Director’s Message – December 2019
Guy Rodgers speaking at ELAN's 15th AGM in August.
I don’t know anybody who would argue that the world is in a good place as we exit the second decade of the 21st century. News from every corner of globe is alarming, from raging forest…
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…
Artists Illuminated – Beanduck Productions
Photos by Camille Horrocks-Denis.
ELAN summer staff Camille Horrocks-Denis sat down with Benjamin Warner, General Manager of Beanduck Productions, in their office in Montreal.
Benjamin, why don’t you tell us a little bit about how…
Hack Arts Montreal: Programming Solutions for Visibility in the Arts
Photos by Swati Khanna.
On November 15 and 16, ELAN hosted the first Hack Arts Montreal, a two day workshop and hackathon. The hackathon addressed the challenge of findability for arts events data that is caused by a lack of standardization…
Everything is Work: Summary on Performative Discussion about “burnout”
Photos by Lital Khaikin.
On Friday, November 15, we held the first event in our Creative Resilience: Exploring Arts & Health mini-series at Studio 303. The Performative Discussion on burnout drew a crowd of 35-40 people, with a steady…
Director’s Message – The QCGN Problem
Screenshot of CTV interview with ELAN Executive Director Guy Rodgers.
The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) was created 24 years ago as an alternative to Alliance Quebec, which had lost the support of many English-speaking Quebeckers.…
Québec Relations: Mapping Provincial Arts Funding
Québec Relations Focus Group at ELAN, Research Coordinator Nick Maturo (left foreground). Photo by Guy Rodgers.
Funded for three years by the new Secretariat for Relations with English-Speaking Quebeckers, ELAN’s Québec…
ELAN Responds to CAM Report on Systemic Racism in the Arts
ELAN supports the initiative Conseil des arts de Montreal (CAM) has taken on studying and recognizing the systemic racism that is ingrained in institutional, artistic funding structures.
We see CAM’s report as the result of years of advocacy…
Fascial Topologies – a schizo-somatic session
Still from Senselab / 3 Ecologies Institute video.
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
5 to 7 PM @ SenseLab
Facilitated by Csenge Kolozsvari
1515 Sainte-Catherine W.
E.V. building – Room 10-785.
FREE / Open to everyone! RSVP…
Director’s Message – November 2019
A federal election is always an important opportunity for a public conversation about our collective priorities. Arts and Culture were not particularly prominent this time around, although ELAN joined with two dozen other arts organization…
Statement Regarding Member Resignations from QCGN
The QCGN claims to be a member-driven network but the level of tension within the organization has been rising steadily over the past year to the point where today, nearly a third of voting members have left. The organizations that have left…
ARTS2U presents Hack Arts Montreal
Hack Arts Montreal is working to make the arts more visible in the AI and machine readable future!
The arts sector has struggled to achieve equal value in return for the amount of energy put into its productions. While social media giants traffic…