Backstage club
The Backstage Club offers a series of international workshops designed to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing among artists and cultural professionals. Focused on key topics like sustainable touring, diversity in cultural production, and alternative funding sources, these workshops support emerging and mid-career artists. The events, hosted in Athens, Düsseldorf, and Budapest, aim to strengthen the resilience of the performing arts sector through fair practices and cross-border cooperation.
Backstage Club, international workshops, cultural professionals, performing arts events, sustainable touring, diversity in cultural production, alternative funding for artists, cultural exchange, cross-border collaboration, arts resilience
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About the series

Backstage Club is an international workshop series tackling key aspects of international collaborations, such as: fair practices taking into account the different cultural and socio-political contexts; cross-border collaborations in time of environmental crisis; diversity aspects. The event series is open to artists and cultural professionals locally and internationally as well. It aims to foster knowledge sharing by involving key experts in the field as workshop holders, initiate collaborative thinking among the participants on the topics and improve awareness of cultural professionals and artists to international opportunities (such as funding and partnership development). 

The first Backstage Club took place in April 2024 in Athens-Greece, with two more to follow in 2025 in Budapest-Hungary and Dusseldorf-Germany respectively.

Workshops

Athens – Sustainable touring & equal opportunities

The event focused on the aspects of international presence of emerging and mid-career artists in the European and global markets. It aimed to provide an understanding of the different contexts based on which the opportunities for international visibility and international touring need to be examined. This means for example the different access to sustainable means of travel, different levels of financial resources that are needed to tackle environmental issues. In the frame of the event participants gained insights to good practices in the international sphere, and were given the platform to discuss and approach to each other their different realities.

Budapest – Mental health of cultural professionals, sustainable planning & technical aspect of production

The workshop will be organised in the frame of Nextfeszt, a festival for emerging artists in Hungary. The partners will offer discussions and workshops on crucial aspects of cultural production, such as the question of how could we lower the high burnout rate in the field; establishing more sustainable ways of working; creating a better understanding among technician professionals, artists and managers through joint training on technical aspects of production and touring.

Düsseldorf – Diversity
Over two days, the Backstage Club invites professionals to come together and reinforce the indispensable links in the artistic ecosystem of research, production, and presentation. Caring for Culture starts with a Culture of Care: for each one and one another. When facing challenging times, how do we strengthen our (collective) structures to develop a sustainable practice?