MAS Dinner with Sarah Polley

The Massey Arts Society invites Junior Fellows to its second dinner of the term, featuring renowned Canadian writer, director, and producer Sarah Polley. This intimate dinner series offers Junior Fellows the opportunity to engage with leading voices in Canadian arts and culture over an evening of conversation and connection.

Monday, November 2

Reception at 6 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Location: Private Dining Room (PDR)

Dress: Academic robes

Space is limited to 14 Junior Fellows, with a waitlist available once all spots are filled. Resident Junior Fellows are covered under their meal plan, while standard meal rates apply to non-resident Junior Fellows, who may use one of their four to five monthly meals toward the dinner.

Bio:

Sarah Polley is a Governor General’s Award-winning writer-director-producer whose dramatic features include Away from Her (nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Motion Picture and Achievement in Direction) and Take This Waltz. Her autobiographical Stories We Tell was awarded Best Documentary by the Toronto Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Polley’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace for Netflix and CBC, which she Executive Produced, garnered six Canadian Screen Awards including Best Screenplay, Director, Actress and Limited Series. Sarah served as Executive Producer on Attiya Khan’s A Better Man and co-directed and executive produced the web series Hey Lady!. Polley wrote and directed the film Women Talking, based on the novel by Miriam Toews, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Her first published work, a collection of essays entitled Run Towards the Danger, published by Penguin Random House, won the Toronto Book Award. Her upcoming project is an adaption of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which Polley wrote and directed.