Sat, Feb 26 / 10am - 1pm
Sat, Mar 26 / 10am - 1pm
See 3 hours of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on multi-colored sugary cereals!
Remember Saturday mornings? Kids today may not realize the significance of the Saturday morning ritual, but once upon a time, we had to wait a whole week to get our cartoon fix, and when we got it, we tended to binge. Well – welcome to the Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party – that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday Morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but expect to see monsters, sci-fi, sleuths, superheroes and all kinds of 2D silliness, both faves and obscurities spanning the ’60s through the ’90s, all punctuated with vintage commercials, PSAs and station IDs for a 3-hour trip down memory lane! So get ready for a sugar rush and an explosion of nostalgia all wrapped up in one candy-coated package. Dairy free options available!
Curator Bio:
David Bertrand is a film programmer, writer, musician and business affairs manager in film & TV. With Markham Street Films (2016-present), he helped produce Level 16 and the CBC/Netflix hit Catwalk: Tales From the Cat Show Circuit (and its upcoming sequel). David co-founded (with Kier-La Janisse) Montreal’s psychotronic micro-cinema Blue Sunshine (2010-2012), was a programming director for Toronto’s Royal Cinema (2017-2019), and has curated many other screenings & events, often under the Stompbox series brand – most recently, at the Revue Cinema in Toronto. He has worked for several festivals nationwide including Fantasia, TIFF, VIFF, Just For Laughs, and Toronto After Dark, and contributed to numerous film & music publications. During COVID, he co-wrote the pilot for a heavy metal comedy-drama series, which was optioned, and has released three albums of instrumental synthrock as The Great Octopus.
We acknowledge the continued and generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union.
