Membership.
ELAN members are
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Why Join ELAN?
Support Arts Advocacy
Access Useful Resources
Bringing Your Concerns to Key Decision Makers
ELAN regularly meets with government and community leaders about issues concerning funding, market access, community broadcasting, and diversity. ELAN amplifies the voices of fellow arts and culture organizations, and organizations supporting Quebec’s official language minority community.
To ensure that our advocacy work and projects truly reflect the needs of the English-speaking arts community, we depend on our members to share their concerns and opinions with us. Here are a few ways ELAN members can make a difference:
ELAN members receive exclusive monthly newsletters with access to new opportunities and professional development resources.
A few items we’ve offered in the past include:
- Free one-on-one grant consultations
- CBC Getting Media Attention workshop
- Showcasing opportunities at Arts Alive! Québec
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Did you know?
- In October 2015, the National Film Board (NFB) signed a $3-million, three-year cooperation and collaboration agreement to strengthen Quebec’s audiovisual sector and culture. This result was generated in collaboration with the Quebec English-Language Production Council.
- ELAN gathered community feedback for Quebec’s 2016 Cultural Policy Review, which has gone largely unnoticed in English media.
- 20% of Videotron’s programming on MAtv, its community television station, is devoted to English-language content – the result of years of intervention alongside community groups and artists working in the field.
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Membership Categories
ELAN welcomes members from all disciplines, career stages, backgrounds, and regions of Quebec.
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ELAN Membership is Pay-What-You-Can. This means that our members determine how much they pay for an ELAN membership. The adoption of a Pay-What-You-Can-model aligns with our goals to make ELAN membership more inclusive and accessible.
Your membership fees help ELAN:
- Finance our work advocating for English-speaking artists
- Provide useful low or no-cost workshops and events
- Promote members’ work
- Develop new projects, and more.Our suggested membership fee is not intended to apply pressure on our members. We strongly encourage members to choose an amount that they are most comfortable paying.
Contact us membership@quebec-elan.org if you have any questions about Pay-What-You-Can.
Testimonials
“Thank you so much for having us last night! What an amazing group of artists!” – Ashley Werhun, CEO of Mentorly on ELAN’s Career Labs.
“I found out about the Playwrights job through an email blast or something from ELAN – I was checking their website regularly when I was job hunting.” – Lesley Bramhill, General Manager of Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal.