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Norman Nawrocki (born Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator,...

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Norman Nawrocki (born Vancouver, British Columbia), is a Montreal-based comedian, sex educator, cabaret artist, musician, author, actor, producer and composer. Nawrocki together with Sylvain Côté were the founding members of "rock 'n roll cabaret" band Rhythm Activism. Nawrocki owns Les Pages Noires, through which he has published twenty albums and three books. Nawrocki was born in East End of Vancouver to Polish/Ukrainian Canadian parents. Politically aware at a young age, at 14 he wrote an essay Why I am an Anarchist and started an underground newspaper at high school. During his childhood he hated violin lessons; the instrument he would later make his craft, instead Nawrocki daydreamed of becoming a famous tennis player and loved the Ukrainian weddings his parents were invited to. Nawocki’s attended Langara College and Simon Fraser University co-editing the university's newspaper The Peak. Bored with study he dropped out to edit a radical neighbourhood newspaper before going on to edit an international anarchist newsjournal, The Open Road and freelance for The Georgia Straight. At around the same time while working various part-time jobs Nawrocki involved himself with labour

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