Visiting Curators Series Panel & Reception

Sunday, October 22, 5:00-8:30pm
Sign-in 5:00pm; Panel/Q&A 5:30-7:00pm; Reception 7:00-8:30pm
Parisian Laundry – 3550 Saint-Antoine West
Drinks and refreshments will be served
RSVP: admin@quebec-elan.org or click ‘Going’ on the Facebook event
FREE and open to all.

Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, ELAN’s Visiting Curator Series is designed to create links between Quebec artists and cultural centres outside Quebec, with the goal of increasing career opportunities and market awareness.

The confirmed curators for 2017 are:

Emelie Chhangur: Assistant Director/Curator at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and independent curator/writer
Alex Fialho: Programs Director at Visual AIDS, Research and Curatorial Associate Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and frequent contributor to Artforum
Larry Ossei-Mensah: NYC independent curator and cultural critic, Co-Founder of ARTNOIR

The curators will present on strategies for artists to get their work seen and exhibited, observations of the art markets they participate in, and their own curatorial practices. The discussion will be followed by a reception and networking event.

For more details on the curators and the project, click here.

** Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, travel subsidies are available on a first come first served basis for artists coming to the event from West Quebec. For more information, please contact amymacdonald@quebec-elan.org.

Land Acknowledgement

ELAN is an official minority language organization within a country that recognizes two languages as official. ELAN is located in Tiohtià: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.