Le Regroupement du Conte au Québec

To promote storytelling in all its forms and work towards its recognition as a unique and specific art form.

Founded on October 20, 2003, the Regroupement du Conte au Québec (RCQ) gives an official voice to the storytelling movement, which has been in remarkable effervescence everywhere in Quebec for several years.

Composed of storytellers, organizers and all those who are interested in storytelling, the RCQ’s mission is to rally people around storytelling while maintaining individual freedom of expression.

The mission of the RCQ

To organize and coordinate exchanges between the different partners in the storytelling community (storytellers and organisers, amateurs and professionals, audiences and friends of storytelling), excluding all restrictive forms of corporatism:

to support and define storytelling as essentially an oral and performance art
to represent and defend the art of storytelling as a unique and specific art form
to promote the art of storytelling on the local, national and international stage
to support the art of storytelling through a range of services

Note about membership: anybody who wishes to may become a member. The annual membership fee is 50 dollars for a year or 95 dollars for two years. You can download the individual form or the corporative form on line. For individual or corporative forms .

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