Festival Titiritero de Matanzas

This listing most likely describes the same event covered elsewhere as the Taller Internacional de Titeres de Matanzas, TITIM, a biennial puppet theatre gathering founded in 1994 by Rene Fernandez Santana, whose name has appeared informally in Cuban press as Festitaller or Fiesta Internacional de Titeres across different editions. Rather than a separate festival, this is most plausibly an alternate name for the same long-running Matanzas puppet event.

This listing appears to describe the same underlying event covered elsewhere in this research as the Taller Internacional de Titeres de Matanzas, known by puppeteers as TITIM, a biennial puppet theatre gathering founded in 1994 by master puppeteer Rene Fernandez Santana with the Consejo de Artes Escenicas de Matanzas, deliberately named a taller, or workshop, rather than a festival, since its founders wanted the event to encompass performances, theoretical discussion, exhibitions and pedagogical work rather than simply festive celebration.