From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.
The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.
Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.
The weather can be deceiving, but we’re counting down to Summer ’18 with another Philly Vegan Pop Flea market at Tattooed Mom! Get the chance to meet with representatives from our featured impacted organizations, Sea Shepherd Philadelphia & Food Empowerment Project, and snag some cute vegan products at the same time!
MACHO GOAT is in production of its first full length feature film which will be released for the Digital Fringe this September. Be apart of history and come to our reading which is open to the public. The show is completely free and there will be a discussion after.
A computer is infected and is implementing a protocol to find the virus to destroy it. The protocol travels through different programs which embody themselves as all aspects of humanity. Everything from a detective 40’s Noer to a viking revenge story is experienced in this digital Greek epic. What does it mean to be human? Why are we here? These are a few of the questions explored in this piece.
Doors 7pm
Reading 8pm
Discussion 9-10pm
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Jeremy M. Brownlowe travels the country under the moniker “Typewriter Troubadour,” composing original pieces of poetry on a manual typewriter for curious pedestrians. This event marks the release of his debut, Angels of the Underground, a collection of rich, raw, and tender poems from an explorer navigating new frontiers of gender identity, sexuality, and human relationship.
Set in New York City, Angels offers Brownlowe’s unique perspective as a trans guy through unflinching portraits of male vulnerability, queerness, addiction, lost love, and modern alienation. With humor, grit, and ease, Brownlowe weaves stories of the neglected subjects of the City, taking notes in poems, which he offers up to us in this compelling collection.
You Can’t Fail is an evening of new works, including visual art, photography, theater, dance, performance art, comedy, story-telling, poetry, prose, sculpture, ballet, film, and stand-up. ANY and ALL art will be presented.
Featuring new works by:
Rebecca Love
Christina Rosso
Benjamin Kunkle
Andy Futuro
Rachel O’Hanlon Rodriguez
Mykal Carter Jackson
Lora Bloom
Joey Adams
Josh Millhouse
Harlee Trautman & Mary-Carmen
Simone Crew
Steve Course
Chelsea Murphy
Joe Ovelman
Hallie Rumsey-Lasersohn & Soraya Perry
Kris Raghavan
Jesse Rosse
Virginia Smith
Jean Marie-Tomlin
Melissa Morales
Amanda Jensen
Bethanne Frazer
Qori Moorehaul
Andru Rogge
Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
Half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
& check out May’s Burger of the Month, DUDES: friend green tomato, crisp red cabbage & apple slaw, and smokey red pepper mayo
Join the Facebook Event and invite your favorite art-lovers and artist friends!
Former Queerspace producer Samantha Genesis is back with a new show: FUSION! We’re bringing all performance styles together in a community variety show for LGBTQIA+ empowerment, benefiting The Attic Youth Center!
No cover, but donations taken at the door for The Attic Youth Center.
Shy Watson is stopping by for a reading of her new book, Cheap Yellow! She will be joined by other local poets & will have copies of the book available for sale!
Shy’s poems are abruptly smart, a little violent, devious and ongoing, legendary, mythic, not prosey though a little like the voice of god if god decided to speak more collectively for a while. Shy’s poems to me are so so worth it. And they are crafty – also like god. —Eileen Myles, author of Afterglow
Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
Half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
& check out May’s Burger of the Month, DUDES: friend green tomato, crisp red cabbage & apple slaw, and smokey red pepper mayo
We’re honored to be featured in the latest installment of Opaque Philly’s series of videos highlighting our city’s creators. Opaque’s passionate talent & vision for this project captured the heart and soul Tattooed Mom. Their support of the local creative community and focus on celebrating self expression in it’s many forms comes through in every frame. We’re excited to share “A Canvas for a Community” with you and hope you’ll take a few minutes to see and hear what TMoms founder Robert & featured artist Bear 215 have to share about their love for Tattooed Mom & the worldwide family we’re so lucky to be with on this journey.
The Last Emperor of Mexico | Written & performed by Chris Davis | Directed by Mary Tuomanen
Maximilian I has recently been declared the Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon III, but his administration soon comes under attack by the revolutionary Benito Juarez. Maximilian is confronted with a great dilemma – to shave his beard or die by firing squad. Find out what happens in this one-man show noted as “hilarious,” by Broad St. Review, with “a strikingly original writer and performer,” The Scotsman.
“If you’re into the kind of theatre where you are also an actor, possibly without you knowing it, and with stunned drunk Brit girls trying to act and succeeding, then I am not even sure why I am mentioning this. Just check it out!” – some dude from Edinburgh Fringe
Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
Half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
& check out May’s Taco of the Month, The Festro: braised black pepper beef, roast garlic & avocado cream, topped with house pickled radish slaw
Riot Nerd returns to Tattooed Mom with the spirit of the Star Man in tow. Put your space face close to ours with over a dozen local vendors selling inspired handmade items. Don’t miss this one-time-only Space Oddity.
