The Green Room

The Green Room (TGR) is a non-profit social enterprise founded in October 2020 for the artists, especially musicians, dancers, theater professionals in Cologne, Germany. TGR proposes for performing artists individually-tailored support systems with the offerings from the areas of performance research, somatic training, psychosocial care, and artistic performance coaching.

Since 2022, TGR has been offering various types of residencies, initially for artists fleeing the war in Ukraine and now to a broader spectrum of international artists.The artist-in-residence program assists artists in becoming professionally integrated into the German cultural scene, while supporting them in their artistic development and creative sustainability, in a health promotion combined with formats to strengthen artistic practice that focused on a process-oriented self-exploration.

TGR was selected for a patronage by the German Commission for UNESCO, and collaborated with organisations such as the Goethe Institut, Artists-at-Risk (Finland), the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.

The Green Room was founded by the American pianist and psychologist, Heather O’Donnell, as a resource center for artists experiencing difficult phases in their lives and careers. Since founding in 2020, The Green Room has assisted over 300 artists, and held over 90 performances showcasing our resident artists for a collective audience of about 3000 members. The Green Room has presented lectures and talks to such organisations as the Gürzenich Orchestra, the European Network of Cultural Centers, and the Performing Arts Medical Association, making the case for increased awareness of artists’ mental and physical health for career longevity and creative self actualisation.

TGR as a partner will ensure an essential amount from the tasks of organizational support and implementation of the performative project's activities in Cologne: negotiations; help in organization of local events, activities; involving artists and agreements with the musical and performative component teams, providing informational support of the project.

In particular, TGR will provide premises to ensure ongoing project activities, providing preparatory and rehearsal activities of artists which will involve the implementation of the project activities planned in Cologne.