This is an open call for papers to participate in the 6th International Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA)(1) Critics and Researchers Forum that will take place in Buenos Aires City, Argentina from 11th to 15th September 2023.
ATINA/ASSITEJ ARGENTINA (Theatre for Children and Young People Independent Practitioners Association), in collaboration with ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Researchers Network), both ASSITEJ Members organize this 6th Forum, with the aim of encouraging the development of research in the national and international field of TYA.
The goal of these Forums is to make a theoretical contribution to PAYA professionals, to promote the development of new trends, and to reflect on PAYA challenges in the 21st. Century. During the meeting different theoretical frameworks on critical approaches will be proposed and the role of theory in practice and practice in theory will be discussed.
The topic of this 6th Forum will be:
“THE TENSIONS BETWEEN WHAT SHOULD, WHAT CAN, AND WHAT IS WANTED IN THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE”.
“What is imposed, what is allowed and what is creative today”.
The program includes conferences, paper readings, plenary sessions, round tables, and debates presented by TYA researchers and professionals from different countries and continents.
The Forum will be in person and streaming broadcast.
The Forum Language will be Spanish/Portuguese and English with simultaneous translation.
During the Forum, participants and speakers will be able to attend to a selection of Argentinian Theatre for Children and Young People performances.
For information write to info@atina.org.ar
CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper presentations
Participants:
Researchers, artists, teachers, and students from any nationality are invited to present their papers.
Language
Abstracts must be sent in both languages Spanish/Portuguese and English. If selected, papers can be presented in the original language, but a translation will be required after its acceptance.
Topic
“THE TENSIONS BETWEEN WHAT SHOULD, WHAT CAN, AND WHAT IS WANTED IN THE PERFORMING ARTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE”.
“What is imposed, what is allowed and what is creative today”.
The creators of performing arts for children and young people and their works have responded throughout history to the social, political, ideological, and even economic contexts insofar as they, the mediators and the children’s and young audiences themselves share the world reflected on the stage.
There were times of more pedagogical proposals, other times of more free proposals and other times of searching in a field that, fortunately, is always changing and evolving.
However, as we enter the 21st century, we see how certain themes are set as a condition by governments, state or private support organizations, international associations, and other institutions responsible for selecting which projects are suitable or unsuitable and tacitly obliging those who make them to respond to these parameters. The same goes for the mediators (teachers, parents, programmers) who select what the children will see. In this thematic chain, the child is the last link that passively receives what the institutions want to highlight because it positions them according to their interests within the framework of the different prevailing ideologies.
Do the thematic conditioning factors influence the performing arts for today’s children and young people? How are the artists reacting to this phenomenon? Is it accepted, avoided, does it generate acts of censorship or self-censorship, does it promote the diversity of voices or do they unify them? Do they take the child/young spectator into account? Do these thematic suggestions improve or halt the development of the performing arts for children and young people?
The 6th Forum aims to analyze and debate these issues and to offer new perspectives that will strengthen creative freedom, and problematize the Performing Arts as a transformative practice.
Titles and Abstracts
Must be sent before 28th February 2023 by e-mail to the following address info@atina.org.ar, with a maximum of 200 words under subject: 6th FORUM
The subjects of the attachment of the document should be the last name of the author.
The work´s title, the author´s name and surname, institution in which he/she works, city and country, e-mail and telephone and short cv must be recorded.
Abstracts must be sent in Spanish/Portuguese and English.
Team work is allowed.
Deadline for sending the finished paper:
Once the abstract acceptation is confirmed (March 2023), the final work must be sent by e-mail before 31st July 2023 to the following address: info@atina.org.ar, under the subject: 6th FORUM.
The text must have a maximum of 8 pages (A4 or 8.5X11, 1.5 spacing, Times New Roman, font size 12) as its reading cannot exceed 20 minutes.
Notes and bibliography that are not going to be read must be included in separate pages. Papers should be presented in double copies in Word and PDF.
The paper can only be read by its author.
MINUTES OF THE 6th INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESEARCHERS AND CRITICS FORUM, (book or digital) under ISBN
Evaluation Committee
Will be members of ATINA and ITYARN.
Translations:
Translations of the final work into English or Spanish/Portuguese corresponding each case, should be presented in Word before 31th August 2023. Google translations are unacceptable. The organization will give support for translation to those participants who require it. The participant is responsible for this cost.
Costs:
The registration, presentation, and reading of papers have no fees.
The cost of transportation, accommodation, meals, and tickets for the shows will be the responsibility of each participant.
For more information, please contact: info@atina.org.ar or go to www.atina.org.ar
ORGANIZERS
ATINA, representative of ASSITEJ International in Argentina, has developed an intense activity since its creation in 2002. With the aim of encouraging the development of theatre for children and young people in Argentina and to promote the exchange within the international field ATINA organizes national and international festivals, forums, workshops, and other special projects like its Theatre for Children and Young People Library. www.atina.org.ar
ITYARN, the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network, is the international research network of ASSITEJ International. ITYARN aims to further research in theatre and performance for children and youth, through international exchanges of scholarly materials and discourse at conferences, symposia, and festivals.
The International TYA Researchers and Critics Forum has received a mention by Theatre of the World Prizes from Buenos Aires University in 2010.
(1) “Theatre” meaning all kind of performing arts like circus, puppets, mime, musical, etc.
