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2023 Year in Review

It has been quite the year! Looking back on 2023, it’s hard to believe we managed to do so much. It's been a packed year and, as usual, there’s so much to be proud of!  Below you can check out the overview of the incredible…
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ELAN Project News October 2023

Letter from the Interim Executive Director Halloween is still a few weeks away, but October is already shaping up to be a positively monstrous month for ELAN! First for anyone who hasn’t already registered, we hope to see you at Day…
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19th Annual General Meeting Package

Thanks to everyone who made this year's AGM possible! Additionally, a big thank you to our members who joined us in person and virtually. Below, we have accessible the PDF version of the 19th AGM package. Feel free to look through and catch…
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Project News Updates June 2023

ELAN's projects are working hard all year round to bring important services, creations, and resources to the Quebec Arts community. Once a quarter, we do a round-up of project news so you can take a peek at what's on the go. What We Choose…
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Creative Care for Ourselves and Our Communities:

A workshop series with CHSSN to support artists' mental health The Creative Care project aims to support the mental health and well-being of artists in Quebec through a series of workshops and events offered by health professionals…
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Project News Updates March 2023

ELAN's projects are working hard all year round to bring important services, creations, and resources to the Quebec Arts community. Once a quarter, we do a round-up of project news so you can take a peek at what's on the go. ArtistsInspire…
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Year in Review: Thank You to our Funders!

As we look back on this year at ELAN, we want to take a moment to thank our funders who make everything we do possible. Thank you to Canada Council for the Arts, CHSSN, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal,…
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Year in Review: What We Choose to Remember

The Waves of Change docu-series was a 200-year (1820-2020) oral history of Quebec’s English-speaking communities recorded on the 50th anniversary of the FLQ crisis. What We Choose to Remember is the feature-length documentary that grew out…
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Year in Review: State of the Arts on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The State of the Arts (SOTA on EDI) project launched this year to begin a conversation about the present state of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion practices in Quebec English-speaking arts, culture, and heritage. The team personally engaged…
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Year in Review: Community Digital Arts Hub

The Community Digital Arts Hub officially opened its doors in November! These studio spaces in Montreal offer artists and arts, culture & heritage organizations access to affordably-priced studio spaces. Within their first few weeks of…
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ELAN’s ArtEd Mental Health Initiative

The ArtEd Mental Health Initiative started in 2021 and is currently in its second year. In order to better equip Teaching Artists in meeting student needs, ELAN ArtEd offers Teaching Artists professional development in Mental Health through…
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Year in Review: ArtistsInspire Grants

ArtistsInspire Grants have continued this year to bring arts projects from a broad range of disciplines into Quebec's schools. In the 2021-22 year, 78 Teaching Artists facilitated 248 creative projects reaching a total of 24,000 students. Workshops…

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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