About the Programme „pik“
The programme pik aims to improve the working situation of artists with disabilities. Its funding measures help cultural institutions carry out their operations more inclusively and hire artistic personal with disabilities.
The programme aims to initiate a necessary transformation within cultural institutions, from which all artists can benefit. In a society where diversity plays an influential role, inclusive culture encourages us to focus on the abilities and needs of different people and to consider new perspectives on artistic practice and collaboration. It initiates a process which ultimately benefits everyone.
The programme promotes artistic innovation and offers support to persons with disabilities. It consists of three modules, each of which targets different groups and artistic areas and aims to establish an inclusive cultural scene in Germany. These include an application-based mentoring programme for disabled leadership, a network for the performing arts, and consultation services offered by a nationwide operating team of advisors specialised in culture and inclusion. The advisors are tasked with developing a public academy programme for cultural participants and evaluating and communicating the results of the programme.
The individual funding measures are targeted at people with physical, psychological and cognitive impairments. The decisive factor is the person’s own self-designation.
The Programme for Inclusive Artistic Practice – pik will run for four years (2022-2025) and has been allocated 3.9 million euros in funding from the Federal Cultural Foundation.
Facts about the programme
- Programme
- pik – Programme for Inclusive Artistic Practice
- Funding period
- 2022 – 2025
- Funded projects
- 7 partnerships in the network
up to 45 mentorships - Funding amount
- 3.9 million euros
Mentoring Programme for Disabled Leadership
The cross-disciplinary mentoring programme for disabled leaders supports artists with disabilities on their path to obtaining qualification for management positions in cultural projects and institutions in all artistic areas. Consequently, the programme serves to promote career opportunities for disabled persons and encourage discussion on new leadership models.
The programme accepts applications from all persons with disabilities who are either already working as artists or are involved in artistically related professional fields such as curation, dramaturgy and art education.
As part of the application process, the participants reach out to their desired mentors and ask them to confirm a proposed mentorship. During the mentoring period, the mentees discuss their planned artistic career path with their mentors, their prospects of promotion and the potential obstacles to assuming leadership tasks in cultural organisations. Most of the mentors are German and international artists, dramaturges and curators who have disabilities themselves.
A total of up to 45 mentees can be sponsored in the years 2023 to 2025. In addition to receiving advice from their experienced mentors, each mentee will be granted up to 500 euros per month in project funding over a period of 8 months. The Executive Board is responsible for awarding funding and selecting the mentees on the basis of recommendations provided by an independent jury.
Jury results
Application for the mentoring program
Network for Inclusive Theatre Partnerships
The network is comprised of seven partnerships between city and state theatres, an international production firm and independent theatres or theatre groups which have adopted inclusive working methods in the performing arts in the past and wish to broaden their expertise in these model projects even further. The Federal Cultural Foundation will accompany and evaluate the new projects developed by the network’s members. The results will be subsequently presented in an education programme / academy so that the experience gained from the model projects can be shared on a broader scale.
Consultation and public academy programme
The Federal Cultural Foundation appointed a team of experts to supervise the programme, offer nationwide consultation to institutions implementing inclusion-related projects, and develop a public academy programme comprised of various artistic areas. The team is bringing together political decision-makers, trade association representatives and professionals from the field of culturally specific inclusion, provide ongoing evaluation of the programme and is informing participants and the public about the results of the programme. The team of disabled creative artists and their allies is working together to address issues of mutual interest.
Events
No upcoming events at present
Previous events
30 October, 2025 to 1 November, 2025: inkl. – Inclusive Festival for Theatre, Dance and Performance
An event by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
Deutsches Theater Berlin, Berlin
: Inclusive Artistic Practice in the Theater
Panel discussion with experts from theater, dance and literature
Schauspiel Dortmund, Dortmund
28 November, 2024 to 30 November, 2024: Academy for Inclusive Artistic Practice #2
Non-publice event
Schauspiel Dortmund, Dortmund
21 November, 2024 : Online-Consultation for pik Mentoring Programme for Disabled Leadership
Zoom, Please register via pik@kulturstiftung-bund.de
30 April, 2024 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de
10 April, 2024 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de
21 March, 2024 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de
13 January, 2024 : Theater: Wie inklusiv kann es sein?
Öffentliches Podiumsgespräch mit Expert*innen aus Theater, Tanz und Literatur sowie einem künstlerischen Input von Wolfram Lotz und Linda Fisahn
Münchner Kammerspiele, Therese-Giehse-Halle, Falckenbergstraße 1 , München
12 January, 2024 to 13 January, 2024: Akademie für inklusive Kunstpraxis #1
Eine nicht-öffentliche Veranstaltung der Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Münchner Kammerspiele, Falckenbergstraße 2 , München
5 September, 2023 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de
23 August, 2023 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de
5 July, 2023 : Online-Beratung zum Mentoring für Disabled Leadership
Anmeldung unter pik(at)kulturstiftung-bund.de