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Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) Halifax is a not-for-profit society, created to provide quality affordable housing and support for seniors in the performing arts and allied professions. Modeled on the PAL Toronto experience, PAL Halifax will enrich the cultural life of our city by supporting the health, well-being and continued creativity of our performance pioneers.

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Word on the Street Spelling Bee

Cheer on Team PAL as they support literacy and spell their way to glory!

Word on the Street Spelling BeeOn Thursday, March 8th from 7-11pm PAL Halifax is delighted to help support Word on the Street by participating in a fundraising Spelling Bee at Murphy’s on the Water. The group will be lead by the fearless “Captain PAL” Kimberly Bungay with a crack team of spellers: D-E-B Allen, D-A-N MacDonald and E-R-I-C Stotts. Mr Stotts, current PAL Halifax Co-Chair, is an Illinois legend as a former finalist in the Peoria District Jr High Spelling Bee so prepare to be amazed! We thank all four of them for giving their time and taking on the challenge.

PAL Halifax is grateful for the many people who have participated in our Scrabble with the Stars events and the WOTS Spelling Bee promises to be a fun night in support of a very worthwhile cause.

All are welcome! We encourage you to come and cheer on Team PAL and support Word on the Street on Thursday evening. Individual tickets are $30 and a table of 8 is $210.

For more information check out:

www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/halifax

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Please Join Us!

The Board of Performing Arts Lodge Halifax would like to invite you to tea on Sunday March 4 between 2 and 4pm. Please drop by Eye Level Gallery at 2159 Gottingen St. and have a chat. We’d be happy to talk about PAL Halifax and PAL Canada news or just the weather. We’d like to know what our members and supporters have been up to. A casual ‘pre-spring’ afternoon – come drop by!

Many thanks to Eye Level Gallery for hosting this PAL Halifax gathering! Enjoy their exhibit, grab a bite and mingle. We thought it fitting to be close to the building site on Gottingen Street – a chance to chat and dream about our future home. All are welcome!

RSVP: palhalifax@gmail.com or 441-4791

For those who may wish to come but be adversely affected by the transit strike, let us know and we’ll work to organize transportation assistance.

The PAL Halifax Board,
Jeremy Webb, Co-Chair
Eric Stotts, Co-Chair
Kimberly Bungay, Treasurer
Angela Henderson
Dan MacDonald
Nancy Morgan
Tim Storey
Gary Vermeir

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Housing Trust of Nova Scotia

PAL Halifax has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Housing Trust of Nova Scotia in the hopes of securing affordable apartments for our members in a development currently being planned for Gottingen St. in Halifax. Gottingen St. is enjoying a mini-resurgence as an arts-based neighbourhood!

In exchange for a potential ‘set-aside’ of affordable units for our members, PAL Halifax is assisting the Housing Trust in programming the ground-floor space to be a vibrant complement to the Gottingen Street community and to our member tenants as well.

Several members of the PAL Halifax board attended a meeting with the Gottingen St. Merchants’ Association, in which Ross Cantwell, President of the Housing Trust, presented preliminary schemes for the building. Much valuable input was received from the assembled group. While work remains to be done on the part of the Housing Trust and their architect to bring the proposed facility more in line with the scale and character of the community, PAL Halifax is incredibly excited about the prospects of providing affordable housing to our members in this burgeoning arts community.

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