Honey Pot Performance is a creative collaborative chronicling Afro-feminist and Black diasporic subjectivities amidst the pressures of contemporary global life.

Honey Pot Performance enlists modes of creative expressivity to examine the nuances of human relationships including the ways we negotiate identity, belonging and difference in our lives and cultural memberships. Dismantling the vestiges of oppressive social relationships is part of the work. Through critical performance, public humanities programming, and deep community engagement, we emphasize everyday ways of valuing the human.

Following in the footsteps of cultural workers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Beryl McBurnie, Pearl Primus and Katherine Dunham, Honey Pot Performance forefronts African diasporic performance traditions. We draw upon a central notion found in performance studies, black feminist discourse and sociology: non-Western, everyday popular and/or folk forms of cultural performance are valuable sites of knowledge production and cultural capital for subjectivities that often exist outside of mainstream communities.

Core Team


Staff - Coordinators

Adrian Bates-Smith Production Coordinator
Ruby Simmons Hospitality & Merch Coordinator
Jennifer Ligaya Education Coordinator
Keyierra Collins Program Coordinator
DaJona Butler Marketing & Communications Coordinator

AV Documentors

Kendall McConico

Video Documentation

Board Members

Himabindu (Bindu) Poroori

Ayinde Jean-Baptiste "sko"

Meida McNeal

Aisha Jean-Baptiste

Kimeco Roberson

Jo de Presser (Marlon Billups)


DONATE TO HONEY POT PERFORMANCE

Your contributions help support critical everyday organizational needs including rehearsal space, marketing, production expenses and other operational needs needed to produce our jam packed year full of performances, workshops, critical publications and a new digital mapping initiative!