The Quiet Room
A collaboration between Berlinklusion and DASH
Berlin 2025
Berlinklusion have been announced as recipients of Cultural Bridge Funding, which will allow us to work internationally with disability-led arts organization DASH. DASH create opportunities for Disabled artists to develop their creative practice. These opportunities take many forms, from high quality commissions to community based workshops, the work it creates is centred around its vision and mission. Cultural Bridge supports arts and cultural organisations across the UK and Germany to develop partnerships that explore social arts practice.
Members of the DASH team will travel to Germany to work in partnership with us in late 2025. Together, we will work on ‘The Quiet Room: Berlin’ a collaborative, socially engaged project led by artist and DASH CEO/Artistic Director, Heather Peak, ‘The Quiet Room: Berlin’ will be the gathering and organisation of a meal for the partners and those within the Berlin Disabled, neurodivergent, and D/deaf visual arts community. Rooted in Disability Justice, DASH & Berlinklusion will co-curate a safe space for connection, joy, and critical thinking around present concerns. These include intersectional access barriers, rest practices, creative leadership, and Disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent art and aesthetics.
DASH and Berlinklusion were one of 20 successful bids, out of 130 applications, and secured ‘Tier 1’ funding. The fund enables partners to share expertise and skills, exchange ideas, and collaborate on artistic practices and projects that explore themes and issues faced by communities across both countries.
“At a time when the marginalised communities we are part of and work with are facing numerous challenges – from economic hardship to alarming political shifts to the right, and the local repercussions of global conflict – it is hugely important to come together. International collaboration and friendship are central to our survival and resilience. We are delighted to have the opportunity to do this vital work.”
-Rachel Fleming-Mulford, Interim Co-Artistic Director, DASH
“We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded Tier 1 Cultural Bridge funding for our collaboration with DASH here in Berlin. The disability arts community in Berlin faces new challenges with recent austerity measures across the arts that disproportionately affect disabled and other marginalized arts workers and audiences. It is therefore extremely heartening and encouraging to receive support at this time to work with an international partner such as DASH, who share our vision of a more accessible, democratic and just arts future. We very much look forward to the exchange of knowledge around access and celebration of disability culture that our project The Quiet Room will bring, and anticipate with much joy the spark of new ideas, collaborations and initiatives that will surely follow.”
-Kate Brehme, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Berlinklusion
This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.
More information to come, so watch this space!
