Information Session with Le Conseil des arts de Montréal - CAM

Tuesday, March 20, 5 PM to 7 PM

Conseil des arts de Montréal offices – Édifice Gaston-Miron
1210 rue Sherbrooke East, H2L 1L9 –
Montreal, Quebec
(Near Sherbrooke Metro)

Email admin@quebec-elan.org to RSVP

ELAN is in regular contact with arts councils and funders, seeking better support for artists at every stage of their careers. Le Conseil des arts de Montréal has agreed to host an information session – in English – for English-language arts and cultural organizations.

Please note: Le Conseil des arts de Montréal funds organizations and artistic collectives, rather than individual artists, so this information session is designed for arts and cultural organizations located on the island of Montreal.

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.