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Letter from the Executive Director, May 2022

Happy spring everyone! There is such excitement in the air with so many live events and gatherings scheduled, it is time to put on our best and brightest outfit, leave the house (I know - but you can do it) and enjoy some amazing Quebec culture.   …
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Letter from the Executive Director, April 2022

As we come out of yet another dark winter, I want to start this spring season with some good news.  We have earned it, as the members of the arts and culture community have been badly impacted by the enforced isolation of the last two years…
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Letter from the (New) Executive Director

I am so pleased and honoured to be writing this to all of you as the new Executive Director of ELAN. When I decided to join the exceptional team at ELAN I had no illusion of the challenges that the arts and culture community faces, and the…
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Letter from the Erstwhile Executive Director, February 2022

  When I said goodbye last March, after 17 years of nurturing ELAN from a compelling idea to the dynamic organization it is today, it was an emotional departure, as final farewells always are.  I certainly never expected to return…
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Letter from the Interim Executive Director, January 2022

460 Sainte-Catherine West
Suites 706 & 708
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1A7
Phone: (514)-935-3312
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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.