Workshops: February 2017

General/Multidisciplinary

Studio XX’s DIY Electronics for Artists workshop begins FEBRUARY 4.

Sign-up for YES Montreal’s free arts orientation session, Jump Start Your Art & Financing Options, taking place on FEBRUARY 6.

CUTV Montreal is offering FREE weekly comprehensive media training workshops starting FEBRUARY 6, including Photoshop, script-writing, sound recording and lighting.

YES Montreal provides free group coaching for artists, each with a different theme: FEBRUARY 9 (Social Media) and FEBRUARY 23 (Networking).

YES Montreal presents Grant Writing Essentials: Two-Part Mini Series FEBRUARY 15 + 22.

YES Montreal presents SEO Training for Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs FEBRUARY 21.

Visual Arts

Sign-up for painting workshops in Hudson with Kathleen Conover, AUGUST 28-31. E-mail Kathleen directly for more information.

Music

YES Montreal’s Online Marketing for Musicians workshop shows participants how to use social media and web tools to strategically gain more fans and generate income on FEBRUARY 1.

Writing/Publishing

The Association of English Language Publishers (AELAQ) presents Beyond Tokenism: Diversity in the Canadian Literary Landscape with keynote presenter Jael Richarson on FEBRUARY 20.

Registration starts soon for Robyn Sarah’s workshop, “Drawing from Life: Memoir and Personal Essay”. The workshop will happen every Wendesday from 6-8pm between MARCH 8 – MAY 3, at the Quebec Writers’ Federation.

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.