The How I Learned series presents How I Learned In The Beginning: Origin Stories

The How I LEARNED SERIES PRESENTS HOW I LEARNED IN THE BEGINNING: ORIGIN STORIES.Since 2009, the How I Learned series has featured storytellers, comedians, writers, musicians, and other raconteurs holding forth on a rotating theme. Awkwardly hosted by Blaise Allysen Kearsley, yet named one of five Best NYC Storytelling Shows in the history of lists of five best NYC storytelling shows. Featuring:  JO FIRESTONE [http://www.jofirestone.com/](The Tonight Show; High Maintenance; Shrill)GASTOR ALMONTE [http://gastoralmonte.com/](RISK!; Immigrant Made)JULIAN FLEISHER [https://www.julianfleisher.com/](Joe's Pub; The Naked American Songbook)ANGEL YAU [http://angelyau.com/](UCB; Asian American Film Thing)DAVID HEATLEY [https://www.davidheatley.com/](The New Yorker; Qualification: A Graphic Memoir) Doors 9:00 PM, show 9:30 PM. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 21+ This event is mixed seated and standing room. Seats are first-come, first-served. REFUND POLICY: Tickets may be refunded up to 24 hours before the event. Within 24 hours we may take exchanges for other events at our discretion. No refunds after the event.   J [http://nickflynn.org/]O FIRESTONE [http://jofirestone.com/]  is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has appeared on_ Comedy Central, Shrill, High Maintenance, Joe Pera Talks With You_, _Broad City_, and _Search Party_. She is a current writer for _The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon_. Jo co-hosts the weekly show _Butterboy Comedy, _alongside Maeve Higgins and Aparna Nancherla_, _with whom she created the web SERIES _Womanhood_. She is also the host of the _Dr. Gameshow_ podcast and the co-creator of _Punderdome_.   GASTOR ALMONTE [http://gastoralmonte.com/] was raised by an immigrant family in East NEW YORK. He is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, writer, and host, whose debut comedy album, _Immigrant Made_, dropped in 2019. He has appeared on _Risk!, The Story Collider_, Comedy Central's _This Is Not Happening_, _Solocom_, and the _New York Comedy Festival_.   JULIAN FLEISHER [http://julianfleisher.com/] is a renaissance man and a pillar of NEW YORK's downtown performance scene. In his regular variety shows at Joe's Pub with his _Rather Big Band, _Julian has featured the likes of Molly Ringwald, Dewayne Perkins, Jennifer Holiday, Bridget Everett, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Martha Plimpton, and Justin Vivian Bond. He has produced albums for Kiki & Herb and Ana Gasteyer, and is the author of several books, including _The Drag Queens of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide._   ANGEL YAU [http://angelyau.com/] is the founder and host of _Asian American Film Thing _and a member of the first-ever, all female, all Asian, musical sketch group _Azn Pop! _A storyteller, comedian, and filmmaker from Queens, Angel has been featured on _Mortified_, _Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special_ on Netflix, and the Funny or Die short film, _Soojung Dreams of Fiji_. She is a 2018 NBC/UCB Diversity Scholar finalist, and has a stop-motion animation SERIES ON YOUTUBE. _ _ DAVID HEATLEY [https://www.davidheatley.com/] is a graphic memoirist whose latest book, _Qualification_, is a darkly humorous exploration of his addiction to 12-step programs. His comics and drawings have appeared in _The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's_, and elsewhere. He is also the author of _My Brain is Hanging Upside Down_._ _   BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY [http://www.bazima.com/] is a Brooklyn-based writer and storyteller, and the creator, producer, and host of the How I LEARNED SERIES. She has told STORIES AT THE MOTH, RISK!, Mortified, The Liar Show, Literary Death Match, and elsewhere. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, The Nervous Breakdown, Midnight Breakfast, The Weeklings, VICE, two anthologies, and several other places many lifetimes ago that are perhaps not worth mentioning by name. She teaches memoir writing to other so-called grownups. To find out how to say all three of her names, visit her outdated website [http://www.bazima.com/] at your own risk.