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. 

​2024 Donors
Diamond
Chip Clark *

Ruby
Dr. Noreen Golfman*
​Dr. Edna Turpin
Sapphire
Jenn Deon*
​Jean Graham*
Sylina Jones*
Trudy Morgan-Coles*
Dr. Jamie Skidmore*
Kim Todd*
Amanda Bittner*
Margot Duley*
Lynn Gambin*
Catherine Rider*
Emerald
Kristle Lynn Earles*
Lori Greene*
Lauren Flynn*
Hanna North*
Amanda Will*
Hayley Shaughnessy *
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​Amethyst
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*Indicates a monthly donor. ​
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.