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May 2019
The 48 Hour Film Project: Film Screening & Hangout!
Join the folks behind the Philadelphia 48 Hour Film Project for a fun night of short films from previous 48 Hour Film Projects! Meet filmmakers, hangout, and learn more about the organization!
Celebrate the creation of 15+ short films, including previous winners of the Best Film and Audience Awards!
FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+
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THE INCREDIBLE HUMONGOUS GUY (2013, 7:33)
Team: One by One
Best Film 1st Place
BEFORE THE DARKNESS CLAIMS US (2014, 7:30)
Team: CDAV Productions
Best Film 1st Place
Best Actor (Abu Akki)
Best Writing
GIL (2015, 7:46)
Team: Super Bathing Attitude
Best Film 1st Place
Best Acting
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Use of Prop
WILD WEST WILLY (2016, 7:54)
Team: Bruzzese Films
Audience Award
Best Costumes
Best Musical Score
UPLOAD (2016, 4:36)
Team: Picture Lock Collective
Audience Award
Best Editing
LOON’S COMPANY (2016, 7:37)
TEAM: Barebones
Best Film 2nd Place
THE SUMMONING (2016, 5:00)
Team: Studio 25 Films
Best Film 1st Place
Best Use of Line
Best Writing
HOT PURSUIT (2017, 6:16)
Team: Thinking Art Entertainment
Best Sound Design
B.S. TAPS AND COMPANY (2017, 6:10)
Team: Vacad Films
Audience Award
BROOMATES (2017, 5:42)
Team: RoughCuts Philly
Best Film First Place
Audience Award
Best Cinematography
Best Directing
Best Use of Line
Best Visual Effects
WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE SOUL (2018, 7:55)
Team: Mosleyfilms
Best Acting
THE UPDATE (2018, 7:22)
Team: GOVtown Company
Best Use of Line
Best Graphics
FLAUNT IT (2018, 7:38)
Team: 23-100 Films
Audience Award
Best Choreography
Best Costumes
DATE.CLICK.REPEAT (2018, 6:32)
Team: Thinking Art Entertainment
Best Film 2nd Place
Audience Award
Best Special Effects
Best Use of Character
TROMBONED (2018, 6:19)
Team: Peanut Butter Gang
Best Film 1st Place
Best Directing
Best Editing
Best Use of Prop
Best Writing
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Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Find out more »July 2019
The Barnhouse Collective Presents: Short Short Fest 2, The Shortening
Short Short Fest 2 — The Shortening!
The Barnhouse Collective is BACK and BETTER THAN EVER with the animated festival so good it’s now biannual! Join us for a night of cartoons, beer, and comedy. If you enjoy experiencing new works of animated content, supporting local artists, and having drinks with friends then Short Short Fest has you covered!
Including:
“Collection” (Rauso)
“Tony from the Freezer” (Brewster)
“horse cops” (Monson)
“Salt Lane Saloon” (McCauley)
“Horzon Ep 2” (McCaferty)
“Lights Out” (Raducz)
“MAKING MISCHIEF” (Prolog, Ortman, Krug, & Scheffler)
“Onionboy” (Maksuta)
“Super Crown” (McGuire)
“Found in Quiet Sands” (Hightower)
“audition tape” (Thompson)
“LIL SITTERS” (Spew)
“Da Funk” (Green)
“Mr Maxx and his Genitals” (Latzgo)
“Winter Vampire Summer Humans” (Fulfaro)
“Taking Fright“(Miller, Kieffer)
“UntitledIII” (Szigeti)
“The Ballad Of Rube WaddellShowpiece” (Spew)
“From an Old Dream” (Rice)
& “Shoot for the stars” by Barnhouse Collective.
Pre-show by Tim Martin.
MC’d by Alaina Clune.
FREE // 21+ // UPSTAIRS
Doors 6pm // Shorts 7pm
Enjoy half off all drafts before and after this event from 5-7pm and 10-11pm
plus $2 PBR pounders & half price tots 7pm-close!
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your film loving pals!
Find out more »March 2020
DINNERMOVIE: Craving (Short Film) Premiere Screening
The DINNERVERSE is returning to to Tattooed Mom with CRAVING!
Join us for a special premiere screening of the latest short film in the popular horror-action-comedy anthology series. Directed and written by local filmmaker Aleksandra Svetlichnaya. Filmed in Philly. Can be enjoyed on its own without having seen any/all previous films in the series!
UPSTAIRS // FREE // 21+ w/ VALID ID
Starring:
Aleksandra Svetlichnaya
Ricardo Segarra
Joshua Kachnycz
Cyrus Samson
Liz Wiest
Geoffrey Boggs
& Geremy Webne-Behrman
Film Synopsis:
Clarhke Jórelle is hungry to become the next great comic book author…or at least he would be, had he ever made one. But when his fed-up girlfriend gives him a magic sketchbook to help with his writer’s block- things take a turn for the strange and unusual.
Enjoy this event with Tattooed Mom’s full food & drink menu,
plus $2.50 Miller High Life & half price tots from 7pm ’til midnight,
& half price drafts from 5-7pm & 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Find out more »November 2021
“Daisy Derkins and the Dinosaur Apocalypse!” World Film Premiere
An evil sorcerer teams up with a mad scientist to unleash Dinosaur Hell on Earth, and only Daisy Derkins, a drunk from the future, Mummy Cop, Nikolai Volkoff, and an indie punk band can stop them. Dinosaurs, wrestlers, and the occult collide in the greatest sci-fi/horror/action comedy ever produced in Philadelphia!
Tattooed Mom will be serving food and drinks all night. Lots and lots of seating / drinking / hangs available in our outdoor concrete garden.
Indoor seating and bar access is 21+ w/ valid ID. Due to Philadelphia regulations, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.
Sunday, November 14th
Upstairs Back Room // 6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
October 2022
Jerks Productions Presents: Fused Underground, October 2022
Join Jerks Productions for 9 YEARS OF FUSED UNDERGROUND! Their annual Halloween night of ART, HORROR & BOOZE is back at Tattooed Mom:
- Catch some of Philadelphia (and the surrounding area)’s best local underground artists
- Come dressed up and take part in the costume contest for awesome prizes
- And stick around and see an exclusive SNEAK PEEK at our first feature film Aphasia!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7TH
5-10PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT
Tattooed Mom will be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.
Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.
May 2024
Vern Lairds 50th BDay Video Premiere
SATURDAY, MAY 18TH
8PM-2AM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
$2.50 PBR CANS
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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 »July 2024
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 »August 2024
JERKS Productions Presents: APHASIA
JERKS Productions brings their FIRST FEATURE FILM HOME!
Over the last 10+ years the JERKS crew has shared their short films and music videos upstairs at Tattooed Mom so it only makes sense to come full circle and showcase their first feature-length film APHASIA!
Come check out some indie horror at it finest and meet some of the cast and crew!
Doors at 6pm, screening at 7pm.
MONDAY, AUGUST 19TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
Synopsis:
APHASIA: In between life and death, your body is just vacant.
Following a failed suicide attempt, Sarah watches herself leave her body and become an empty vessel for anything to crawl into. When she comes to, she learns that she isn’t alone.
Now it is up to a former priest and rogue exorcist to help save her soul.
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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 »November 2024
Characters Welcome All Stars: An International Sticker Art Show
Characters Welcome is THE event for sticker artists to meet, exchange ideas, & leave behind tokens of their amazing art on our walls, ceilings, floors, etc! Characters Welcome All Stars celebrates that community by showcasing archival sticker art boards from 2012 – 2019, highlighting sticker artists all over the world with eight years of Characters Welcome submissions, stickers, and collaged boards.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH
UPSTAIRS @ TATTOOED MOM
NO COVER // FREE FUN // 21+ with valid ID
RSVP FOR STICKER MOVIE SCREENINGS (SUN 11/10): EVENTBRITE
Our archival collection features many first time artists shown side by side with the seasoned titans. Hand drawn, printed, silk screened, & collaged stickers will all be part of the mix in this diverse display of sticker art media, styles and themes.
On SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, Characters Welcome All Stars will be the afterparty location for the Sticker Movie screening at Old Pine Community Center. On SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, Sticker Movie will host two fundraiser screenings in the upstairs back room at Tattooed Mom, one at 5:30pm and one at 10pm. Learn more about the Sticker Movie screenings at Tattooed Mom here.
Some photos from past Characters Welcome shows, as well as sneak peeks from this year’s All Stars edition, can be seen on our Instagram.
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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 »Sticker Movie Screenings at Characters Welcome All Stars
Get your stickers ready for the long-awaited premiere of Sticker Movie in Philadelphia! Art and film lovers will gather for a colorful celebration of sticker culture with movie screenings, vendors, sticker trades, giveaways, and panel discussions with local legends.
Opening night is Saturday, November 9th, at 5:30 pm at the Old Pine Community Center with the official after-party at Tattooed Mom until 2:00 am. On Sunday, November 10th, Tattooed Mom will host two special fundraisers with screenings at 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm. Tickets are available now. Visit stickermovie.com for details.
STICKER MOVIE SCREENINGS @ CHARACTERS WELCOME ALL STARS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH
SCREENINGS @ 5:30PM + 8PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
TICKETS: EVENTBRITE
Follow Sticker Movie & Characters Welcome 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 »