Arts Attention Salon of Shame Fans
posted by on January 8 at 14:33 PM
If you don’t already know, the Salon of Shame is a one of Seattle’s best reading series. Officially labelled “Seattle’s bimonthly reading series featuring your worst teenaged writing,” the Salon is described by its creators thusly:
The idea is simple: Seattleites stand before you and read their middle school diary passages, high school poetry, unsent letters, and other bits of horribly shameful, and inadvertently hilarious adolescent writing. Founded in 2005, the Salon is cathartic for readers and hilarious for listeners. Everybody wins when it comes to embarrassment!
(I have attended and I agree.)
However, the Salon of Shame is also one of Seattle’s most popular reading series, with all seats in CHAC’s small downstairs space typically selling out in minutes.
Which brings us to today’s good news: Thanks to a scheduling mix-up, tonight’s Salon will take place NOT in CHAC’s small downstairs space but in their HUGE UPSTAIRS SPACE, meaning there are suddenly a whole bunch of seats up for grabs.
If you’ve ever wanted to check out the Salon of Shame (or have been frozen out of a sold-out Salon), tonight’s your night. For ticket info, go here.
Though they ripped the idea off from Mortified, no?
Is that the New York one? If so, yes, and the Salon folks freely admit it (and are acquainted with the folks behind the original, I believe...)
Jesus. Almost everything I wrote in High School was homophobic and/or sexist. I'd be terrified to participate.
Mr. Poe: That actually sounds perfect.
I'll think about it.
That's all I ask.
Mr. Poe: Almost everything you write now is homophobic and/or sexist....
New York and San Francisco and a few other places, I think. I just remember talking to one of the guys who started Mortified and he did not like the Salon of Shame too well. Sour grapes though maybe. Also, didn't someone just dig up Mr. Poe's high school ramblings at the U of Kansas library? Wasn't he one of Mr. Paul's Associates back then?
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Back when I was your age, yes. I was.
Travis: The Salon of Shame is absolutely NOT an original idea, although the format was borrowed from Cringe (a friend's open-mic bar event in Brooklyn) and not from Mortified (which is an auditioned, touring stage show).
I hadn't heard of Mortified in 2005 when I started the Salon, although I've since spoken with Mortified's founder, David Nadelberg, and we're simpatico.
If you reeeeally want to quibble, the first diary reading event I've heard of was Teen Angst Poetry Night, which started in Vancouver BC in 2000, 2 years before Mortified began.
But at this point, the issue of ownership is pretty much moot: homegrown embarrassing teen diary reading events happen all over the country. No one owns shame. There's enough for everyone!
Welp, that's good enough for me!
If cienna madrid is reading, color me THERE!
Yes! Canadian-born!
Just have to share this link of Sascha Rothchild reading from her slut diary when she was a teenager (from the Mortified show). Click on "Full Episode" then FF to the last 10 minutes. It's a scream.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=268
Thanks for using my pic up there! Here's its flickrey home for those who care:
http://flickr.com/photos/kaleydavis/353634827/in/set-72157594472813164/
More photos of thalia/laura, please.
actually thalia = photographer, laura = lovely subject. sorry for confusion!
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