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Message from the Interim Executive Director, October 2021

Letter from the Executive Director, July 2021
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Executive Director’s Message – July 2021
The Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are in tremendous pain.The last several weeks have been difficult and unsettling for us all and as a community of…

Letter from the Executive Director, June 2021
Summer is upon us and with that comes long-awaited picnics in the park, breezy evening walks, BBQs with family and friends, and all of the joys of this uplifting season.
As the province leaps forward into “déconfinement,” and our beloved…

Director’s Message – May 2021
Change. We fear it. We embrace it.
As the third wave of COVID-19 has rolled in, some of us are starting to acknowledge and accept our new reality. Our worlds and the way we live within them have dramatically shifted. We must remain adaptable,…

Director’s Message – March 2021
Project Manager / staff meeting (starting from the top, left to right): Christie Huff, Bobb Jo Hart, Guy Rodgers, Swati Khanna, Nick Maturo, Deborah Forde, Daniel Webster, Betty Esperanza, Emily Enhorning, Li Li, and Sufia Duez.
Photo by:…

Director’s Message – February, 2021
Photo by: Monique Dykstra
Photo flashback: Guy Rodgers with Peter McFarlane, and Ian Ferrier at ELAN's 2004 Quebec Arts Summit.
We are travelling through uncertain times and uncharted territory. Day-to-day disruptions have stretched into…

Director’s Message – January, 2021
Zoom screenshot of an ELAN board meeting circa spring, 2020. Left to right / top to bottom: Karen Cho, Guy Rodgers, Blair MacKay, Louise Campbell, Bettina Forget, Paul Bracegirdle, Tim Piper, Kakim Goh, Li Li, Swati Khanna, Deborah Forde, Roger…

Director’s Message – December, 2020
Guy Rodgers with Rob Lutes filming for We're All In This Together SENIORS Project
Photo by: Bobbi-Jo Hart
This has been a grindingly tough year, and few of us will be unhappy to see 2020 vanish in the rear-view mirror. Vaccines…

Director’s Message – November, 2020
Guy Rodgers with Anne-Marie Jean CEO of CALQ at ELAN 2019 AGM.
Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin
Artists are remarkably resilient people and quick to create solutions in difficult situations. That is an admirable strength in normal times.…

Director’s Message – October, 2020
Left to right: Edmund Nash, Guy Rodgers, and René Marquez at the MainFilm Schmoozer, 2019. Photo by Laurence Ly.
Covid-19 has hit artists with a force that is impossible to fully evaluate. We were taking baby steps toward reopening theatres,…

Director’s Message – September, 2020
Guy Rodgers speaking at ELAN's 2020 AGM via Zoom.
Photo: Juan Velasquez
ELAN held its 16th Annual General Meeting on August 24. It was our first online AGM and the first AGM not followed by a schmoozer. This is the year of doing things…