At the core of DISK Berlin is a desire to bring together people of diverse backgrounds, experiences, cultures, and identities. Different lifestyles, interests, and ideas converge to form our yearly CTM festival and other events and ongoing international network projects. A balanced, wide-ranging, and inclusive lineup, partnerships, and collaborators are a crucial yet constantly evolving part of our approach.

Educating ourselves is crucial, both through external counselling as well as internal dialogue. These efforts are ongoing and we are committed to continuing to learn and improve.

We are also proud to stand alongside a number of other cultural institutions, artists, and organisers as part of DIE VIELEN. The Germany-wide project aims to strengthen ties between those involved in the arts, uniting many in supporting and working towards an equal, inclusive, and open society.

As awareness and conversations develop, we consistently work towards making DISK Berlin-led events as inclusive and safe as possible for people of all genders, races, ages, abilities, classes, and all other groups that often go unmentioned. Our organisation has a ZERO tolerance policy towards discrimination, harassment, and abuse in any form at our events as well as within our collaborations and working practice.

We are always working to come up with measures we can take to ensure that our artists and attendees feel safe and welcome at events. We strive to remain sensitive, considerate, curious, and open to learning within international collaborations, partnerships, and network projects. That doesn’t mean we always get it right, but we do our best to make sure we learn from any feedback, incidents, or mistakes to make sure they will not happen again.

The DISK Berlin team is grateful to participate in these crucial conversations. If you have any suggestions on how we could improve, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.