Calls for Submissions: September 2017

Multidisciplinary

ELAN Member Laura Endacott is hosting a multi-channel video installation where she invites participants on a series of walkabouts and discuss contemporary motherhood. At this stage of the project she is seeking a gay mother and a veiled mother as a means of being inclusive in her research. The filming will take place over September and October for a total time commitment of 2 hours. For more information please contact laura.endacott@sympatico.ca.

Theatre

Infinitheatre‘s annual Write-On-Q! script writing competition is open for submissions until September 5.

Dramatis Personae, Westmount’s Community Theatre, is seeking young male actors for their upcoming Shakespeare production in December. If interested contact Ann at conros@sympatico.ca or Elli at 514 484 2016.

METAs and Conseil des arts de Montréal are seeking nominations for the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award by September 15.

Music

Montreal City Voices invites women of all ages to join their chorus reheasals on Wednesdays from 7:30-9:45pm. For more information contact mtlcityvoices@gmail.com.

Writing

Submit your poetry to Vallum Issue 15.1 Forgetting by November 15. How does “Forgetting” figure in your lives and in your poems?

Submit your fiction to Cosmonauts Avenue‘s 2017 fiction prize by October 31. Cosmonauts Avenue is calling for work that elevates and amplifies underrepresented voices, work that is warm, thoughtful, dark, light, devastating, funny, & necessary.

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.