ARTSCAST Update: Post Pandemic Action Research, Issues and Ways Forward

Post Pandemic Action Survey and finding ways forward

The good news is that many performance venues in Quebec are opening to full capacity. The sad news is that some venues and Arts Producers will not survive the upheaval caused by COVID 19. There are still questions and concerns about how we move forward through and after this tumultuous period.

Arts producers are adapting to the changes in restrictions so that health and safety measures are rigorously maintained. They are implementing solutions that improve access options as well as offering performances for digital consumption.

Beginning in November, as part of the continuing conversation with English Language Arts Producers via our “Post Pandemic Action Survey,” ARTSCAST will begin organizing results collected. The report is being funded by ISED (Innovation Science and Economic Development, Canada). If you have not been contacted to be part of the survey, ARTSCAST is reaching out to ELAN’s network of arts producers across disciplines. You can also send and email to dan@artscast.ca to express your interest in participating.

Click here to learn more about ARTSCAST & ELAN’s ARTS2U project

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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