Academies and extracurricular education

Virtually every Brussels commune has its own art or music academy (part-time art education). They offer a host of courses in every artistic discipline as well as music, word and dance, for children, teenagers and adults. Depending on where they get their funding, the working language of these academies is either French or Dutch.

• The French Community’s education portal provides information on the Opens in new windowFrench-speaking part-time art education (FR) as well as a Opens in new windowdirectory of academies teaching the fine arts, music, word and dance (FR) in the Brussels-Capital Region.

• The Flemish Community Commission’s website publishes a list of Opens in new windowVisual arts academies teaching in Dutch (NL) and a list of music, word and dance academies teaching in Dutch in the Brussels-Capital Region.

Various sociocultural organisations, open universities and adult education bodies run extracurricular courses on the most diverse subjects, from cooking to philosophy.

• The various cultural centres in Brussels run a whole range of courses.
• The following pages provide information on specific courses : language courses, artistic activities, "Universités Tous Ages" and more.
• 'QueFaire.be' is a website where you can Opens in new windowsearch for courses (traineeships) in Brussels in various domains (FR/NL).

• For more information on Opens in new windowsociocultural activities (including art courses) (FR) contact one of the many continuing education institutions in Brussels.

• The Flemish Community Commission keeps a list of Opens in new windowall courses in Brussels (NL) in a special database.
• PrettigGeleerd.be is a website listing all Opens in new windowcourses offered in the Flemish sociocultural sector (NL) (including Brussels).