Les Petits Comédiens de Chiffons – FMTM and the Institut International de la Marionnette become the Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix!

On 5 December 2024, the FMTM and the IIM – Esnam announced their merger to give birth, as of 1 January 2025, to the Pôle International de la Marionnette-Jacques Félix. The merger of the two institutions will result in the extension and amplification of projects, as well as new initiatives to serve the discipline and the region.

Director of the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes since November 2020 and of the IIM since July 2022, Pierre-Yves Charlois has been appointed head of the new Pôle and Frédéric Maurin is its president.