ArtistsInspire $1500 School Grants: Help Us Spread The Word!

“I’ve been teaching drama for twenty years. I was in a funk. And so I thought, I need something new, something fresh. I was very, very, very pleased [with ArtistsInspire] . It got me motivated again. It was so dynamic, I wanted to participate, it wasn’t just the kids!”
Teacher Deborah Moram, Laurentian Elementary School (SWLSB)
In the words of the teachers, Stories & News

How can we stay connected in a world pandemic? Emily Read and the Grade 6 students of Carlyle Elementary School came up with 97 ways in their fall 2020 ArtistsInspire project ‘ Stay Connected’.
Project facilitation and video from Emily Read

ArtistsInspire is proud to announce year 4 of our School Grants Program! This program connects professional Artists working in every discipline with English public schools across Quebec. Every eligible school has one $1500 ArtistsInspire Grant for the 2022-2023 school year to cover the costs of bringing a Teaching Artist into their classrooms.

Want to help out? Click below to see and share the ArtistsInspire website and our updated Elementary and Secondary School Workshop Catalogues!:

We love speaking with educators and hope your enthusiasm will encourage them to contact us for more information at artistsinspiregrants@quebec-elan.org and/or phone us at 438-979-1171.

See our Facebook page to like and share this year’s program post and invite students and educators to learn with us. Developing students’ creativity through Artist-facilitated virtual or in-person Arts & Culture experiences is what we do!

Yours, the ELAN ArtEd team
Guillaume Jabbour, Barbara von Thaden, Christie Huff, & Louise Campbell

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.