ELAN History Series: 2018
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ELAN History Series: 2018

Guy Rodgers speaking at QUESCREN Press Conference.  Photo by: Marc Bourcier  Inclusive Mandate, Wrapping up AAQ At the 2018 Annual General Meeting, ELAN renewed its mandate to be more open and inclusive: the use of English was changed…
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ELAN History Series: 2019

15th AGM ELAN's 2019 AGM Board photo. Back row, left to right: Isak Goldschneider, Roger Sinha, Patrick Lloyd Brennan, Keith Henderson, Quinten Sheriff, Blair Mackay, Paul Bracegirdle, and Tim Piper. Front row, left to right: Purna…
ELAN History Series: 2017
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ELAN History Series: 2017

New Funding for Staff, New Offices, New Initiatives First day after moving ELAN from shared space at 610 to our very own office at 708. Arts Alive! Québec assistant, Sarah Lozinski. Photo by Guy Rodgers   2017 was a momentous…
ELAN History 2016
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ELAN History Series: 2016

A New Look: Connect, Support, Create 2016 was an exciting year for ELAN, with several multi-year projects underway and new branding for the organization. ELAN introduced a new logo that conveys movement, optimism, and rayonnement (radiance).…
ELAN History Series 2015
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ELAN History Series: 2015

Launch of Arts Alive! Québec ELAN launched the Arts Alive! Québec (AAQ) project at the Rialto Theatre in Montréal with a full house of partners from many regions of Québec. Growing directly out of the ACCORD project, Arts Alive! Québec…
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ELAN History Series: 2014

ELAN Celebrates 10 Years!   10th anniversary greeters’ table: Amy Macdonald (office coordinator), Mara McCullum, Lindsay Nixon (summer student), Peter MacGibbon (past-president), Jay Ritchie (summer student), and Crystal Chan (ex…
ELAN History Series: 2013
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ELAN History Series: 2013

Connecting Art and Education   ELAN’s first foray into connecting the arts with education was made via a project called ArtWorks, spearheaded by the Community Economic Development and Employability Corporation (CEDEC). Artworks…
ELAN History Series: 2012
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ELAN History Series: 2012

ACCORD Phase 2 ELAN AGM at Shift Space. Left to right: Peter MacGibbon (VP), Shelagh Plunkett (Secretary), Chuck Childs (President), Guy Rodgers (ED), and Tim Brady (Treasurer). Photo by: Unknown (If you are the photographer of this…
2011 ELAN History Series featuring photo from RAEV plus ELAN logo
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ELAN History Series: 2011

Marking Milestones in Montreal When le Conseil des arts de Montréal (CAM) published a history of its first fifty years in 2009, there was a glaring lack of recognition for English-language arts, despite important contributions from institutions…
ELAN History Series: 2010
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ELAN History Series: 2010

State of the Arts: Phase 1   In 2010, ELAN introduced the State of the Arts (SotA) project as a means of uniting disparate communities in the English-speaking cultural landscape of Quebec. Then-president of ELAN, Charles Childs, gave…
2009 ELAN History Series
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ELAN’s History: 2009

ELAN Celebrates Five Years ELAN celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2009 at the Sala Rossa. Following the Annual General Meeting (AGM), ELAN hosted a panel discussion called “Resources for Emerging Artists”, featuring visual artist Juliana…

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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