The Savvy Sessions ran from 2017-2019 and were part of ELAN’s Performing Artist Market Access project. We offered free professional development workshops for Performing Artists aimed at enhancing the skills needed to successfully navigate a career in the arts. With a focus on Dance, Music, and Theatre, these workshops were open to all performing artists.

Past Workshop Leaders

Past Sessions

2018:

Self-Producing Dance

Auto-fiction: Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Build Your Own Website – Offered in Huntingdon

Grant Writing & Social Media – Offered in Sherbrooke

Touring & Showcasing (Music)

Sound Recording for Voice Artists (Music / Theatre)

Social Design & Digital Collaborations

Pitching & Touring (Theatre)

Grant Writing Essentials – Offered in Montreal, Sherbrooke and Huntingdon

Marketing & Social Media for Artists

Taxes for Artists

Producing from the Ground Up

Voice Recording Techniques & Tips
with Denis Martin

Producing Theatre & Dance from the Ground Up
with Jen Quinn & Julie Tamiko Manning

Social Design for Live Performance
with Michael Wheeler

2017:

Circulating Dance Performances

Grant Writing for Theatre: Actors and Creators

All about CINARS: Thinking of Touring?

Grant Writing and Social Media – Offered in Morin Heights and Knowlton

Creative Collaborations: Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Presenting Dance: Connecting and Showing your Work

Sound On: Studio Recording Workshop

Grant Writing Intensive

Touring & Producing Theatre
with Mike Payette

Circulating Dance Performances
with Andrew Tay

Partners & Sponsors

The Savvy Sessions are made possible with the support of:

Partner

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

Accessibility is important to us.

Thanks to the support we receive from Canada Council for the Arts, Savvy Session workshops are now free!

Without the support of Canada Council for the Arts, each Savvy Session workshop would cost anywhere between $80.00 to $250.00 per participant.

Location Sponsor

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

Click here to view our Accessibility Audit.

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that only recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtiak:ke, which is 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 would also like to acknowledge the important work being done by First Nations to revive the traditional languages of these territories, and their advocacy for the official status of Indigenous languages. Kanien’keha:ka and Anishinaabeg are but two of the original languages of this province, in which English and French are colonial languages. 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. Atikamekw, Cree, Inuktitut, and Innu-aimun are also among the many Indigenous languages spoken across Quebec as majority languages, and well before French and English.

Past Sessions

2018:

Voice Recording Techniques & Tips

Marketing the Arts

Producing Theatre & Dance from the Ground Up

Voice Recording Techniques & Tips

Social Design for Live Performance