Events for prospective students
💻 Virtual Open Day (6 February, 2026 / 14:00-17:00)
Get an overview of what Catalyst is all about at one of our upcoming Open Days, held over Zoom.
📍In-Person Open Day (7 March, 2026 / 10:00-14:00)
Join us on campus to learn more about our approach to learning, our courses and our facilities, and get to chat to our tutors and alumni.
📍Campus Tours (every Tue/Fri)
Join us in Berlin for a tour of our campus and facilities. Tours are regularly available every Tuesday and Friday, just reserve your place via the link below.
💻 Admissions Open Hours (bookable sessions)
Questions about applying to Catalyst? Book your online session at a time that suits you with one of our Admissions team members.
💻 Taster Workshops (Music & Sound)
Get a taste of some of our degree programmes with these online workshops.
- Electronic Music Production & Performance
> Friday, November 21 /// 12:00 – 13:00 CET (Philippa)
> Wednesday, December 3 /// 13:30 CET (Ben) - Music & Sound Design for Visual Media
> Wednesday Dec 3, 2025 /// 16:30 – 17:30 (Gary)
💻 Taster Workshops (Film, Visual Effects, Screenwriting, Acting)
Get a taste of some of our degree programmes with these online workshops:
- Visual Effects, Video Game & Digital Arts
> Wednesday, November 19⋅15:00 CET
> Wednesday, December 10⋅15:00 CET - Screenwriting
> Thursday, December 11 // 15:15 – 16:15 (CET)
> Wednesday, January 28, 2026⋅15:00 CET /// Screenwriting with AI: Creative Acceleration and Ethical Awareness with Rafael Leal
💻 Master's workshops
Join an upcoming session or watch a pre-recorded workshop for guidance on your MA project proposal ahead of applying.
- Creative Production in Film
> Monday, December 1, 2025 / 16:30 CET (inc. project proposal guidance) - Applied Creative Psychology
> Monday, January 26, 2026 /// 13:30 – 14:30
Events for the general public
Pulse: Winter Party (12 December, 17:00–23:00)
Semester’s finishing, so we’re throwing a night for everyone who’s been creating, studying or just orbiting Catalyst this year. Expect live sets, DJs, installations and a small market full of art, clothes, bakes and vinyl from the community.
/// Line up
Anika Maculangan | Eleonor Bianchi | Elizaveta Abramishvili and Dachy Yu | Haverdi | KASI | Mert Bimpasi | Mike De Paola | Skeleton
It’s a simple plan: good music, good company, winter vibes. Bring your friends, meet new ones and help us close out the year on a warm note.
Free to attend!
Forum for Creative Flourishing (13–15 & 20–22 Jan)
Six days of workshops and events on creative restoration and rejuvenation with Berlin industry professionals for creatives and artists.
The Forum for Creative Flourishing is a series of workshops and exhibitions designed to let participants experientially explore the psychological underpinnings of the creative process. Through hands-on practices with engaging experts participants will have the opportunity to learn more about themselves and build a deeper relationship with their own creative process.
This year’s theme is Creative Restoration and Rejuvenation; what fuels us, sustains us and brings our artistic energy back to life. Together we'll explore what kind of creative habits and practices can help to "fill up our cup", restore our energy, and give us the fuel we need to creatively flourish.
Current Affairs (23 January, 17:00–22:00)
Current Affairs: Media, Ecology & the Oceanic Sensorium
Dive into the intersection of sound, media and the natural world at Current Affairs, our annual cross-disciplinary exhibition in collaboration with students from the New Media Design Master’s Programme at UE-A&D and TimeLab.
Explore immersive installations and VR experiences where sound, image and interaction merge, revealing hybrid ecologies between human and nonhuman, digital and organic, real and imagined. Experience spatial soundscapes, interactive audiovisual systems and VR worlds that invite you to listen to the ocean, the environment and the rhythms of life in new ways.
Join us at Catalyst for an evening of sensory experimentation, where creativity flows across media and disciplines.
Line up announced soon and exhibit details announced soon.
MA Symposium
Our annual Postgraduate (MA) Symposium is the culmination of this work — a public platform where Catalyst students and invited practitioners explore creative research across performance, sound, image, movement and theory. Next edition takes place in June 2026
Guest sessions
Our guest speakers come from a range of backgrounds and experiences and offer inspiring food for thought directly from the real world. From intimate and informal conversations to getting down and dirty with technique, these sessions reflect the exciting diversity of talent and expertise in today’s music, film and acting industries. Our guests get as much out of the experience as you do!
Interested in joining one of our sessions or proposing a workshop? Get in touch with our team.
Guests that have joined our panels and workshops:
Some of the guests that have joined our guest sessions, panels and workshops:
- A Guy Called Gerald – DJ and producer
- Ansome – producer and DJ
- Antenes – DJ, producer and electronics artist
- Ava Tramer – Writer from the animated series "Central Park" and "Harley Quinn"
- Daniel McLellan – staff writer from Netflix's "Lost in Space"
- Deno Williams – art director for the HBOMax documentary "Between the World and Me"
- Devin Shacket – actress and coach
- Doc Daneeka – DJ and producer
- Doug Roland – director of 2021 Academy Awards' Best Live Action Short nominee "Feeling Through"
- Dorothe Beinemeier – founder of production company Red Balloon Film GmbH and producer of the series "Heirs of the Night"
- Emika – electronic music producer, sound designer and DJ
- Erta Ale – DJ, house and techno producer
- Florence Jimenez Otto – music industry coach
- Franziska Margarete Hoenisch – director "Club Europa"
- Gordon Raphael – record producer and musician
- Hainbach – electro-acoustic music composer and performer
- Headless Horseman – music producer
- Jonty Skrufff – musical artist
- John Ayres – tour manager for Booka Shade, Squarepusher, Tiga, Diplo, Shapeshifter, and Major Lazer
- Khalik Allah – photographer and filmmaker
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese – Director of 2020 Sundance Grand Jury Award Winner This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
- Louis Balsan – Films Boutique marketing
- Mad Zach – artist
- Maria Chavez – abstract turntablist
- Mark Reeder – musician, producer, label manager for Joy Division
- Marten Persiel – award-winning filmmaker, author and commercial director. Directed "This Ain’t California"
- Mike Bullock – composer, intermedia artist and writer
- Nataly Kubiador – Producer at UFA Fiction
- Olivia Block – multimedia artist and composer
- Perera Elsewhere – experimental electronic music producer
- Rafael Toral – film score composer
- Rebekah Teasdale – DJ, producer and model
- Sam Potter – Late of the Pier band member
- Sampology – Artist, DJ and producer
- Stefanie Reinhard – DoP "Club Europa"
- Tarik Barri – audiovisual composer
- Universal Music A&R
- Yosuke Honoi – director of International Emmy Award nominated Paralympic documentary series "Who I Am"
- Zazuka aka Zeina Azouqah – film composer, sound designer and songwriter
Dialogues
This series aims to open up conversations around issues that affect you and your future as a professional creative practitioner. The dialogues take the form of a student-led panel with facilitator, relevant industry guest and up to four of our students. With an audience and a wider Q&A after, this safe space allows for intimate discussion on important items and aims to bring about positive change.
