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Project Manager \/ staff meeting (starting from the top, left to right): Christie Huff, Bobb Jo Hart, Guy Rodgers, Swati Khanna, Nick Maturo, Deborah Forde, Daniel Webster, Betty Esperanza, Emily Enhorning, Li Li, and Sufia Duez.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo by:<\/em><\/strong> Bobbi Jo Hart<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, I was invited to attend a meeting of English-speaking artists convened in Montreal by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage. The jointly-funded program for minority language artists that emerged provoked serious reflection about the future of English-language arts in Quebec and led to a large gathering of artists at the Quebec Arts Summit in November 2004, which sparked the creation of the English Language Arts Network. This ELAN adventure has been a major part of my life for the past two decades. Now it is time for me to say au revoir. ELAN\u2019s new Executive Director starts in April. I have enjoyed working with Patrick Lloyd Brennan in his role as Managing Director of QDF, and I look forward to helping Patrick take his place with ELAN\u2019s team during the coming months.<\/p>\n

ELAN began as an idea with no guarantee for success. It required a lot of luck and help. Shortly after graduating in the National Theatre School\u2019s Playwriting program, I worked with some other young artists to reinvent the obsolete Quebec Drama Festival, and I became the first ED of the Quebec Drama Federation. The success of QDF inspired a group of writers to create the Federation of English-Language Writers of Quebec (FEWQ). As president of both FEWQ and QSPELL***<\/strong>, I negotiated a merger of the two organizations that produced the Quebec Writers\u2019 Federation. The logical next step in a process of community organization was a multi-disciplinary umbrella group. ELAN came into existence with remarkable ease and swiftness thanks to the support from a legion of good people: staff, board, members, project managers, partners, allies, collaborators and funders.<\/p>\n

I will be writing to many of you personally, to thank you for your part in bringing ELAN to life, and helping shape the initial idea into a thriving arts service organization that has made a difference in the lives of thousands. ELAN has been particularly well placed to provide support during the Covid crisis, and I am certain that ELAN\u2019s team and its new ED will continue to play an important role during the challenging relaunch of the arts and culture sector in the months ahead.<\/p>\n

It has been a pleasure and an honour to serve this community as ELAN\u2019s Executive Director. Covid-19 means we will not be able to get together at a schmoozer in-person to reminisce about what we have accomplished together, but we\u2019ll figure out alternate ways to connect and stay in touch.\u00a0 Until then\u2026 au revoir.<\/p>\n

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Guy Rodgers<\/strong><\/p>\n

(soon to be former) Executive Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

***<\/strong> QSPELL was the Quebec Society for the Promotion of English-Language Literature, created in 1988 to celebrate anglo-qu\u00e9b\u00e9ois writing with annual prizes (now known as the QWF awards).<\/em><\/p>\n

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