RISE AND SHINE MOTHERLOVERS!
At the forefront of everything we do we give our Love and Respect to the First Nations People across the globe. Sovereignty Never Ceded.
In an act of Radical Fierce Love, we at Hot Brown Honey lay it on the table. We invite you into our world where we stand centre stage shining brightly for all to see. Too often we are portrayed as the savage, the maid, the victim, the perpetrator, but we defy these labels. We ask you to celebrate with us. Celebrate all that we are.
Our Truth. Our Courage. Our Complexities.
Our Resistance.
Join us as we take back our stories and explode the stereotypes that follow us. Together let us laugh at them, dismantle them and re-write them with open arms and middle finger raised.The Arts has the capacity to shift culture.
We live in a culture that needs change urgently. Not tomorrow. Right Here. Right Now.
We are amidst the Creative Revolution.
Calling all the Game Changers, Myth Slayers, Poets, Movers. Music Makers Ground Breakers, Truth Sayers, Shake em up Women, Queens, Queers and Risk Takers -
We are the Change Creators!
THIS IS OUR WORLD MOTHERLOVERS!
TIME TO SHINE!
We are the Latest Models of our Ancestry. Our Stories. Our Voices. Our Bodies. We will not Apologise for Who We Are.
- And to our Allies and Accomplices -
The moment is now! #LetsBurnItDown
THE REVOLUTION CANNOT HAPPEN WITHOUT CHILDCARE!
HBH CULTURAL AWARENENSS MERCH
At Hot Brown Honey we believe parents and in particular mothers stories are often absent from our industry due to the overwhelming demands on them mentally, emotionally and of course financially. We want to make space where mothers can be included and until our industry comes to the table we get creative. All profits from our HBH Merch goes directly to helping the mothers in our team tour with their children. We try to provide an environment that includes children, provides financial assistance and supports their mother’s to shine bright centrestage. This is how we do it! Big venues, festivals, companies yes we talking to you - it’s not impossible you just have to make it a priority. So turn up to our shows or online for some killa Merch!
MERCH AVAILABLE ONLINE: T-SHIRTS
Limited Edition Merch only available at our shows
Small earrings | Large earrings | Decolonise and Moisturise Lip Balm plus badge of your choice
BADGES 4 Pack: Make way for the Matriarchy | Don’t Touch my Hair The Revolution Cannot Happen Without Childcare | Decolonise and Moisturise
A MESSAGE FROM BUSTY BEATZ
In the words of Audre Lorde:
“I have found that battling despair does not mean closing my eyes to the enormity of the tasks of effecting change, nor ignoring the strength and the barbarity of the forces aligned against us. It means teaching, surviving and fighting with the most important resource I have, myself, and taking joy in that battle.” (The Cancer Journals)
Our beloved Queen Bee, Busty Beatz diagnosed with the breast cancer (trip neg). We have taken great comfort & resolve from those who are/have gone through this battle. Some are still with us. Some are not. The reality is, this is lonnnng ass ordeal with unknown outcomes. So #ThisIsHowWeDoIt #PrepareForCare Turning shit into Honey is our Jam! #FuckCancer
MEET THE HONEYS
The Honeys are all super talented, multidimensional artists who trailblaze as independents as well as sharing time and space with Hot Brown Honey.
Follow and support these incredible artists!
THE HIVE IS ALIVE
DECOLONISE AND MOISTURISE
"The Hot Brown Honeys are fierce and with the music booming and a middle finger raised, they are here to make noise and to re-educate the patriarchal, colonial masses"
The Pantograph Punch
Rise and Shine Motherlovers! Hot Brown Honey are back with THE REMIX - Fierce! Femme! Global First Nations! Everything you love about the smash hit show, with extra sweet treats of Radical Fierce Love and Joyous Rage - Centrestage.
Steeped in the Word of The Mother and packing a punch of Hip Hop politics, Hot Brown Honey is an extraordinary production that spins tradition on its head, going above and beyond to challenge boundaries and embrace the resistance.
Equal parts theatrical masterpiece & social activism, a stellar posse of phenomenal Global First Nations women smash stereotypes in an unapologetic celebration of our similarities & differences. So get ready to laugh until you cry, clap until your hands bleed, dance in the aisles and shake every part of what your mama gave you. It’s time to be the change we want to be.
MAKE WAY FOR THE MATRIARCHY
"Hot Brown Honey is more than a show, it’s a movement...The future of feminism is Hot Brown Honey and it is delicious."
Vancouver Presents
HOT BROWN HONEY
Created and Written by
Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers & Lisa Fa’alafi
DIRECTED BY
LISA FA’ALAFI
MUSIC DIRECTION BY
BUSTY BEATZ
TECHNICAL DIRECTION/LIGHTING DESIGN BY
PAUL LIM
PRODUCED BY
Quiet Riot Creative - Executive Producer Linda Catalano
In partnership with Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers and Lisa Fa’alafi
STARRING
Lisa Fa’alafi aka The Game Changer
Ofa Fotu aka The Mythslayer/Busty Beatz Understudy
Yami Löfvenberg aka The Trailblazer
Ghenoa Gela aka The Ground Breaker
Alinta McGrady aka The Badass Mutha
Lilikoi Kaos aka The Wave Maker
Mayu Muto aka The Gravity Defier
Hope Haami aka The Music Maker
Busty Beatz aka The Queen Bee
FEATURING THE VOICES OF
Aunty Nancy Bamaga as The Hive Mother
Rhianna Patrick “The Privilege Test”
Matriarch Kim Kaos “Aloha Oiii"
FIRST NATIONS FIERCENESS
“It's phenomenal, sexy, foot stomping fun & radical consciousness-raising all at the same time"
The Scotsman
ORIGINAL COMPOSITION | SOUND DESIGN
Busty Beatz
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION
“Praise to The Mother/Aunties” by Victoria Falconer
“HopeOne Makes Noise” by Hope Haami
“Badass Mutha” by Alinta McGrady. Music by Jhindu-Pedro Lawrie and Luke Daniel Peacock. Produced by Marly Luske
Recorded at Alchemix studio as apart of ‘Blakbeats’ QPAC 2019
CHOREOGRAPHY
Lisa Fa'alafi with Cast
ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY
Samantha Williams “The Privilege Test"
Mariah Pelesa “Pussay Tactics”
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Lisa Fa’alafi, Paul Lim, Tristan Shelley
SET DESIGN
Tristan Shelly
COSTUME DESIGN
Lisa Fa’alafi and Colleen Sutherland
COSTUME CONSTRUCTION
Lisa Fa’alafi, Colleen Sutherland, Millie Adams,
Leah Shelton, Jim Ioannides
TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT ADDITIVE
PRODUCTION MANAGER Rachel Lee
COMPANY MANAGER Colleen Sutherland
RADICAL FIERCE LOVE
"This is both a call to arms and a declaration of a new era of activism. Hot Brown Honey sounds, looks & feels like the revolution we so urgently need"
Gayatri Gopinath, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis.
New York University.
. Thank you to all the Honeys that contributed to the journey:
Elena Wangurra aka The Soul Soother
Kalala Sione aka The Love Liberator
Juanita Duncan aka The Truth Sayer
Crystal Stacey aka The Peace Maker
Cody Raymond aka The Shapeshifter
Hope Haami aka The Music Maker
Seini Taumoepeau I Heru Pinkosova | Sammie Williams | China Woo Allcock | Merlynn Tong | Ben Graetz | Alexis West
Based on the original concept and script "Hot Brown Honey Burlesque" created by Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers, Lisa Fa’alafi and Candice Bowers
OUR INSTAGRAM GOT HACKED
Will be back shortly (we hope!)
For now you can still find us at: https://www.facebook.com/hotbrownhoney/
