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 successful 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.
Objective
PAL’s objective is to provide assistance and fellowship to those who need it. Our goals are to raise enough money to build or buy a property in the downtown area that will provide housing for those who cannot afford their own, and to provide care-giving for those living alone or at PAL. The arts community is one of the least recognized, and most generous groups of people in the world.
Leaving aside the cultural contributions these individuals make, we are also the first people to be asked to donate our time and talents to benefit so many other community causes. And we do so willingly and consistently. Rarely do we perform such benefits in our own aid.
The Past
The first one opened over 20 years ago, in Toronto, after much lobbying by members of the arts community who feared there would be no place for them when they got old. ‘It is one of the most vibrant, exciting communities I’ve ever visited,’ John Colbourn wrote in his article on PAL Place in Toronto’s Sunday Sun. In fact, PAL Toronto is so successful that plans are now well underway to build a PAL TWO, a second facility to assist people requiring chronic care.
The Future
Look for updates here soon!
