The Chemistry Collective: A poly/ENM Dance Party - Play Edition!

Welcome to The Chemistry Collective: A poly/ENM Dance Party—Play Editition!

Tickets drop THIS Friday, March 6th! 🔥

We’re debuting something brand new: The Chemistry Collective — Play Edition, landing Friday, March 27th. (New location in Oakland)

And this time…it’s 3 events in 1:

✨ Queer Canvas — 7:00pm–11:00pm

✨ More Is More: Pitch Your Person! — 8:00pm–9:00pm

✨ The Chemistry Collective: Play Edition — 9:30pm–1:00am

(All guests must arrive by 9:00pm to join the opening circle.)

Expanded event descriptions below!

🎨 Live Performance Art Gallery ft. Queer Canvas Artists

A rotating, immersive gallery featuring live performance art and a curated selection of visual and multidisciplinary artists from Queer Canvas. This installation brings queer creativity to the center of the night — bold, intimate, playful, and deeply expressive.

The gallery unfolds across the space with shifting performances, interactive moments, and opportunities to meet the artists behind the work. Expect vivid visuals, embodied storytelling, and art that invites you to feel, witness, and connect.

What You’ll Experience

• Live performance art woven throughout the evening
• A curated gallery of queer painters, photographers, sculptors, textile artists, and experimental creators
• Artist meet‑and‑greets and opportunities to support local LGBTQ+ makers
• Interactive elements that evolve as the night progresses

Why It Belongs Here

Queer Canvas celebrates queer brilliance, sensuality, and creative abundance. Featuring these artists inside the event amplifies community voices and deepens the connective, celebratory energy of the night.

The Artists

A mix of emerging and established queer creatives whose work spans visual art, movement, storytelling, and hybrid forms — all bringing pieces that reflect the humor, depth, eroticism, tenderness, and power of queer life.

💘 More Is More: Pitch Your AWESOME Open Ecosystem Person

A joyful dating‑and‑connection experience for open, poly, and non‑monogamous folks who believe in abundance, celebration, and introducing great people with love.

Instead of pitching yourself, participants give a 3–5 minute live presentation celebrating someone in their ecosystem — a partner, meta, beloved, or collaborator — and share why others would be lucky to connect with them.

🌈 Big Compersion Energy

This gathering centers joy, pride, and care. People are uplifted by those who already know their magic, creating a culture of celebration over scarcity.

🔧 How It Works

• 3–5 minute pitches from partners or ecosystem collaborators

• Pitches highlight capacity, care, and what kinds of connection are welcome

• After the pitches, attendees connect in ways that feel aligned

• Plus: mingling, a DJ, and social space beyond the pitch format

👀 Audience Matters

You do not need to be pitched to attend. A big, diverse audience makes the night more resonant, inspiring, and connective. Come listen, meet people, and enjoy the vibe.

💗 Why This Event Exists

There are so many partnered, reliable, open people with capacity for more — more connection, consistency, romance, community, care, and belovedness.

This event creates a space where those bids for connection can be made openly, enthusiastically, and with community support.

🌍 Who It’s For

• Open / Poly / Non‑monogamous people

• All genders and gender identities

• All consensually open relating formats

• All sexual and asexual spectrum identities

Including ACE, ARO, Partycule, Nested, Kinktacular, and beyond.

We prioritize: ecosystem expansion, consensual commitment to open relating, and celebration over scarcity.

🎉 Ways to Participate

• Attend as audience

• Pitch someone you love

• Meet potential matches and collaborators

• Dance, socialize, and enjoy the community

• Volunteer (5 spots available — free entry)

📣 Pitch Your Person

Partners, lovers, friends — all welcome.

Apply here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQMOLc-cD8YkfecWMH18moNFLsE-G7n4bAwgEbQ32cCe0GlQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor

The Chemistry Collective: A Poly/ENM Dance Party — Play Edition

This is the first ever Play Edition of The Chemistry Collective and yes, the possibilities are expanded, but let's be clear...This is still a dance party. The music leads. Consent is the baseline. Respect is non negotiable.

Play Edition brings a sweeter, slightly cheekier current to the dance floor. A space where connection can build naturally through movement, conversation, and mutual interest, all at your own pace.

This dance gathers the energy and experiences of the delicious succession of Queer Canvas and More Is More!, bringing them onto the floor for a night of rhythm, connection, and a spark that carries us into what comes next.

You must arrive by 9pm for the opening circle. All Chemistry Collective attendees are required to be present for this collective grounding and consent setting before the dance begins.

• A consent forward dance party centered on autonomy, clarity, and joy
• Social spaces for conversation, connection, and low stakes flirtation
• A curated soundtrack designed to spark movement, attraction, and flow
• A welcoming environment for solo attendees, partners, polycules, and curious newcomers
• A playful undertone where you always choose your own adventure

This is a space where you can come to dance hard and leave it there. Or strike up a conversation that surprises you. Or simply enjoy being surrounded by people who understand expansive connection.

No pressure. No performance. No creepy energy.

Just good music, good people, and the freedom to explore chemistry at your own pace. Flirt if you want. Decline if you want. Change your mind. Communicate. That is the culture.

• A same day negative COVID test is required for entry
• If you are feeling sick, please stay home
• Any consent violations will result in immediate removal from the party

We take care of each other here. That includes bodies, boundaries, and the overall container of the space.

• Polyamorous, ENM, and open relationship communities
• All genders, identities, and orientations
• People exploring new relational formats or seeking community
• Anyone who values consent, communication, and playful respect

The Chemistry Collective creates real world spaces where open community folx can meet without apps, scarcity, or awkward guesswork in finding other poly/ENM folx.

Play Edition celebrates embodied joy, mutual attraction, and the spark of discovering who you vibe with on and off the dance floor while staying rooted in care for one another.

• Dance and enjoy the music
• Connect in social spaces
• Flirt responsibly, read the room, ask first, respect the answer
• Explore new dynamics with clarity and consent
• Come solo, partnered, or with your whole ecosystem

Event Venue

Radiance Oak, 278 4th Street, Oakland, United States

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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