Jimmy Baptiste Mural
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Teaching Artists As Art Educators, Community Members And Role Models

Teaching Artists hold a special place in schools as guests who bring new and exciting ways of relating with students. When a Teaching Artist returns to the same school for multiple projects, they become members of the school community, developing…
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ArtistsInspire School Grants: Deadline Extension!

“How do we Stay Connected in a world pandemic? Bringing teachers, students and artists together virtually or in-person allows us to create unique and meaningful projects. These experiences connect, revive and inspire us!" Teaching Artist…
Image from experience at Pope Memorial Elementary School: children moving
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ELAN ArtEd: Supporting Artists, Students and Teachers Through School Grants

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Funding Announcement! ArtEd to participate in new provincially-funded youth mental health initiative

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ELAN’s ArtEd Program: March Magic – The Power of the Word

"The first thing I learned was about artists' stories, and the second thing I learned was to never give up.” - Student: hip-hop music workshop participant at Jimmy Sandy Memorial School   The ACE Board at Jimmy Sandy Memorial…
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ArtEd Initiatives: Getting to the Heart of Art!

ELAN’s ArtEd Program was developed to support qualified Quebec Artists to Connect with schools, to create niches for developing creativity and exploring identity and culture with students and teachers. Support from the Government of Canada’s…
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ACE Artist Louise Campbell Interviewed on CBC’s Quebec AM

Photo from Louise Campbell's Artist Profile on artistsinspire.ca. Listen to one of our ACE Artists interviewed on CBC! Click on the Dec. 4 segment to listen: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-87-quebec-am Louise Campbell is currently…
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ELAN’s ArtEd Projects Inspire Schools Across Quebec

"Your dance performance was like an addictive TV show" - 5th grade student at Lasalle Elementary after an ArtistsInspire experience, facilitated by dancer Sonia StMichel.   Apply for ArtistsInspire Grants! Applications for ArtistsInspire…
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ACE Artists in Education: Jimmy Baptiste

Jimmy Baptiste is an Arts Facilitator, Muralist, Illustrator, Graphic Designer and Graffiti Artist who facilitated an ELAN Quebec ACE project at Richmond High School, in Richmond, this Spring. Below are his reflections on the project, and on…
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ACE Lessons Learned: How ELAN Art Ed Artist-Residencies in Rural Communities Benefit Artists

ELAN Quebec’s ACE Initiative connects artists with schools all over Quebec. Sometimes, artists are paired with schools in regions that are located far away from their hometown. This provides intercultural exposure for both the artist and the…
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ArtistsInspire Grants (AIG) launched by ELAN, in partnership with LEARN

ELAN launches ArtistsInspire Grants (AIG), a $2.2 million investment for Quebec official-language minority schools to create arts and cultural opportunities. Visit the new AIG website at artistsinspire.ca. ELAN Quebec, in partnership with…

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtiak: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.

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