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 & online location contains a boutique apothecary gift shop, workshops & cultural events lead by a BIPOC network of healers, educators, artists & holistic service providers.
Currently located in Humboldt Park, we provide a nourishing hive in order to build, grow and sustain.
*OPENING SOON: Litanies For Survival Library + Reading Room: April 13th, 2024
CURRENT PROGRAMS
Chrysalis Collective
The Honeycomb Network’s incubator-style membership designed to nurture the growth and success of creative entrepreneurs Our network isn't just a space to sell goods—it's a community where creativity meets opportunity, and where your craft can flourish into a thriving business, in a supportive environment.
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.
SEASONAL ART RESIDENCY EXHIBITIONS
Spring 2024 Opening April “Body Amulets: Style + Alchemy”
Summer 2024 Opening June “Fortaleza Y Flow” TBA
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.
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.
