At ELAN, we regularly share news about artists, arts organizations, and community concerns on our social media pages. We created this page as a way of keeping track of all the exciting things happening throughout the year. Follow us on Facebook or subscribe to our newsletter for regular updates of news, events, opportunities, and more!

JULY

Music streaming up 16% in Québec in 2023 – Institut de la statistique du Québec,
See the giant inflatable art characters touring Quebec this summer – CBC News
Discover artists and artisans along the St. Lawrence River this summer – The Star
Montreal Just For Laughs festival returns in 2024 with shows by Dane Cook, Bassem Youssef, and Bobby Slayton – CTV News
Montreal’s Nuits d’Afrique Festival releases program for July – CTV News

JUNE

Explore and Create 2023-2024 Funding Results – Canada Council for the Arts
Keith Serry’s Montreal Fringe show looks at what it means to be a father these days – CBC Listen
Online streaming services must hand over 5% of domestic revenues – CBC News
Female musicians underrepresented on Canadian radio playlists – The Canadian Press
Brownstein: Fringe fest facing financial shortfall, but show will go on for 34th edition – Montreal Gazette
Pay increases, AI provisions included in Writers Guild of Canada labour deal – The Canadian Press
Why seniors should take up creative writing, Norman Cornett leads a creative writing workshop for seniors – CTV News
ComediHa! to hold Montreal comedy festival in July – CTV News

MAY

Photography workshop for women and LGBTQ+ folks new to Montreal at Benny Library – Let’s Go, CBC
Montreal music bookstore owner gives honest book reviews…on post-its – CTV News
Quebec premier defending Quebecois nation museum amid Indigenous criticism | CTV News

APRIL

Batik for the next generation – Avy Loftus, a Montreal based interdisciplinary artist is interviewed by the Womens’ Art Museum of Canada – Canadian Architect
Quebec’s Agora des Arts venue for performing arts has officially opened – The Agora des Arts, a venue for performance arts in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, designed by Chevalier Morales, has officially opened. – Canadian Architect

MARCH

The Bridge with Nantali Indongo Arts and culture sector in Quebec contributes over $12B to the economy. That’s not nothing – CBC Listen
Montreal Steppers inspire through workshops “One Day In-School Performances” program is new for this academic year, with seven schools taking part of this Magical Experience – City News
The 2024 Just for Laughs comedy festival has been cancelled as the Montreal company behind it tries to avoid bankruptcy. – CTV News
ArtistsInspire offers students new opportunities in arts education – ArtistsInspire is a micro–grant program that offers English schools in Quebec the opportunity to bring artists into the classroom through ELAN – The Gleaner
Federal government pledges $58.8M to continue local journalism program to 2027 – The Liberal government is extending a program that funds 400 local reporting jobs across the country – CBC News
English language groups host discussion on the future vitality of Quebec’s English-speaking community – Financial Post

FEBRUARY

This workshop helps artists do their taxes Interview about ELAN tax workshops featuring Dael Foster – CBC Let’s Go
Quebec English Language Arts Network turns 20 Interview with Nick Maturo, Interim Executive Director of ELAN – CTV News
Laval greenlights construction of massive film studio project – CTV News
After decades of cheap rent, some Montreal artists being priced out of their studios – CTV News
Quebec committee recommends new ‘fundamental right’ to access French content online English dominates among Quebecers’ music streaming habits, study finds – CBC News

JANUARY

Montreal cuts funding to nightlife organization despite big plans to revitalize downtown area – CTV News
CBC says it is cutting 600 jobs, some programming as it slashes budget – CTV News
‘So surreal’: Oscar nod still sinking in for Quebec creators behind Invincible –
CBC News
The MUHC is home to one of the largest public art collections in Quebec – CJAD 800
Pop Montreal founder describes the beautiful diversity out-of-province students bring to Quebec – CTV News

2023

DECEMBER

Made in Ontario: Quebec’s anglo film and TV producers in a bind – The Montreal Gazette
Post-pandemic, a Quebec expert predicts there will be fewer major museum exhibitions – CTV News Montreal
Nunavik seamstress, entrepreneur named artist of the year – Nunatsiaq News

NOVEMBER

CDAH – Creating a Hub for Everyone – Dawn McSweeny, Forget the Box
Mitali Banerjee Ruths talks about the Read Quebec Book Fair – Global News Morning Montreal
New podcast “How I Wrote This” features prominent Montreal writers talking about the stories behind their stories – All in a Weekend, CBC Radio

OCTOBER

María Ezcurra: rendre visible ce qui ne l’est pas – Jérôme Delgado, Le Devoir
Quebec horror films are having a moment. Will that make getting funding easier? – Justine Smith, CBC
Daybreak host Sean Henry speaks with Genevieve Grenier, the executive director of the Greenwood Centre in Hudson about the StoryFest literary festival. – Daybreak, CBC
Where have all the small concert venues gone? – Commotion, CBC
Montreal festivals fighting for funding… and their lives – CTV News Montreal
The show must go on: Cast, crew scramble to put on Montreal play after costumes stolen – CTV News Montreal

SEPTEMBER

Playwriting festival “Club Zed” sharing Black stories, connecting Black playwrights – All in a Weekend, CBC
Reconciliation and reckoning as Nisga’a totem pole returns from Scotland museum – The Canadian Press
How this comedian is taking on sexism in Quebec comedy – Commotion, CBC

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Kahnawà:ke receives $11M from Quebec for new cultural and arts centre | CBC News

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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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