Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Thanks to the wonderfully talented Morgan Charles, GRTTWaK is heading to Montreal. In addition to reading, you’re invited to bring art to hang on the walls. Here are the details:

When: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 7:00pm

Where: Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard West, Montreal, QC

What: It is finally happening. “Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids” will be having its Montreal debut at the Drawn & Quarterly bookstore NOVEMBER 5th. This free, open-mic event, which is wildly popular in the small provincial village of Toronto, combines the mortification of reading things you wrote as a precocious child or angsty teen, with the added cringyness of doing it aloud and in front of people–friends and strangers who see you as the cool and collected adult you know yourself to be today.

Upcoming holidays at home are the perfect excuse to dig around in your parents’ basements for that special haiku, locked diary, or box of really important notes passed in geography class, so come on, find them, dust them off, and get them out of there. Your parents don’t want them anyways.

ALSO, for those of the more visual persuasion, we are also asking you to unearth those masterful clay ashtrays, oil pastel portraits of Kurt Cobain, or whetever else you got up to in art class, home ec, or woodshop. There is no one medium for embarrassment.

We will be bearing our shame and super amazing talent on the walls while reading aloud from our selected texts in a catharsis of youth which will surely stop time.

There’s a Facebook event, too: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=47713970632