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PAL Canada® is the national umbrella organization, linking the six (at present) PAL Chapters in Halifax, Toronto, Stratford, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. Membership in PAL implies a commitment to PAL’s mandate, which is to provide assistance to older, disabled or needy members and associates of Canada’s Performing Arts Community, in the areas of health, well-being and affordable accommodation.
Each Chapter is autonomous and is represented on the Board of PAL Canada®. Membership in a Chapter automatically includes membership in PAL Canada®.
At the national level, PAL Canada® promotes the goals of the whole organization by:
- providing resources and networks for communication between the Chapters:
- representing PAL members and Chapters to other national organizations and on issues of broad national concern.
- offering a national identity to the Chapters through the provision of trademarked/registered symbols and phrases.
- encouraging the maintenance of high standards for the provision of affordable housing
- for its members through award winning residences in Toronto and Vancouver.
- assisting in the development of new Chapters.
- providing access to national sources of funding which can be of benefit to the Chapters and their membership.
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Support Fund Established for Artists |
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A new annual fund has been established to encourage and support visual arts within the PAL Vancouver community. Through the generosity of Winnipeg-born designer, J. Shanna Fromson, the fund supported its first annual independently juried show of resident artists’ works in conjunction with an Art Exhibit and Sale in October 2009. The inaugural year’s awards went to Richard Cook, Sharon Bell, Jarmila Kostliva and Julie Prescott.
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Board Conference Leads To Action |
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A fully-attended Board Conference, held in Toronto in November, led to a number of firm decisions regarding PAL Canada®’s future direction. Conducted by well-known facilitator, Ron Robinson, President of ABARIS Consulting, and financially supported by Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, which also provided the meeting facilities, the intensive3-day gathering resulted in inspiring and ambitious -but do-able- tasks in the reinvigoration of PAL into the future. As you will see in our President’s Notes column (page 3), it also led to the adoption of a 3-year Strategic Plan which will see real progress made in those necessary areas of action identified as requiring concentrated efforts from all concerned, everywhere in our country.
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Palingenesis Summer 2010