STORYTIMES! A Storytelling/Reading Slam, PLUS Travel Stories with John Wesley Harding + More!

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

It's your chance to throw your hat in the ring for our very first (and possibly last) storytelling/reading SLAM! 

Prepare a 5-minute story on a "How I Learned..." topic of your choosing, and then leave the rest up to the magic of the universe, and also to the alcohol intake levels of the judges.

FUN! DO IT!

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STORYTIMES
A How I Learned Series Production
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Sign-Up: 7-7:45
Storytimes: 8:00
Happy Ending Lounge
302 Broome Street 
Between Forsyth + Eldridge
FREE
Co-Hosts:
Andy Ross 
(Real Characters)
Lyra Smith 
(Cashmere comedy)

Judges:
Blaise Allysen Kearsley 
(How I Learned)
Michael Sharkey 
(Celebrity Photographer)
Ted Travelstead 
(Vanity Fair; SEX: Our Bodies, Our Junk)

Also coming up...

HOW I LEARNED TO LIVE ON THE ROAD

Tales of Travels, Travails, Wanderlust + Out-of-Town Hijinks (Vol. 2)

Featuring:

WESLEY STACE (aka JOHN WESLEY HARDING)
(The Sound of His Own Voice)
JEFFREY JOSEPH
(Comic Strip Live)
JAMI ATTENBERG
(The Kept Man)
MELANIE HAMLETT

(Moth StorySLAM)
KRISTIN MCGONIGLE
(Pindeldyboz)

Creator, Producer + Host:

BLAISE ALLYSEN KEARSLEY

Intern:

LYRA SMITH

Happy Ending Lounge

302 Broome Street 

Between Forsyth + Eldridge

FREE

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WESLEY STACE has released 17 albums under the name JOHN WESLEY HARDING--his most recent being The Sound Of His Own Voice. He has also published three novels, including Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, which made both The Wall Street Journal’s Top Ten Novels of The Year and Top Ten Mysteries of The Year. He also created John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders, a monthly show that plays at NYC’s City Winery, shortly to air on NPR.

JEFFREY JOSEPH is an Emmy nominated comedy writer, an accomplished Stand Up Comedian and an award winning Actor. He starred in the feature film The Wrong Mr. Johnson and has appeared opposite Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg and Bill Murray. On TV Jeff was a regular on The Popcorn Kid, HBO'sDream On, Fox's The Late Show, Haywire and Comic Strip Live. He’s also written and developed television pilots for Fox, ABC, MGM, Imagine and Castle Rock.

JAMI ATTENBERG is the author of Instant Love, The Kept Man, and The Melting Season. She has written for numerous publications including The New York Times and Salon. Her fourth book, The Middlesteins, will be published by Grand Central Publishing in October 2012. 

MELANIE HAMLETT is a nomad and tw0-time Moth StorySLAM champion who divides her time between driving her truck, sleeping on friends' couches, and living out of a back pack in various foreign countries. She's also a travel writer who is working on her first book  and has written for Marie Claire and Nerve. Melanie has appeared in several storytelling shows all over New York City including Assscat 3000, and Risk!, among others.

KRISTIN MCGONIGLE recently had an essay published in the anthology Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop. Her writing has also appeared in Pindeldyboz, Lit, and various places online. She also contributes to the Philadelphia City Paper.