Maison Internationale des Littératures Passa Porta


The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec wishes to actively foster cultural relations between Québec and French-speaking Belgium and to promote the development of the international careers of writers by encouraging foreign exchange programs. To this end, in 2004, it concluded with the Direction générale de la Culture in the Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique a reciprocity agreement covering periods of residence for writers.

Belgium is an important hub for cultural exchanges in Europe. The Conseil hopes that the establishment of this partnership will stimulate the longstanding fruitful ties between the Québec and Belgian literary communities.

The agreement enables writers and storytellers to undertake each year a two-month period of residence in Québec and Belgium and take advantage of numerous opportunities for professional contacts in Montréal and Brussels.


Artistic fields
Literature and storytelling


Target applicants
Writers and storytellers with at least two years of artistic practice.


Location
Québec writers stay at the Maison Internationale des Littératures Passa Porta in Brussels. Québec grant holders have at their disposal a 90-m2 apartment in a lively, culturally diverse district. The attractive, Art Deco apartment overlooks the picturesque Place du Vieux Marché aux grains.

In exchange, the Conseil hosts a Belgian writer in Montréal, in collaboration with the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois.


Length of stay and amount of the grant
Two months, in January and February 2012.

$5 000


Registration deadline
April 1, 2011


Additional information
This exchange has been made possible through the collaboration of Direction générale de la Culture in the Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique, the Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois and the Maison Internationale des Littératures Passa Porta.

Maison Internationale des Littératures Passa Porta (www.passaporta.be)

Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois (www.uneq.qc.ca)


Québec writers who have resided in Brussels
Véronique Marcotte (2005), Marci Denesiuk (2006), Guy Marchamps (2007), Violaine Forest (2008), Bertrand Laverdure (2009), Chantal Neveu (2010), Jean-Pierre Girard (2011 literature).



Studio's interior



Dining room



Bookstore in the basement of the Maison Passa Porta



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