Are you ready to break the glass ceiling?

Join the ceiling breakers by becoming a monthly donor to PerSIStence Theatre!

By becoming a monthly donor, you’ll not only provide the crucial funding we need to thrive, but you’ll also receive an exclusive symbol of our shared commitment. This isn’t just a token; it’s a powerful reminder that together, we have the tools to break the glass ceiling and create lasting change.
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​By donating just $20/month, you help support the advancement of feminism in our community. You’ll also receive a special limited keychain of a silver hammer in commemoration of your contribution to smashing the patriarchy and breaking glass ceilings.

Your monthly donation will help us continue responding to the persistent and universal need for promoting gender equality. We’ve come so far, but there’s still much work to be done.

Together, we can continue breaking barriers and inspiring future generations.

Our Ceiling Breakers Circle:

  • ​​Amanda Bittner
  • Chip Clark​
  • Jenn Deon
  • Margot Duley
  • Lynn Gambin
  • Jean Graham
  • Noreen Golfman
  • Jill Handrigan
  • Lorraine Michael 
  • Catherine Rider
  • Jamie Skidmore
  • ​Amanda Will
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.