The Polygon Gallery is pleased to present Deckchair Cinema—an outdoor film series taking place on Cates Deck, located on the waterfront directly in front of the Gallery. Admission to Deckchair Cinema is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group, and includes popcorn as well as access to the Gallery’s summer exhibition Star Witnesses, on view June 27 – September 28.
Now in its fourth year, Deckchair Cinema treats audiences to a summer of al fresco film screenings. Hosted for nine Thursdays, the screenings commence at sundown, and are complemented by music and entertainment leading up to curtain time. The event’s concession stand will offer drinks from Strathcona Beer Company, which can be enjoyed on Cates Deck before and during the films. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chairs, but some seating will be provided. Picnic benches can be reserved by making a donation in advance.
This summer, The Polygon is boldly going where no gallery has gone before, and is screening the greatest sci-fi films ever made. Alfonso Cuarón’s white-knuckle thriller Gravity and Mel Brooks’s slapstick riff on the Star Wars franchise, Spaceballs, play alongside the cult action spectacle Flash Gordon and John Carpenter’s road trip romance-with-an-alien, Starman. David Bowie’s swan song performance as a rockstar from another planet in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars shares a marquee with David Lynch’s visceral adaptation of Frank Herbert’s beloved novel Dune. Whether you want to break out the Vulcan ears for a screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, or enjoy a North Shore Pride Week drag party headlined with a screening of The Fifth Element, Deckchair Cinema offers something for all motion picture lovers.
Additionally, Deckchair Cinema will be showing the year’s most acclaimed Canadian film: Universal Language—an absurdist Farsi-language tale set in wintery Winnipeg.
