WE SURVIVED 2018! TireFire Readings is so proud of you! What better way to congratulate ourselves on making it this far than readings from Tyrese Coleman, Amanda Miska, Fae Aspen Gehringer, and Prairie M. Faul!
Doors 7 // Reading 8
This month, we’ll be donating our $ to the Women’s Medical Fund, who protects and expands abortion access for low-income folks through direct service and advocacy. “We support those living in poverty who need abortion care today by providing counseling and emergency financial assistance. We support people in the future by working to expand and equalize access to abortion through lifting the insurance bans and eliminating other barriers.”
Accessibility Note: Reading is upstairs and non-bumper car seating is limited, and tends to be first-come, first-serve. If you need assistance or accommodations, please let us know.
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
TireFire Readings fall season is flying past. For their last reading of 2018, they’ve got Jeff Jackson, Nicole Steinberg, Niela Orr, and Tyrese Coleman.
Doors 7 // Reading 8
This month, we’ll be sending our donations to the Trans Equity Project, who “seek to Co-power Trans identified individuals and gender minorities through peer-based counseling and mentoring, education, advocacy, and community activism, employing sex positive and harm-reduction strategies, to improve quality of life, provide safer alternatives to risky behavior, and keep our clients healthy and well.”
Accessibility Note: Reading is upstairs and non-bumper car seating is limited, and tends to be first-come, first-serve. If you need assistance or accommodations, please let us know.
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Fall is here & we’re celebrating with another reading from Tire Fire!
This month we have readings from Steven Dunn, Oki Sogumi, Warren C. Longmire, & Quinton Lawrence.
Doors 7 // Reading 8
They’ll also be raising money for our good friends at Juntos, “a Latino immigrant community led organization in Philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants.”
Accessibility Note: Reading is upstairs and non-bumper car seating is limited, and tends to be first-come, first-serve. If you need assistance or accommodations, please let us know.
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
TIRE FIRE IS BACK! Did you miss them as much as we did?!
Join us for another exciting edition of Tire Fire on Thursday, September 6th featuring Andrea Kleine, Anthony Moll, Edward Mullany, and Zach Blackwood.
Doors 7 // Reading 8
They’ll be raising funds for PA Adapt, “a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Accessibility Note: Reading is upstairs and non-bumper car seating is limited, and tends to be first-come, first-serve. If you need assistance or accommodations, please let us know.
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Here to usher us into spring, Tire Fire is back with a Whiting Award winner & his Food 4 Thot co-host, the Philly Poet Laureate, and a fiction writer/twitter genius.
LINEUP:
Tommy Pico
Kristen Arnett
Raquel Salas Rivera
Joseph Osmundson
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Donations will be collected for Project SAFE, an all-volunteer grassroots organization providing advocacy and support for women working in street economies. SAFE’s mission is to promote human rights-based public health among women working in the sex and drug trades on the street in Philadelphia.
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your friends.
BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH…Tire Fire is back with live readings from Sarah Gerard, Amy Saul-Zerby, Ian Carlos Crawford, and Amish Trivedi!
Donations will be collected for Prevention Point Philadelphia, an organization providing harm reduction services to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, and will be matched by TMoms!
Doors at 7, readings start around 8.
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
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We made it through 2017! Start 2018 on a high note with readings from Hanif Abdurraqib, Kirwyn Sutherland, Lauren Grodstein & Jon Reiss. at January’s Tire Fire!
All donations collected will go to Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, who posts bail for residents of Philadelphia who cannot afford to pay bail. They work to bring to light the inequities of the use of cash bail in Philadelphia while advocating for the abolition of bail & pretrial detention in our city.
Doors at 7, readings start around 8.
FREE Admission!
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
November is gonna be BIG! This month’s Tire Fire literary event features NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Carmen Machado, honorary Philadelphian Dave K., triple threat (author/educator/dj) Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela & noted writer of fiction and frump Emma Eisenberg.
All donations collected will be sent to Juntos, “a community-led, Latinx immigrant organization in South Philadelphia fighting for our human rights as workers, parents, youth, and immigrants. We believe that every human being has the right to a quality education and the freedom to live with dignity regardless of immigration status.” And, as always, TMoms will be matching every donation.
Doors at 7, readings start around 8
50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
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Tire Fire presents an evening of literature with Michael Konik, Michelle Junot, Bud Smith, & Irène Mathieu. It’s also the Philly book release for Michael Konik’s YEAR 14, from Barrelhouse Books.
All donations collected will go to the CHOP Adolescent Initiative, who have been a leader in the evaluation, prevention, & care of adolescents living with HIV and prevention to high-risk youth. The clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary and HIV specialty care since 1993.
Doors at 7, readings start around 8
FREE admission!
50¢ pierogi from until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
