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Director's Message - January 2020

Guy Rodgers presenting at State of the Arts Activation Conference. Still from video by Daybi. A new year is always an occasion for self-examination, and the beginning of a decade offers a heightened occasion for new perspectives and beginnings.…
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ELAN 2019 Highlights

We've reached the end of another decade! 2019 was a busy year for ELAN, and we hope you're excited for what's still to come. We'd like to thank all of our members, funders, and partners for making this year a success. We wouldn't be here without…
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Discovering and Playing with Fascial Topologies: Workshop Summary

Photo by Lital Khaikin. “What institutionally sanctioned therapies fail to critically engage with, is the political operation of how the brain becomes subject. Perhaps unconsciously, or perhaps out of willful blindness, the dominant medical…
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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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How Can We Repair? Strategies for Resilience from Performative Discussion on "burnout"

Last week, we published a summary of the first event in our Creative Resilience: Exploring Arts & Health series, the Performative Discussion on burnout at Studio 303. The discussion dealt with key issues such as how to cope with burnout…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…

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