February is a great time of year to turn your attention to your creative practice. The shorter days and cold weather lend well to time spent contemplating your art. Keep in mind, we are here to help. The Artist Capacity Building Clinics are back, offering you the chance for a 1-on-1 consultation with legal, funding, and […]
As we look back on this year at ELAN, we want to take a moment to thank our funders who make everything we do possible. Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts, CHSSN, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Emploi Québec, the Government of Canada, and le […]
The Waves of Change docu-series was a 200-year (1820-2020) oral history of Quebec’s English-speaking communities recorded on the 50th anniversary of the FLQ crisis. What We Choose to Remember is the feature-length documentary that grew out of this project. This May, What We Choose to Remember premiered at the Hudson Film Festival to much critical […]
The State of the Arts (SOTA on EDI) project launched this year to begin a conversation about the present state of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion practices in Quebec English-speaking arts, culture, and heritage. The team personally engaged with 919 individual artists, cultural workers, and organizations across 12 regions in Quebec. SOTA on EDI launched two […]
The Community Digital Arts Hub officially opened its doors in November! These studio spaces in Montreal offer artists and arts, culture & heritage organizations access to affordably-priced studio spaces. Within their first few weeks of being open, the CDAH studios have welcomed 7 recording artists including Strange Froots, Sarah Segal-Lazar, and Lou Laurence. (Follow the Digital […]
The ArtEd Mental Health Initiative started in 2021 and is currently in its second year. In order to better equip Teaching Artists in meeting student needs, ELAN ArtEd offers Teaching Artists professional development in Mental Health through learning communities targeting Children and Pre-teens ages 5-14, Youth ages 15-29 and Seniors ages 65+. In the 2021-22 […]
ArtistsInspire Grants have continued this year to bring arts projects from a broad range of disciplines into Quebec’s schools. In the 2021-22 year, 78 Teaching Artists facilitated 248 creative projects reaching a total of 24,000 students. Workshops for homeschoolers helped more students have access to these inspiring projects. The I Belong projects in partnership with […]
Vanessa Herrick joined ELAN as the Executive Director in February of 2022. She got down to business quickly, taking the lead on ELAN’s advocacy initiatives. In August of this year, she led the team in our first in-person Annual General Meeting in a few years. Throughout the year, ELAN’s projects, events, workshops, and community news […]
It was an exciting year for the Québec Relations project which continues to help individuals and organizations find and access Quebec arts funding. Nick and Francisco continued to help folks with funding consultations and referrals for grant assistance AND they managed to redesign and relaunch the Quebec Funding Search Platform – a tool which helps […]
The vitality and vibrancy of the English-speaking arts, culture, and heritage community here in Quebec can be seen in the innovative, thought-provoking, and quality work that is produced in this sector. From cinematographers, to museums, to artist collectives, here at ELAN we recognize that the perspectives that we bring to our work give colour to […]
We are very excited to announce one of the newest projects added to our roster: The Community Digital Arts Hub (CDAH). The Community Digital Arts Hub is a new project through ELAN and the government of Canada that offers artists and arts and heritage organizations high-quality studio space and equipment rentals suitable for photo, video, […]
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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