Projects

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ArtEd Initiatives

Arts and Education are natural partners. The benefits for students in developing identity, creativity, and self-expression are well documented. ELAN’s ArtEd Initiatives include the ACE Initiative and the ArtistsInspire Grants. Click below to see the overview and updates for both projects.

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ACE Initiative

From 2018-20, ACE is providing facilitation and coaching to support school leaders, community partners, arts organizations and artists from 20 schools across Quebec to plan and implement ACE projects. ACE projects take place over an extended time period, are cross-curricular and achieve education program goals in multiple subject areas.

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ArtistsInspire Grants

In 2019, ELAN launched the ArtistsInspire Grants (AIG) program in collaboration with LEARN as a new source of funding for official-language minority schools to hire artists. The $1500 ArtistsInspire Grants will enable students and teachers to participate in hands-on creative experiences about and in the arts. The link below redirects to the ArtistsInspire Grants website.

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ARTS2U

ARTS2U is a feed of arts and culture events listings. Information about arts events is compiled into a structured database and fed to media for display on their websites, and directly to arts audiences, saving producers time and by-passing marketing intermediaries. ARTS2U is currently being developed in partnership with other arts organizations, through surveys, creative partnerships, and hackathons.

Creative Resilience

Exploring Arts & Health

Creative Resilience: Exploring Arts & Health is a short series of events taking place between November 2019 – January 2020, exploring the intersections between arts and health. We are interested in building community resilience by connecting artists with tangible tools and resources, while also situating these networks within broader conversations about structural barriers to health care. The series explores larger questions around this access and lived experience through artistic methods and workshops, and a public panel.

Québec Relations

To ensure that English-speaking artists can thrive in Quebec and contribute to the vitality of English-speaking communities, there is a need for better communication and relationship-building with decision-makers and program managers in Quebec. The Québec Relations project now seeks to develop better working relationships with relevant agencies and ministries of the provincial government.

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State of the Arts

State of the Arts is a community consultation aimed to better understand how we as artists, cultural workers, arts organizers, funders, and audiences are all connected, and how we can help each other strengthen our arts community together through thoughtful collaboration and meaningful exchanges. State of the Arts involved consultations and workshops, and culminated in the Activation Conference in February 2019.

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Digital Solutions

Digital Solutions was designed to better understand the problem that inhibits artistic producers from connecting with artistic consumers, and vice versa. This work builds upon other studies which researched parts of the problem, and will identify new solutions that will have a strong economic impact on Canada’s arts and culture sector, as well as on the way Canadians consume arts and culture. Quebec’s English-speaking artists have been hit harder and sooner due to a decline in traditional media than other regions, which has necessitated this research, but solutions identified will be applicable to other regions as well as for French-speaking artists and audiences.

Career Labs

ELAN’s Career Labs series placed emerging artists directly in conversation with artists who have established careers with Montreal as a home base.

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2005 – 2018

Since 2005, ELAN has built a repertoire of activities to support and celebrate Quebec’s English-speaking artists of all disciplines, regions, and backgrounds. Through networking events, ELANews (monthly email newsletter), needs assessment surveys, and major projects like the Arts Alive! Québec community festival series, ELAN has worked to bring Quebec artists closer together and spread their work far and wide.

The future is bright.

Through projects, advocacy, and many other activities, ELAN is committed to helping artists and communities contribute to Quebec’s unique cultural life. Become a member now!

460 Sainte-Catherine West
Suites 706 & 708, 917 (Quebec Relations)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3B 1A7
Phone: (514)-935-3312
admin@quebec-elan.org

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ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtiak:ke, the original name for Montreal in Kanien’keha:ka, 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’keha:ka and Anishinaabeg 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.