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110 The Esplanade, Crest Theatre Green Room, Toronto, ON, Canada M5E 1X9
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About Our Choir
In the early 1980s, Performing Arts Lodges was a gleam in the eyes of a group of Toronto performers at a time when Canada’s entertainment industry had come of age and had exploded demographically into thousands who worked for a living in the performing arts and allied industries.
The group’s goal was to create and sustain affordable housing and improved living conditions for those in the performing arts professions, some with disabilities or nearing the end of their careers, some still working, others alone or ill, many isolated from the industry they had worked in all their lives. While other countries possessed such havens for artists, this would be the first in Canada.
Our History
In 1986, Performing Arts Lodges of Canada was incorporated as a federal national charitable organization. Its first step was the sponsorship of a volunteer group, Supporting Cast, to help colleagues in need of assistance. PAL Canada obsessively continued their mandate to raise funds to develop chapters from Halifax to Vancouver.
