Honey Pot Performance

Honey Pot Performance Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative committed to interrogating and chronicling modern Afro-diasporic feminist and fringe subjectivities

Thank you to Newcity Stage for this beautiful feature on Honey Pot Performance’s Pleasure Power Portal! Penned by Sharon...
10/14/2026

Thank you to Newcity Stage for this beautiful feature on Honey Pot Performance’s Pleasure Power Portal! Penned by Sharon Hoye, this thoughtful deep dive explores the stories, people, and community connections that have shaped the project, leading up to this weekend’s culminating Pre Fixe Performance.

Featuring photography by Tonal Simmons, the article explores how community stories, shared memories, and Black social dance come together to illuminate the power of pleasure, joy, and connection, even in difficult times.

Read the full piece at the link below, then join us October 17–25 for The Pre Fixe Performance!

https://www.newcitystage.com/2026/10/14/honey-pot-performance-explores-the-power-of-pleasure-with-pre-fixe/

The Aperitif happens this weekend. There, you’ll find Fenix Divine guiding the realm Attunement.In Attunement you’ll fin...
10/01/2026

The Aperitif happens this weekend. There, you’ll find Fenix Divine guiding the realm Attunement.

In Attunement you’ll find an immersive musical narrative that blurs the line between performance and ritual, inviting listeners into a space of reflection, connection, and transformation through story and song.

A Chicago-based storyteller, song catcher, and multi-instrumentalist, Fenix Divine’s work weaves together sound, spirit, and lived experience.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

The Aperitif happens this weekend. There, you’ll find Kay Black of Haus of Blaque guiding the realm Sensorium.In Sensori...
10/01/2026

The Aperitif happens this weekend. There, you’ll find Kay Black of Haus of Blaque guiding the realm Sensorium.

In Sensorium, curated rope bo***ge experiences conjoin with impact and spanking play. Guests can step into a brief, consent-centered rope experience or explore negotiated spanking and impact play, with each interaction shaped around your comfort, curiosity, boundaries, and desired intensity.

Kay Black is a Chicago-based rope artist, kink practitioner, sexuality educator, intimacy coach and pleasure activist drawn to the delicious space between anticipation and surrender. Through intentional consensual exchange, they create experiences that play with tension, sensation, trust, and desire.

Kay’s work invites you to slow down, lean in, and discover what becomes possible when pleasure, curiosity, and consent take the lead.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

October 3rd and 4th, find Grace Sarkor at The Aperitif guiding the realm Power in Numbers.At Power in Numbers guests wil...
10/01/2026

October 3rd and 4th, find Grace Sarkor at The Aperitif guiding the realm Power in Numbers.

At Power in Numbers guests will calculate their Life Path number and receive a number card to help explore what it means. You can engage with it on your own, get a mini reading, or use guided prompts to reflect on your number and spark conversation and connection with others in the space.

Grace Sarkor is the founder of Everyday Numbers, a modern numerology practice that
makes numerology feel approachable and easy to understand. Through readings,
workshops and events, she helps people learn more about the numbers connected to their names and birthdays and what they can reveal about who they are.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

October 3rd and 4th, find Najee-Zaid Searcy at The Aperitif guiding the realm Intentional Art.In this realm, we’ll be ga...
10/01/2026

October 3rd and 4th, find Najee-Zaid Searcy at The Aperitif guiding the realm Intentional Art.

In this realm, we’ll be gathering herbs and discussing the release of blockages to pleasure through a spiritual lens. This is the season to let go and let have!

Up to three selected guests will be invited into personalized time with Najee-Zaid to explore the ways we might move through what keeps us from pleasure.

An interdisciplinary artist, Najee-Zaid uses music, space making, performance and the senses to build healing environments for those with generational strongholds and those of diaspora.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

This weekend at The Aperitif, Zahra Baker & Jay Williams will invite us into their shared realm, The Velvet Griot: Sensu...
09/29/2026

This weekend at The Aperitif, Zahra Baker & Jay Williams will invite us into their shared realm, The Velvet Griot: Sensuations.

“Sensuations” is a realm where participants can delve into their erotic fantasies through storytelling and poetry. This safe and supportive environment encourages personal exploration and creative expression.

Zahra is an interdisciplinary artist whose roots in Louisiana and extensive experience in Chicago have shaped her career as a vocalist, storyteller, ritualist, textile artist and teaching artist.

Jay is a Black q***r poet, creative, lover, fighter, and friend. Their work is rooted in the beauty, complexity, and power of living fully. They bring passion, fire, and feeling into everything they create.

At The Aperitif, Zahra & Jay will come together to steward us into the portal.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

The Aperitif is this weekend and Honey Mojo will be bringing a slow, sultry burlesque performance to it.As one of our Re...
09/29/2026

The Aperitif is this weekend and Honey Mojo will be bringing a slow, sultry burlesque performance to it.

As one of our Realm Guides, Honey Mojo will invite us into the spirit of pleasure, play, and intimacy through performance. Expect a sensual, participatory experience that unfolds throughout the afternoon, inviting you to engage and surrender to the moment.

A Chicago-based artist, producer, and curator, Honey Mojo works across performance, sound, film, poetry, and theater. Her practice explores Blackness, intergenerational trauma and gifts, family archives, and mental health, weaving recordings, writing, and Black Southern culture into work that makes space for grief, isolation, hope, and connection.

At The Aperitif, she brings another dimension into the Pleasure Power Portal rooted in movement, sensuality, and play.

Tickets: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

The Pleasure Power Portal unfolds across three distinct experiences, each offering a different way to explore what pleas...
09/10/2026

The Pleasure Power Portal unfolds across three distinct experiences, each offering a different way to explore what pleasure looks, sounds, feels, and moves like in community.

Our sliding-scale ticket model allows you to choose what you can contribute. Every ticket tier offers the same experience, while higher-priced tickets help keep HPP programming accessible for our community.

Choose from Student/Community, Sustainer, or Supporter tickets, or purchase a package that includes all three experiences. An Early Bird Ticket Package is available now until 9/14.

Find tickets at: https://givebutter.com/pleasure_power_portal

Juneteenth is tomorrow.Celebrate with us at our 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration as we honor Black innovation, self-det...
06/18/2026

Juneteenth is tomorrow.

Celebrate with us at our 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration as we honor Black innovation, self-determination, resilience, and pleasure in community.

Be sure to stop by The Doctors exhibition for a guided tour led by our Archiving Manager Micah Smith and learn more about the legacy and impact of this groundbreaking Chicago dance crew.

We'll also be serving free food from Soul & Smoke and sweet treats from Ms. Tittle's Cupcakes while supplies last.

Bring your people and join us for a day of celebration, reflection, and joy. See you tomorrow.

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