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

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The podcast starts with a clip from Justin - Rock ‘N’ Roll Boy. The music is Naughty Hula Eyes.

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The podcast starts with a clip from Justin - Rock ‘N’ Roll Boy. The music is Naughty Hula Eyes.

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The podcast starts with a clip from Justin - Rock ‘N’ Roll Boy. The music is Naughty Hula Eyes.

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The podcast starts with a clip from Justin - Rock ‘N’ Roll Boy. The music is Naughty Hula Eyes.

If you’d like to know when the next Toronto event will be held, email me to get on the mailing list.

And while you’re here, check out the GRTTWaK podcast.

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Sounds like a great time. From Daniel:

You know that old box of weird creepy things that you have lying around your apartment… who’s contents you lie to everybody about?

Well, Toronto now has a place to air out all of this dirty laundry.

In the spirit of Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, a new series has emerged called “Awkward Show & Tell” — an irregularly scheduled open mic night, with a special theme each time - the first: Things My Ex Gave Me.

The night will be exactly as the name suggests, with audience members encouraged to bring along and present any sort of vestige that they think appropriate.

Cute poems and sketches. Sad break-up letters. Dirty photos. Scars. Panties. Lousy gifts. Diseases.

It’s all welcome at this gathering of awkwardness and voyeurism.

There’s more info on Facebook.