"PerSIStence Theatre Company Inc. is an award-winning non-profit, charitable organization that operates with a mission to “respond to the persistent and universal need for promoting, understanding and embracing the core beliefs of feminism through professional theatre and related initiatives.”  Our activities include significant community outreach and leadership through professional theatre, professional development opportunities, educational programs and a variety of live and digital initiatives."

VISION

Community enlightenment based on the core beliefs of feminism.

MISSION

We are a non-profit, charitable (798 690 483 RR0001) organization in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that responds to the persistent and universal need for promoting, understanding and embracing the core beliefs of feminism. Through professional theatre and related initiatives, we work to change hearts and minds.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• We challenge discrimination and stereotype in all forms
• We produce stories where at least 50 per cent of the text is spoken by female character(s)
• We offer opportunities to all genders with a focus towards people who identify as women*
• We respond to issues that affect women* and girls in our community
• We re-examine universal stories traditionally told by men, through a feminist lens
• We strive to work through an intersectional lens for gender parity

CORE PRINCIPLE

Feminism: The belief in political, economic, personal, and social equality for women*.

CORE BELIEFS

• Sexism exists
• Sexism against women* (misogyny) is enduring, pervasive, systemic, cultural, and ingrained
• All genders should have equal rights and opportunities
• All genders are the intellectual and social equals of each other
• All genders should be recognized and treated as equals
• Systems of oppression and discrimination are interdependent and span all social categorizations such as race, class, gender, ability, parental status, size, age, and sexual orientation as they apply to a given individual or group

*PerSIStence Theatre recognizes the limiting nature of the binary use of the word ‘woman.’ We serve and welcome anyone on the gender spectrum who identifies either always or some of the time as a woman, including trans women, women of colour, Indigenous women, women living with disabilities, as well as non-binary people who are comfortable in a space that centres the experiences of women.