CINARS Info Session

Are you a performing artist that is interested in touring? Are you familiar with CINARS (the International Exchange for the Performing Arts)?

CINARS is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote and support the export of the performing arts. It aims to encourage cultural creations emerging from the performing arts sector, to promote commercial discussions between organizations specializing in production and those specializing in presentation, and ultimately make Montreal a worldwide hub of performance art networking

What can CINARS offer you? CINARS provides training seminars for artist representatives and agents, as well as targeted workshops to encourage the development of the skills involved in international touring. CINARS also offers a coaching services all year round to address specific needs of artistic companies, including international development of your company. In addition to these services, they also facilitate CINARS Biennale, one of the most important international performing arts conferences worldwide, with more than 1500 professionals hailing from 40 countries.

If you are interested in learning more by attending a CINARS info session hosted by ELAN, please email Guy Rodgers at guyrodgers@quebec-elan.org.

For detailed information about CINARS, click here.

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià: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.