Meet Me At The Gallery: Seniors Program
Admission is by donation
Free for Members
*NOTE that this edition of Meet Me at the Gallery will begin at 11am, instead of 10am. Meet Me at the Gallery will resume its regular 10am start time in October.
Meet Me at The Gallery is a daytime art program dedicated to enriching the lives of seniors and friends in our community with monthly get-togethers inspired by the gallery’s current exhibitions. Visitors are invited to drop-in on the first Wednesday of every month at 10:00 am to make new connections with art, and each other! A different activity will greet visitors every month, with social time to follow.
Advance registration below is helpful, but walk-ins are always welcome.
Admission to Meet Me at The Gallery is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group.
Suggested donation is $10.
Admission to the Gallery is ALWAYS free for Members!
For September's Meet Me at the Gallery, join artist Alejandro A. Barbosa for a discussion of his new work, I Got Us the Moon (2025), currently on view in the Della & Stuart McLaughlin Gallery. Barbosa will share highlights from his research on the moon and lunar exploration missions that have informed the work, as well as insights from his material process.
Tiled together across 280 individual prints, I Got Us the Moon composites a full atlas of Earth's moon at monumental scale. Alejandro has renamed the moon's many topographical features after thousands of individuals, laser-engraving their names into the papers' surfaces as he both references and upends the many rules, conventions, and traditions of lunar nomenclature. Motivated by the current potential of a new space race, Barbosa repositions the moon not as a frontier to be conquered nor an asset to be mined for resources, but as a parallel world: one that becomes a site of collective fantasies, alternate timelines, and queer world-building.
Read about Meet Me at The Gallery in the North Shore News
The Polygon Gallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the District of West Vancouver through their Community Grants Program