Scribes On South // May 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 Mac Chandler and Kate Carey.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, MAY 26TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Mac Chandler is a graduate of The University of the Arts and is a happy West Philly resident. She has been published in some places and not in others. This August she will begin curating and hosting a new series for Moonstone Arts, titled Premonitions. She writes mainly about mental health and enjoying a good shower beer.

Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard. Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction, she touches on issues relating to trauma, fat liberation, mental illness and sexuality. December 2022’s Hot Poet in the Bullshit Lit x Olney magazine Hot Poets calendar and producer of Philadelphia’s Slutty Poems Night, you can find more about her & her work at https://www.katemcarey.com/ and on instagram @oldbaefries

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.

Scooby Doo: A Live Reading

Now who’s the damsel in distress?

Hop in your mystery machine, grab your scooby snacks, and join Theatre Contra, as we solve the mystery of Spooky Island and perform 2002’s Scooby Doo LIVE! We’re back at Tattooed Mom, so grab a drink, hop in a bumper car, and get ready to fight off some monsters and hormones!

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15th
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | VIP TICKETS: TICKETLEAP

Directed by Abby Weissman

All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat.

Featuring:
TBA

VIP Tickets available in advance. General Admission (PWYC) available at the door.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

• 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 // April 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 reader is Carson Jordan.

Read poems. Kick ass.

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

Carson Jordan is a poet living in Queens. She is the teacher of Sexy Unique Poetry, a workshop that makes poems better through the power of gossip. Her forthcoming full length book, NO MORE BUT I MUST, will be out this summer with Bullshit Lit. She loves finding god in the mundane, free parking, and her crystal candy dish.

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.

The Happening: A Live Reading

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Join Theatre Contra, just in time for Earth Day, as we perform what is arguably the most logical movie to ever exist: M. Night Shymalan’s The Happening! We’re back at Tattooed Mom, so grab a drink, hop in a bumper car and get ready to yell at some plastic plants.

MONDAY, APRIL 22ND
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | VIP TICKETS: TICKETLEAP

Directed by Adam Howard

All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat.

Featuring:
Adam Howard
Katie Frazer
Jenna Kuerzi
John Patouhas
Natajia Sconiers

VIP Tickets available in advance. General Admission (PWYC) available at the door.

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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 // March 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 Brian Graves and Eden Vernier.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, MARCH 31ST
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Prone to writing since childhood, it wasn’t until adulthood that poetry surprisingly became Brian’s medium of choice. Their work focuses on the romances of life, the weight of relationships, endlessly unraveling gender, and living in a body, often expressing these themes through symbols of nature. Brian continuously seeks vulnerability and comfort in their work and hopes that other queer and trans people of color can find that same safety in the writing.

Eden Vernier is. What else is there to say? Her interests include primal rage and the end of all things. Burn it down, baby! Eden Vernier is.

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.

Tales From Letterboxd – A Movie Quizzo Fundraiser

THIS MOVIE SUCKS!

Theatre Contra is hosting their first fundraiser! Join the team behind your favorite irreverent movie readings at your favorite sticker covered bar for an evening of movie trivia, performances, prizes, and more!

In between each round of trivia, we’ll be doing a live reading of some of the weirdest, and wildest movie trailers that have ever existed.

All proceeds go towards producing our upcoming show DARE NIGHT: NATIONAL TREASURE and supporting our work over 2024! This reading of a Nic Cage classic takes our live readings to a new level! Higher production value, bigger space, and YOU are in control – throughout the night you’ll have the opportunity to dare us to do whatever the hell you want.

Over 2024, we are producing 8 live readings and two productions – all of this is not possible without YOUR support. Thank you for joining us!

MONDAY, MARCH 11TH
7-9PM
TIKCETS $20
>> NOTAFLOF <<
RSVP: FB EVENT | TICKETLEAP

More Information:

Must reserve tickets to guarantee a spot.
Max team size of 4.
Buy 4 tickets, get 20% off!
Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams!

Learn more about what we do at theatrecontra.com or on instagram at @theatrecontra

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• 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 // February 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 reader is Parker Sera.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

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 or on insta @parker.sera .

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.

Batman and Robin: A Live Reading

We hate to disappoint you…but our rubber lips are immune to your charms.
This February, join us for an evening of superheroes, sidekicks, ice guns, pheromones, and superfluous nipples! Theatre Contra is taking the script of Batman and Robin (you know…the nipple one), and performing it live!
Directed by John Patouhas
All VIP tickets come with 4 complimentary raffle tickets and a guaranteed optimal view seat. Limited PWYC Tickets available at the door.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH
7-9PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $10 | VIP SEATING $15 | NOTAFLOF
RSVP: FB EVENT | TICKETLEAP

Featuring:
Adam Howard
Brennen Malone
Jo Vito Ramirez
Mariah Ghant
Natajia Sconiers
Zachary Valdez

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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 // January 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 Corey Qureshi and Kat Giordano.

Read poems. Kick ass.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

Corey Qureshi is a writer and musician based in Philadelphia. He wrote and published 3 chapbooks of poetry. He edits and physically produces BOXX Press.

Kat Giordano was born in philadelphia and it’s been downhill ever since. their third poetry collection, THUMBSUCKER, is available for preorder from malarkey books. they are also the author of two other poetry collections, a novel, and several embarrassing internet meltdowns. kat is very cool. you like them.

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.