ARTSCAST: Post Pandemic Action Research, Issues and Ways Forward

The COVID 19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities within the arts ecosystem. It has also forced artists and producers to explore meaningful possibilities for change. Problems have been particularly acute in the arts performance sectors. The movement to make events available virtually has offered partial solutions but the way forward is complicated. Arts Producers have been pushed to seek solutions that involve more restrictive access options as well as offer performances for digital consumption.

Beginning in October, ARTSCAST is conducting a survey of English Language Arts Producers as part of its “Post Pandemic Action Research, Issues and Ways Forward” report that has been funding by ISED (Innovation Science and Economic Development, Canada)

To be part of the survey ARTSCAST will reach out to ELAN’s network of arts producers across disciplines. You can also send and email to dan@artscast.ca

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.

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