530 South Street • Philadelphia, PA
More Fun Upstairs
From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.
The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.
Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.
Love & Good Times Always
You Can’t Kill A Poet is back at it in the new decade! Come out and hear some of your fav local queer and trans poets and feel the queer magic.
Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+
Norabot
J Kindt
Fiorella Flowers
Demetra Davis
Ry
Maze
Meg Pendoley
Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Celebrate another night of queer joy with You Can’t Kill a Poet! Join us for readings from queer and/or trans readers! Come hang with us and listen to some rad voices! Enjoy Tattooed Mom’s Taco Tuesday! Buy some chapbooks as presents for your people! Party like it’s the last YCKAP reading of 2019—because it is!
Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+
READERS TBA
Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Join us for a Metatron Press book launch and reading at Tattooed Mom, celebrating the launch of Ivanna Baranova‘s CONFIRMATION BIAS, her debut collection of poetry.
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READINGS:
☾ Ivanna Baranova (NYC) ☾
☾ jasper avery ☾
☾ chariot birthday wish ☾
☾ Alina Pleskova ☾
☾ Zach Blackwood ☾
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Enjoy this event with our Meatless Monday specials:
1/2 off our full veggie menu noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Join local poets Kailey Tedesco, Carl Moon, and Lindsey Warren for a poetry reading at Tattooed Mom! Come on upstairs where there are delicious cocktails, a funky atmosphere, and stirring poetry!
FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+
Doors 6pm // Reading 7-10pm
Featuring:
Kailey Tedesco
Carl Moon
& Lindsey Warren
Enjoy this event with Tattooed Mom’s Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Come out to Tattooed Mom to support and help launch the new release from local Rhythm & Bones Press author Nadia Gerassimenko!
FREE // 21+ // UPSTAIRS
Nadia will be reading from her second chapbook ‘at the water’s edge‘, a collection of poems about trauma and all the ways it can manifest in the body – be it emotional, medical, sexual – and also about forgiveness, finding the strength to forgive others and yourself. Featuring special guest readers Sarah Nichols and R&B founder/editor-in-chief Tianna G. Hansen.
Enjoy this event with TMOMs’ tasty food & drink menu,
pus half price drafts after the event from 5-7pm & 10-11pm.
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
You Can’t Kill a Poet is back from summer hiatus to bring you a line-up of totally badass queer and trans poets. Let’s celebrate being back in the swing of things & experience another evening of queer joy and authentic writing together at TMOMs!
Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+
Madelynn Nieves
Tie
amber auslander
Nora Hikari Shao
June Gehringer
K. Johnson
Boston Gordon
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Thirty West Publishing hosted their very first reading at Tattooed Mom back in 2017, and we’re thrilled to welcome them back to celebrate their 30th reading!
Join us for Thirty West Presents #30, a performance & open mic poetry event created by Thirty West Publishing House! Come out for food & drink specials, and a plethora of fantastic authors, writers, and poets! Poetry comes alive at night, and there’s no better place to experience it than Tattooed Mom!
FREE // 21+ // UPSTAIRS
Featuring Ryan Torres, Sean Lynch, Richelle Kota, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, and Faye Chevalier.
Features will have up to 15 mins to read. Open mic readers will have up to 3 mins.
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your poetry pals!
On June 20th, 7-10 PM, Artblog presents: LIVE with Artblog at Tattooed Mom!
Join us for a night of performance art, stand-up comedy, and readings by Alex Smith, Candy Alexandra González, Jacob Chris Hammes, Levi Bentley, and Michael Delgado, followed by a live podcast recording of Artblog Radio with Artblog’s own Wit López speaking with Conrad Benner of Streets Dept!
Suggested donation of $5 per person, which includes one free 50/50 raffle ticket!
Make sure you bring some extra cash for other raffles, like our Artblog “artist swag bag” raffle. We will also be accepting donations towards Artblog and our lovely performers!
Performances 8PM // Live podcast 9PM
MCs for the event are Wit López and Matt Kalasky.
DISCLAIMER: This space is not wheelchair accessible. This event is 21+.
Enjoy this event with Tattooed Mom’s Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
‘Tis the season of shorts (and jorts), beer koozies, & long summer nights at Tattooed Mom!
We’ve got art shows! Drag performances! Pop-up shops! Readings! Workshops! Sticker Swaps! Live podcasts! Comedy revues! Fundraisers! And we also want YOU!
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Do you have an event that’s looking for a home? Are you itching to create something new? Do you want to show off your weird, wonderful, unique ideas? Are you working with creatives and building artistic communities? Do you want to host a fun & fantastic event at Tattooed Mom?!
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Our calendar is now open for 2019 summer & fall events, and we’re looking to work with artists, creators, writers, thespians, filmmakers, performers, activists, and other folks from the vast artistic unknown! Our goal is to foster & produce events that bring artists closer to the local community, while also providing a space for uninhibited expression & creativity!
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Send us an email at [email protected]! Tell us all about your marvelous, stunning & super fun event ideas! We can’t wait to hear from you!
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Art by darkmeal for TMoms @ 22.
Note: Unfortunately we cannot accommodate live music or DJs of any kind.
Five years ago we got together for the first time. Now we’re celebrating with old favorites and new readers. You Can’t Kill A Poet is dedicated to providing a space for queer and/or trans writers to share their work. Invite yer favorite gays and come see why you can’t kill a poet!
Doors 7:30pm // Reading 8pm
Free & 21+
Readers:
Berry Grass
Laura Kochman
lii xu
Genise Deal
Quinn Rodriquez
Katbug
Cashmere Harper
Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Mom’s Beef Burgers & Mom’s Veggie Burgers,
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys,
a special Burger of the Month,
& half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
