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July 2024
Scribes Gala
SCRIBES GALA IS COMING TO @tmoms ONE NIGHT ONLY. THIS NON BINARY PEOPLE’S DAY WE WILL DRESS OUR MOST EXTRA. OUR POEMS WILL BE BOMBASTIC & OUR EXPRESSION WILL BE FREE. DRESS CODE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SEPARATELY.
SUNDAY, JULY 14TH
7-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
THE SCRIBES GALA FEATURES:
-ALL OF U DRESSING EXTRA
-FOUR FEATURED READERS (ANNOUNCING TOMORROW)
-AN OPEN MIC FOR POETS
-LOCAL PRESSES TABLING
-A LONGER EVENT THAN THE USUAL SCRIBES
STANDARD SCRIBES GROUNDRULES APPLY
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.
BARB GONZALEZ (they/he) is a philadelphia based poet just here to prove that there is something charming, or maybe a lesson to be learned in the mundane. as a haunter of dreams, naturally they write about nightmares and woes of their own. barb is published in garland, out by fifth wheel press and in the process of writing and printing a chapbook in their bedroom, just because they can.
ROBYN HAGER grew up in Morris County, New Jersey before moving to the Hudson Valley in 2017. She pursued her passion for creative writing and the arts at SUNY New Paltz and graduated with her MA in Creative Writing in May 2022. Her first poetry collection, “Sewage Flowers”, was published in the summer of 2019, and her work has also been published in the 2020 and 2021 editions of The Stonesthrow Review, the 2022 edition of The Shawangunk Review, Lightwood Press, Graphic Violence and others.
LINDSAY HARGRAVE is a poet, editor at Graphic Violence, and a copywriter for Temple University. Proceeds from their debut chapbook ROT (2022) benefit PCRF. The follow-up, Computer Baby, is available now from Bottlecap Press.
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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 »Big Ass Bitties // July 2024
Pals! Big Ass Bitties is a wild ride, a night of comedic risks, feats of glory, attempts of epic proportions. You will be rewarded! You will get what you came for. You will see Bettys Bits.
The night is filled with adventure and misadventure from amazeballs comics. Won’t you come thru, and share your open arms with our vulnerable goofs? Come see this show! A line up of wild proportions!
MONDAY, JULY 15TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Host:
The Bit Lord, @bettyjsmithsonian
Featuring:
Lauren LoGiudice
Grace Lazard
Jeff Quintana
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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.
Find out more »Hey, That’s Our Lunch Money: Clara Olshansky and Michael Abber’s Half Hours
Brooklyn comedians Michael Abber and Clara Olshansky split an hour of standup comedy. They’re excited to bring their queer comedy by and for the picked-last-in-gym class types to Philadelphia. Michael Abber is a very loud comedian/not-for-profit cabaret artist. He has performed his dog-and-pony-show in the New York Comedy Festival and Netflix is a Joke Festival, and as a director, his work has been featured in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. But none of this in a fancy way. Clara Olshansky is a comedian and writer you may know from OnlyFans’ LMAOF, NYC Pride Fest, or from that time Cara Delevingne commented on their Instagram reel.
TUESDAY, JULY 16TH
7-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
Lineup:
Michael Abber
Clara Olshansky
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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 »Supernormal Stimuli Book Release Party
Come celebrate the release of Rosie Accola’s lyric novel about gay guidos with a reading + open mic. The theme is ~queer beach~, so come with your queer-beachiest poems and prose. Outfits encouraged.
Lineup:
Hosted by Veronica Bennett / Bullshit Lit
Reading by Rosie Accola
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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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.
Find out more »The Naughty Jawn
Touching down in South Street and radiating that summer heat! Join the fun and watch Philly-native and local performers bring a variety of sexy talent to Tattooed Moms. Drag, burlesque, singing, poetry, hula hoops! This is a 21+ event with valid ID so leave those kids at home and enjoy adult entertainment and games.
THURSDAY, JULY 18TH
DOORS @ 7PM + SHOW @ 8PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $15-$20 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | EVENTBRITE
Cast:
Ziphina (Producer and performer)
Isa Ardiente (Host and performer)
Gary the Storyteller
Patti LuStoned
Sir Suavey
Violet Shimmer (stage manager and performer)
Corvus Crawley (door)
Want to join the stage? Sign up here for our open stage option! We’ll feature 4 or 5 performers who are ready to get naughty with us: https://forms.gle/
Suggested donations are $15-20 online and at the door. Bringing tip money to throw is highly encouraged! Learn more about The Naughty Jawn at linktr.ee/thenaughytjawn
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What’s Up at TMoms:
• Thursdays, 4-10pm | All hail Pierogi Thursday! Munch and crunch on 75¢ pierogi (vegan, obvi) plus $3 cans of Tecate every Thursday!! And don’t forget ur toppings…
• 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 »Holy Hell Art Show
Behold! The Unholy Cereberus of Douglas, Dobler and Doomed Future welcome you to an evening of debaucherous artistic matrimony! Pry yourselves from your shackles and slumbers and gaze upon our sacrilege for a single night of bold inscriptions and ungodly visions! Hail yourselves to the altar of Tattooed Mom’s where we shall henceforth celebrate the works of the Demon Dog and imbibe in sin! Or vegan snacks! Or both! Let thy eyes be ripped asunder by illustrative damnation and ironic reckoning.
FRIDAY, JULY 19TH
5-10PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
Artists:
@praisedobler
@doomedfuture
@ofdeathandtaxes
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What’s Up 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.
Find out more »Queer Life Drawing // July 2024
Join us for an afternoon of lifting up queer bodies with an opportunity to draw with a live model and build community. We will do a structured schedule with gesture drawings in the beginning and moving into longer poses as time goes on. This is not a queer only event but it is a queer space and we do seek to highlight queer trans poc and fat bodies! Our ticket price is to cover paying our model for their time! Bring your favorite mediums and surfaces to work on and we’ll see you there!!
SUNDAY, JULY 21ST
1-4PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10| NOTAFLOF
RSVP: EVENTBRITE
Facilitators:
bighaircamellights and divinedownes
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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 »X Knight Escape From Warp Hell: Film Screening
He’s not a Marvel or DC superhero, he’s X KNIGHT! A gothic superhero who must battle demons in the purgatory realm of Warp Hell! While trying to save a young boy from being sacrificed in a ritual by the Cannibal Sea Demon Pirates. Come join us for the screening of our award winning superhero horror film X KNIGHT: Escape From Warp Hell. Screening will take place Sunday July 21st at 6:30 p.m. and meet the cast and crew afterwards. X Knight merchandise will be on sale, read the comics that inspired the film along with much more!
SUNDAY, JULY 21ST
6:30PM-9:30PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Follow X Knight Productions 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 »Dungeons & Drafts // July 23rd, 2024
There’s Dungeons. There’s Drafts. There very possibly might be Dragons. Come join Dungeons n’ Drafts for some good old DnD at TMoms! All player experience levels are welcome, from newbies to seasoned PCs!
TUESDAY, JULY 23RD
DOORS @ 6PM + START @ 7PM
TICKETS: PURCHASE HERE
Brought to you by high demand, Dungeons n’ Drafts is excited to be hosted by the wonderful folks at Tattooed Mom! Seating is super limited here, so sign up soon before this potentially sells out. All DnD players are receiving a “Mom’s Chip + Explanation Card” that is good for life! We’ll be there right at lunch time too for all your eating needs. Doors open at 5pm, play starts at 6pm. See ya there!
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 »Littérateur Libations & Risqué Readings // July 2024
Celebrate a belated Bastille Day by congregating for drinks and conversation with those who either create or enjoy reading sensual, sexual, romantic, erotic writings. Come early at 6 p.m. to take advantage of the affordably priced Hemingway Happy Hour for good drinks and good food, including the famous Smash Burger Wednesday special! After a few libations, if you are an erotica writer of short stories or novellas or novels or poems or any other form – whether amateur or professional or somewhere in between – feel free to take the stage around 7ish p.m. to read and share with all attendees your titillating creativity. Or indulge as an audience member by listening to the impassioned words of others. Expect to hear some steamy stories and poems on a sultry July evening. This is a 21+ event. Showing valid ID will be required to enter and participate.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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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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