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Sign your child up for a workshop to create 2D movable-part cutouts and introduce them to linocut printing. They’ll learn how to make prints and go home with their very own stamps!

Wednesday, April 15 through Friday, April 17, 2026
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM for ages 7 to 9
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM for ages 10 and up

“Mastery and finesse of the movement – Towards hand virtuosity .”
Training course conducted by Yeung Faï, a master of Chinese glove puppetry, assisted by Yoann Pencolé, puppeteer, artistic director, director of the Théâtre à la Coque.
Registration deadline: 31 May.

Carte blanche to the students from ESNAM and from the Puppetry Department of the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (HMDK) in Stuttgart (Germany).

Friday, April 10, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
at ESNAM, 16 Jean Jaurès Ave.
30 minutes
Ages 10 and up
Free admission

The Pôle offers 4 residency programmes: Creation residencies, Graduate residencies, residencies in Nurseries and Research residencies, as well as a programme to support employment of young graduates.
The call for applications for the 2026/2027 residencies is open from 9 March to 3 May 2026.

The Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix is changing the way it operates for the programming of the World Puppetry Festival in September 2027.
If you are an artist or company and would like to bring your work to our attention, we invite you to read the new programming guidelines.

The Pôle International de la Marionnette – Jacques Félix is joining UNIMA, the event coordinator, and cultural actors in Charleville-Mézières to celebrate World Puppetry Day.
A 2026 edition in the colours of Mali.

The Pôle International de la Marionnette and the TCM are joining forces to organize a puppet-themed aperitif based on the show Subjectif Lune.
Three short puppet shows will be performed by students from the 14th graduating class of ESNAM.

Do you want to apply?
Don’t miss the information session: on Friday, 3 April from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Paris time).

Actress, puppeteer, director and teacher, Alexandra Vuillet explores hybridization.
She will be in a Research residency at the Documentation center of the Pôle, from 16 to 27 March, to continue her work which questions the links between the training of the puppeteer and that of the actor.

The Belgian company Une Tribu Collectif was in residence at the Pôle from 9 to 13 March 2026, working on their next production, Fragil(e)s. Fragil(e)s.