Call for Participants for State of the Arts: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Are you a Black, Indigenous, and/or person of colour (BIPOC) who considers yourself an artist?

Do you work in the arts, culture, or heritage sector in Quebec?

The State of the Arts on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion project is looking for English-speaking BIPOC artists, cultural workers, and heritage workers in Quebec to be part of an online focus group.

Many responses to last fall’s survey highlighted efforts and desires to increase the inclusion of BIPOC in various ways, including

gallery showings
festival line-ups
hiring processes
auditions

To better understand the impact of work being done to support the inclusion of more BIPOC artists, cultural workers, and heritage workers, we are conducting a focus group that is open to BIPOC participants to speak to their experiences of inclusion efforts.

What is shared in this focus group will help shape the next phase of the project.

If you want more information, or are interested in being a participant, please get in touch at reasonedi@quebec-elan.org before 20 February 2023. Not sure if this focus group is for you? Feel free to reach out!

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.