Special Edition of MATINÉ Bulletin – October 2026
ASSITEJ Cuba is pleased to invite creators, educators, researchers, mediators, cultural managers, and performing arts professionals to contribute to a special edition of our MATINÉ bulletin, dedicated to theatrical experiences for and with adolescents.
We invite you to share artistic practices, creative processes, pedagogical approaches, and reflections that have emerged from your work with adolescents in various contexts. We are interested in accounts that explore the complexities, contradictions, and potentialities of this vital stage of life, addressing themes such as diversity, inclusion, artistic quality, and intergenerational dialogue.
Submissions will be accepted on topics related to, among others, the following thematic axes:
- Artistic creation for and with adolescents: dramaturgical processes, staging, direction, and performance.
- Artistic mediation: strategies and experiences to foster the encounter between the work and the adolescent audience.
- Inclusion and accessibility: practices that embrace diversity in all its breadth, including adolescents with disabilities, from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations.
- Research: systematic studies on the relationships between adolescence and the performing arts.
- Intergenerational co-creation: collaborative processes between adults and young people.
- Advocacy: experiences in advocating for cultural policies and the recognition of the cultural rights of adolescents.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We ask that you follow the following guidelines so that your contribution may be considered for publication:
- Language: Articles must be submitted in both English and Spanish.
- Format: Send the article in Word format (.docx).
- Length: Articles should be 500 to 700 words.
- Title and author information: Include the title, author’s name, and country at the beginning of the document.
- Images: Attach photographs in JPG format as separate files.
- Image credits: Specify the photographer’s name, the company, and the work or project in each photograph.
DEADLINE AND SUBMISSION
- Submission deadline: September 30, 2026.
- Publication date: October 2026, as a special edition of the MATINÉ bulletin.
Materials should be sent to the following email address: assitejcubaoficial@gmail.com
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to write to us at the same address.
We invite you to make visible the work we do in our communities and to enrich the global dialogue on theatre for adolescents. The stage is open for your voices.
