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ELAN News September 2023

Letter from the Executive Director Wow, September already – summer really flew by! I hope you were able to take some time to recharge your batteries and get ready for the home stretch of 2023. Here at ELAN, our summer has been anything…
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Elan News August 2023

Letter From Executive Director August is a funny time of year. It’s still very much summer – just check your thermometer and remove all doubt – but there’s also the growing sense that something is just around the corner, and…
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Letter from the Executive Director, July 2021

  (La version Français suivra) Executive Director’s Message – July 2021 The Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island are in tremendous pain.The last several weeks have been difficult and unsettling for us all and as a community of…
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Letter from the Executive Director, June 2021

Summer is upon us and with that comes long-awaited picnics in the park, breezy evening walks, BBQs with family and friends, and all of the joys of this uplifting season. As the province leaps forward into “déconfinement,” and our beloved…
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Director’s Message – May 2021

Change. We fear it. We embrace it. As the third wave of COVID-19 has rolled in, some of us are starting to acknowledge and accept our new reality. Our worlds and the way we live within them have dramatically shifted. We must remain adaptable,…
Project Manager Meeting with ELAN Staff
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Director’s Message – March 2021

Project Manager / staff meeting (starting from the top, left to right): Christie Huff, Bobb Jo Hart, Guy Rodgers, Swati Khanna, Nick Maturo, Deborah Forde, Daniel Webster, Betty Esperanza, Emily Enhorning, Li Li, and Sufia Duez.  Photo by:…
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Director’s Message – February, 2021

Photo by: Monique Dykstra Photo flashback: Guy Rodgers with Peter McFarlane, and Ian Ferrier at ELAN's 2004 Quebec Arts Summit. We are travelling through uncertain times and uncharted territory. Day-to-day disruptions have stretched into…
ELAN board meeting via zoom
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Director’s Message – January, 2021

Zoom screenshot of an ELAN board meeting circa spring, 2020. Left to right / top to bottom: Karen Cho, Guy Rodgers, Blair MacKay, Louise Campbell, Bettina Forget, Paul Bracegirdle, Tim Piper, Kakim Goh, Li Li, Swati Khanna, Deborah Forde, Roger…
Guy Rodgers with Rob Lutes
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Director’s Message – December, 2020

Guy Rodgers with Rob Lutes filming for We're All In This Together SENIORS Project Photo by: Bobbi-Jo Hart   This has been a grindingly tough year, and few of us will be unhappy to see 2020 vanish in the rear-view mirror. Vaccines…
Guy Rodgers with Anne-Marie Jean CEO of CALQ at ELAN's AGM 2019
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Director’s Message – November, 2020

Guy Rodgers with Anne-Marie Jean  CEO of CALQ at ELAN 2019 AGM.  Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin Artists are remarkably resilient people and quick to create solutions in difficult situations. That is an admirable strength in normal times.…

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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