Where would I start? The really amazing thing about The Guild is that we can't go wrong. No one expected anything from us, so everything we do is really awesome. The Guild was a boat anchor. Six years ago the sheriff had the locks on the doors and the place was bankrupt. Everything we have done has exceeded all our partners' expectations. The introduction of Anne and Gilbert, our musical and our main stage production, created a bit of controversy in downtown Charlottetown with the Confederation Centre of the Arts. They did everything they could to stop it, because in their opinion this was the ruination of their main stage of Anne of Green Gables.
We were flattered, of course. We're a 200-seat, black box theatre. How could we cause any kind of disruption downtown? Instead, it increased that whole block, so it became even more of a hub. People could come to see Anne of Green Gables. They could come to see Anne and Gilbert. They could go across the street and shop at the Anne shop. They could go a little further down and buy the Anne chocolates, or just around the corner and get a wagon ride with Anne. It became something of a good thing instead of a bad thing.
It proved we had a bit of credibility and knew what we were doing. That segued right into good partnerships with the Confederation Centre of the Arts and with Holland College. Now, with our musical theatre school, we have partnerships and scholarships set up with Holland College. Each year, one of our grade 12 students gets a scholarship to go to the performing arts at Holland College. That is a positive thing that came from that.
Their 300-seat theatre, which is a soft-seater, is really marketed more towards their school. We have ventured into conversations on how we could create programming for them that we do at The Guild. We have also started a pay-what-you-can theatre festival every year in partnership with other theatres across P.E.I., including the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
I don't know, Sean, if I answered your question, but usually when I ask you questions, you don't answer mine either, so I don't know.