Strip Spelling Bee
Chat Perdu Productions
You are cordially invited to MONTREAL STRIP SPELLING BEE! To inaugurate 2014 we make our triumphant return to the Mainline Theatre, where Strip Spelling Bee was born, formed and warmed!
The game is played a lot like strip poker, but it's a spelling bee, and it's played in front of a live audience of hooters, hollerers and hecklers who want to see some smart and sexy skin!
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Sign-up at 8:30 PM sharp!
Bee from at 9 to midnight.
The Mainline Theatre
3997 St-Laurent Blvd.
(just south of Duluth. It is a black door with flames painted on it)
Montreal, QC
$10 at the door
Spellers do not pay, and get a free drink.
Regretfully, this venue is not wheelchair-accessible.
18+
Please note that we must cap our number of strip-spellers at 10 to ensure an expedient and entertaining evening.
To find out about FUTURE EVENTS like this, please FRIEND the inventor and organizer Sherwin Sullivan Tjia right here: https://www.facebook.com/inconsolablecat
★★★★★★★★ OFFICIAL RULES ★★★★★★★★
One by one, participants are asked to spell a word. If they get it right, they sit down. If they get it wrong, they must striptease A THIRD of their clothing off, and that is considered their first "strike". When they misspell a second word, that is their second strike and they must striptease ANOTHER third off. A third and final strike requires that they strip down to their underwear. Or, NAKED - whichever they are most comfortable with.
After three strikes, a participant is out of the competition. But they should take heart – because while they may have lost, the audience has most certainly won.
The winner of the Bee takes home (a) a CD with recordings of over an hour of cats purring loudly; (b) a Choose Your Own Adventure style book written from the POV of a housecat!
Best striptease will also take home (a) a CD with recordings of over an hour of cats purring loudly; (b) a Choose Your Own Adventure style book written from the POV of a housecat!
Best striptease is decided by a Secret Judge. You will be judged on enthusiasm, technical merit, and artistic impression. As always, use of costumes is ENCOURAGED, and the judge will take that into consideration.
All striptease spellers get a free drink, and do not pay cover.
Anyone can drop out of the competition at any time AFTER the completion of the SECOND round.
This is a queer, straight, senior and trans-friendly event. We have a NO BOOING policy strictly in effect. No photos are allowed except by our Official Photographer. Our goal is to have everyone feel safe, secure and comfortable enough to strip and spell.
Regarding the No Photos Rule - we also have a Snitch Policy. If you are a member of the audience and you witness someone taking a surreptitious photo, BY ALL MEANS, interrupt the proceedings, come up to one of the hosts - SNITCH on the guilty party, and once they have been dealt with, you will be rewarded with a free drink.
We thank you for your patronage and understanding.
♥ HOW TO HELP US! ♥
Sometimes, after an event, we get kind folks coming up to us asking us how they can help out with future quirky events. We are so grateful for your kindness and enthusiasm! But perhaps the Most Helpful Thing You Can Do is a thing that doesn't feel like very much help, but which is IN FACT the Most Helpful Thing You Can Do - and that's to share the event page on your Facebook Wall and let your friends know about it. That's it. It takes a few seconds, but is incredibly helpful. Seriously. Collectively, you all know thousands & thousands of people we have never met. If you could spread the word about quirky events, that helps us out manifestly and improves greatly the chances of quirky events continuing to happen! Will you be one of our Sharers?
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Recently, this event was fortunate enough to get some MEDIA COVERAGE:
http://www.thestar.com/article/831682--strip-spelling-bees-a-twist-on-ag...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/strip-spelling-bees-are-the-la...
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/07/13870906.html
HORAIRE / SCHEDULE
- Jeudi 30 Janvier 2014 / 21:00
Pour âges / For ages 18+
Pas de retardataires / No latecomers
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