AGM Save the Date & Board Nominations for 2022-2023

Save the Date:
ELAN’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Monday August 15, 2022 5:30 -7:30. Location TBD.

Nominations for the English Language Arts Network Board of Directors (2022- 2023)
Please note that ELAN’s board members serve 2-year terms. Below, we’ve noted the number of seats per category, and how many are open for election at the 2021-2022 AGM. Those marked with and asterisk (*), have current board members standing for re-election

Dance : 1* of 2 seats open
Film and Television: 1 of 2 seats open
Music: 1 of 2 seats open
Theatre: 1* of 2 seats open
Visual Arts: 0 of 2 seats open
Writing and Publishing: 0 of 2 seats open
Artists in the Regions: 0 of 2 seats open
Arts Presenter: 1 of 1 seat open
Corporate: 1 of 1 seat open

If you have any questions, please contact deborah@localhost. Please fill out, sign and return the attached document to vanessa@localhost by July 15, 2022.

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’kéha, the language of the Mohawk—also known as Mooniyang, which is the Anishinaabeg name given to the city by the Algonquin. While we are based in this city, our projects have also taken place in many regions across Quebec.

We acknowledge the colonial origin of English and French in Canada, and recognize that both languages benefit from official status throughout the land. The province that we know as Quebec is an amalgamation of the traditional territories of the Innu and Inuit nations, Algonquian nations, as well as the Mohawk nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Kanien’kéha and Anishinaabemowin are but two of the original languages of this province; Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, all well before French and English.

ELAN acknowledges the important work being done by First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages.