Beehive Design Collective

03/25/2026

Now booking Great Lakes area for summer dates, Las Vegas for May, and the Pacific Northwest for April. And we have bees permanently in Oakland, so we are always booking events in the Bay.

03/21/2026

12/16/2025

We are looking for dates this Valentines! Tour dates that is…😉😘 Book a date with us in California this Feb 13 to 22! Whether it’s large public events or private gatherings: we want to connect with you! Pitch us your ideas to have us bring our art and storytelling to your school, community space, non-profit, gallery, etc. ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️

12/03/2025

We are tabling or presenting at two events this weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area. Come find us!

09/19/2025

Metro Vancouver friends! We are doing an event on Monday in Burnaby with the wonderful folks at Come learn how to use our graphics in the education work you do. All are welcome!

09/19/2025

Vancouver Island and PNW friends! Hope to see some of you at this event over the weekend in Victoria. We will have our giant murals on display and lots of prints! ❤️

09/10/2025

Another bee is heading to Europe this Fall!
Our Colombian bee is headed to Europe this Fall, and has some dates open if folks want to help host.
Here is the draft itinerary:
2-5 Oct: Brussels (at Eukairos: eukairos.copyright.rip)
14-18 Oct: Antwerpen (Help us book)
20-21 Oct: Amsterdam (Help us book)
23-26 Oct: Belgium (booked)
30 Oct – 4 Nov: Osserein -rivareyte (Help us book)
5-7 Nov: Basque Country (workshop in development)
8-10 Nov: Barcelona (Help us book)
12-14 Nov: Madrid (Help us book)
15-26 Nov: Spain and Portugal (Help us book)

If you know of a venue/group/school in these locations that may want to host a Beehive Collective workshop, please let us know! The bee is fluent in Spanish and English.

08/30/2025

Sadly, we are missing the next weekend for the first time in many years, but come visit us at Labour Day celebrations in Peace & Friendship park!
Meet at 11 am at the Nova Scotia Labour Board (1601 Lower Water Street)
There will be some short speeches and we will then March to Peace and Friendship Park for entertainment, food and drink, face painting, bouncy castle and more!

06/28/2025

Public Citizen recently launched a new report produced in collaboration with the National Partnership for New Americans called Exporting Instability, Importing Exploitation: The Impacts of U.S. Trade Policy on Migration in Latin America. (Report linked in bio)
Here, we share excerpts of the report coupled with crops from our MesoAmérica Resiste poster. During our research trip for this graphic campaign, we heard many variations of the same stories of displacement.
In one slide, the beehive is meant to represent collectively held lands. In Mexico they were called Ejidos, and they were a gain from the Mexican revolution. The ejidos were plots of land to communities to held in common, so that no matter what happened to the economy people would not starve, as they would always have land to grow food on. But, NAFTA, or the North American free trade agreement, forced a change to the constitution of Mexico to allow for the subdivision of the ejidos. So, here, farmer bee gets a deed to their very own hexagon of land, and with that deed gets a loan from the bank. There they proudly farm their own private land. But the fruit of their labour can’t compete with subsidized imports coming
in from the US. The truck with an American flag on it is doing what is called “grain dumping”, or
selling grain – in this case GMO corn– at below market value because the farmer that grew it received free money from the government in the form of subsidies. Farmer bee can’t compete with grain that is sold below cost, so they are forced to sell their land and go into migration, where they either end up migrating to a city to work in a sweatshop, or they migrate north to work on other people’s farms in the US and Canada under highly exploitative migrant worker programs or precariously as “illegals”. Now, this serger machine is sewing barbed wire onto all of the newly privatised and now consolidated land, which is used for cash crops like bananas, coffee, palm plantations and livestock. And through it all, a mega highway to deliver these goods for export to international markets.

In another slide, a Trojan horse with logos of various energy and agriculture companies represents the false promise of biofuels. Out of their chute, grains of corn morph into “corniquistadores”, three of which represent the problems with this so-called “green energy”. The syringe represents genetic contamination, the chainsaw represents deforestation, and the gas pump held up to the ant grinding corn represents the “food versus fuel” dynamic, or the pressure that agri-fuels put on the lands that could be used to grow food for local sustenance.

05/29/2025

We are headed to Europe this August and are booking a small tour with limited dates (Aug 14-25). Want to host a beehive collective event in your community? Know any festivals, convergences, conferences, or other gatherings happenings during that window? Get in touch!

03/04/2025

Our Colombian bee is raising funds for a traditional Wayuu tattoo gathering to revitalize this cultural practice.
“The Asho'ojushi is not simply a form of art; it is an expression of Wayuu identity, a bridge between the past and the present. It is a practice that embodies profound values and beliefs. Each Wayuu tattoo is a story, a symbol of resistance, and a spiritual connection.

Join us in the mission to revitalize traditional Wayuu tattooing, a practice that has been a symbol of our identity and spirituality for centuries. With your support, we can organize the "1st International Gathering of Indigenous Tattoos and Ancestral Markings," a historic event that will unite artists and knowledge keepers from around the world.

Make your donation today and be a part of this mission of cultural preservation. Together, we can ensure that the legacy of the Asho'ojushi lives on for future generations!”

Visit our campaign at Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/tatuadoespinas/x/38429580 #/