“Summonings” Launch Party

Join local poet Raena Shirali and friends to celebrate the launch of summonings with a night of poetry and art at Tattooed Mom, presented by Black Lawrence Press!

summonings investigates the ongoing practice of witch (“daayan”) hunting in India. These poems explore how antiquated and existing norms surrounding female mysticism in India and America inform each culture’s treatment of women, concepts that will be in conversation with the rest of the work from this incredible lineup of compelling Philadelphia poets.

In addition to readings from this collection and the work of Emma Brown Sanders, Cindy Arrieu-King, Kathy Fagan, Kim Gek Lin Short, and Alina Pleskova, the night will feature paintings by Brooklyn based artist Meera Dugal. All together, it will be a night of delicious drinks, tasty bites, and riveting art at a Philadelphia institution.

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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Lineup:
Raena Shirali
Ebs Brown Sanders
Kim Gek Lin Short
Cindy Arrieu-King
Alina Pleskova

With artwork by Meera Dugal

 

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.

Hocus Pocus: A Very Spooky Live Reading

SISTAAAHHHSSS. Join us on October 30th at 3pm and 7pm for not one, but TWO showings of a very spooky live reading of everyone’s favorite witchy movie: Hocus Pocus~~

A critical bomb that turned into a cult classic, you better be ready for one hell of a spell.

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30TH
TWO PERFORMANCES: 3PM & 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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Directed by Bryant Edwards

Featuring:
Mariah Ghant
Brennen Malone
Katie Frazer
Leslie Miller
Adam Howard
Liz Crino
and more!

 

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.

Tire Fire Presents: Difrancesco, Longmire, & VandeZande

WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER TIRE FIRE! We know, we know, it’s been too long since you plopped down in a bumper car at Tattooed Mom and ate tots at one of your favorite writers. Why not remedy that by joining us on a rare Monday night for readings from local treasure WARREN C. LONGMIRE, visiting favorite ZACH VANDEZANDE, and, brand new to Philly, the great ALEX DIFRANCESCO!

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24TH
DOORS @ 6:30PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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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.

“Under Their Thumb” Author Talk & Book Signing

Author and Rolling Stones insider Bill German will join us Upstairs at TMoms to discuss his ups and downs with “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world”!

 

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH
2-5PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

His book, Under Their Thumb, chronicles his unlikely friendship with the Stones (forged when he was just a teenager) and how he was hired as the band’s official historian. He traveled the world with them, stayed at their homes, and witnessed their private jam sessions, decadent parties, and vicious in-fights. He’ll share his fascinating and humorous stories with us on Saturday, September 24th, at 2pm, followed by a book signing.

 

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.

Bring It On: A Live Reading

Brrr….It’s cold in here. There must be some Contra in the atmosphere.
That’s right, we’re ready to BRING IT ON. Hope you’re ready too.
Join us on Sunday, August 21 at 7:00pm for a very special reading of the 2000 award winning cheer battle royale, Bring it On!

 

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21ST
7-9PM
$10 SUGGESTED DONATION // NOTAFLOF
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Directed by Natajia Sconiers and Mariah Ghant

Featuring:
Mariah Ghant
Natajia Sconiers
Lauryn Morgan Thomas
Ciera Gardner
John Patouhas
Adam Howard
Anna Lieberman

 

 

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.

?th Annual Rock and Roll Reading: AWP Offsite Event

A dozen or so writers from across the country read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its precursors or offshoots). Each writer reads for just the length of a song.

 

Saturday, March 26th
3-5pm
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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Featuring:
Nicky Beer
Kira Bell
Chelsea Biondolillo
Jenny May Brown
Aaron Burch
Blake Chernin
Celeste Doaks
Charlie J. Eskew
Jaime Fountaine
Megan Culhane Galbraith
Aubrey Hirsch
Dave Housley
Caroline Kim
Natalie Lima

 

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.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

TriQuarterly & Southeast Review: AWP Offsite Reading

Join us for a night of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction readings presented by TriQuarterly and Southeast Review! Recent contributors will share their work, and copies of the journals where their work was published will be available for purchase!

 

Thursday, March 24th
10-11:30pm
NO COVER // FREE FUN
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Featuring:
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Allegra Hyde
K. Iver
Nadia Shahbaz
Wilhelm Sitz
Stella Wong

 

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.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

Tire Fire & Mason Jar Press Present: AWP Offsite Reading

TIRE FIRE in conjunction with our dear friends MASON JAR PRESS presents our first reading in TWO YEARS, which just so happens to coincide with AWP. How convenient! TIRE FIRE is finally back home, upstairs at beautiful Tattooed Moms, with four incredible readers!

 

Thursday, March 24th
8-10pm
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.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

 

READERS:

SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the story collections JERKS (Mason Jar Press, 2022) and Doll Palace (Dock Street Press), long-listed for the 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She was awarded an artist’s fellowship in fiction from New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Millions, Fourth Genre, Slice Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Diagram, Squalorly and elsewhere. She’s landed on Wigleaf’s Top 50, and her stories have been anthologized in Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting (San Diego City Works Press) and forthcoming in New Voices: Contemporary Voices Confronting the Holocaust (Blue Lyra Press) and Best Small Fictions 2020 (Sonder Press). Raised outside of Philadelphia, she teaches in Brooklyn where she lives with her family and co-hosts the Sunday Salon NYC. Find her on Twitter: @saralippmann.

 

MIKE INGRAM’s stories and essays have appeared in publications including The North American Review, The Smart Set, EPOCH, and Medium’s Human Parts. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is an associate professor in the English department at Temple University, and co-host of the Book Fight podcast. He’s also a founding editor of Barrelhouse Magazine, and currently serves as its books editor. He usually co-hosts Tire Fire, but he’s got a BOOK OUT, Notes From the Road (Awst 2022), and we wanted to show him off. You can find him on Instagram and/or Twitter: @mikeingram00@mikeingram00.

 

CHRISTOPHER GONZALEZ is the author of I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT (SFWP, 2021) and a co-fiction editor of Barrelhouse Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Split Lip, Cosmonauts Avenue, Best Small Fictions, Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, and elsewhere. Raised in Cleveland, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his waking hours tweeting about Oscar Isaac, book publishing, trash television, and Popeyes’ Spicy Chicken Sandwich. You can find him on Instagram and/or Twitter: @livesinpages / @livesinpages.

 

MONICA PRINCE teaches activist and performance writing at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem ([PANK], 2020), Instructions for Temporary Survival (Red Mountain Press, 2019), and Letters from the Other Woman (Grey Book Press, 2018). She is the managing editor of the SFWP Quarterly, and the co-author of the suffrage play, Pageant of Agitating Women, with Anna Andes. Her work appears in Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. You can find her on Instagram and/or Twitter: @poetic_moni@poetic_moni.

 

Since we know traveling to Philadelphia and buying a million new books (and don’t even get us started on actually registering for a conference!) is costly, instead of taking up our usual collection, we encourage you to donate a few spare bucks or a hand to your local mutual aid groups when you’re able.

Spalding MFA Reunion and Reading: AWP Offsite Event

Are you a Spalding alum? A friend of the program? Or just Spalding-curious? Join us for an open mic with slots reserved specifically for Spalding folks! Don’t forget to bring something short to read (two poems, five minutes of prose…)!

 

Thursday, March 24th
6-7:30pm
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.
Note: At this time, proof of vaccination is also required for entry.

Twilight: New Moon // A Live Reading!

Love. Passion. Werewolves. Vampires. Dakota Fanning. Join us as Theatre Contra brings to life one of the greatest love stories of all (& as Bella struggles to decide between Team Edward and Team Jacob)!

Join Theatre Contra at Tattooed Mom for the sequel to the greatest love story of all time. Proudly part of Philadelphia Theatre Week!

$10 Suggested Donation
All proceeds benefit Theatre Contra’s 2019/20 season
21+ w/ valid ID!

Directed by Ryann Carey*

Featuring:
Alex Dittmar*
Emily Fernandez
Ezra Ali-Dow
Katie Frazer
Mariah Ghant
Tara Bankard*

*Denotes Member of Theatre Contra

Please Note: Seating is limited and is on a first come, first served basis. This is a 21+ event. ID is checked at the door. The reading is, regrettably, not wheelchair accessible.

Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm

Join the Facebook Event and invite all your lion & lamb friends!