The Blyth Festival is renaming its indoor stage, following a massive donation.
Officials announced they received a $500 thousand gift from the Margaret and Andrew Stephens Family Foundation of Canmore, Alberta.
The space will be named The Margaret Stephens Stage in celebration of the family’s wish to honour their late wife and mother, Margaret Stephens.
This gift is in addition to the $250 thousand the Foundation pledged earlier this year to anchor the Blyth Festival’s “$500K For Another 50 Years” campaign.
This second gift brings the family’s total giving to $750 thousand – the largest gift in the Blyth Festival’s history.
Representatives of the Stephens family will gather with friends, Festival staff and local officials to unveil a commemorative plaque in Memorial Hall’s Blyth Festival Art Gallery on August 3rd at 1 p.m.
