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Guy Rodgers, Christie Huff, Paul Knowles and the AIG team at the ArtistsInspire Grants launch in Laval on May 23.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am pleased to introduce ELAN\u2019s new Administration Manager. Deborah Forde<\/a><\/strong> is already well known to many of you. Previously Executive Director of the Quebec Drama Federation, she brings ELAN a wealth of knowledge about grant writing, budgeting, financial management and HR. Deborah\u2019s addition to the team will allow me to have more time to work on the exciting new project<\/a> <\/strong>I shared with you last month. All of ELAN\u2019s staff and board join with me in welcoming Deborah to the team.<\/p>\n

I also want to congratulate Christie Huff on the extraordinary work she has done with ELAN to connect Arts and Education. Christie worked closely with me for many months to write the initial grant application that launched the ACE (Arts, Communities and Education) Initiative. This year, thanks to new funding from the Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers, twelve schools and communities around Quebec connected with artists to co-create learning experiences that participants told us were extraordinarily meaningful<\/strong><\/a>. On May 23, after celebrating an innovative ACE project with artists Jason Selman & Melanie Garcia at Laval Senior Academy, ELAN launched a new project<\/a><\/strong> funded by the Government of Canada, called Artists Inspire Grants (AIG).<\/p>\n

The largest project ELAN has ever undertaken, AIG is designed to distribute $1,500 micro grants to hundreds of schools serving English-speaking communities in each of the next four years so that thousands of students can have inspirational experiences with artists. To coordinate ACE and AIG, ELAN has created an ArtEd Team, managed by Christie Huff, in collaboration with consultants Jennifer Cooke and Paula Knowles, and ELAN\u2019s Program Manager Amy Macdonald. This work is challenging and exciting. You will be hearing much more about it in the years ahead.<\/p>\n

Guy Rodgers<\/p>\n

Executive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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