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ELAN believes a thriving arts ecosystem is essential to a strong and healthy community. Representing the voices of the English-language arts community to funders, organizations, and various stakeholders is central to our work  and all year round, our team is out in the community speaking at events, negotiating important agreements, meeting with federal and provincial arts funders, and getting into discussions with Quebec policy and decision makers.

  • September 2025

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    Guide to Arts & Culture Working Environments for High School Arts Teachers

    This guide was created by Compétence culture, ADÉSAQ, and SYNTHÈSE to provide career perspectives in the fields of arts & culture while enhancing learning experiences in art classes. ELAN worked with these organizations to help make an English-language version of this guide available to the community. Click here to consult the guide

  • Telefilm signs historic agreements with Official Language Minority Communities

    ELAN is proud to collaborate with Telefilm to advance the interests of minority language artists and creators in Quebec and across Canada. This historic agreement marks a collective commitment to championing OLMC voices and stories. Click here to read more

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    July 2025

  • May 2025

    ELAN’s Inaugural Town Hall: Connecting the Community in Times of Change

    ELAN leadership team with Lesley Bramhill, Danielle Azoulay (PCH), Julien Valmary (CAM) & Lori Schubert, Quebec Writers Federation’s Executive Director,

    The ELAN community gathered recently on a sunny and warm spring day at the end of May with a simple yet relevant goal: to respond to the concerns Quebec’s English-speaking art community has expressed to us in the recent months. Concerns such as funding scarcity, cost of living, and the insecurity of the social and political situation in the US impacting opportunities for artists. Click here to read more

  • Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival

    Miranda Castravelli, Executive Director of ELAN, was one of seven dynamic speakers featured in Bold & Creative: The Talks. Presented at the 2025 Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival, the series celebrates voices that lead, inspire, and connect communities. Listen here

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    April 2025

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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