 LaPROF organizes the Branchentreff in Wiesbaden for the first time.
The Branchentreff will be an event where artists and performers can meet. The Branchentreff will be a meeting place for people to talk about how they are doing in their work. They can talk about what help they need or what they can learn from others.
At the Branchentreff they can make contacts with others with whom they might want to work together one day.
Artists, students, politicians, funding institutions and associations that work for justice are invited.
There are several things happening at the Branch Meeting. There will be food free of charge. There will be workshops where you can learn for your work.
In panel discussions artists and experts from different fields exchange about different topics. They talk about the condition of guest performances, about the need of Safer Spaces, about digital performances and about collective leadership.You can come and listen to the discussions and also ask questions.
There are consultations for example about insurances.
In the market of possibilities you can get to know different associations, initiatives and funding institutions.
In the talk show format with cultural politicians and artists you can listen and ask questions.
The program lasts from Friday evening to Saturday evening.It is also possible to watch theater performances. At the same time the MADE.Festival takes place. The MADE.Festival is a theater festival with plays from Hessen. The festival is organized together with independent theaters in Wiesbaden, the Hessian State Theater and the Wiesbaden Cultural Office.
Independent theater groups do not necessarily show their plays in big houses and city theaters. They show their plays in marketplaces, in pubs, on websites, next to monuments or they take walks. So independent theater groups perform in very many different places and spaces.
In different places there are different rules. Some rules are known to many people. Some rules are invisible and not written down anywhere. Some rules exclude people. We want to talk about which rules are good and which are not so good. We want to talk about where theater can be played everywhere. We want to talk about who plays theater where. We want to talk about how theater is played and made in these different places.
17 – 19 h
Freiräume(n)
This is the start of the branch meeting. In this conversation, artists and organizers talk together about spaces. What spaces are there for theater pieces? What rules do these spaces have? What spaces do we want for plays? Who has which spaces? Who needs which spaces? How can spaces be created or cleared?
Keynote: Paola Wechs (Free Urbanist)
Moderation: Philipp Schulte (Hessian Theatre Academy)
Bárbara Luci Carvalho (protagon e.V.)
Ines Wuttke (FLUX)
Heike Meister (raumstation 3539 Gießen)
Mareike Buchmann (Performance artist & movement researcher)
Language: German / in german spoken language
10–12 h
Free performing arts and guest-performances
In this conversation we talk about guest performances. Independent theater groups travel to different cities and countries and show their plays there. This is very exhausting and needs a lot of different support. In this conversation we would like to talk about what kind of help independent theater companies need to show their plays in different places. What do artists need to be able to go on tour. How does funding have to change?
Moderation: Katja Hergenhahn (MADE.festival)
Thomas Best (DIE STROMER, Darmstadt)
Tümay Kılınçel (Choreographie, Performance)
Johanna Kiesel (INTHEGA Hessen)
Language: german / in german spoken language
10–12 h
Safer Space (WT)
In this conversation we will talk about Safer Spaces. Safer Spaces is a name that comes from the anti-racism movement. Safer Spaces are spaces where people are not hurt mentally and physically. Many people are hurt every day because of their origin, language, religion, skin color, disability, gender or sexual identity or sexual orientation. This happens consciously and unconsciously. Safer spaces are spaces into which only people who share these experiences are allowed. In the theater, a lot of psychological injuries also take place. In the conversation we want to talk about how we* can make safer spaces.
Moderation: Sharon Jamila Hutchinson (Visual and Performing Arts, Cultural Politics)
Ana Paula dos Santos (Photographer)
Dr. Sakhile Matlhare (Sakhile&Me)
Sulti (Climate-Antiracist Activist)
Language: German & English / in german and english spoken language
14–16 h
collective leadership
In the big theaters, there is often only one boss. This is not so good for the people who work for the boss. There are a lot of injustices and injuries that can happen because of that. Free groups often do it differently. In free theater groups there are often many bosses. They think about how they can decide together. In this conversation we talk about how we can decide together. What becomes more difficult, what becomes better? What do we need for this?
Moderation: Martina Ruhsam (JLU)
Andrea Rohrberg (Coach)
Elke Weber (SheShePop)
Markus Dross (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt)
Language: in german / in german spoken language
14–16 h
body in digital space
In this conversation we talk about digital media and the theater. There are pieces of theater that are on the Internet. So you don't have to go to a theater anymore to watch theater. Many artists use also different modern technologies for their shows. The artists are thinking a lot about what the new technologies are doing to us humans. We also want to talk about what our bodies have to do with it. We want to talk about how our bodies and which bodies are connected to the internet, for example. Who has control over these technologies and who doesn't. You can make politics with these technologies. We want to talk about how that works.
Moderation: Janne Kummer
Post-Organic Bauplan
Shasti
Vanessa Amoah Opoku (Media Artist)
Language: in English / in english spoken language
17–18:30 h
federal state election 2023
State elections are coming up soon.
In this interview, politicians from the SPD, CDU, Bündnis90 die Grünen, LINKE and FDP talk about the work of independent theater groups and independent artists. We ask the politicians what they want to do for independent theater groups. We ask them what plans they have to help independent theater groups. We talk about how they helped in the last years and what worked and what did not. We ask the politicians how they can help the artists, so that there are many different plays to see in Hessen in the future.
Moderation: Cécile Schortmann (3Sat)
Andreas Hofmeister (CDU)
Elisabeth Kula (LINKE)
Mirjam Schmidt (GRÜNE)
Gernot Grumbach (SPD)
Dr. Stefan Naas (FDP)
Language: German / in german spoken language
** whisper translation into English will be provided
WORKSHOP
10–13 h
collective leadership
Andrea Rohrberg, coach and supervisor. She knows how to make decisions together. If companies or theaters have questions about how it works to have not only one boss, Andrea Rohrberg can help them. She also knows what to do when there are many bosses and there are disputes. In the workshop Andrea Rohrberg will talk about her work. In the workshop we can try out together how to decide together. Andrea Rohrberg has many tips and tricks.
Speaker: Andrea Rohrberg
Language: German /English will be decided in the group
Registration at site
14–17 h
Rethinking the Stage!
Many theatre performances exclude many people. For example, in most plays you have to be able to hear or see. Or you have to be able to understand very difficult language. These are barriers that exclude people.
Aesthetic of Access means the beauty of access. Nils from the company Un-Label has a lot of experience and many ideas how artists can break down these barriers.
Un-Label
Speaker: Nils Rottgardt
Language: German / in german spoken language
registration at site
MORE FORMATS
12–14 h
16–17 h
18:30–19:30 h
PEOPLE
Free registration for the event: anmeldung@laprof.de
From Frankfurt main station - Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden can be reached from Frankfurt by S-Bahn (S1, S9 - approx. 45 minutes).
The fastest way is to take the VIA RB10 (35 minutes), which runs every half hour. From Wiesbaden to Frankfurt, the trains run regularly until about 11 pm.
Wiesbaden main station - Altes Gericht
On foot 12 minutes
By bus:
You can reach the Altes Gericht from Wiesbaden main railway station with the Bus lines 6 (Wiesbaden) and 3 (Wiesbaden Nordfriedhof) and 16 (Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg Hofgartenplatz) to the Adelheidstraße stop. From here it is a minute's walk back along Moritzstraße and the first junction turn right onto Gerichtsstraße. The large building on the left is the Alte Gericht.
The building is not barrier-free.
The event will take place in an old courthouse in which the "Heimathafen" has now set up a co-working space, a shared office.
The main entrance of the building is only accessible via several staircases. There is a lift entrance on the corner of Albrechtsstraße and Moritzstraße. If you need help with steps or need a wheelchair or pushchair friendly environment - please write to us in advance and we will arrange for escort and pick-up.
There is seating in the backyard for breaks.
All program points are free of charge