Artistic activities

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.

Visit the pages on French Community education to download a External linkbrochure on part-time art education (FR) as well as a External linkdirectory of academies teaching the fine arts, music, word and dance in the French language (PDF Format) (FR) in the Brussels-Capital Region.

The Flemish Community Commission’s website publishes a External linklist of academies teaching in Dutch (NL) and a External linklist of music, word and dance academies teaching in Dutch in the Brussels-Capital Region.

There are also a lot of artistic courses to choose from in Brussels. Various sociocultural organisations, open universities and adult education bodies will be able to guide you through the world of art and production in the widest sense. Private schools complete the offering.

• If you are interested in formalising your skills in the creative arts (photography, graphic design, web design, arts and crafts), see the Education and Training pages.

• Brussels is home to a number of Centres of Expression and Creativity, which hold External linkcreative workshops in various art disciplines (FR) for young and old.
• For more External linkinformation on sociocultural activities (including art courses) (FR) contact one of the many continuing education institutions in Brussels.
• 'Que Faire' is a website where you can search for courses (traineeships) in Brussels in various domains, including External linktheatre, dance, singing, music, design, painting, photography (FR/NL) and lots more.

• The Flemish Community Commission keeps a list of External linkall (art and other) courses in Brussels (NL) .
• External linkPrettigGeleerd.be (NL) is a website listing all courses (including self-expression & artistic activities) in the Flemish sociocultural sector (including Brussels).
• At External linkZinnema, the Flemish House of Amateur Arts in Brussels, you will find information on theatre, dance, music workshops and other artistic projects.

Many of the cultural centres in Brussels also run cultural and creative courses.

• 'Tremplins asbl' invites young people aged 12 to 21 to help organise its External linkBruxelles Babel festival of artistic expression (FR).
• There are 1001 ways to take part in the External linkZinneke Parade. The various participating groups need 1001 little hands every year.
• There are lots of External linkamateur choirs (FR)  in Brussels and they are always looking for new voices (FR).
• If you’d like to learn about the arts of the circus, Brussels has its own External linkcircus school, with courses for professionals and amateurs (FR/NL).
• Espace Catastrophe also runs External linkcourses for clowns, acrobats and street theatre performers (FR), for beginners and advance students.
• If you’d like to develop your literary talents, try the External linkinternational literature centre Passa Porta
• Dance courses are generally held at sports centres. The External linkGolden Pages provides details of dance schools and sports centres.
• Pierre de Lune arranges External linkdance, theatre and storytelling courses (FR), some of them in schools.