Sergio Blanco, the renowned French-Uruguayan theatre director, will lead a five-day seminar exploring autofiction
The Auditorio de Tenerife will host the first Tenerife International Playwriting Symposium tomorrow (Tuesday 30 June) and Wednesday (1 July), with activities in both morning and afternoon sessions. The event is part of MAPAS 2026 and includes a seminar led by the renowned French-Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco. Full programme details and seminar information are available at www.auditoriodetenerife.com.
The sessions are focused on four central themes in contemporary playwriting: the use of works and respect for authorship; exhibition formats; the value and promotion of playwriting from the Canary Islands; and the relationship between new trends in playwriting and the fundamental aspects of theatre.
The event offers activities to explore playwriting through talks and discussions, led by moderators from the different Canary Islands. Its aim is to foster a space for encounter, conversation, and critical reflection where everyone involved in creating and sharing playwriting has a voice.
During those two days at the Auditorio de Tenerife, participants will include, among others, Alberto Conejero, Colectivo Magentea, the Association of Theatre Playwrights and Authors, Centro Dramático Galego, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Lucía Miranda, Irma Correa, Carolina África, Quino Falero, Leandro González, José Luis Rivero, Conchita Piña, Ana Fernández, Mario Vega and Luis O’Malley.
Attendance is free, subject to prior registration via email at artesescenicas@auditoriodetenerife.com, including full name, date of birth and a contact telephone number.
In addition, the symposium has programmed the seminar La autoficción: el desvanecimiento del yo (Self-Fiction: The Dissolution of the Self), coordinated, organised and directed by Sergio Blanco. Its subject is scenic self-fiction and its various forms of practice, including self-representation, autobiography, self-fashioning, self-narration, self-reference, self-embodiment and self-storytelling.
In this way, MAPAS enhances this season’s offerings of the Auditorio de Tenerife with a mechanism of contrast and continuity. It presents a concentration of international languages that engage in dialogue with the creation of territory. This approach strengthens our understanding of the ecosystem concept. It is not only about presenting international excellence but about activating a framework for interpretation. In this framework, Canarian dance and the accompanying processes over the year, including artist residencies, may align with some of the most relevant approaches of the contemporary scene: extreme physicality, expanded playwriting, hybridisation with theatre, and tradition reformulated as contemporaneity.
MAPAS 2026 is further complemented by six large-scale international dance productions running from tomorrow (Tuesday 30 June) through to 24 July. Auditorio de Tenerife offers two subscription options: the full pass for the six Symphony Hall performances, priced at 75 euros, and the partial pass, priced at 39 euros, which gives access to three performances selected by the user.
Single tickets for performances by award-winning companies and choreographers are available at €15, or €5 for under-30s, alongside the usual discounts. Tickets can be purchased on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the box office from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and by telephone on 902 317 327 during the same hours.