ELAN Welcomes Patrick Lloyd Brennan as ELAN's New Executive Director!

After an extensive search and selection process, ELAN’s board and staff are excited to announce our new Executive Director, Patrick Lloyd Brennan!

Patrick is no stranger to the ELAN community, having served on our Board of Directors and HR Committee before having stepped down to apply for the position. Patrick has a long history of commitment to and advocacy for the arts. He will be joining our team on April 1, 2021, and we look forward to sharing much more about him in the March edition of ELANews — so stay tuned!

Congratulations and welcome, Patrick!
We’re excited to have you on our team!

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.

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Land Acknowledgement