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Jury member applications for Round 4 of Trellis Micro-grants are now open!

Deadline to apply is October 31st, 2026 at 11:59PM

Considering serving on the Trellis Micro-grant jury? Here’s everything you need to know:

There are two jury pools: Organizations and Artists.
A jury will be convened for each discipline in both pools, consisting of artists with experience in the field. The disciplines are: Visual/Studio Arts, Film/Video Arts, Theatre/Performance, Dance, Music/Audio Arts, Literature, Multimedia and Community Engaged Arts.
You can apply to jury in more than one field, provided you have some experience in it, but please select no more than three.
ELAN staff will support the jury process but will not have a vote on funding recommendations.

Jury duty will involve:

Logging initial impressions through an online evaluation sheet,
Attending a jury meeting online or in-person to finalize recommendations for the Final Jury.
Selecting applications to be funded from the pre-selections of each Pod. (Final Jury only)
All jury members will receive an honorarium for their time.

Jury evaluations and meetings will take place in February and March 2027.

Don’t be dissuaded if you’ve never served on an arts jury or are an emerging artist! We are looking for jury members of all experience levels.

About the Trellis Micro-grant Project:

The Trellis Micro-grant project, supported by The Department of Canadian Heritage’s Official Languages Support Programs, seeks to highlight English-language arts and artists to make them visible to a broader community, and build bridges between Québec’s English-speaking minority and Francophone majority. The Trellis Micro-grant project launched in the winter of 2024 and 3 rounds of funding have been awarded. One more year of funding is currently anticipated.

Projects supported are those that seek to strengthen the English-language community sense of belonging in Quebec, though arts and culture. Projects must seek to increase intra- and inter-community appreciation and provide more opportunities for cooperation. The goal of the funding is the promotion of the English-speaking artistic communities’ contributions to Québec’s development and/or to create more opportunities to bring the English- and French-speaking communities closer together.

To ensure an equitable and fair application process, ELAN has set up an easy application form and funding recommendations will be made by a blind jury of peers. Each jury will consist of representation from all arts disciplines and an arts administrator. ELAN staff will vet applications for eligibility, then remove identifying information before sharing the applications with jury members. ELAN staff will support the jury process but will not have a vote on funding recommendations.

Please note if you are selected for a jury, you will not be able to apply for a grant within that pool (Artist or Organization). You may apply for a different pool. Past applicants are welcome to apply..

For more information on Trellis Micro-Grants please consult the Trellis Micro-Grants website.

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.