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

Queer art, compersion‑forward connection, and a high‑vibe open‑community party — three events woven into one expansive experience!

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.
• 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.

Pitch Your AWESOME Open Ecosystem Person

3–5 minute live pitches • community matchmaking • big compersion energy

Pitch someone you adore and let the room fall a little in love with them. In this playful community matchmaking experiment, partners, metas, and collaborators introduce amazing humans in their ecosystem who are open to dates, play partners, cuddle buddies, adventure companions, and more.

Some of the most captivating humans in open ecosystems are already partnered — tonight their people tell you why they’re amazing.

Instead of pitching yourself, pitch someone wonderful in your world — a partner, meta, beloved, or collaborator — and tell the room why they’re such a joy to connect with.

Think of it as community matchmaking powered by compersion.

What People Might Be Looking For

This isn’t just a “dating pitch.”

People may be open to:

• romantic connections

• play partners

• cuddle buddies

• kink collaborators

• activity buddies

• ongoing lovers

• creative partners

• new friendships

• or simply expanding their ecosystem

The goal is aligned connection — whatever form that takes.

How It Works

• 3–5 minute live pitches from partners or ecosystem collaborators

• Each pitch highlights the person’s vibe, values, and the types of connection they’re open to

• After the pitches, people mingle, flirt, and follow whatever sparks emerge

Because this edition is happening within a play-party environment, there will also be plenty of social space, music, and organic connection time beyond the pitch format.

Audience = Essential

You do not need to be pitched to attend.

The audience is a big part of what makes this work. The more people in the room, the more introductions, resonance, and delightful surprises can happen.

Come listen, cheer people on, and meet fascinating humans.

Who This Is For

• People practicing open, poly, or non-monogamous relating

• All genders and gender identities

• All orientations and places on the sexual / asexual spectrum

Including ACE, ARO, partycules, nested partnerships, kinky explorers, and beyond.

Our Vibe

We prioritize:

• Compersion over competition

• Ecosystem expansion over exclusivity

• Consent and transparency in relating

• Celebrating people out loud

Ways to Participate

• Come as audience

• Pitch someone you adore

• Meet potential dates, play partners, and collaborators

• Dance, socialize, and enjoy the community

Apply to Pitch Your Person

Submit here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mVl4ro9pTKImc5U3HBnKX44J1YxiDtV3oOdIwgdkFpg/edit

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 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 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.

What to Expect

• 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

The Vibe

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.

Health and Community Care

• 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.

Who’s Invited

• 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

Why It Exists

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.

How to Participate

• 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