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.
On the Radio, Radio, Radio: Local Radio Stations & the Rise of House Music
Aplomb Creative Salon
1010 W 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60609
Join us as we discuss, reflect, and archive historic Chicago radio artifacts symbolic of the impact of college radio, local stations, and Herb Kent's Punk Out platform on the development House Music and Culture here in Chicago.
The event includes two panel discussions and a day of archiving where we will be digitizing your nightlife items including photos, flyers, fashion, recorded mixes (we can digitize tape!), and short oral histories to add to the growing CBSCM map. In return, we will give you a thumb drive of the digital copies!
Interested in adding to the archive? Please complete our form to make an onsite appointment here.
All day archiving, and always FREE! Reserve your entry ticket today! REGISTER HERE.
(Virtual Event)
Coinciding with the career survey exhibition Gary Simmons: Public Enemy, a series of MCA programs activates Gary Simmons’s sculptural installation work, Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark. Inspired by the Black Ark—Lee “Scratch” Perry’s famous recording studio in Kingston, Jamaica, where he pioneered dub reggae—Simmons’s sculptural installation serves as a flexible stage for conversations, music, and performance.
For this day-long celebration of Chicago’s social dance history, the piece is being temporarily installed under the glittering chandelier of the South Shore Cultural Center Dining Room to commemorate the importance of the neighborhood and the history of Black social culture in Chicago.
2-3pm: Performance – Shiny Stockings with Cristin Carole Whitney Young High School Dancers
3:30-4pm: Performance – Benji Hart, Dancer as Insurgent
4:30-6pm: Talk: The Changing Vocabulary of House Dance, Co-moderated by: Erika Jarvis and Rae Chardonnay Taylor; Panelists: Amansu Eason and Jarvis Mason with Lefunktion dancers, Kitti O. and Forty
6:30-7:30pm: Workshop with Jarvis Mason / Le Funktion & Amansu Eason
7:30-9pm: Dance Party with DJ Diaspora
*1-7pm: Community Archiving Day with CBSCM - Bring your flyers, fashion, photos, stories, and other artifacts representing Chicago’s social culture to add to the map. Our team will be on site to digitize artifacts, record oral histories, and demonstrate how to use and add entries to the Chicago Black Social Culture Map site. Sign up for a spot to digitize your ephemera and/or record your oral history with us here.
This event takes place at the South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore Dr.
CART captioning provided, except during the dance party.
Bring your pictures, flyers, fashion, and stories to add to the Chicago Black Social Culture Map. We want to include your knowledge and stories of Black leisure, play, and community connection!
11-12:15pm Panel 1: Chicago Roller Rink History
12:30-1:45pm Panel 2: Chicago Skate Style & Culture
2-2:45pm Skate workshop with Josh “Batsmoke” Smith
2:45-4:15pm Open Skate (in collaboration with HP Skate)
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.
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.
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.
THIS IS A TEST
CBSCM is back! The Chicago Black Social Culture Map opens its 2022 season with panelists Chef Michael Airhart (Taste for the Homeless), Vince Adams (10,000 steps) and Deejay Alicia (Legacy Arts Center for Education) , moderated by Danielle Sanders of the Chicago Defender. Join us for an afternoon of community archiving, rich discussion and a pop up photo exhibition by Seed Lynn. Bring your flyers, photos, fashion & stories to share about Chicago’s Black social culture past + present. The Chicago Black Social Culture Map is a collaboration with Honey Pot Performance, Actively Archiving and the Modern Dance Music Research & Archiving Foundation. Please join us!
REGISTER HERE: linktr.ee/honeypotperformance
Date and time
Sat, April 9, 2022
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
Location
Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library
9525 South Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60628
Tickets available for purchase!
Based on their 2014 work Juke Cry Hand Clap: A People’s History of Chicago House & Black Social Culture, Honey Pot Performance is creating an interactive digital map documenting Black social culture from the Great Migration through the end of the 20th century. Check out the evolving map and fellowship with other Chicago community members who believe in the power of our collective social experiences as sites of pleasure, purpose, and politics. Add your memories and stories of house, disco, blues, jazz and other social music and dance forms. Food, drink, and music provided. Space is limited for these sessions. RSVP at chgoblacksocialmap@gmail.com.
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More info available at http://howlround.com/
In celebration of seven years of process, performance and experiments TSMP is sharing the stage with some of our closest OuterSpace friends and collaborators.
