Photo by Lital Khaikin. “What institutionally sanctioned therapies fail to critically engage with, is the political operation of how the brain becomes subject. Perhaps unconsciously, or perhaps out of willful blindness, the dominant medical strategies in place for treating depression uncritically lend themselves to the neoliberal free marketeering of life – the transformation of life […]
Photo from Louise Campbell’s Artist Profile on artistsinspire.ca. Listen to one of our ACE Artists interviewed on CBC! Click on the Dec. 4 segment to listen: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-87-quebec-am Louise Campbell is currently wrapping up her second residency on Grosse Île in the Magdalen Islands. Louise is joined on CBC by two students. Louise creates intergenerational creative […]
Last week, we published a summary of the first event in our Creative Resilience: Exploring Arts & Health series, the Performative Discussion on burnout at Studio 303. The discussion dealt with key issues such as how to cope with burnout in a social and economic system that is never done extracting value from people and […]
Guy Rodgers speaking at ELAN’s 15th AGM in August. I don’t know anybody who would argue that the world is in a good place as we exit the second decade of the 21st century. News from every corner of globe is alarming, from raging forest fires and torrential floods to leaders who defy democracy and […]
Still from CTV interview with Guy Rodgers. I don’t know anybody who would argue that the world is in a good place as we exit the second decade of the 21st century. News from every corner of globe is alarming, from raging forest fires and torrential floods to leaders who defy democracy and treat the […]
“Your dance performance was like an addictive TV show” – 5th grade student at Lasalle Elementary after an ArtistsInspire experience, facilitated by dancer Sonia StMichel. Apply for ArtistsInspire Grants! Applications for ArtistsInspire Grants are still being accepted! If you have a relationship with an English public elementary or high school, it’s not too late […]
Photos by Camille Horrocks-Denis. ELAN summer staff Camille Horrocks-Denis sat down with Benjamin Warner, General Manager of Beanduck Productions, in their office in Montreal. Benjamin, why don’t you tell us a little bit about how Beanduck Productions was first established? Beanduck Productions was founded in Summer of 2012 between myself and Julian Stamboulieh, who is […]
Photos by Swati Khanna. On November 15 and 16, ELAN hosted the first Hack Arts Montreal, a two day workshop and hackathon. The hackathon addressed the challenge of findability for arts events data that is caused by a lack of standardization in digital metadata. Each of the organizations that participated in the hackathon is addressing pressing […]
Photos by Lital Khaikin. On Friday, November 15, we held the first event in our Creative Resilience: Exploring Arts & Health mini-series at Studio 303. The Performative Discussion on burnout drew a crowd of 35-40 people, with a steady flow around the table. Next week, we will share some tips and solutions that were offered […]
Screenshot of CTV interview with ELAN Executive Director Guy Rodgers. The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) was created 24 years ago as an alternative to Alliance Quebec, which had lost the support of many English-speaking Quebeckers. For more than 20 years, hundreds of staff and volunteers have contributed their expertise, time and passion to build […]
Québec Relations Focus Group at ELAN, Research Coordinator Nick Maturo (left foreground). Photo by Guy Rodgers. Funded for three years by the new Secretariat for Relations with English-Speaking Quebeckers, ELAN’s Québec Relations project has three main objectives: to identify all available funding sources within the provincial government, to help English-speaking arts organizations apply for […]
ELAN supports the initiative Conseil des arts de Montreal (CAM) has taken on studying and recognizing the systemic racism that is ingrained in institutional, artistic funding structures. We see CAM’s report as the result of years of advocacy work done by grassroots organizations in Montreal, and building on the research put forward by organizations like […]
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