Participate

Application deadlines for Performing Artists, Caterers/Food Stands, Volunteers, Youth Stages, Bizaar Action Market and Kids Programme are published here.

Volunteers

Are you motivated to become part of the festival? Would you like to look after venues or artists, sell program booklets & bracelets, work at an information booth, help out in the kitchen or take over transfers for artists?
Then pencil the festival dates in your agenda and enrol for a volunteer job 2025 – everyone is welcome, we look forward to seeing you!

The registration form is only available in german. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jenni and Marina.

300 Volunteers
1000 Tasks

Bracelet Junior

Are you between 8 and 14 years old and would like to top up your pocket money? Then sign up as a Bracelet Junior. During Buskers Bern, you will be selling festival bracelets & program booklets.

For every bracelet you sell, you will keep a small amount of the payment. Your shift lasts more or less 3.5 hours and takes place between 2.30pm and 8pm on two or three festival days.

The registration form is only available in german. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jenni and Marina.

Association Buskers Bern

For three days, craziness reigns in Bern’s alleys. Made possible by the association Buskers Bern, which organizes this festival every year. Become a member of the association and support the festival.

Join

Kids Programme & Bizaar Action Market

The application window for the children’s programme and the Bizaar action market is closed.

Here you find projects which participated at the Kid’s Programme – to get an idea.

Here you find projects which participated at the Bizaar Action Market – to get an idea.

If you. have any questions: bizaar@buskersbern.ch

Lab Stage

The application window for the Lab Stage is closed.

From January 2026 you are welcome to apply again for the next Buskers Bern, 6 – 8 August 2026. We cannot respond to applications received before then. We look forward to reading in January about your project in the fields of music, dance, theatre, performance, etc. that you would like to try out and present to an audience.
The Lab Stage platform is primarily aimed at people under the age of 25, but is basically a testing ground – or laboratory – for the realisation of new, creative ideas and is open to everyone.

If you have any questions: laborbuehne@buskersbern.ch

Important Info Lab Stage (only available in german) (pdf)

Caterers / Food Stands

We are no longer accepting catering applications for Buskers Bern 2025. We will open the application window again in a year’s time, from 1 to 31 January 2026.

If you have submitted an application, we will be happy to contact you in the next few weeks if we are interested. If you do not hear from us, you can assume that your stand does not fit into the Buskers Bern setting.

Any questions: gastro@buskersbern.ch

Guideline caterers (pdf)

Artists

Application closed

The application window for the main programme of the 22^nd edition of Buskers Bern, 7 – 9 August 2025, is closed. No more applications will be accepted. Performances by non-invited groups are not possible – no OFF/Fringe festival.

You are welcome to apply again from November 2025 for Buskers Bern 2026, 6 – 8 August.

If you have any questions: artist@buskersbern.ch

Terms and Conditions Buskers Bern 2025 (pdf)