Club Culture Hub – Resilient Futures

Shared visions for the social sustainability and future viability of Berlin’s club culture

A Clubcommission networking event organized by Club Culture Hub—which includes Awareness Akademie, consulting services for clubs, and the Free Open Air Initiative.

Shared visions for the social sustainability and future viability of Berlin’s club culture

A Clubcommission networking event organized by Awareness Akademie, Beratungsangebot, and Free Open Air Initiative, featuring workshops, on-site counseling, and a panel discussion.

Join us for Clubcommission’s full-day networking event, featuring insights from our long-term projects: Awareness Akademie, Free Open Air Initiative, and Consulting.

In keeping with the spirit of the Club Culture Hub, this event aims to bring people together, share knowledge, provide practical tools, and discuss ways to build a resilient future for club culture through workshops, on-site counseling, a panel discussion, and networking opportunities.

How can we strengthen and expand existing structures while creating space for new ideas, care practices, and sustainable ways of working? And how can the Club Culture Hub actively support this process?

WHEN: Thursday, December 4, 2:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: Tresor/Globus, Köpenickerstraße 70, 10179 Berlin

We’ll bring these topics together with an afternoon of workshops and on-site counseling, followed by an evening panel discussion and networking session featuring free food, coffee, and cold drinks.

The Club Culture Hub team will be on hand all day. There will be plenty of opportunities to mingle and network over cake and coffee during the workshop sessions. The event will be held in English and German. Translation services will be available.

PROGRAM

2–6 p.m. Workshops and Counseling

The "How to" Awareness Concept

How to build a (temporary) club

On-site counseling on legal matters, permits, and funding opportunities, noise protection, and awareness-related topics

7 p.m. Panel

“Shaping What’s Next: Perspectives on the Future of Berlin’s Club Culture” with Aziz Sarr, BLEACH, Dimitri Hegemann, Mia von Matt aka Cvntmom and yung_womb

WORKSHOPS

2–4 p.m. The "How to Awareness" Concept by Roses of Care

How do we create safer, more inclusive, and accountable spaces—not only at events, but also within our own collectives and organizations? This will then be reflected in and extend to the events and spaces we create. Clubs, cultural spaces, and collectives often recognize the need for awareness concepts and structures but struggle with where to start, how to build them, or how to make them sustainable. This short introductory workshop is designed as a space to support clubs, event organizers, and collectives in developing or revising their awareness concepts and structures.

4–6 p.m. Workshop “How to Build a (Temporary) Club?” – with Jakob Turtur (Jonny Knüppel) & Martin Fuller (Academy for Subcultural Understanding at Tresor)

Do you want to start a club, set up a temporary venue, or create a community space? This workshop guides participants through the essential foundations of a clear and authentic concept, covering core elements such as vision and mission, spatial identity, target audience, branding, musical profile, and key considerations for sound, lighting, and sustainability. Building on this conceptual groundwork, the workshop also explores the practical dimensions of infrastructure, approval procedures, and location scouting, offering support for both new initiatives and the further development of existing projects.

ON-SITE COUNSELING

Experts from various fields will be available on-site to answer any questions you may have regarding:

Legal matters (Härting)
Funding opportunities (KreativKultur)
Noise protection (Club Commission)
Awareness (Roses of Care & Queer Mama)
Sustainability (clubtopia)
Safer Use & Safer Sex (SONAR & Sidekicks)

Shaping What’s Next: Perspectives on the Future of Berlin’s Club Culture

At a time of rapid social, political, and economic transformation, this panel brings together pioneering and emerging voices from Berlin’s nightlife scene to explore how the city’s club culture can respond to ongoing challenges such as the loss of open spaces, rising rents, commercialization, and shifting cultural conditions.

Instead of focusing on the crisis, this discussion invites collective imagination:
What have we lost or neglected? What needs to be reclaimed? What could an ideal, resilient club culture look like in Berlin’s future?

We discuss how club operators and workers, as well as community organizers and collectives, can build sustainable structures, preserve spaces for marginalized groups, and develop more independent models.

As established clubs close and new underground venues emerge on the outskirts of the city, Berlin’s nightlife is entering a period of transition. This conversation explores what these changes mean for access, creativity, and the long-term sustainability of the scene, and how we can shape a future in which club culture remains self-determined, inclusive, and vibrant.

SPEAKER

Aziz (MAAYA)

BLEACH (POPPERS)

Dimitri Hegemann (Tresor)

Mia von Matt, aka Cvntmom (Diskota Forte)

yung_womb (SLIC Unit)

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