Director’s Message – December 2019

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…
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Director’s Message – November 2019

A federal election is always an important opportunity for a public conversation about our collective priorities. Arts and Culture were not particularly prominent this time around, although ELAN joined with two dozen other arts organization…
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Director’s Message – October 2019

Photo from State of the Arts "TEXTURES" by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin. ELAN’s ArtistsInspire Grants project is in full delivery mode this month, after months of promoting the new opportunity to schools, registering experienced artists, developing…
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Director’s Message – August 2019

Image from ELAN's 2016 AGM: Front row, centre: Bettina Forget; second from left: Kristelle Holliday. Back row, second from left: Amy Macdonald; fourth from right: Fortner Anderson. This month ELAN is saying farewell to Amy Macdonald,…
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Director’s Message – July 2019

It has been a long time since a law has divided Quebec as deeply as Bill 21.  One of the most reliable indicators to distinguish those who support the law from those who don’t is a sense of personal vulnerability. Given the direct correlation…
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Director’s Message – June 2019

Guy Rodgers, Christie Huff, Paul Knowles and the AIG team at the ArtistsInspire Grants launch in Laval on May 23. I am pleased to introduce ELAN’s new Administration Manager. Deborah Forde is already well known to many of you. Previously…
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Director’s Message – May 2019

Guy Rodgers with Rahul Varma (Teesri Duniya), Catherine Cahill (Playwrights Workshop Montréal), Hugh Mitchell (Quebec Drama Federation Board Member), Elsa Bolam (Geordie Theatre). 1989. As many of you know, I had planned to leave ELAN this…
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Director’s Message – April 2019

Guy Rodgers, Kristelle Holliday, and Ziv Przytyk of ShazamFest at "Made en Estrie", Sherbrooke QC. April is the beginning of the new financial year. Projects from the previous year are wrapped, but their impact continues to resonate. State…
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Director’s Message – March 2019

Guy Rodgers presenting at the 2019 State of the Arts Activation Conference  Photo by Sufia Duez  ELAN is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2019.  The world around you will have changed little or much during that period depending on…
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Director’s Message – February 2019

Guy Rodgers with John Hobday (Independent Arts Consultant who has worked for Canada Council for the Arts, the Samuel & Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, CBC, and more) at State of the Arts in 2011.  Photo by Dimitri Nasrallah Fifteen…
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Director’s Message – January 2019

Guy Rodgers with Aaron Salomon, Andrew Tay, and Caroline Lussier at ELAN's 2014 AGM! Photo by: Sandra Belanger The beginning of a new year is a natural time to reflect on the past and imagine possible futures. ELAN had its busiest year…
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Director’s Message – December 2018

Guy Rodgers introducing the Minute Market Photo by Kinga Michalska The decisions by Ontario’s Ford Government to abolish the Office of the French Language Services Commissioner and to renege on a promise to establish a French-language university…

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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