Where We Are

​PerSIStence Theatre Company
The Nest
​​2nd Floor - 410 East White Hills Road
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
​A1A 5J7 CANADA
​Phone: 709-743-4274
​[email protected]
Access:
  • 410 East White Hills Road is located at the corner of East White Hills and Robin Hood Bay Road.
  • It is off the Outer Ring Road highway a few minutes North of Quidi Vidi Lake in the same building as the Leon's Furniture Warehouse.
  • Enter the building from the main lobby at the front of the building, which has glass windows.
  • While the main lobby doors are unlocked during working weekdays, the building has an alarm and security system with cameras and you must connect with us for entry after working weekday hours.
  • If you type “Persistence Theatre” into Google Maps then we do pop up as Persistence Theatre Company.
  • Metrobus Route 9 passes closest to our building (does not run on weekends).
Accessibility:
  • There is one (1) blue zone parking spot available, next to a concrete ramp up to a powered button-entry entrance door to the first floor lobby.
  • There is an elevator to the second floor.
  • All of the doors on the second floor are manual entry only.
  • There are two (2) steps as part of the entry to The Nest.
  • There are two washrooms on the second floor, shared with other tenants in the building, labelled "Men's" and "Women's", with additional signage on the "Women's" washroom designating its use as a gender-neutral and accessible washroom.
St. John’s is home to a rich, diverse, and vibrant urban Indigenous community. Located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Beothuk, the lands and waters in and around the City have traditionally served as a gathering place for the Mi’kmaq. The broader region of Newfoundland and Labrador continues to be home to diverse Indigenous Peoples, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We honour and pay respect to the past, present, and future caretakers of these territories.

We also must acknowledge, as we gather together this historic evening, the labour theft extracted from people of African descent, used to build European wealth and economies globally, and in the Canadian nation state, including Newfoundland and Labrador’s shipbuilding and cod fishery industries, through the violence of trans-Atlantic enslavement.

We thank both First Light and the office of the Vice-Provost of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at Memorial University for crafting and sharing these words that provide us with important perspectives.

As Armine Nutting Gosling herself reflected, “No class, or race, or sex can have its interests attended to...​unless it is represented by direct suffrage,” and in doing so she appropriately recognized the overlap of multiple forms of discrimination.