8. Roundtable: Awareness & Diversity—Minimum Standards and Values for Club Culture

With clubs and venues reopening, and after more than two years of intensive work, dialogue, networking, and mutual learning, we are once again focusing specifically on one of the core visions that inspired us to launch the Awareness Academy project in 2020: Awareness & Diversity—minimum standards and values for club culture.

We are now in the third year of the Awareness Academy—we launched it with the goal, among others, of working with you to establish shared values and achievable guidelines regarding anti-discrimination, awareness-raising, and the promotion of diversity and equality in Berlin’s club culture.

Despite the pandemic and the resulting state of emergency for society—and especially for our scene—the Awareness Academy has found its footing, worked hard, provided guidance, and created opportunities for dialogue, networking, and professional development, which are now being embraced with trust, great interest, and commitment. In these dialogues, we repeatedly arrive at the conclusion that an Awareness & Diversity Code of Values can be an essential and helpful tool for bringing about lasting positive change in Berlin’s club culture.

Accordingly, we would like to work with you this year to delve deeper into the development of such values and standards. This roundtable is intended to serve as the initial impetus for this process. For this reason, we will forego the usual lecture-style presentations and instead spend the three hours engaging with you through workshops and discussions. We very much hope that many of you will participate.

May 31, 2022, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location: Fitzroy, S-Bahn Bogen 46, Holzmarktstraße 15, 10179 Berlin

Register at: awareness@clubcommission.de

AGENDA

6:00 PM – 6:20 PM: Welcome remarks, a recap of the past few months, and an update on current activities of the Awareness & Diversity Working Group of the Club Commission/Awareness Academy

6:20 PM – 6:40 PM Keynote: Values – What Are We Actually Talking About?

6:50–7:30 p.m. Workshop Phase I: Values

7:40–8:30 p.m. Workshop Phase II: Strategies & Minimum Standards

8:30–9:00 p.m. Presentation and group discussion of the results

9:00 PM – 9:05 PM Conclusion & Outlook

We invite everyone involved in the fields of awareness, anti-discrimination, and Berlin’s club culture—club owners and staff, collectives, festivals, initiatives, event organizers, bookers, researchers, consultants, interested individuals, and more. We welcome both those who are already actively engaged with the topics of awareness and diversity in club culture, as well as those who are just getting started. The goal is to work together to develop achievable guidelines and values regarding awareness and diversity in club culture.

We will conduct the roundtable in German and English.