July 2020 - ELAN

News, Project News, Québec Relations, Resources for Arts Professionals

Québec Relations Webinar #5: Taking the Next Step for Funding — Registering your Not-For-Profit Organization

Are you an individual artist or collective looking to develop your practice and pursue new opportunities but not sure how to move forward? Or maybe you’re feeling limited by the funding available to you and wondering how you can access a larger…

ARTS2U, News, Project News

ARTS2U: Focusing on live broadcasts this summer!

ARTCAST pilot project will be a series of live broadcasts taking place in August and September that will showcase Quebec artists performing in small venues. The initiative will undertake a comparative analysis of services that offer solid…

News, Project News

Teachers and Artists: A Symbiotic Relationship

ArtistsInspire pivoted from April to July 2020 to offer arts and learning online for people of all ages. We are delighted that our participants include many teachers! From Toy Theatre to Doodle Challenge and Spoken Word, teachers attended…

Inclusion Committee, News

Disability, arts practice, and COVID-19 in Quebec

Initiative by ELAN's Inclusion Committee Written by Renée Yoxon As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, artists everywhere have had their livelihoods impacted. In Canada, no province has been harder hit than Quebec. Quebec’s Premiere,…

Guy Rodgers with ELAN staff in their daily morning check in

Director’s Message, News, Project News

Director’s Message – August, 2020

Screenshot of Guy Rodgers meeting with ELAN staff via Zoom (Top left to right: Deborah Forde, Guy Rodgers, Nick Maturo. Centre left to right: Aysha White, Sufia Duez, Juan Velasquez. Bottom left to right: Emily Enhorning and Swati Khanna) ELAN…

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.