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ELAN Advocating before the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications

ELAN's Executive Director, Miranda Castravelli spoke with The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications to advocate on behalf of all artists to respond to the question "does the CBC still have value?" As we know, many…
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Tell the City of Montreal: Your art matters

The City of Montreal is putting forward their culture plan for the next 5 years (2025-2030). Please join us in letting them know that English artists, and the arts in general are an important part of the city, and must not be forgotten! Dear…
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A Letter from Miranda Castravelli, ELAN’s new Executive Director

Dear members,   It is with great pleasure that I address you officially for the first time.  With its combination of advocacy, artistry and outreach, ELAN has long been positioned as an important hub at the centre of the greater…

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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