Description

The City of Munich is awarding a total of 90,000 euros (subject to the City Council's decision in December 2024 on the City of Munich's budget for 2025) in funding for programme support for non-commercial concert series in smaller music venues or off-locations of comparable size and pop music festivals to be held in 2025. Funding in the amount of 10,000 euros or 15,000 euros or 20,000 euros can be applied for.

This funding is intended to support both concert series and music festivals of all genres of pop music, which are dedicated in particular to programmes outside the so-called mainstream and significantly involve Munich artists in the programme.

The Department of Culture would like to help musicians of all genders to shape the Munich pop music scene. So far, men have been significantly overrepresented. This call for applications is therefore explicitly aimed at people of all genders.

The aim of the programme is based on a broad understanding of pop music - this includes all genres of pop music such as hip-hop, metal, reggae, techno, blues and all its sub-genres in every form.

Since 2022, pop music programme funding has also been supplemented by the independent "Pop Music Event Grant". This is also aimed at Munich event organisers. Smaller amounts of funding are awarded at short notice for event formats in the field of pop music.
To the pop event grant

Prerequisites

• Promoters with or without their own venue who organise programme series in smaller music venues or off-locations of comparable size or music festivals within Munich and whose main focus of work is anchored in Munich are eligible to apply.
• Regardless of their legal form, event organisers are all those who are involved in the organisation, conception and implementation of concerts and/or festivals, regardless of whether they are musicians, cultural associations, collectives, DJs or professional, full-time organisers in the pop music sector. Proof of authorisation to represent must be provided on request.
• Munich musicians are significantly involved in the programme. Creative approaches are particularly welcome.
• Institutionally funded organisations are not eligible to apply.
• A special requirement for the funding of programme series in music venues: The largest event space used must not exceed a visitor capacity of 500 people.
• After completion of the event(s), the applicant must submit proof of use and a report to the Department of Culture. The project period/realisation period for the events is the year 2025.

Required documents

• fully completed application form
• a detailed and concrete description of the programme proposal (ideally including links to potential performing artists)
• a calculation of the project with all planned income and expenses
• (brief) biographical details of the organising institution or, in the case of private individuals, of the organisers with a description of projects realised to date
• a substantive justification if the proportion of FLINTA* (women, lesbian/queer, intersex, non-binary, transgender or agender) participants in the events does not correspond to a balanced proportion of approx. 50 per cent of the participating artists* and people involved in the production as a whole
• Outline of measures to enable people with disabilities to participate in the audience in the planned programme
• Description of the planned measures to promote the project/programme
• Outline of the measures taken to ensure that the event is as environmentally sustainable as possible

All documents must be summarised in a PDF and sent to the Cultural Department by e-mail. The PDF must not exceed a total size of 5 MB and must be named as follows: Surname_Project title
Please send applications (not queries!) by e-mail to: pop-programm@muenchen.de

If it is not possible for you to send your application by e-mail as a PDF, in exceptional cases you can send your documents by post in a single copy by the closing date.

Cultural Department of the City of Munich
Department 1
Tanja Mottl - Pop Music Programme Funding
Burgstraße 4
80331 Munich

Please note: For postal submissions, the date of receipt applies, not the postmark! As the documents cannot be returned, we ask that only copies of sound recordings (or similar) be submitted by post. Application documents can be submitted in DIN A4 format at most.
Please send any queries by e-mail to
Tanja Mottl: tanja.mottl@muenchen.de
Phone: 089 233 28531
or
Heike Lies: heike.lies@muenchen.de

Legal basis

A jury appointed by the City Council of the City of Munich, consisting of experts from the scene and honorary members of the City Council, will decide on the award based on the applications received.

Please note: By submitting an application, the applicant agrees to the terms and conditions of the competition and confirms that he/she lives in Munich (MVV area) and that his/her work is centred in Munich. Applications that do not comply with the conditions of the call for applications cannot be considered.