At PerSIStence Theatre Company we know the true value of having the support of our audience, donors and sponsors.

Thank you for helping us in our work to change the hearts and minds. 

​You are all precious gems. 

2025-2026 Donors
Dr. Amanda Bittner**
Chip Clark **
​Jenn Deon**
Dr. Margot Duley**
​Kristle Lynn Earles*
​Lauren Flynn*
Dr. Noreen Golfman**
​​Jean Graham**
Lori Greene*
Jill Handrigan**
Lorraine Michael**
​Catherine Rider**
Rebecca Roome
Hayley Shaughnessy *
Dr. Jamie Skidmore**
Dr. Annette Staveley**
Amanda Will**
*Indicates a monthly donor. 
**indicates a member of the Ceiling Breakers Circle​
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.