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

Kids Programme & Bizaar Action Market

Apply now

You can now apply for the Bizaar Action Market with your interactive programme for children or with an unusual, participatory project. You can find the application form and more info for the kid’s programme and the Bizaar Action Market as downloads (only avaiable in german). For a good insight, please send us photos and videos of your project, if available. We look forward to hearing from you until 10 may. 

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. 

Send your application to: bizaar@buskersbern.ch

Lab Stage

Apply now

Do you have a project (from the fields of dance, theatre, performance, etc.) that you would like to try out and present to an audience? Then apply now to the Lab Stage at Buskers Bern!
The 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. We are looking forward to your project! Find enclosed some more info and fill in the form, when sending the application.

Send your application by 10 May to: jugendbuehnen@buskersbern.ch

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 application form will be online from 1st May 2025 on.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact: staff@buskersbern.ch

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.

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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

Artists

Application closed

The application window for the main programme of the 22nd 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