Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

I’m a little late posting this, seeing as the event was almost two weeks ago, but I have to say: the third Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids was an awful lot of fun. It was also well-attended. Some might say a little too well-attended. Thanks no doubt to some pimping by Torontoist, BlogTO, [...]

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At the first two Grownups… nights at the Victory, everyone had to go downstairs to the bar for drinks. But I’m happy to say that for the third installment, the beautiful new bar upstairs will be open. So come have a drink on November 19th.

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Yes, it’s true. Just in time for autumn, another evening of sad and funny diary entries, book reports, and other juvenilia. If you missed the first two events, come find out what you’ve been missing. What: Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids 3 When: Monday, November 19, 2007 at 8:00 pm Where: The Victory [...]

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Well, the second installment of Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids is less than a week away. My pal Tristan was nice enough to create a Facebook event for the night, so if you plan to attend, RSVP, si vous plait. Also, through an email from Neil at Mortified, I learned that our fledgling [...]

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  I’m really excited and happy to let you know that we’re doing Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids again. 8:00 PM on Monday, April 30, 2007 Upstairs at The Victory Cafe, 581 Markham Street, Toronto That means you have about three weeks to clean out your closet, or dust off that shoebox of [...]

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Last Monday, upstairs at the Victory Cafe, I hosted the very first Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids — an evening of childhood poems, schoolwork, and diary readings. I was really worried that nobody would show up, and that I’d have to read from my Grade 1 journal all alone, for an hour. But [...]

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Just in time for my poorly named evening of reading (Adults Read Things They Wrote as Kids), a package from my Mom arrived in the mail: Inside, I found five scribblers.* They were all journals from elementary school at Sackville Centennial. There’s some great stuff inside, and I’m looking forward to reading from these on [...]

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Update: Looking for information about Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids? Visit danmisener.com/read Do you still have anything you wrote as a kid? A poem? A book report? A diary? I want you to read it out loud. In front of people. I think most of us have a collection of stuff from our [...]

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