Second screening - Lee Miller film & exhibit on Sunday Nov 23rd

On Sunday Nov 23rd, let's watch this new Lee Miller film & see a cool photography exhibit first. This is the second screening that have been put up after the wide audience interest in the movie.

Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of Lee Miller, whose talent and tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s best images.
The story begins in Southern France, 1938, where Lee is vacationing with her closest friends - artists, poets, and confidants. A former model of an avant-garde photographer, she is tired of being viewed through a lens by men, & decides to work exclusively as a photographer. War looms and almost overnight everything about their daily lives & picture-taking changes completely.

Please only rsvp for this event AFTER you have registered for your tkt.

The film runs from 2 to 4ish pm(2023, 2 hrs, English). We'll have a quick chat about it afterwards, at the seats.

Register for your free ticket here:[ https://thepolygon.ca/event/lee-film-screening/](https://thepolygon.ca/event/lee-film-screening/)
& if you arrive early you can walk around the art gallery’s related exhibit. Join us at 1:30 if you’d like to walk through the exhibit together(meet by the 2nd flr desk). I'll post what I'm wearing on event day. If you arrive later, find us wandering thru the exhibit.

The plan is to grab seats in the film room at 1:45 pm-ish, aiming for 4-5 rows from the front screen, left side. Once I’m at the seats, I’ll post the location we’re sitting in the Comments stream below.

I'm expecting this event will be VERY BUSY.

If there’s interest, we'll grab a quick brunch/coffee before the film(12:30pm-ish) across the street. If you might like to join for this, please message me directly & I'll keep you in the loop.

The Polygon Gallery is located a 5 min walk from the seabus Lonsdale Quay station. There is pay parking under Lonsdale Quay Mkt & at the Pinnacle Hotel nearby.

I hope you can join me for this interesting exhibit & film! :)

They suggest a $5 to 20 donation at the door but that's up to you.

This is part of a forward-looking Reimagining Fashion series I'm curating to explore the changing fashion & model landscape, from industry changes, to past fashion influences, to thrift culture, to the fun frivolity of fashion.

Other fun things:
*We're going to the Paranormal Society's Haunted story event at 100 yr old Presentation Hs on Sat, Nov 22. We're in row B(B5 etc). Grab a tkt & msg me. Info: [https://www.phtheatre.org/box-office/ ](https://www.phtheatre.org/box-office/)

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More about Lee Miller, the film & exhibit

• Frustrated by the limitations of documenting life on the home front, Lee gains a US war accreditation and heads off to Europe. Alone. After battling her way through the siege of Saint-Malo, Lee joins forces with close friend and fellow photographer David E. Scherman Lee and Scherman capture the liberation of Paris. They sneak into Hitler’s abandoned Munich home — where Scherman captures Miller bathing in der Führer’s tub. They are among the first photographers to enter the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau on the day of the liberation, where Lee crafts a series of horrifying, urgent images.
• https://thepolygon.ca/exhibition/lee-miller-a-photographer-at-work-1932-1945/