The Festival Antigonish Foundation was established in 2007 under the leadership of then Artistic Producer Ed Thomason. Supported by the generosity and drive of our inaugural Directors, the creation of the Foundation marked a remarkable chapter in our theatre company’s success story.
With generous donations from longstanding supporters and philanthropists, and significant matching funds from Heritage Canada’s Endowment Incentive Program, the Foundation currently sits at just under $800,000.
The Foundation operates as an independent not-for-profit organization which manages the fund through a diligent investment committee and disburses the earned interest to the theatre. All donations to the fund are endowed and capitalized in perpetuity. Only the annual income is granted to the theatre’s operating budget, thereby providing a stable and sustainable source of revenue.
In our thirtieth anniversary season, our goal is to bring the Foundation to $1 million!
We are fortunate to have an anonymous donor who can help us double the donations received to take us up to the million-dollar goal.
Every gift helps. Your support will allow the Foundation to boost its operating grant to the theatre. That means we can keep our ticket prices low and invest in more artists on stage. It is the gift that will live forever!
For more information, or to become a donor to the Foundation, please contact Reema Fuller, Managing Director, at (902) 867- 4539 or email rfuller@stfx.ca.
Have I really been going to plays at Festival Antigonish for twenty years? Well, okay … here’s how you start your endowment fund: you’re twenty years old, you find twenty people, and you ask each of them to donate $50,000.
Festival Antigonish Foundation Board of Directors
| Chair | Brian MacLeod, President, MacLeod Group |
| Vice-Chair | Harley MacCaull President, A.A. Munro Insurance |
| Secretary / Treasurer | Ramsay Duff, CEO, MacLeod Group |
| Directors | Steve Smith, Chair & CEO, Central Home Improvement |
| Donald Chisholm, CEO, Nova Construction | |
| Frank Sobey, Chair, Crombie REIT | |
| Bob MacEachern, Chair, Festival Antigonish | |
| Dr. John Hamilton, Ophthalmologist, St. Martha’s Regional Hospital | |
| Eric Atkinson, Partner, MacIntosh MacDonnell & MacDonald | |
| Shannon Stephenson, Owner/Operator, High-Crest Enterprises Ltd. | |
| Reema Fuller, Managing Director, Festival Antigonish | |
| Investment Advisor | Marc Champoux, BMO Nesbitt Burns |
Benefactors $50,000+
- John & Anne Chisholm
- Margaret & David Fountain
- Minoli Amit & John Hamilton
- Harley & Wendy MacCaull
- Brian & Irene Macleod
- Steve & Kathy Smith
- Frank & Debbi Sobey
Gold $25,000- $49,999
- The Sobey Foundation
- Shannon & Jacqueline Stephenson
Silver $10,000- $24,999
- Sisters of St. Martha of Antigonish
- Aida Arnold & David Miller
- Carol Hansen MacDonald & Grace Hansen
- Clearwater Seafoods
Bronze $5,000- $9,999
- Marc & Clare Champoux
Friends $1,000-$4,999
- Congregation of Notre Dame
- Cathy Walsh & Ramsay Duff
- Eric Atkinson & Clare Fawcett
- David & Joan Wallace
- Leo & Margaret Gallant
- Dr. Chiasson & Barbara MacGregor
- Bruce & Sue MacIntosh
- Firinn Investments