OPEN CALL Queer Performance Festival 2026
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Queer Performance Festival returns for its second edition in the first week of November 2026. QPF is a Berlin-wide platform for queer and queered performance, connecting artists across disciplines. Created by the community, for the community, the festival celebrates the art, resistance, and brilliance of queer forms of expression.
This year’s theme is: 404 IDENTITY NOT FOUND A space to imagine queer futures, explore digital intimacies, practice resistance, and create new forms of belonging. We invite works that respond to exclusion, censorship, surveillance, and political backlash, as well as works that explore pleasure, agency, transformation, and queer world-making. What does 404 IDENTITY NOT FOUND awaken in you?
We invite you to present a piece responding to this year’s theme at Theater im Delphi on 7 November 2026. We particularly welcome applications from artists whose voices and experiences are often underrepresented in the arts, including BIPoC, disabled, trans, and migrant artists.
Who can apply? - Queer performers, musicians, and interdisciplinary creators - Solo artists, duos, trios, and collectives - Artists with finished works or works-in-progress - Artists interested in developing new collaborations with other participating artists
To participate, you will need: - A German tax number - To be based in Berlin or able to travel to Berlin independently - Availability on 7 November 2026 for rehearsal and performance (additional stage rehearsal opportunity on 6 November 2026)
What kind of work are we looking for? - We welcome work across disciplines, practices, and performance traditions, including dance, drag, ballroom culture, cabaret, performance art, circus, sound performance, interdisciplinary work, and more - A performance responding to the theme 404 IDENTITY NOT FOUND - Suggested duration: 5–15 minutes (exceptions may be possible if they fit within the overall festival dramaturgy)
What we offer - A performance fee based on the duration and format of the work, with the same transparent fee structure applied to all participating artists - Presentation as part of Queer Performance Festival 2026 - Exchange with fellow artists and audiences - Artistic support and feedback from our dramaturgy team, if desired
Deadline
Please submit your application by 10 July 2026. We aim to notify all applicants by 10 August.
We can't wait to see your work!
Much love, Your QPF team
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