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6th Annual Pink Tie Gala
Saturday November 19, 2022 - doors open 6:30pm
CLB Armoury - 70 Harvey Road​, St. John's

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OUR SPONSORS

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THE FOOD

Indigenous Menu

Amuse: Bison Tartare
Bison tartare with a juniper and Labrador tea mustard, roasted garlic and olive oil; accompanied by partridge berries and turnip chips.
Created by Chef Justin Igloliorte
Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Sauvignon Blanc

Salad: Three Sisters Salad
White beans, roasted acorn squash and roasted corn, with sweet peppers, roasted beets and a homemade red onion dressing.
Created by Chef Trudy Metcalfe-Coe
Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Cabernet Sauvignon

Main: Blackened Arctic Char
Blackened Arctic Char with Red Bay Bakeapple Compote, served with roasted potatoes and silly peas.
Created by Chef Trudy Metcalfe-Coe
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Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Pinot Noir

Vegan Menu

Amuse: Beet Tartare
Juniper smoked beet tartare with vegan parm, veg caviar, sprouts & crostini

Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Sauvignon Blanc
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Salad: Farro Patridgeberry Salad
Farro partridgeberry salad with dates, nasturtium green hummus, orange, fresh herbs, pepitas & fennel

Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Cabernet Sauvignon

Main: Grilled Hearts of Palm
Grilled hearts of palm with lentils, parsnip pure, “seaweed" pearls, crystalized beet, asparagus, micro green & jus

Suggested pairing: Bread & Butter Pinot Noir

​Created by Chef Amy Anthony of the Nook & Cannery
Dessert is by auction with a selection of gourmet cakes and and other delights available for each table to bid on! 
Suggested pairing: a chilled glass of Bread & Butter Pinot Grigio
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We are pleased to feature Bread & Butter Wines, crafted by California winemaker Linda Trotta.

​Also, each table has a bottle of Paul Brassac Organic Sparkling Juice, plus an assorted collection of other non-alcoholic options.

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Trudy Metcalfe-Coe is an Inuk Chef originally from Nain, Nunatsiavut. Trudy started cooking at a young age and focuses her skills on promoting country foods from the Arctic regions of Canada, and her Inuit culture.

Ottawa has been home for Trudy for over 30 years. It’s where Trudy cooks to share her culture and her passion with food. Many of Trudy's dishes are done in a more traditional way, however, she also ventures from the norm and creates infused dishes with foods not readily available or used in the north, paired with country food.

Outside of working full time within the Inuit Community in Ottawa, and at times in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut, Trudy is one of very few Inuit who cooks for the masses in southern Canada. Trudy has been catering special events over a couple of decades, for schools and universities; and local, provincial and federal government events, including for groups such as the Canada Council for the Arts, the Museum of History; the Indigenous Music Awards; and the Canadian Centre for Architecture.  

Trudy has been a guest chef on both television and radio and recently accepted a position with Madahoki Farms, the newest venture of Indigenous Experiences, who produce Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival as their first ever Resident Chef.

Trudy has lived experience of hunting and fishing in the Arctic and is a strong advocate for supporting community and Inuit hunters. Trudy doesn’t cater for the sake of catering - Trudy only caters to events that call to her heart and must have an educational or awareness component to them, about her Inuit culture or other Indigenous Cultures.

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Justin Igloliorte is an Inuk who grew up in Happy Valley - Goose Bay, Labrador, who has had an interest in food and cooking from a young age. After receiving a diploma from the Culinary Institute of Canada he has worked in varying restaurant types in Halifax, Ottawa and St. John's. Becoming a Chef of an Asian fusion restaurant at the age of 25, Justin still found time to work with Indigenous people and ingredients, such as helping Parks Canada introduce tourists to the basecamp operation for the Torngat Mountains National Park.

Justin continues to explore using Indigenous foods with a modern twist whenever he has the opportunity.

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Amy Anthony has been in the culinary industry for over 20 years. With a vast and ever growing palette, and experience ranging from fine dining to greasy spoon, Amy likes to feed faces with unpretentious fusion comfort foods. She opened the Nook and Cannery in 2021 and beat the pandemic odds when most doors were closing. She lives in St. John’s with her partner and two kitties. Enjoy her vegan, gluten friendly offerings this evening 

THE ENTERTAINMENT

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Janelle Niles is a Black - Mi’kmaq woman from Sipekne'katik, Nova Scotia. She launched her comedy career in January 2019 in Ottawa, ON.

Exploding in the nation's capital with her indigenous comedy show Got Land? Janelle aims to communicate solidarity through humour and laughter. Her dream is to perform for Just For Laughs in Montreal and one day tour Turtle Island.

You can catch her on CBC Gem’s New Wave Of Stand-up Season 2, she has also performed with the Arctic Comedy Festival in Iqaluit, Nunavut alongside her peers. appeared on APTN’s Indigenous Day Live 2022 on Lumi. Janelle’s humour is described as eccentric and captivating.

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Eastern Owl is an Indigenous-led all nations group of women who blend the styles of First Nations Drum Music and Contemporary Folk to create their own innovative sound. Based primarily out of St. John’s, NL, the women of Eastern Owl hail from all across Ktaqamkuk (the island of Newfoundland). A powerful ensemble of seven vocalists, they have been captivating audiences across Canada since 2011.

With deep roots in community, Eastern Owl has committed to deepening their connection with their traditional practices while helping to educate Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences through song. They are the recipients of the 2016 ArtsNL CBC Emerging Artist award, the 2019 Music NL Indigenous Artist of the Year Award and most recently have been named the 2020 ECMA Indigenous Artist of the Year.

They have taken the national stage during Canadian Music Week (ON), Coastal First Nations Dance Festival (BC), and Petapan (NB), as well as festivals in their hometown of St. John’s such as Identify, Out of Earshot, Spirit Song, and Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival. The women have been making waves following the release of their two albums: “Not Quite Like You” ( 2016) , and “Qama’si” (2019). 

Eastern Owl is Jenelle Duval, Stacey Howse, Kayla Stride, Danielle Benoit, Natasha Blackwood, Jaime O’Leary, and Rebecca Sharr.

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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches at Mount Saint Vincent University, where she was named the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies in 2017. She was Halifax’s Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is the author of Live from the Afrikan Resistance! (Roseway Publishing, 2014), a collection of poems about resisting white colonialism. Her work focuses on social justice issues, such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism and decolonization. Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour, on CKDU-FM where listeners from prisons call in to rap and read their poetry, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience. Her new book, Abolitionist Intimacies, launches November 2022 from Fernwood Publishing.

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Tanya Alexander is an L'nu vocalist, songwriter, actor and producer who began her music career in St. John’s in the 1990s with the band Shy Mary. The band’s self-titled album, produced by Sandy Morris, received a MusicNL Female of the Year award nom in 1997. Tanya worked extensively in drama and musical theatre with the Stephenville Theatre Festival and Bay Theatre throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, and also began staging her own Arts & Culture Centre productions. Shows such as Mojo Workin’: a Blues Revue, God Bless the Child, and Ladies of Jazz, among others, featured Tanya with such notable special guests as The Secrets, Darrin Martin, Louis MacDonald, Wade Pinhorn, Scott Hammond and Evan Smith. A repeat guest on CBC Radio and Rogers Television’s Out of the Fog and Corner Brook Café, Tanya is widely known as a Jazz and Blues singer. However, for her first solo album, she went back to her roots in Country and Western music with Into Your Kiss in 2012. Recorded at The Blue Room by Scott Hammond and co-produced by Tanya and Wade Pinhorn, the album garnered a MusicNL Country Artist of the Year award nomination. Today, Tanya performs in St. John’s in a variety of ensembles. She has also become obsessed with ukulele and performs solo. Tanya is thrilled to be invited to play the cocktail portion of tonight’s Pink Tie Gala!

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Vanessa Cardoso -Whelan (she-her) is a playwright, multidisciplinary artist, street performer and clown from Brazil, with a passion for contemporary theatre and body movement awareness, especially related to Flamenco dancing. Graduating in Theatre Arts in 2004, she has performed with several artistic groups onstage and in street productions, as an actress, Flamenco dancer, puppeteer and fire flow dancer. Vanessa has been actively engaged in the local arts scene since moving to NL in 2014, participating in diverse artistic workshops and festivals. Currently wearing different hats she’s involved in theatre productions, Tv shows, dance adventures and clown studies. Vanessa also loves to perform as a Living Statue in the streets when the weather is nice.

THE CAUSE

​This year's Gala is raising money in support of STOLEN SISTERS and our $200K project to share this important production in communities across Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) and up-and-down Labrador in 2023. 

Written by L’nu playwright Leahdawn Helena, STOLEN SISTERS stars renowned Inuk performer Deantha Edmunds.

True tales of the Beothuk are lost forever to time, but this a new play from PerSIStence Theatre, explores the lives and legacy of a people now culturally extinct due to colonial violence. Historical record tells us a little of child Oubee, woman Shanawdithit, and elder Santu Toney. While exact details may be forever lost, there is still much Truth to be shared from their narratives – Truth that has been obscured or ignored by colonial storytellers. Drawing from her own journey of Reconciliation as a member of the Qalipu Nation, Leahdawn Helena has crafted a riveting and empowering play that attempts to honour their Truth.
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THANK TO OUR KIND GALA DONORS!

​Alison French
Art Cansel
Arts and Culture Centre
Be Compassionate NL
Best Kind Productions
Botanical Gardens
Boulder Press
Bread & Butter Wines
Breakwater Books
Cakes by Gemma
Capital Hotel
Caroline Nicholson
Catalyst Health Solutions
Chayee Bourass Wines
Cheerio Creations
Chelsey MacNeill
Culturisto
Daniel Anstey
Deantha Edmunds
Deb Sheppard
Di Dabinett
Diamond Design
Double Tree By Hilton
Downtown Comics
East Coast Quilt Co.
Edward Daranyi
Eileen Matthews
Engen Books
Ennis Sisters
Fishers Loft
Flanker Press
Frances Ennis
Gina Pecore
Giovanna Del Negro
Grey Haven Design
Grounds Café & Hannah Green

​Harper Collins Canada
Hooked Creations
Indigena Skin Care
Island Design
Jacobean Craft Chocolate
Jag Hotel
Jenn Deon
Jerry Evans
John Riche
Judy Taylor
Kate Finn
Katrina O’Reilly-Ryan
La Vie En Rose
Lana Collins
Lavinia Jacque Worthman
Leahdawn Helena
Leon's
Leslie Phillips
Lisa Butler Art
Lisa Cobb
Lori & Co
Magpie Movement
Martha Muzychka
Mary Walsh
ME Photography
Memorial University
Memorial University Press
Mother Metal Art
Nails by Ashley
Natalie Haire
Nathaniel Noel
Nia on the Rock
Nicholas Gushue
NSO
Our Pleasure
Perchance Theatre
Posie Row

​Provincial Historic Sites
Purity
Red Oak
Catering
Resource Centre for the Arts LSPU Hall
Rhonda Caldwell
Rising Tide Theatre
Ruff Life Spaw
Running The Goat Books
Sally Ledrew Photography
Saltwater Pewter
Sandman Hotel
Shallaway
Sheraton Hotel
SJIWFF
Son of a Critch Productions
S’Pairs Optical
Sparo Restaurant and Bar
Spirit of Newfoundland
Spirit Song Festival
Starbucks Stavanger
Sylina Jones
TA Loffler
TaDa Entertainment
Tera McDonald
The Dog House
The Rooms The Sprout
The Tickle Trunk
Trudy Morgan Cole
TSM Wellness
Vanessa Cardoso Whelan
Victoria Etchegary
Wayne Coady
Whelan Wellness
Wild Things


THE COMMITTEE

Co-chairs: Cathy Bennett & Amanda Gear
Caroline Nicholson
Jenn Deon
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Land Acknowledgement 

We respectfully acknowledge the land on which we gather as the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk [bee-oth-uck], whose culture has been lost forever and can never be recovered. We also acknowledge the island of Ktaqmkuk [uk-dah-hum-gook] (Newfoundland) as the unceded, traditional territory of the Beothuk and the Mi'kmaq [mee-gum-maq]. And we acknowledge Labrador as the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Innu [in-new] of Nitassinan [ne-tass-eh-nen], the Inuit [in-new-eet] of Nunatsiavut [nu-nat-see-ah-vut], and the Inuit of NunatuKavut [nu-nah-tuhk-ah-vut]. We recognize all First Peoples who were here before us, those who live with us now, and the seven generations to come. As First Peoples have done since time immemorial, we strive to be responsible stewards of the land and to respect the cultures, ceremonies, and traditions of all who call it home. As we open our hearts and minds to the past, we commit ourselves to working in a spirit of truth and reconciliation to make a better future for all. 

Our humble thanks to First Light for sharing this land acknowledgement within our community and providing valued guidance to many organizations such as ours. You can learn more by visiting their website at firstlightnl.ca.


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    • 2017-2018 >
      • Isle of Demons (Sept 2017)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2017)
      • Offensive to Some (Dec 2017)
      • Women Playing Hamlet (Feb 2018)
      • Isle of Demons (April 2018)
      • Play Workshops
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Pink Tie Gala (2018)
      • Original (Nov 2018)
      • Offensive to Some (Jan 2019)
    • 2019-2020 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2019)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2019)
      • The Haunting of Margaret Duley >
        • Teacher's Guide
        • Workshops with Edward Daranyi
      • Working with Respect Conference
    • 2020-2021 >
      • Original (2021) >
        • Programme
      • Offensive to Some (2021) >
        • Programme
      • What Hangs in the Balance (2021)
      • I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? (2021)
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Votes for Women 100
      • Pink Tie Gala (2021)
    • 2022-2023 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2022)
      • 2022 Pink Tie Gala
  • Policies
    • Black Lives Matter
    • Respectful Workplace policy
  • Podcasts
  • Contact