Year 3 James Lyng High School Oracle Productions Image of Students in front of a mural shooting a video
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ELAN ArtEd’s Youth Mental Health Initiative

Supporting Students Through Supporting Teaching Artists As Teaching Artists, we are often alone, carrying deep emotional experiences the youth share with us or dealing with conflicts or complicated group dynamics. This is a very meaningful…
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…
ELAN Art Education
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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…
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ArtistsInspire School Grants: Supporting Youth Mental Health Through The Arts

  "[Spoken Word Artist Rachel McCrum] brought us each agency, by helping students discover the power of words to be able to shape one’s experience of struggle… [M]any students cite Rachel’s virtual visits and lessons as the most…
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The ArtistsInpsire 2021-22 Year Has Begun!

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Music & Sound in Schools: Listening, Playing and Adapting to Current Times

Music is “a way to take things from the inside... and then share them with other people. What ends up happening is people realize that we're all kind of struggling in similar ways.” Singer-songwriter Rob Lutes  Figuring out how to safely…
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ArtED Program Call for Submissions for eligible BIPOC, LGBTQ2 and Regional Artists. Deadline: May 31, 2021

Call for Submissions especially geared to BIPOC, LGBTQ2 and Regional Artists. Deadline: May 31, 2021 ELAN’s ArtEd program connects professional Artists who identify as members of Quebec’s English-speaking communities from every discipline…
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Teaching Artists’ role in Youth Mental Health: How do teaching Artists positively affect youth mental health through their facilitation of arts and culture processes in schools and communities?

“Bringing people together, inspiring soothing and sharing: these are the powers of art, the importance of which has been made emphatically clear during the COVID-19 pandemic.” - Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO   From…
ELAN ArtEd: ArtistsInspire School Grants deadline extended to January 15, 2021!
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ELAN ArtEd: ArtistsInspire School Grants deadline extended to January 15, 2021!

"Arts in general are needed now more than they ever have been. It requires problem solving and thinking out of the box. It teaches technology. It promotes continuous learning. And at the core of it all is teamwork. The sky is the limit in terms…
ELAN's ArtEd: Literary Arts in Schools2020
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ELAN ArtEd: Literary Arts in Schools: Writing to Understand Ourselves, Our Experiences and the World We Live In

    “Basically, we human beings, what we do is we tell stories. We tell stories about everything.” Raquel Rivera    Literary Arts offer a unique way to engage and express, particularly in times when we are all…
ELAN Art Education
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ArtistsInspire $1500 School Grants

Educators are contacting us and applying to use their schools' $1500 ArtistsInspire Grants!  This program connects professional Artists working in every discipline with English public schools across Quebec. Help us ensure every eligible school…

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