Events & Open Days

Questions about applying to Catalyst? Book your online session at a time that suits you with one of our Admissions team members.

Get an overview of what Catalyst is all about at one of our upcoming Open Days, held over Zoom.

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.

Get a taste of some of our degree programmes with these online workshops.

• Electronic Music Production & Performance
  > Tue, April 28, 2026 / 18:00 CET (Ben)
  > Mon, Jun 1 / 12:00 CET (Ben)
• Music & Sound Design for Visual Media
  Stay tuned for upcoming workshops!

Get a taste of some of our degree programmes with these online workshops:

Screenwriting

> April 29, 2026 // 12:00 CET /// Tragedy on Screen: Rules, Tools, and Inspiration for Filmmakers with Nancy Biniadaki

Documentary Photography

> May 11 // 15:00 (CET) /// Intro to Documentary Photography and Socially Engaged Practice (with Sarah McAdam and Jonathan Purcell) 

Acting

Stay tuned for upcoming workshops!

Join an upcoming session or watch a pre-recorded workshop for guidance on your MA project proposal ahead of applying.

1. Creative Production in Film (inc. project proposal guidance)
   > Fri, May 8, 2026 / 15:00 CET
2. Creative Production in Music (inc. project proposal guidance)
   Stay tuned for upcoming workshops!
3. Applied Creative Psychology
   > Monday, May 4, 2026 /// 13:30 – 14:30

An evening of four short plays by Harold Pinter: Celebration, The Applicant, The New World Order, and Party Time. The first of two student-led productions by Catalyst's third-year Acting students.

Shows start at 19:00.

Free to attend, reserve your ticket here, or read our blog post about the productions here.

Come and see what our Visual Effects, Video Game & Digital Arts students have been making.

Walk in, take your time and talk to the students about their work. Free entry, no registration needed. See teasers of the projects to be presented here.

a site-specific reimagining of Anton Chekhov's classic. Set across our campus spaces, the production unfolds over four acts, with audiences moving through the building as the story breathes around them.

Shows start at 19:00

Free to attend, reserve your ticket here or read our blog post about the productions here.

We are delighted to invite you to What's Mine is Yours and What's Yours is Gone, an exhibition of film, sound, and installation by students of the Music and Sound Design for Visual Media (MSVM) programme at Catalyst, Berlin.

Each year, MSVM students present their work to the public: original compositions, sound-led narratives, and audiovisual pieces developed across the year.

Join us on campus, Saturday, 9 May, from 14:00 to 21:00. More details on what to expect below:

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