Sock Puppet Arts & Crafts Sunday

Socks. They keep your feet warm during these cold winter months. We honor the accessory that make your tootsies feel and look good during the month of January by transforming the lowly sock into crazy customized sock puppet critters. Dress up your sock puppet creation with buttons, eyes, hair and tons of bling from TMoms world famous Sunday arts & craft table.

Free fun EVERY Sunday in January.

Half off ALL Drafts, 5-7 and 10-11.
$2 PBR pounders after 7pm.
1/2 price Tater tots: your choice of original, cheesy, poutine, BBQ, or parmesan pepper!

UArts Photography: Senior Thesis Fundraiser

Come out to support the senior class Photography students at UArts as they raise money for their Senior Show.  Student art will be on display as well as a selection of prints that will be available for purchase.  Help the senior class put on a spectacular senior show while you enjoy the very best photography that UArts has to offer!

A portion of all food and drink sales during the event will be donated to the Senior Show fund, so bring your friends and have fun for a great cause!

New Art Spotlight: Joe B

The fantastic paper cut art of Joe Boruchow has inspired us at Mom’s for years. From custom New Year’s posters to back door alley art to countless upstairs installations, Joe’s sharp wit and skill has always been a thrill to discover here.

 

The latest installation of bold large scale wheat pastes upstairs is from his new “Transition” series. His keen eye is never heavy handed but always on target. In the words of John F. Kennedy, “We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.” Joe B’s art lets that truth shine brightly whether it’s on the street, in the gallery or upstairs here at Mom’s.

 

 

 

 

 

Sock Puppet Arts & Crafts Sunday

Socks. They keep your feet warm during these cold winter months. We honor the accessory that make your tootsies feel and look good during the month of January by transforming the lowly sock into crazy customized sock puppet critters. Dress up your sock puppet creation with buttons, eyes, hair and tons of bling from TMoms world famous Sunday arts & craft table.

Free fun EVERY Sunday in January.

Half off ALL Drafts, 5-7 and 10-11.
$2 PBR pounders after 7pm.
1/2 price Tater tots: your choice of original, cheesy, poutine, BBQ, or parmesan pepper!

Sock Puppet Arts & Crafts Sunday

Socks. They keep your feet warm during these cold winter months. We honor the accessory that make your tootsies feel and look good during the month of January by transforming the lowly sock into crazy customized sock puppet critters. Dress up your sock puppet creation with buttons, eyes, hair and tons of bling from TMoms world famous Sunday arts & craft table. Free fun EVERY Sunday in January.

TV Rots Your Brains 2: Holiday Pop Up Shop

The TV Rots Your Brains pop-up shop is back!

Our friends at Rainbow Alternative are curating an day of kick ass holiday pop culture fun here. Eat, drink, be merry & shop for unique pottery, hand crafted clothing & jewelry, classic sweet treats & pop culture neat stuff. TV Rots Your Brains is the perfect fix for all your last minute gift shopping needs!

FREE admission • FREE holiday arts & crafts
Children are welcome (with an adult) any time before 7pm
Half price drafts from 5-7pm • Half price tater tots & $2 PBRs after 7pm
Shop local. Shop small business. Shop

PARTICIPATING VENDORS:
Rainbow Alternative
Night Owl Designs
The Patchriarchy
The Wicked Cottage
Vintage Sweets
Squeak Wells
SaraCaseyMakes
Julie Salas
Jess Salas
The Machine Shop
WantfulThings

Tire Fire Presents: Foy / Carroll / Plum / Ojeda-sague

Join us as our flagship literary series TireFire closes out the year with a night of comfort & community, $1 tacos, and readings from:

D. FOY is the author of the novels Made to Break and Patricide. His work has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Hazlitt, Post Road, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Literary Review, Midnight Breakfast, The Scofield, and The Georgia Review, among others, and has been included in the books Laundromat, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and A Moment’s Notice.

TOBIAS CARROLL is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn. He is the author of the novel Reel (Rare Bird Books) and the short story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms). His writing has been published by Tin House, Rolling Stone, Hazlitt, Men’s Journal, and elsewhere.

HILARY PLUM is the author of the work of nonfiction Watchfires and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets. With Zach Savich she edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. She lives in Philadelphia.

GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE is Miami <-> Philly, child of Cuban exiles and Puerto Ricans. His first book Oil and Candle (Timeless, Infinite Light 2016) is a set of poems on Santería and the precarity of Latino-American lives. He is also the author of the chapbooks JOGS (2013), Nite [Chickadee]’s (Gauss PDF 2015), Where Everything is in Halves (Be About It 2015), and “Yo” Quiere Decir Sunburn” (2016). He has just finished a new manuscript on Jazzercise.

All donations from our December reading will go to the Mazzoni Center, a local LGBTQ health provider. We raised $300 at our November reading.

Doors at 7, readings at 8.

Magic Gardens Arts & Drafts Crafting Happy Hour

Get crafty, raise a pint, and help us raise funds to support the our friends at the Philadelphia Magic Gardens at a special Arts & Drafts Crafting Happy Hour! Create FREE craft projects, including felt pennants, hand puppets & scratch art.

Enjoy half priced drafts from 5:00-7:00 PM,  half priced veggie menu till 10:00 PM & a specially created Magic Gardens cocktail.

We will be donating 25% of all sales to Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens’ education initiatives, so come out, grab some food, and get your art on!

Cranksgiving: A Holiday Bicycle Ride for Philabundance

The SIXTH ANNUAL Cranksgiving Philly is here! Our favorite charity bike ride is back, and with an fun afternoon of bike riding for folks of all levels.

Benefitting Philabundance, this event’s purpose is to collect food to help provide a Thanksgiving dinner to families that wouldn’t normally get one. Started in New York City in 1999, this ride involves collecting food at grocery store “checkpoints”. All of the food purchased by riders will then be donated to Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger relief organization.

Two ride formats! The first “classic flavor” involves riding to various grocery stores to purchase food items and rack up points. The second will be a slower-paced group ride, same mission, but more relaxed and non-competitive in nature. 

What to Bring? A bike, a helmet, a lock, a bag (or basket or rack or cargo bike) to carry the food, and at least $15-20 to purchase food items along the way. This is a charity event dedicated to helping feed the hungry so generosity is STRONGLY encouraged (and rewarded)!

Last year we had 145 participants collecting over 5100 pounds of food, so this year our goal is to….get a lot more riders and food than that! Everyone ends up here at TMoms for a fun afterparty among a mountain of donated food. Happy Cranksgiving y’all!