Left in photo is Edmund Nash. Centre is Guy Rodgers Right is René Marquez.2020
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Director’s Message – October, 2020

Left to right: Edmund Nash, Guy Rodgers, and René Marquez at the MainFilm Schmoozer, 2019. Photo by Laurence Ly. Covid-19 has hit artists with a force that is impossible to fully evaluate. We were taking baby steps toward reopening theatres,…
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Director’s Message – September, 2020

Guy Rodgers speaking at ELAN's 2020 AGM via Zoom.  Photo: Juan Velasquez ELAN held its 16th Annual General Meeting on August 24. It was our first online AGM and the first AGM not followed by a schmoozer. This is the year of doing things…
Guy Rodgers with ELAN staff in their daily morning check in
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Director’s Message – August, 2020

Screenshot of Guy Rodgers meeting with ELAN staff via Zoom (Top left to right: Deborah Forde, Guy Rodgers, Nick Maturo. Centre left to right: Aysha White, Sufia Duez, Juan Velasquez. Bottom left to right: Emily Enhorning and Swati Khanna)   ELAN…
Guy Rodgers with Bettina Forget, Kristelle Holiday, and Amy MacDonald2020
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Director’s Message – July 2020

ELAN's Executive Director: Guy Rodgers with past Board President: Bettina Forget, past Board Treasurer: Kristelle Holliday, and past Program Manager: Amy Macdonald at ELAN's 2019 AGM and 15th anniversary celebration. In a normal year,…
Guy Rodgers and Emily Enhorning at the Fringe and ELAN Schmoozer in 2019
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Director’s Message – June 2020

ELAN's Executive Director, Guy Rodgers and Membership Coordinator, Emily Enhorning speaking at the 2019 ELAN x St Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival schmoozer. Photo by Amy Macdonald.  It is to be expected – after a prolonged period…
Image of Guy Rodgers, Lili, Bettina Forget, Roger Sinha, and Kakim at ELAN's 2019 AGM
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Director’s Message – May 2020

Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin. Left to right: 2019 AGM host and professional film actor: Jimmy Blais. Board members: Kakim Goh, Roger Sinha. Past Board President: Bettina Forget. Current Board President : Li Li, and Executive Director: Guy Rodgers.  When…
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Director’s Message – April

Guy Rodgers attending the Creative Resilience Panel event.  Photography by Nasuna Ulin-Stuart   The show must go on... but maybe not in any way that we have ever experienced, or can currently imagine. The COVID-19 pandemic’s ultimate…
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In Response to COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has struck with remarkable rapidity and is affecting every aspect of our lives: as artists, cultural workers, quarantined travelers, parents of young children, and caretakers of aging parents. To maintain the safety of…
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Director’s Message – March

Photo from Arts, Culture, and Heritage Working Group on February 11, 2020. Front row: Stephanie Azam (Telefilm), Peggy Lianis (Telefilm), Chuck Childs (Centaur Theatre Company), Guy Rodgers (ELAN Quebec), Danielle Azoulay (Department of Heritage…
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Director’s Message – February 2020

Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin. ELAN’s Communication Coordinator, Sufia Duez, is returning to us after being away for eight months of maternity leave. This is a milestone moment for ELAN. As for all fledgling arts organizations, staff…
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Director’s Message – January 2020

Guy Rodgers presenting at State of the Arts Activation Conference. Still from video by Daybi. A new year is always an occasion for self-examination, and the beginning of a decade offers a heightened occasion for new perspectives and beginnings.…
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Director’s Message – December 2019

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…

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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