Scribes on South // November 2024

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. This special edition Halloween open mic invites readers to join us for an evening of spooky stories, ghosts, and more. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Follow @scribesonsouth 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.

Scribes on South // October 2024

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Follow @scribesonsouth on 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.

Bell Crash Collective Presents: Monster Cereal Art Show 10

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25TH
7-11PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Artists:
@allison.kathleen.knight
@alyssadahliacreations
@citylinear
@bobbytrefztattoo
@vampirevampireboy
@drewnofun
@getupart
@ghost_etching
@transient_visions
@theesaintjawn
@snapkrackerart
@wavybaby215
@yanxartx

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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.

Eugene Rideher Presents KING/DOM: A Kings, Queens, and Things Show // October 2024

King/Dom is a pleasure and play based drag show hosted by Oktober Third and produced by Eugene Rideher Betta. With a cast including some of the region’s hottest drag kings, queens, and things, King/Dom is celebrating a whole year of debauchery at T’Moms! Pull thru for demon time 😈

MONDAY, OCTOBER 7TH
DOORS @ 7PM + SHOW @ 8PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | NOTAFLOF

Lineup:
oktober third
eugene rideher betta
miss acid reflux
papi javi

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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.

Scribes on South // September 2024

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. The reading begins with a 20-minute featured reader and then moves through the open mic list for the rest of the night. Open mic readers have 5 minutes. There will be a space for poets to sell books.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

This reading’s featured readers are @josephreubenfuller and @kirwynsutherland.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Follow @scribesonsouth on 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.

Legendary Pop Up Shop

This event is brought to you by THE WOLFP4CK & JuicyGoth. The event will feature multiple fashion brands, jewelry, photography, nail care && many more! The Legendary Pop up Shop was created to give highlight to the fashion brands and photographers that have been featured throughout different Wolfpack productions. We are very excited to highlight brands such as JuicyGoth, NiyroPlanet, F.I.M.F && many more! So come out and catch some of the energy that only the pack can bring you!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH
5-11PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: FB EVENT

Artists:
@FIMF
@STREETSNEEDTHAT
@90215RAF
@DRASTIC.VISUALS
@SUNYSVISION
@RYANSTRONGART
@NOTABADLIFEEE
@QUEERCANDLECO
@GIRAHS_
@NIYROPLANET
@JUICYGOTH
@DEVELOPFROM_THENEGATIVE
@NICKSEYEPHOTOGRAPHY
@COSMICSCORPIOS
@KACIDILLA_NAILS
@4THANDWALNUT
@MMEFAITHHAIKU

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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.

Scribes on South // July 2024

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

This reading’s featured readers are Ted Rees and Z Murphy! Hosted by Mac Chandler.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, JULY 28TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Ted Rees is a poet, essayist, and editor living and working in Philadelphia. His most recent book, Hand Me the Limits, was released in April by Roof Books. He is also the author of Dog Day Economy (Roof Books, 2022), Thanksgiving: a Poem (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Golias Books, 2020), and In Brazen Fontanelle Aflame (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018). His essays have been published in The Back Room, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk, Full Stop Quarterly, and ON Contemporary Practice’s monograph on New Narrative. He is Associate Editor for The Elephants, as well as founder and co-editor of Asterion Projects with Levi Bentley.

Z Murphy, also known as the drag entertainer The ZanyThing, is a queer multiracial multimedia storyteller who did this silly goofy thing where she, like, lived with nazis for 5 months and then wrote a poetry collection about it. “Homegirl” first drafts are available for sale. She currently writes for an online magazine and is looking for work 👀👀 Follow their artistic journey @thezanything

Follow @scribesonsouth on 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.

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.

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:

• 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.