Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

I’m pleased as (holiday) punch to announce Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids 6, on a new night, in a new venue!

When: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 8:00pm
Where: The Tranzac (main hall), 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto (map)
Cost: Free
Note: 19+

If you’re home over the holidays, this is the perfect opportunity to dig through all those boxes you left at home. Dig up those old diaries! Unearth those angsty teen poems! Rediscover yourself at age 9! Then bring your best to the Tranzac in January to read in front of a group of strangers.

Also: We’re trying something new this time. If you’d like to read something at GRTTWaK, please let me know in advance by filling out this form. A small number of spots will be held for walk-ins the night of the event, but really, just a few.

(Facebook event)

The lovely and talented Morgan Charles sent some photos and audio from GRTTWaK Montreal. Check out the photos on Flickr, and stay tuned for podcasts from Montreal!

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

Duana reads from her diary. (mp3 download)

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

Michelle reads musings from Grade 4. (mp3 download)

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

Marci reads from a creative writing assignment. (mp3 download)

[audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Grttwak-grttwak016581.mp3]

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

Daniel reads from his diary. (mp3 download)

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

Rhonda reads from a grade 2 novel. (mp3 download)

[audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Grttwak-grttwak014315.mp3]

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

Jenny reads grade 4 poetry. (mp3 download)

[audio:http://blip.tv/file/get/Grttwak-grttwak013837.mp3]

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

Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids got a nice mention in the Toronto Star today, thanks to Corey Mintz.

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.