Turn up the Trans*mission: 1 year anniversary show!!

One year later and still going strong!!!

Combining trans* advocacy with live performance, Turn Up the Trans*mission has featured local and visiting transgender and/or gender non-conforming artists, and strives to introduce new performers to their lineup every show. Burlesque, drag, live-singing, spoken word, and other performance styles…this varied collection of artists has a purpose.

Featuring performances by:
Bugalu Boogie
deadb0y IX
Essa Terick
Genome Kelly
Icon Ebony Fierce
Lady Baphomae
Mercury
Vanity UnFair
WORDZ (Wordz the poet emcee)

Turn up the Trans*mission aims to create a space for trans* identified performers to express their art without fear of prejudice, to create awareness and share their experiences in order to break down barriers of bigotry.

Doors at 7, Show at 8.
Pay-what-you-will admission..100% of this goes to the performers!!

50¢ pierogi until 10pm (they’re VEGAN!!)
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

GLI$TER: a Fringe Arts show

The Hum’n’bards are back for the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival!

This year The Hum’n’bards have adapted the story of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and taken themes from Orwell’s Animal Farm to create a show inspired by Weimar-era cabaret, clowning, and street theatre: GLI$TER.

Join The Banker and his tribe of Sad American Clowns as they weave the story of Shylock, Portia, Antonio, and Bassanio, all struggling to find common ground in a world controlled by judgement and greed. Featuring original music by Anna Michael and Travis Fischbach and performances by Eric Jaffe, Christina Higgins, Anna Michael, Travis Fischbach, Jeremy Adam, Taylor Plunkett-Clements and Lexi Pozonsky, GLI$TER will transport you to a sexy, glitter-fueled world where The Banker always wins.

…but remember to come prepared to tip with small bills, because these clowns work for cash and an empty hat can stop the show!

TWO SHOWS!
Tuesday, September 12th & Sunday, September 17th!!
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm.

Tattooed Momedy

Tattooed Momedy is a free monthly comedy showcase featuring hilarious comedy performers of all types and genres from Philadelphia and across the U.S!

Featuring:
Ian Fidance
Ron Metellus
Tommy Touhill
Betty Smithsonian
Seamus Millar
Amanda Taylor
Chris O’Connor

Special Guest Appearance by: Mistor Farehnheit

Hosted by: Michael Kelly

Be sure to get here early to snag that comfy armchair or rollercoaster car…this event fills up QUICKLY!

NO COVER! $1 tacos! $2.50 Tecates!

It’s Called Self Expression: live readings

Alexandra Naughton is back in Philly for the wedding of her first ex-boyfriend.  Join her, and three other amazingly talented poets and writers, as they attempt to make sense of this thing called Being-An-Adult through live readings of their work.  One night only!

50¢ pierogi until 10pm
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Shy Watson is a poet, bartender, & painter currently living in Philadelphia. She is the author of AWAY STATUS (Bottlecap Press 2016) & my parents were going to give me your name if i was born a boy (Bottlecap Press 2017).

Amy Saul-Zerby is a Philadelphia-based poet. Her first collection, Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds, was published by Be About It Press in 2017. Her writing has also appeared in TheNewerYork, Painted Bride Quarterly, Spy Kids Review, and The YOLO Pages, and she is managing editor of the spoken word-based publication Voicemail Poems & multimedia editor of APIARY Magazine.

Alexandra Naughton is turning 32 this year and doesn’t believe she will ever settle down or be a homeowner. Regardless, she is living her best literary life and wants to share some work with you. You should humor her.

P.E. Garcia is an editor-at-large at the Rumpus and a contributor to HTMLGiant. They have a good dog.

SoLow Fest launch party

This is the official launch party for the 8th annual SoLow Fest!  As a do-it yourself theatre festival, SoLow Fest is dedicated to new, experimental work focusing on solo performance with low-maintenance and low-stress.  This year it runs from June 15-25.

Preview some sneak peaks of the performances in the festival, then grab a cold beer and mingle with the performers.

7PM- Hangouts! Bring your postcards (or your buttons or your post-its) with info written on them, and lets all trade.
8PM- Show Sneak Peaks!—- previews of works that are in SoLow Fest!!
9PM-Hangouts continued- get to know each other, and get ready for another great festival!!

Featuring performances by:
Carlos Roa
Steve Gravelle
Jimmy Grezlak
Lilian Ransijn
Kennedy Candra
Jess Conda
Kyra Baker
Tiffany Bunch

$4 Hamburgers & Vegan Burgers until midnight (try our Burger of the Month!)
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Gurl, WHAT?!

Find out what happens when VinChelle (the host of Funny Gals) and Michael Kelly (the Tattooed Momedy host) learn that their planned combined show of hilarious drag and stand-up performers is expected to be something completely different. It’s going to be a WHOLE THING.

NO COVER! $1 bean or beef tacos! $2.50 tecates!

Featuring the ladies of Funny Gals:
Bev
Sutton Fearce
Astala Vista

And, Philly’s favorite stand-up and sketch performers:
Alejandro Morales
Dan Vetrano
Molly Hanulec
Stephen Michael Quick
Sister Profit Halle LuJah & Brother Jazz

Tattooed Momedy

Tattooed Momedy is a free monthly comedy showcase featuring hilarious comedy performers of all types and genres from Philadelphia and across the U.S.  

Featuring:
Keith From Up Da Block
Max Barth
Kate Banford
Mike Brooks
Domo Jones
Brian Finnell
Marlenas McMahon-Purk

Special Guest Performance by: Bully! (Libby Reindell & Quinton J. Alexander)

Hosted by Michael Kelly

$1 all beef or veggie bean tacos (until we run out!)
$2.50 Tecates all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm

Tire Fire Presents: Solomon, Myers, Arrand & Castillo

This is the LAST TIRE FIRE….until September.

Come celebrate with them on a rare burger Wednesday with readings from:

Like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Asali Solomon was West Philadelphia born and raised, but left the area for twenty years after high school. She attended college at Barnard College in New York, received a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley and an MFA in Fiction at the University of Iowa. She’s the author of Get Down (FSG, 2006) and Disgruntled (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), and an assistant professor of English at Haverford College.

Gina Myers is the author of A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013). Her essays and reviews have appeared in Fanzine, Frontier Psychiatrist, Coldfront Magazine, Philadelphia Review of Books, and other places. Originally from Saginaw, Michigan, Myers lives in Philadelphia.

Colette Arrand is a student at the University of Georgia, studying English Literature. She is the author of Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon (Opo Books & Objects, 2017). She is the founding editor of The Wanderer and the non-fiction editor of Heavy Feather Review. She currently lives in Athens, GA, where she runs Fear of a Ghost Planet, a zine press and distro.

Sebastian Castillo is the author of 49 Venezuelan Novels. He lives in Philadelphia, where he teaches writing. He asks that his friends and family put a video of Cam’ron counting a stack of money while freestyling on a 2003 episode of BET’s The Basement on his grave, somehow.

This month, they’ll be raising money for the Women’s Law Project, “the only public interest law center in Pennsylvania devoted to the rights of women and girls. We are a leading voice in the fight for equal access to reproductive healthcare and abortion, improving institutional response to all forms of violence against women, challenging sex & gender discrimination, and advocating for workplace equality and economic justice. We’re proud to be a state-based organization with a significant track record of national influence, and an extensive track record of legal precedents and policy reforms that advance the rights of women and their families—particularly those with few resources and little political power.”

Doors at 7, reading around 8.

$4 Hamburgers & Vegan Burgers until midnight
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys all day
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm