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ARTS2U: ARTSCAST Pilot Project

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, ARTS2U project will be including live broadcast events to its arts event listings. The ARTSCAST Pilot Project addresses in depth details regarding inclusion and added value of live broadcasts to ARTS2U.…
Guy Rodgers with Bettina Forget, Kristelle Holiday, and Amy MacDonald2020
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Director's Message - July 2020

ELAN's Executive Director: Guy Rodgers with past Board President: Bettina Forget, past Board Treasurer: Kristelle Holliday, and past Program Manager: Amy Macdonald at ELAN's 2019 AGM and 15th anniversary celebration. In a normal year,…
Seeing English-Language Families in Engaging Stories
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The SELFIES (Seeing English-Language Families in Engaging Stories) Project: and how you can win $100 by suggesting a favourite work of art!

Last winter the Secretariat for Relations with English-speaking Quebecers approached ELAN and six other community organizations (representing heritage, youth, seniors, and diversity) about a project idea to explore community identity through…
This is the Time for Real Change, Give space, listen, read, learn, support, donate, call out, reach out
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This is the Time for Real Change

The ELAN team and Board are united in their shared revulsion at last week’s murder of an unarmed Black man by police in Minneapolis. This incident has sparked international outrage because every country in the world, and every city, has its…
Image of Guy Rodgers, Lili, Bettina Forget, Roger Sinha, and Kakim at ELAN's 2019 AGM
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Director's Message - May 2020

Photo by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin. Left to right: 2019 AGM host and professional film actor: Jimmy Blais. Board members: Kakim Goh, Roger Sinha. Past Board President: Bettina Forget. Current Board President : Li Li, and Executive Director: Guy Rodgers.  When…
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Director's Message - March

Photo from Arts, Culture, and Heritage Working Group on February 11, 2020. Front row: Stephanie Azam (Telefilm), Peggy Lianis (Telefilm), Chuck Childs (Centaur Theatre Company), Guy Rodgers (ELAN Quebec), Danielle Azoulay (Department of Heritage…
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Director's Message - October 2019

Photo from State of the Arts "TEXTURES" by Nasuna Stuart-Ulin. ELAN’s ArtistsInspire Grants project is in full delivery mode this month, after months of promoting the new opportunity to schools, registering experienced artists, developing…
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ARTS2U @ IETF Hackathon

Image from IETF Hackathon, by Dan Webster. Working to improve the discovery and circulation of arts events on the internet, ARTS2U took part in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Hackathon 105, held in Montreal on July 20-21.…
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Official Language Community Media Consortium meets with Minister Mélanie Joly

    The Official Language Community Media Consortium has been working for the last two years to raise awareness of the urgent necessity for government support for media in a minority language situation. Through the…
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Bill 21 Discriminates Against Quebecers: Statement from ELAN

As an organization serving the minority-language community of English-speaking Quebecers, ELAN strongly condemns the implementation of Bill 21 and Justice Michel Yergeau’s decision last week to reject an appeal from civil rights organizations…

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Articles on Arts Alive! Québec - Knowlton one of six communities to hold Arts Alive (Brome County News, 2015)

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