HPP Creative Design Lab

Reimagining Performance Through Community Voice & Collaborative Creation

The Honey Pot Performance Creative Design Lab (CDL) stands at the intersection of artistic innovation, community engagement, and social transformation. As a dynamic incubator for creative exploration, the CDL offers a rare and valuable space where performance methodologies become tools for both artistic expression and community problem-solving.

Our Approach

Unlike traditional performance workshops, the HPP Creative Design Lab is built upon our signature engaged public humanities investigative process that centers BIPOC women's experiences and concerns around quality of life. We distinguish ourselves through:

  • Participatory Devising: Our ethnographic, narrative informed methods actively incorporate community voices into the creative process, transforming audience members into collaborators and co-creators

  • AfroDiasporic Lens: We honor ancestral wisdom and ritual practices, particularly focused on divination and improvisation as pathways to agency and self-preservation

  • Cross-Disciplinary Application: Our methodologies transcend traditional performance boundaries, having been successfully implemented in policy development, educational settings, and community organizing

Who We Serve

The CDL welcomes a diverse cohort of participants:

  • Performance artists seeking new devising methodologies

  • Community activists looking for creative engagement strategies

  • Educators wanting to incorporate embodied learning techniques

  • Organizations seeking innovative approaches to problem-solving

  • BIPOC individuals exploring new modes of cultural expression and preservation

What You'll Experience

Participants in our workshops and labs engage in our unique creative processes that have been refined through decades of performance research, development, and community based practice. These experiences offer:

  • Collaborative research opportunities that transform isolated creative work into community-powered exploration

  • Performance techniques that honor the unseen and elevate marginalized voices

  • Practical tools for translating creative processes into social action

  • Access to HPP's extensive methodology, developed through years of rigorous artistic investigation

The HPP Creative Design Lab doesn't just teach performance—it reveals how performance methodologies can redesign our approach to creativity, community, and change-making. Join us in this laboratory of transformation where art becomes a vehicle for reimagining our collective futures.