Co-working, co-creating & Collective care
The Honeycomb Network is a multi-functional community space offering holistic co-working, co-creating + collective care services.
The physical location contains a boutique apothecary gift shop, community library + reading room, gallery space, workshops & cultural events
Founded by a Boricua femme from Humboldt Park
In Partnership with a BIPOC network of therapists, educators, artists & community care providers.
Currently located in Chicago within the Barrio Boriken neighborhood, we provide a nourishing hive in order to build, grow and sustain.
ADDRESS: 2659 W. Division St. Chicago
Winter HOURS: Thurs-FRI. 1pm-6pm, SAT.-SUN. 12pm-5pm
What do we offer?
Co-working spaces
General amenities include high-speed internet, ADA accessibility, coffee, tea and snacks. Multiple co-working tables and seating. Our co-working space encourages creativity so bring your projects as well! Business amenities and bookable healing room.
Drop in and membership rates, as well as student rates, available.
Co-creating classes
From plant based cooking and Afro-Caribbean dance to chakra balancing, candle making, urban gardening and creative arts, to unique brand strategies and entrepreneurship classes for your creative business growth. Our range of in-house and virtual workshops are curated to meet the desires of our diverse community.
Collective Care services
We host an in-house boutique apothecary with self care items from local makers. An in-house licensed mental health therapist collective, a certified master herbalist network and certified life-coaches are also available. All of whom are bi-lingual. We hold wellness programming for young people and adults through partnerships with professional restorative justice and peace circle practitioners as well as mental and physical health focused pop-ups.
flex space + gallery
Our 1,715 + flex space hosts a gallery with seasonal resident exhibitions. It is available for rotating monthly markets that center BIPOC businesses and creatives, and provides opportunities for artists to pop-up with us and collaborate. As well as for businesses to facilitate meetings and staff retreats
weeknights and weekends as available.
CURRENT + UPCOMING PROGRAMS
REMEDIOS: COMMUNITY MEDICINE MAKING
A monthly community donation based medicine making series to offer accessible knowledge and hands on crafting of plant remedies with shared resources. March theme: SPRING EQUINOX
LITANIES FOR SURVIVAL: Library + REading Room
The Honeycomb Network x Rootwork Gallery co-curated free community library and reading room.
A liberatory learning space where the reading of diverse narratives and critical histories by marginalized voices is encouraged rather than censored and stifled. Here we celebrate writing, reading, and sharing of literature as a form of resistance. cultivating community learning, expanding language, and cultural exchange in Chicago.
ART EXHIBITIONS + RESIDENCY
ON VIEW:
Revelations of the Beloved:
Curated by Azul Nogueron + Dylan Cullison
Revelations of the Beloved is an homage to queer resistance and love in the 21st century. As we learn to live with the normalization of unprecedented times, we want to continue making space for radical love and celebration in the queer community. How do you perform truth amongst your work? What does it mean to find safety in a community and how do we do it? Voices that often go unheard have a chance to demonstrate that righteous feeling of love and resistance.
Shekere Fundamentals
In partnership with Music Moves Chicago. Shekere Fundamentals is a pilot program that aims to celebrate the West African gourd instrument that is used in traditional and popular music across West Africa and the African diaspora. The 8-week program will introduce participants to the history and cultural importance of the shekere, which is also known as chekere and agbe. Led by Uche Omoniyi and Quincy Raggs, this program will help to build fundamental skills related to playing the instrument in various performance contexts.
This offering is FREE and open to the public.
Mondays from 6:30 - 8:00 pm
March 3 - April 21
ASTRO-PSYCH: Exploring our Inner Constellation
A monthly, 2hr therapeutic workshop navigating our inner worlds through the interconnectedness of astrology x psychology.
This gathering aims to increase astrological knowledge and use universal influence to better personalize your healing journey. Facilitated by our partnered therapist + astro-psychologist, Celine Khalife, MA, NCC
Embodied Alchemy (cohort)
This 4 week virtual cohort will activate the healer within through plant medicine, somatic movement, liberatory reading/writing, and elemental rituals.
The cohort culminates with a journal/spell book and co-created oracle deck that synthesizes the collective wisdom gained in the experience
A space to create and thrive
Designed by creatives for creatives, we are an ever-evolving space for your work and your soul to flourish. From nature-inspired biophilic co-working/creation space, to thoughtfully curated workshops, classes and events, to wellness services and a virtual hive of digital offerings. May you find what you need behind our doors.
A space for BIPOC TO BE CENTERED
Founded by a Boricua queer woman, we are a space for BIPOC creative entrepreneurs to thrive. We know the reality of limited spaces created for us by us, we have felt the impact of segregation used as a strategic tool to divide and decentralize our collective power and brilliance. — this is our solution. This is our offering.
A space to root and sustain
Our location in Humboldt Park between the two Puerto Rican flags on “Paseo Boricua” solidifies our collective place in Chicago, This is a movement of self sustainability. It is also radical in its purpose to stretch its branches and reach across the city to other communities of color and intentionally co-create thoughtfully and collaboratively.
