ELAN Schmoozer and QDF Calendar Launch & Vernissage

Monday, September 19

Schmoozer – 5:30 PM

Launch – 7:30 PM

MainLine Gallery – 3905 St-Laurent, Montreal

FREE and open to all!

QDF and ELAN are teaming up to present an evening of networking, performances and a vernissage of theatre designers!

Join us for an evening at the Mainline Gallery where artists and arts lovers of all disciplines and backgrounds will have the opportunity to converse, connect, and take in a preview of what’s on in the theatre world this fall!

ELAN’s Schmoozer will begin at 5:30pm. Refreshments will be served and folks from across artistic communities will have the chance to meet and mingle! RSVP: Email admin@quebec-elan.org or click Going in the Facebook event.

QDF’s Fall Calendar Launch will begin at 7:30pm offering audiences an exclusive sneak peek into what’s coming in theatre across Quebec this fall.

To shine a spotlight on our community’s skilled and talented theatre designers, QDF is also curating a vernissage of designers’ work which will be on display all night.

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.