Arts Community Volunteer Opportunities

New to town? Recent graduate? Looking to meet new folks? Looking to learn more about the arts community? Volunteering in the arts is an incredible way to get involved in the Quebec English-language arts community. Details below for those looking to share a volunteer opportunity.

General / Multi-Disciplinary

Heritage Montreal pursues its mission to protect and promote Montreal’s heritage thanks to the efforts of over one hundred volunteers. Join their team of dynamic volunteers and share your passion for Montreal! Click here for details

Le Milieu is looking for new friends to take care of the cafe and studio space. Volunteering at Le Milieu is a great way to support your local art hive and meet new people. Click here for details

Film / Video / Media-Arts

Spectrum Productions has many opportunities for individuals that want to give back to the community, gain a unique experience and help mentor young artists with their creative endeavors. Click here for details

Visual Arts & Galleries

The Morrin Centre is looking for volunteers to help Trinidad, their reading program coordinator, with some upcoming children’s activities. Click here for details

McCord Museum is looking for volunteers passionate about Montreal, Quebec and Canadian history. Would you like to share this interest with others? If so, become a volunteer guide at the McCord Museum! Click here for details

Espaces Impatients is always welcoming volunteers, as their organization relies on the contribution of volunteers in order to maintain our activities. Click here for details

The Musée maritime du Québec is always in need of support to host activities, offer guided tours, greet visitors, set up exhibitions, maintain the ships, archive documents and hold activities in keeping with its mission. Click here for details

Writing & Publishing

QPIRG-McGill Alternative Library are looking for Volunteers to help make the library more open and accessible to all this summer. Scheduling is flexible, and there are tasks that can be done remotely. Click here for details.

Silk Road Institute is building an incredible team of volunteers for their Literary Festival.
Click here for details.

Volunteer for The Gift of Reading program. Each year, the Foundation needs volunteers to promote the program at the Salon du livre de Montréal, and for other regional book fairs. Occasional assistance at our offices is also appreciated. Click here for details

Literacy Unlimited has ongoing volunteer opportunities for various positions. Click here for details

The Atwater Library is looking for volunteers! Several volunteer positions are available including circulation desk duty. Click here for details

Music

The 25th edition of MUTEK Montréal are looking for volunteers to help in the festival! The event will take place from Tuesday, August 20th to Sunday, August 25th 2024 in Montréal’s Quartier des Spectacles. There are many roles to choose from, volunteers can find something that suits them while connecting with like-minded souls and creating unforgettable memories along the way. Click here for details

Rock Camp Montréal is looking for volunteers for Rock Camp 2024! It is aweek-long music camp that empowers girls, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming youth to form bands, write, perform, and record a single. Volunteers support campers and participate in leadership and self-esteem workshops. Click here for details

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal are always looking for volunteers that play an essential role in providing regular support to the various OSM directorates. Click here for details

Theatre & Performing Arts

The Afghan Women’s Centre of Montreal (AWCM) is launching a new Theatre Project in early 2025 and is seeking volunteers. AWCM, a non-profit organization, empowers socially isolated immigrant and racialized women through support services and integration resources. Click here for details

Shakespeare-in-the-Park is looking for volunteers for various positions on our tour! Roles include front-of-house Welcome Team, poster distribution, pre-show activity engagement, and more. Click here for details

Geordie Theatre is looking for volunteers. Whether taking tickets, selling merchandise, or showing patrons the way around the theatre, they can always use a helping hand. Click here for details

Theater BTW is always looking for volunteers to help out. Don’t forget any one person who volunteers on 3 occasions will receive a free ticket to our Mainstage production! Click here for details

Each summer Repercussion Theater gathers a group of people from all ages and backgrounds to help us bring classical theatre to parks across Montreal and beyond. Click here for details

Theatre Wakefield accepts volunteers on an ongoing basis for help with main-stage theatre productions, Ta Da! Festival, and other various projects and workshops. Click here for details

Dance

Want to share your volunteer opportunity?

If your arts organization, institution, or festival is looking for volunteers to help out, please remember that this is the English-Language Arts Network and our mandate is to support artists and organizations who are working primarily in the English language in Quebec. We are happy to share opportunities with bi/multilingual requirements, but this isn’t the best place to share unilingual French positions. If you have an opportunity you would like to share here, please contact us by sending a message.

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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