April Schmoozer

Monday April 24, 6-8pm
Hurley’s Irish Pub (second floor)
1225 Crescent Street, Montreal
RSVP: admin@quebec-elan.org
Free and open to all!

ELAN’s Schmoozers are bi-monthly get-togethers that offer a great chance to make new connections with artists, arts lovers, and cultural workers from all disciplines and backgrounds. Come grab a pint and celebrate the arrival of spring by meeting some fresh new faces!

What’s the Minute Market?

A great opportunity to promote your current projects! The first ten ELAN members to contact admin@quebec-elan.org will be given a one-minute spot to enchant a captive audience with info about your upcoming show, event, achievement, or other artistic offering. You will also be asked to provide a book, recording, pair of tickets, or other art-related object to be offered as a door prize.

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.