Travel

Airports
Berlin has two airports with excellent and cheap connections nationally and internationally: Tegel TXL and Schönefeld SXF. The airport code to search for all Berlin airports is BER. Kayak is a meta-engine of budget travel sites. If you register you can do searches with variable dates (+/- 3 days) on a range of discount sites and individual airlines simultaneously. Good air and local travel information for Berlin is here.

Insurance (required)
Check your overseas medical insurance coverage and ask your medical insurance company if your policy applies overseas, and if it covers emergency expenses such as medical evacuation. If it does not, supplemental insurance will be needed. Check with the airline you book your flight with or google "travel international health insurance" to find a source. One source is: www.worldnomads.com.

COMMUNICATION

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To call via Skype or from a phone registered outside of Germany, e.g. your US cell phone:

+49 (151) 777-7777

To call from a German phone replace the +49 with a zero. example:

+49 (151) 777-7777 becomes 0 (151) 777-7777

RESIDENCY AT TANZFABRIK

Classes, presentations and lectures are all held at Tanzfabrik Berlin combines both artistic and educational work under one roof. Four studios and an incorporated studio stage, offer space for rehearsals, production, research, workshops, and training. Tanzfabrik's aim is the development and presentation of contemporary dance in its diversity of choreographic and performative approaches, the promotion of young artists, the connection of theory and practice and international exchange. The studio stage focuses on the visualisation of artistic processes and presents regular events. >> Visit the Tanzfabrik website here. Studio and production spaces for workshops and a Macintosh service station with scanner and printer housed at the Kunstfabrik, fulfill the institute's summer residency needs. Beyond the electronic resources of University of Plymouth.

Here is a link to all the galleries in berlin:

http://www.berlinartlink.com/resources/berlin-gallery-directory/

Some weekly exhibitions and events this week:

http://www.timeout.com/berlin/

http://www.berlinartlink.com/

http://www.zitty.de/list?type=events

Faculty suggestions:

http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/

http://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/

http://www.berlinischegalerie.de/

http://ngbk.de/site/

http://www.kw-berlin.de/

http://www.ifa.de/

http://www.topographie.de/

http://www.echtzeitmusik.de/index.php?page=calendar

http://www.singuhr.de/

GETTING AROUND BERLIN

Google Map
The Transart Residency Berlin 2010 has it's own >> Google Map. Expect content to be updated over time and massively in early July with all the local galleries, cafés, restaurants, movie theaters, art supply stores and about a zillion other things listed. The local subway stop is Möckernbrücke on the U1 + U7.

Public transportation

>> Journey planner
Tanzfabrik is a five minute walk from both subway systems:

U7 Yorckstrasse or Mehringdamm and S1, S2 and S25 also from Yorckstrasse
U-Bahn: Möckernbrücke U1 and U7; weblink to BVG
S-Bahn: 8, 9, 41, 42, 85; weblink to S-Bahn
Interactive map of U+S-Bahn (with switch-overs to express busses):

Price for a day ticket: 6,10 Euro
Price for a week ticket: 26,20 Euro

Bike rental
Near Bahnhof Zoo
Cheapest we found
You can also check craigslist.

Taxi
Charlottenburger-Taxi +49 (30) 3137192
City-Funk +49 (30) 210202
Funk Taxi Berlin +49-(30) 26 10 26
TaxiFunk Berlin +49-(30) 44 33 22
Würfelfunk +49 (30) 21010
Tip 5-10%

Tourist Information Berlin
City of Berlin
Tourism Marketing Inc.

EMERGENCY INFO

TI Emergency phone number
+49 (177) 309 3060 (Institute's mobile)
Note: Phone numbers are given in Skype compatible format with country code preceded by a "+" and area code (without leading zero's) in parentheses.

General Emergency Number: 110 (police) 112 (ambulance, fire)
Emergency On-Call Doctor: +49 (30) 31 00 31, 24 hrs.
Emergency On-Call Dentist: +49 (30) 89 00 43 33, after 8 pm M-F, 24 hrs. Sat. & Sun.

HEALTH

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

http://www.charite.de/

Christina Stuckert (HP)

Praxis für Zen Shiatsu und ganzheitliche Medizin

Hornstraße 19, 10963 Berlin

030 / 215 86 17 or 0173 /60 53 827

www.shiatsu-in-berlin.de

ChristinaStuckert@gmx.de

BERLIN STUDIO + ACCOMMODATIONS
We strongly recommend students stay at the Transit Hotel where most students and faculty will be staying. It is a short walk to the residency and many informal meetings and discussions take place there before and after the daily program. It is a mistake to stay more than fifteen minutes away given the compressed format of the residency.

Students are responsible for making their own arrangements. Please address all questions about accommodation to your hotel or hostel and not to the institute. Info and availability subject to change.

Transit Hotel (group rates are available for Transart)
Hagelberger Straße 53–54, D-10965 Berlin-Kreuzberg
welcome@hotel-transit.de
Tel. +49 (30) 789 04 70
Fax +49 (30) 789 04 777
Rates per person 50/30/25 EUR for single/double/3-4-bed, baths en suite
5 minute walk to Tanzfabrik
WLAN in common area

Pension Kreuzberg
Großbeerenstr. 64, D-10963 Berlin
info@pension-kreuzberg.de
Tel. +49 (30) 251 13 62
Fax +49 (30) 251 06 38
Rates per person 60/35/27 EUR for single/double/multi-bed, some baths en suite
5 minute walk to Tanzfabrik
WLAN in all rooms

www.berlinartlink.com/resources/studiohousing-rental/

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