For 25 years, Honey Pot Performance has created artistic experiences, preserved cultural memory, and brought people together through performance and public programs. Your support helps bring new work to life, sustains community programming, and supports the artists, ideas, archives, and spaces that make it all possible.

Our sliding-scale ticket model means you choose what you can contribute. All ticket levels offer the same experience, and higher-priced tickets help us keep HPP programming accessible.

Student/Community: An accessible level for students and those who benefit from a lower-cost option.
Sustainer: Our standard ticket that helps sustain artists, production, and the experiences we create together.
Supporter: A higher level of support that helps make HPP’s work and accessible ticketing possible for more people.

ARTISTIC & PRODUCTION TEAM
Lead Creative Team - Prelude/Pleasure Parade: Aisha Jean-Baptiste & Kimeco Roberson
Lead Creative Team - Aperitif: Aisha Jean-Baptiste & Ruby Simmons
Lead Creative Team - Pre Fixe Performance: Meida McNeal & Jo de Presser
Artistic Direction: Meida McNeal
Sound Design: Jo de Presser
Video Design: Kendall McConico
Lighting Design: Aaliyah Haynes
Set Design: Jordan Campbell & Josué Esaú
Costume Design: Michelle E.L. Merritt

COLLABORATING PERFORMERS & ARTISTS:
Prelude/Pleasure Parade: Windy City Ramblers & PRAISE MOTHER SQUAD
Aperitif: Zahra Baker, Kay Black, Fenix Divine, Najee-Zaid Searcy, Carissa Pinckney, Grace Sarkor, and Jay Willams
Pre Fixe Performance: Maya Anuligo, Jarius "ManOfGod" King, Kopano, Gabriel Lochard

Pre Fixe Performance

Saturday, October 17th
Sunday, October 18th
Saturday, October 24th
Sunday, October 25th

7:30pm @First Church of the Brethren, 425 S. Central Park Blvd
Runtime: approx 75 min

Ensemble: Maya Anuligo, Jarius "ManOfGod" King, Kopano, Gabriel Lochard

The Pre Fixe Performance is a colorful, joyous, and buoyant dance theater performance rooted in the sensual aesthetic of disco, a key predecessor to Chicago house’s emergence. The work is a shifting exploration of pleasure, mining the stories, images, and sounds collected in the first phase of the Pleasure Power Portal project. Enter an an immersive environment where the documented archive converges to paint a rich, textured picture of what pleasure looks, feels, sounds, and acts like when people come together to experience it, both individually and collectively.

The Aperitif

Saturday, October 3rd & Sunday, October 4th
1pm @Collaboraction, 1757 N Kimball Ave
Duration: 3 hours

A three-hour, boudoir-styled, choose-your-own-adventure in pleasure, play & connection. Join us for an afternoon delight of pleasureful explorations.

Step into a tactile, art-filled environment designed for human connection, relationship tending, and creative play. Explore five Pleasure Power Portal sources and self-guided realms featuring rest, mutual handwashing & feeding, consensual bondage play, erotic storytelling, spiritually rooted art-making, and other mind-body activations.

A burlesque performance moves throughout the space, carrying pleasure, consensual intimacy, and play into every corner.

Guides & Realms:

Honey Mojo - Black Burlesque

Fenix Divine - Attunement/Mind-Body Work

Everyday Numbers- Power in Numbers/Numerologist

Jay Williams & Mama Zahra - Velvet Griot/Black erotic poetry & story-telling

Kay Black - Sensorium/Consensual, safe touch, bondage

Najee-Zaid - Intentional Art

The Prelude/Pleasure Parade

Saturday, September 26th, 2026
5pm @First Church of the Brethren, 425 S. Central Park Blvd
Duration: 3 hours

The Pleasure Parade, a Second Line for the Westside. Staged in First Church’s outdoor space and garden, this procession will act as the opening performance moment, heralding a month of pleasure explorations to follow it. A movement and sound procession with a street party vibe will segue into a long table dinner experience. This experience of collectivity invites artists and community to come together for a shared moment of gathering where pleasure is teased out and declared.

Featured Artists:

Praise Mother Squad (Aaliyah Christina)

Windy City Ramblers

Pleasure Power Portal: A Progressive Performance Experience