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February 2024
Batman and Robin: A Live Reading
We hate to disappoint you…but our rubber lips are immune to your charms.
This February, join us for an evening of superheroes, sidekicks, ice guns, pheromones, and superfluous nipples! Theatre Contra is taking the script of Batman and Robin (you know…the nipple one), and performing it live!
Directed by John Patouhas
All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat. Limited PWYC Tickets available at the door.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | TICKETLEAP
Featuring:
Adam Howard
Brennen Malone
Jo Vito Ramirez
Mariah Ghant
Natajia Sconiers
Zachary Valdez
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »Collide Zine Issue 6 Release Party
Join us for the Collide Issue 6 Release Party + Open Mic at Tattooed Mom on February 19th! It’s going to be a night filled with creativity, community, and good vibes. Come celebrate the release of our latest issue and enjoy some incredible performances at this in-person event.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
Located on South Street, Tattooed Mom is THE spot for local artists to share their work and perform with no filters–we welcome all styles of poetry, art, and performance. We will be taking footage of the performances, so please keep to content that you are comfortable with us resharing on social media.
Mic spots are first com first serve, so get there early!
VISUAL ARTISTS are welcome to vend in the front room of the upstairs bar, and in between sets the audience will be encouraged to check out and shop local handmade wares. To apply to be a vendor at this event, fill out this form.
Attendees will also have a chance to enter RAFFLE GIVEAWAYS OF LOCAL ART (winners announced at 9:30pm after performances end).
So mark your calendars, gather your friends, and get ready for an unforgettable evening of art, expression, music, and poetry. Did we mention the awesome bar staff and amazing food?
We can’t wait to see you there!
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Mondays, 4-11pm | Prepare yourselves—Meatless Monday is back at Tattooed Mom (with a twist)!!!!!!!!! Every two months we’ll be highlighting a different vegan menu item every Monday. See what’s on special this month!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »Scribes On South // February 2024
SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.
SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!
This reading’s featured reader is Parker Sera.
Read poems. Kick ass.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Parker Sera is a queer, midwestern actor, poet, theatre maker, multidisciplinary artist, and horse girl. Her poems have appeared in bedfellows magazine, knack magazine, the rising phoenix review, and various other corners of the Internet. She’s also been featured on wxpn radio with Kelly Writer’s House, and at readings in various corners of Philadelphia. More at parkersera.com or on insta @parker.sera .
Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »March 2024
Poetry Night for Palestine
Join the Sentimentally Ill shordies for a night of sweet poetry and fundraising for Palestinian relief! ❣️🍉
Come sip, listen to our little words, get sentimental!! also featured will be a charity raffle with a variety of goodies from Philly artists 🙂
SUNDAY, MARCH 3RD
7-1OPM
SUGGESTED DONATION $5 – $10
>> NOTAFLOF <<
Lineup:
Juliette Ryan
Veronica Dimeo
Sam Medina
Fred Grieff
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »You Can’t Kill A Poet // March 2024
We’re back at it again in 2024! We’ll be at Tattooed Mom on Wednesday, March 20th for some gayyyy poems. Doors at 7:30pm, reading at 8pm. Come hang out in our joyous and boisterous room full of queerness and listen to some amazing poets share their work.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20TH
DOORS @ 7:30PM + SHOW @ 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
Featured Readers:
Boston Gordon
Claudia Cortese
Ber the Poet
Temi
Ari Villeda Martinez
Sarah Solomon
Follow You Can’t Kill A Poet on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
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Scribes On South // March 2024
SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.
SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!
SUNDAY, MARCH 31ST
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Prone to writing since childhood, it wasn’t until adulthood that poetry surprisingly became Brian’s medium of choice. Their work focuses on the romances of life, the weight of relationships, endlessly unraveling gender, and living in a body, often expressing these themes through symbols of nature. Brian continuously seeks vulnerability and comfort in their work and hopes that other queer and trans people of color can find that same safety in the writing.
Eden Vernier is. What else is there to say? Her interests include primal rage and the end of all things. Burn it down, baby! Eden Vernier is.
Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »April 2024
Top 5 Lit Reading
You haven’t been to a literary event this good before. Or maybe you have, but you definitely haven’t been to five events better.
Please join Jiordan Castle, Warren Longmire, Michael B. Tager and Pantea Tofangchi and listen to them read the heck out of their writing. Poets, prose and mixed-genre, they’re all available at this event. And they all have new or new-ish books!
MONDAY, APRIL 15TH
7-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a memoir in verse. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York, she has an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College and lives in Philadelphia.
Warren is a writer, technologist, educator and uncle from the bad part of Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and founder of _mixlit. Warren’s words have been published in journals including Cartridge Lit, The Cleveland Review of Books, Eleven Eleven and The American Poetry Review. He was featured in the Best American Poetry 2021, edited by Patricia Smith. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop] was released in Nov. 2022 through BUNNY Presse.
Michael B. Tager is the Managing Editor of Mason Jar Press and an occasional writer of poetry and prose. He’s the author of Pop Culture Poetry: The Definitive Edition (Akinoga Press, ’24). He prefers not to end his sentences on an infinitive, but only because it’s a challenge, not because he thinks it’s a good rule (it isn’t).
Pantea A. Tofangchi is an Iranian-American poet, writer and graphic designer. She is the Art Director and graphic designer for Advertising Media Plus and The Business Monthly. She writes poems (in English), essays, stories and plays (mostly in Persian.) Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Little Patuxent Review, Welter Atlanta Review–in which she won the International Merit Award–and other journals. She was selected as a finalist for The National Poetry Series’ 2016 and Georgia Poetry Prize 2018.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Mondays, 4-11pm | Prepare yourselves—Meatless Monday is back at Tattooed Mom (with a twist)!!!!!!!!! Every two months we’ll be highlighting a different vegan menu item every Monday. See what’s on special this month!
• Mondays, Upstairs 6-11pm | We see free 🎱 in your future! Introducing Free Pool Mondays upstairs at TMoms!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Collide Zine Artist Pop-Up & Open Mic with Bring a Blanket Reading Series
We’re stoked to announce our next open mic and artist pop-up at Tattooed Mom’s again on Tuesday April 16th, from 6-10pm! This mic is special however, because we are collaborating with another fabulous supporter of Philly poetry, @bringablanketreadingseries to promote their first ever printed ZINE and celebrate their ONE YEAR anniversary.
TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH
6-10PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
Created and run by Alexandra Naughton and Josh Dale of Thirty West Publishng Bring A Blanket Reading Series (@bringablanketreadingseries) is Philadelphia’s indoor/outdoor monthly reading series that celebrates locals and travelers alike. They have held events at Washington Square Park, A Novel Idea on East Passyunk, and Lot 49 Books, to name a few.
We’re happy to introduce their community to ours in this joint endeavor to show the mic at Tattooed Mom (530 South St) a heavy dose of poetry, spoken word, and expression!
To further the celebrate the community behind both poetry zines, we’ll have raffles going all night, and an incredible lineup of vendors (sign ups open now in the link below)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdP6t_f19jh8vy0M2lnj_jxXQ_PKS4wAEgBDEWSTX5MQJZLQQ/viewform
To submit and learn more about BAB zine and Collide zine, follow the link in our bio. Submissions to BAB close 4/20.
RSVP on Eventbrite, or just show up. This event is free for all 21+.
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Tuesdays, 4-10pm | The triumphant return of Taco Tuesday is finally here! Y’all better zoom down for $1.50 beef or bean tacos every Tuesday!! And wash it all down with $3 Tecate!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
Find out more »Slutty Poems Night // April 2024 – POSTPONED
EDIT 4/16: This month’s Slutty Poems Night has been POSTPONED. Please join us for the next reading on Tuesday, June 11th.
Find out more »Cat Party! Book Release Party
Philly writer Katie Haegele has been putting out the beloved Cat Party! zine series for 7 years — and now it’s turned into a book! This diverse, lively anthology, published by Microcosm Publishing, collects every issue of the zine plus brand new contributions made especially for the book. More than 50 artists contributed essays, comics, portraits, song lyrics, and photos, all about the beloved cats in their lives, and the pieces range from heartbreakingly personal to totally whimsical (and everything in between)
Come celebrate the release of this beautiful book! You’ll be able to buy your copy before it’s available in stores, get yourself some cat-themed merch (including records with original music by contributor Joe Carlough!), and hang out while enjoying our catty playlist. It’s gonna be a blast!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
- Cartoonist Dame Darcy
- Punk legend Joe Genaro
- Quimby’s Bookstore founder Steven Svymbersky
- Microcosm founder Joe Biel
- Comics artists Mardou, Defectivepudding, and Heidi Moreno
Plus these wonderful Philly-area artists:
- Katie Haegele
- Justin Duerr
- Alison Lee Chapman
- The Crime Cats
- Andrew Keller
- Courtney Stevenson
- The Word Distro
- Ailbhe Pascal
- Caitlin Peck
- Delphadae
- Anna Lehr Mueser
- Jo-Jo Sherrow
- Nicole (2) of the South Street Art Mart
- Ally Shwed
- Enx Eeden
- Craig Wenner
- Melba Eismann
- Joe Carlough
- M.J. Fine
- Helen Kaucher
- Jay McQuirns
- Melanie Rosato
- Raymond E. Mingst
- Mellen Reinbold
- Key K. Bird
- Rachel Blythe Udell and Jeremy Newman
- Kelsey Stewart
- Jackie Soro
- Marina Murayama
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!
• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!
• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.
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