The 2018 Pink Tie Gala was powerfully hosted by  Toni-Marie Wiseman of NTV News and featured a performances by Petrina Bromley of the Tony award winning Broadway smash Come From Away, Halifax poet laureate and fierce feminist icon El Jones, and other
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Guests enjoyed a choice of a five-course main or vegan meal prepared by five of Newfoundland’s finest chefs: 
Our thanks to our fabulous event sponsors!
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.