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ELAN History Series: 2018
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ELAN History Series: 2018

Guy Rodgers speaking at QUESCREN Press Conference.  Photo by: Marc Bourcier  Inclusive Mandate, Wrapping up AAQ At the 2018 Annual General Meeting, ELAN renewed its mandate to be more open and inclusive: the use of English was changed…
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Waves of Change: Episode 2

What characteristics define that nebulous character – the English-speaking Quebecer? Is it determined by history - the number of years/generations that your clan has lived in this territory? Is it about language? Are your Anglo-Québécois…
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ELAN History Series: 2019

15th AGM ELAN's 2019 AGM Board photo. Back row, left to right: Isak Goldschneider, Roger Sinha, Patrick Lloyd Brennan, Keith Henderson, Quinten Sheriff, Blair Mackay, Paul Bracegirdle, and Tim Piper. Front row, left to right: Purna…
ELAN History Series: 2017
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ELAN History Series: 2017

New Funding for Staff, New Offices, New Initiatives First day after moving ELAN from shared space at 610 to our very own office at 708. Arts Alive! Québec assistant, Sarah Lozinski. Photo by Guy Rodgers   2017 was a momentous…
ELAN History 2016
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ELAN History Series: 2016

A New Look: Connect, Support, Create 2016 was an exciting year for ELAN, with several multi-year projects underway and new branding for the organization. ELAN introduced a new logo that conveys movement, optimism, and rayonnement (radiance).…
ELAN History Series 2015
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ELAN History Series: 2015

Launch of Arts Alive! Québec ELAN launched the Arts Alive! Québec (AAQ) project at the Rialto Theatre in Montréal with a full house of partners from many regions of Québec. Growing directly out of the ACCORD project, Arts Alive! Québec…
ELAN History Series: 2012
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ELAN History Series: 2012

ACCORD Phase 2 ELAN AGM at Shift Space. Left to right: Peter MacGibbon (VP), Shelagh Plunkett (Secretary), Chuck Childs (President), Guy Rodgers (ED), and Tim Brady (Treasurer). Photo by: Unknown (If you are the photographer of this…
ELAN History Series: 2010
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ELAN History Series: 2010

State of the Arts: Phase 1   In 2010, ELAN introduced the State of the Arts (SotA) project as a means of uniting disparate communities in the English-speaking cultural landscape of Quebec. Then-president of ELAN, Charles Childs, gave…
Project Manager Meeting with ELAN Staff
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Director’s Message – March 2021

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.  Photo by:…
2009 ELAN History Series
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ELAN’s History: 2009

ELAN Celebrates Five Years ELAN celebrated its fifth anniversary in 2009 at the Sala Rossa. Following the Annual General Meeting (AGM), ELAN hosted a panel discussion called “Resources for Emerging Artists”, featuring visual artist Juliana…
ELAN welcomes patrick lloyd brennan as ELAN's ed
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ELAN Welcomes Patrick Lloyd Brennan as ELAN’s New Executive Director!

After an extensive search and selection process, ELAN’s board and staff are excited to announce our new Executive Director, Patrick Lloyd Brennan! Patrick is no stranger to the ELAN community, having served on our Board of Directors and…

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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’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.