Year in Review: Community Digital Arts Hub

The Community Digital Arts Hub officially opened its doors in November! These studio spaces in Montreal offer artists and arts, culture & heritage organizations access to affordably-priced studio spaces. Within their first few weeks of being open, the CDAH studios have welcomed 7 recording artists including Strange Froots, Sarah Segal-Lazar, and Lou Laurence. (Follow the Digital Hub on Facebook and Instagram to stay up-to-date on the latest news)

The Digital Hub has been inviting community members in to discover the spaces and learn news skills with two headshot and portraiture workshops and a studio photography workshop. Sarah Segal-Lazar live-streamed a holiday concert from the studio spaces.

CDAH also facilitated promotional shoots for theatre organizations such as Repercussion Theatre and Théâtre Ouest End. The studios were featured on the CBC Montreal, CKUT, and CJLO.

Click here to learn more about the Community Digital Arts Hub.

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.