{"id":2402,"date":"2016-09-28T18:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2019-05-08T17:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:48:47","slug":"directors-message-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/en\/directors-message-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Director&#8217;s Message October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-570ioi-303c746bd0d087b302cb8b9112521b69\">\n.flex_column.av-570ioi-303c746bd0d087b302cb8b9112521b69{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-570ioi-303c746bd0d087b302cb8b9112521b69 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><div  class='hr av-430m9e-1a20b4c9c1b686a432af3111165e2cd8 hr-default  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-8yesi-e86a80d9319e56e9d1b8a942c6fc7049 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Arts Alive! Qu\u00e9bec 2016 Wrap Up &amp; A Short History of Official Language Advocacy<\/h3>\n<p>ELAN\u2019s series of Arts Alive! Qu\u00e9bec pop-up mini-festivals concluded in Pointe Claire on September 24. Programming for Arts Alive! weekends ranged from hands-on workshops and kids\u2019 activities to showcases and mainstage performances, and each location contributed its own distinct personality. Hudson and Knowlton involved many community arts organizations in multiple parks and venues around their picturesque towns. Huntingdon featured Grove Hall on the dappled banks of the Chateauguay River, and the Morrin Centre in Quebec City offered its venerable Old City courtyard. In Wakefield, Arts Alive partnered with the Ta Da! Festival at the Community Centre and its adjacent green spaces. John Rennie High School in Pointe Claire provided a fully-equipped stage and a welcoming foyer.<\/p>\n<p>The guiding intent behind Arts Alive! Qu\u00e9bec is to connect artists and communities by increasing the visibility of artistic activity. This summer more than 150 artists and artisans were on the bill. ELAN\u2019s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/QCELAN\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=1209862279066579\">photo gallery<\/a> <\/strong>offers an excellent overview of Arts Alive activities in all six participating communities.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the work that ELAN does is less visible and the benefits are far less direct. Broadcasting is one of ELAN\u2019s largest advocacy initiatives and effecting change can be painstakingly slow. When ELAN was created in 2004, no English-language TV series featuring Montreal had been produced since the early 1990s. As recently as 2010, Brendan Kelly in the Gazette lamented that Montreal was the forgotten city of English-Canadian television production. In 2016, no fewer than eight different English-language TV dramas are in production, as well as a second year of English-language arts and lifestyle programming on Videotron\u2019s MAtv community channel. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-elan.org\/portfolio-item\/short-history-official-language-advocacy-2016\/\">A short history of this dramatic transformation can be found here<\/a><\/strong>. It is a powerful testimonial to the power of persistent, collective action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/0fd7f177103a51acf8a9669d5\/images\/guy_signature_graphic_no_background.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"62\" align=\"none\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/62;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guy Rodgers<br \/>\nExecutive Director<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Director&#039;s Message October 2016 - ELAN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Arts Alive! 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