Help Interpret the Legacy of Armine Nutting Gosling Through Your Own Culture and Language

PerSIStence Theatre is seeking passionate, multilingual women or gender-diverse individuals to take part in an exciting project to interpret the story of suffragist and reformer Armine Nutting Gosling in a variety of languages and through a diversity of cultural lenses.

Did you know that Armine was one of our first intersectional feminists? In 1912 in St. John’s, she said:
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“No class, or race, or sex can have its interests attended to...​unless it is represented by direct suffrage."

Selected participants will:
  • WRITE A SHORT SCRIPT! We will provide you with some information about Armine Nutting Gosling and the Newfoundland suffrage movement to give women the right to vote - it’s available in both English and French. From this, you will write a short interpretive script (750 words maximum) in your own language and include your own reflections about how Armine’s story relates to women’s equality in your own country and/or culture. We’ll ask you to send it back to us in both your language and an English translation. The timeframe for us to receive this is pretty quick - we’ll need you to complete it by May 27th. 

  • RECORD YOUR SCRIPT! Then we’ll bring you in to read your version in-person for a 30-minute audio recording session on May 30th or 31st. Both the written version of your script and your audio recording will live on the website for the Armine Nutting Gosling statue that is launching next month.

  • BE CELEBRATED! You will be invited to participate in the unveiling ceremony on June 18th at Bannerman Park, where all of the writers and their stories will be celebrated as part of the public launch.

  • GET PAID! You will receive a $400 stipend as a thank you for your time and contribution.

We’re looking for speakers fluent in many languages, all are welcome to apply. We encourage applications from individuals who identify as women or gender-diverse - students of Memorial University are particularly welcome!

No previous writing or recording experience is necessary—just a willingness to share your voice and your story.

Apply now by filling out our Google Form
Please apply no later than May 19th, 2025 11:59PM

Questions may be forwarded to Maahin Khan, Multicultural Marketing & Events Coordinator, at [email protected] or by texting to 709-727-2969.
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 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.