PAL Canada

ion, and overall well being. Membership in a Chapter automatically includes membership in PAL Canada. PAL Residences are filled with performers, writers, painters, directors, management and production people from every branch of the Performing Arts industry. We sponsor the SUPPORTING CAST program, a team of volunteers who assist our disabled and elderly, supervise a professional home care service which maintains 24-hour emergency response, and work with a registered nursing centre with long term care facilities. PAL CANADA led the way in planning and developing affordable housing for our unique community. It has, over the last twenty years, garnered credibility and established a national reputation. It pioneered a volunteer assistance program called Supporting Cast (“PAL’s Angels” in Vancouver) which provides companionship, personal care and health assistance to individual colleagues. Establishing a “Supporting Cast” type of organization is usually the first step in founding a PAL Chapter and exemplifies, in practical terms, the PAL motto: “Caring For Professional Artists”. Our continuing goal is to establish Chapters in every major centre across Canada where large numbers of the industry live so that older colleagues will not be forgotten at the end of their careers, but cared for by their own community.