February 2021

Teaching Artists’ role in Youth Mental Health: How do teaching Artists positively affect youth mental health through their facilitation of arts and culture processes in schools and communities?

“Bringing people together, inspiring soothing and sharing: these are the powers of art, the importance of which has been made emphatically clear during the COVID-19 pandemic.” - Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO From…

ELAN History, News

ELAN’s History: 2009

ELAN Celebrates Five Years ELAN celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2009 at the Sala Rossa. Following the Annual General Meeting (AGM), ELAN hosted a panel discussion called “Resources for Emerging Artists”, featuring visual artist Juliana…

News

We’re All In This Together: February 2021 update

This project, funded by the department of Canadian heritage, is a co-production between ELAN and Seniors Action Quebec. We’re All In This Together will create 18 episodes of content specially selected for seniors, who have been particularly…

News, Project News, Selfies

SELFIES (Seeing English-Language Families in Engaging Situations)

ELAN is collecting stories from the many groups that make up Quebec’s English-speaking communities. We all arrived in Nouvelle France, Lower Canada or Quebec at different times and from different places. English was the mother tongue for some,…

ELAN welcomes patrick lloyd brennan as ELAN's ed

Advocacy, News

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…

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.