Arts Alive Québec Update for ELAN Member Artists

Thanks to all ELAN members who responded to the call to participate in Arts Alive! Québec 2017!

More than four dozen proposals were received and shared with our regional partners. The three July festivals had an exceptionally tight deadline to complete their programming, but managed to include several ELAN members.

If you have not heard back, do not fear! ELAN’s other partners are still programming artists for August and September. We except to include quite a few ELAN members in Huntingdon, Wakefield, and the West Island. We will keep you posted as programming is finalized.

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.