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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids'

March 7, 2008

Dan Misener's unstoppably rad reading series, Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, is moving to new digs for its fourth installation next Monday. The little event that could—wherein grownups read their grade school stories, diaries, and poems to a bunch of people they've never met before—is picking up from its former home at the Victory Cafe and bopping over to the Gladstone to accommodate its ever-increasing audience of believers. Even with the bigger venue,......

Continue Reading "Grownups Reading Series Outgrows Its Venue"

November 17, 2007

Now here is a fail-proof event with a pretty self-explanatory title. Dan Misener is back once again with Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, demanding you dig through your parents' basement and uproot the comedy gold that is your grade school Hilroy cahier. This popular open-mic reading series lures folks out to read excerpts from old book reports, journals, camp letters, and pretty much whatever other embarrassingly earnest/confusing/hilarious childhood document they can unearth,......

Continue Reading "Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids III"

April 30, 2007

Even if you've mastered the spelling of words like "dedicated" and "trouble" by now, and you no longer consider Laura to be your very best friend, there's still a chance to put those early works of literary exploration to good use. Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids 2 is a creative (and so cute!) reading series that is the work of Dan Misener, who came up with the idea when he and his......

Continue Reading "Calling All Grownups! "

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