Mentoring and coaching platform Double
DoubleLiterature
DoubleLiterature offers mentoring for professional literary writers in the four-language region of Switzerland who are pursuing a major literary project and would like to work with an experienced professional mentor in this context. The next call for applications opens in spring 2026.
DoubleDance
DoubleDance is aimed at dancers, choreographers and dramaturges with and without disabilities.
The next call for applications opens in winter 2025/26.
DoubleTheatre
DoubleTheatre offers a one-year coaching program either for a theatre production or to support the next step in professionalising individuals or groups in adult, children’s and youth theatre. The next call for applications opens in spring 2026.
DoublePop
This offer is aimed exclusively at the current winners of the Demotape Clinic of m4music, the pop music festival of the Migros Culture Percentage. Exact dates and further information on login and participation can be found at m4music.ch.
DoubleCabaret
DoubleCabaret offers one-year coaching either for a production or to support the next step in the professionalisation of individuals and groups groups in cabaret or spoken word.. The next call for applications opens in autumn 2025.
DoubleClassic
DoubleClassic is aimed at musicians involved in music education, new music and other forms of creating classical music and for those who want to reorient themselves in these areas. Apply by 4 August 2025.
DoubleArt
DoubleArt is aimed at artists and curators. The programme aims to facilitate an exchange of ideas about the mentees’ own artistic or curatorial practice, promote professional independence and strengthen and expand networking in existing local, national and international networks. The next call for applications opens on 18 August 2025.
DoubleJazz
DoubleJazz is generally aimed at professional jazz musicians. The next call for applications opens in winter 2026.
DoubleFilm
Double Film is aimed at producers, writers and directors working in three focus areas: fair interview practices x dealing with biographical material, AI-technological innovation and diversity, inclusion / representation of marginalised people in film. Apply by 19 May 2025.
How does Double work?
The mentoring and coaching sessions focus either on artistic work, on exploring and testing new ways of working, or supporting the next step in professionalisation. Depending on the discipline, 3–7 collaborations are available per year. People with disabilities are explicitly invited.
The programs are geared towards the needs of each respective discipline, so they are structured and organised differently. Both sides receive a fee or grants from Migros Culture Percentage: CHF 8,000 for mentors and coaches, CHF 3,000 for mentees.
The doubles working together determine the content and objectives of the mentoring or coaching program individually.
Double offers the possibility of a residence as a retreat for concentrated work and collaboration.
The mentoring and coaching sessions are flanked by additional disciplineand sector-specific programmes, the satellites. These include participation in network meetings of the Migros Culture Percentage projects m4music, Story Lab and m2act.
The first double network meeting on coaching/mentoring took place on 15 June 2024. Since then, a networking meeting has been scheduled every year.
At the end of the collaborations, excerpts from the resulting works will be published on this website; the rights remain with the artists.
The mentors and coaches are selected by the project.
Mentees apply during the annual call for applications via this website.
Management
Mirko Vaiz
Coordination
Gabriela Brunner-Aschwanden (gabriela.brunner@mgb.ch)
Categories: film, cabaret, pop
Mirko Vaiz: mirko.vaiz@mgb.ch
Categories: literature, dance, classical music, theatre, jazz, art
Expert group
Literature: Manuela Waeber
Dance: Valeria Felder
Theatre: Saima Linnea Sägesser
Pop: Philipp Schnyder von Wartensee
Cabaret: Gisela Nyfeler
Classical music: Mirko Vaiz
Art: Nadia Schneider Will
Jazz: Mirko Vaiz
Film: Tenzin Roder
Overall responsibility
Mira Song, Head of the Social Affairs and Culture Department, Migros Cooperative Federation
Project address
Federation of Migros Cooperatives
Social Affairs and Culture Department
Loewenbraeukunst-Areal
Limmatstrasse 270
P.O. Box 1766
CH-8031 Zurich
Picture credits
Key visual and discipline visuals: Copyright Bruno Boll
Photographers are named alongside the portraits.
Double is the mentoring and coaching platform of the Migros Culture Percentage. This funding project brings experienced experts together with younger professional colleagues for a one-year exchange in the disciplines of literature, dance, theatre, pop, cabaret, classical music, jazz, art and film.
