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

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

Tickets drop, TODAY April 8th at 7pm 🔥

We had so much fun the first time around… we’re doing it again. The Chemistry Collective — Play Edition returns Friday, June 12th.

3 events in 1:

✨ Queer Canvas — 7:00pm–11:00pm

✨ Hot AF Variety Hour! — 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.
• A same day negative COVID test is required for entry

Expanded event details 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.

Hot AF Variety Hour!

Pole dancers (of all types and orientations), burlesque fantasies, sexy circus acts, and much more.

Hot AF Variety Hour is not your average show, this is a performance experience!

This is where spectacle meets seduction, where artistry and desire share the spotlight. Each act brings its own flavor — from slow, hypnotic tease to high-flying, jaw-dropping circus energy — all woven together into a night that is as playful as it is provocative.

Hot AF carries forward the bold, expressive spirit of Queer Canvas, channeling it into a live, embodied showcase of talent, fantasy, and unapologetic self-expression.

What to Expect
• A consent-forward performance space centered on autonomy, respect, and celebration
• A dynamic lineup of pole, burlesque, and circus performers
• Acts that range from sultry and sensual to wild, absurd, and electrifying
• A crowd that’s engaged, expressive, and here for the ride
• A space where appreciation is encouraged — and boundaries are honored

The Vibe
This is a space to witness and be witnessed.
To cheer, to blush, to laugh, to feel something unexpected.

Come ready to be turned on — not just in the obvious ways, but creatively, emotionally, and energetically.
No pressure to perform. No expectation beyond respect.
Just a room full of people celebrating bodies, expression, and a little bit of delicious chaos.

Health and Community Care
• Please do not attend if you are feeling sick
• Consent applies to everyone — performers and guests alike
• Any violations of boundaries will result in immediate removal
We take care of each other here — on stage, off stage, and in the crowd.

Who’s Invited
• All genders, identities, and orientations
• Lovers of performance, art, and embodied expression
• Curious newcomers and seasoned nightlife adventurers alike
• Anyone who values consent, celebration, and a touch of the outrageous

Why It Exists
Hot AF Variety Hour creates a space for performers to fully own their craft and their sexuality — on their terms — while giving the audience a chance to experience something raw, real, and unforgettable.

It’s about expression without apology.
Desire without assumption.
And a shared moment of “did that really just happen?”

How to Participate
• Watch, cheer, and tip your performers
• Engage with the energy of the room
• Respect boundaries — always
• Let yourself feel something
• Come as you are, leave a little more turned on by life

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

At the Play Edition of The Chemistry Collective yes, the possibilities have expanded, but let's be clear...this is still a dance party. The music leads. Consent is the baseline. Respect is non negotiable. That is the culture.

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 Hot AF Variety Hour!, 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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