Refund and cancellation policy

If you need to cancel your registration, you must notify the Professional Development Officer by email at least 7 business days prior to the training date. No refunds will be given for cancellations received after this time.

Eligibility criteria for training funded by Services Québec

The following are eligible :

• Professional artists (persons who devote, or would like to devote, the major part of their working time to their artistic practice, or persons who derive, or would like to derive, the major part of their income from their artistic practice)
• Artists in the process of professionalization (emerging artists);
• Workers in cultural organizations not subject to the Law favouring the development of manpower training. Employees of organizations or enterprises subject to this law will have to pay the real value of the cost of the training. Excerpts from the laws: L., R.Q., chapter S.32.1;
• Recipients of Employment Insurance or last resort financial assistance may be accepted for training activities. However, they must notify Services Canada or Income Security;
• You must be a permanent resident or a temporary foreign worker with an open or closed work permit.

Not eligible :

• People seeking asylum;
• Foreign students;
• Foreign workers participating in the seasonal agricultural worker program.

Training dates
The RAAV reserves the right to postpone or cancel a course if the number of registrations is deemed insufficient.

It is possible to consult the continuing education programs of the following regional councils:

• Conseil de la culture de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue
• Culture Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Culture Centre-du-Québec
• Culture Côte-Nord
• Conseil de la culture de l’Estrie
• Culture Gaspésie
• Arrimage (Îles-de-la-Madeleine)
• Culture Laurentides
• Culture Lanaudière
• Culture Laval
• Culture Montréal
• Culture Mauricie
• Culture Montérégie
• Culture Outaouais
• Culture Capitale-Nationale et Chaudière-Appalaches
• Culture Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean