Focusing on the various ways Chicago’s Black social communities “show up” for other each through parties, gatherings, and mutual aid social networks.

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Get ready for an electrifying gathering that's bound to ignite your creative spark! Calling all innovators, dancers, students, community-driven problem solvers, activists, and anyone craving a revitalizing burst of creativity – this is the event you've been waiting for!

Get ready for an electrifying gathering that's bound to ignite your creative spark! Calling all innovators, dancers, students, community-driven problem solvers, activists, and anyone craving a revitalizing burst of creativity – this is the event you've been waiting for!

We are excited to announce that Honey Pot Performance is officially in residence at First Church of the Brethren on Chicago’s West side! Please join us at our Open House, on Saturday, April 13th. Enjoy a tour of our office and Creative Design Lab spaces, while taking a peek at archives of past performances and events.

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

Save the Date for Ladies Ring Shout 2.0!

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining, features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who have worked in collaboration with HPP, to devise a new iteration of the work. Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 focuses on themes critical to Black women and femmes' lives such as representation, love and relationships, scars/trauma, work-life balance, quality of life, nurturing and parenting, spirituality, healing, and defining our communities of care. Creative writing and embodied exercises are supplemented with experiments in other artistic mediums including collective play with still image, video, audio and reading excerpts from the work of relevant BIPOC women writers and poets. This work is in partnership with First Church of the Brethren. Tickets can be purchased at https://givebutter.com/LRS2023. The ticket price is pay-what-you-can. Select "Register" to select tickets and/or make a donation using a credit card, PayPal or Venmo. Alternatively, you can pay here directly on our website, or use the Cash App. 

*Adult themes and explicit language

*Brief intermission with concessions for purchase

This exhibition of three artists is an archival survey of dance culture and nightlife in Chicago, and created in collaboration with the Chicago Black Social Culture Map.

This exhibition of three artists is an archival survey of dance culture and nightlife in Chicago, and created in collaboration with the Chicago Black Social Culture Map.

This exhibition of three artists is an archival survey of dance culture and nightlife in Chicago, and created in collaboration with the Chicago Black Social Culture Map.

This exhibition of three artists is an archival survey of dance culture and nightlife in Chicago, and created in collaboration with the Chicago Black Social Culture Map.

Ladies Ring Shout 2.0 is a Black feminist quality-of-life performance project, first created and performed in 2011. This restaging/reimagining features HPP’s artistic core alongside an intergenerational community cast of Black women/femmes who will help devise a new iteration of the work.