Jun
15
4:00 PM16:00
Jun
23
4:00 PM16:00
theVOM, Destination 2040 Workshop
Register HERE
All the Details
Middlesex County and the Public Outreach and Engagement Team (POET) at Rutgers University are working with coLAB Arts to provide residents of Middlesex County the opportunity to participate in a FREE storytelling workshop!
What is it? This storytelling workshop will bring participants together in a supportive and fun atmosphere to learn the techniques of personal narrative storytelling. Participants will use inspiration from their own lives and personal experiences to craft and share a story under the guidance of experienced coLAB Arts teachers. Over the course of the ½ day workshop, the coLAB team will take participants through a step-by-step process meant to make storytelling meaningful and accessible for everyone.
Why are we doing this? This storytelling series is all about ensuring that the diverse communities that make up Middlesex County are seen and heard. Middlesex County is currently gathering feedback to determine the priorities for the future of our county by developing a new Master Plan called DESTINATION2040. This plan will set the course for how we live, work and do business in our communities in the future. It is important that ALL voices are heard as part of that process—and storytelling is a great way to make that happen!
Do you know someone whose story should be represented in the DESTINATION2040 plan? This series is a great way for them to be included.
What happens next? The story-telling workshop is only the beginning of the process. A selection of participants who complete the entire storytelling series will be invited to perform their stories at a special event at the State Theatre of New Jersey. This historic venue is a Middlesex County mainstay of arts and culture that has hosted some of the most talented artists and performers over the last 100 years. Our storytellers will now have a chance to be part of that history!
Jun
1
12:00 PM12:00
stART goes to Elijah's Promise Culinary Kitchen for a Cooking Demo
REGISTER HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and arts administrators.
May
22
7:00 PM19:00
Our Common Thread
This is a FREE performance and community event. Our Common Thread is an annual performance event presented by coLAB Arts and the First Reformed Church, to support New Brunswick's Interfaith Mens' Rotating Shelter. The event features theater, choral performance, and a panel discussion about homelessness and poverty in New Brunswick. For this year’s performance, coLAB Arts will be presenting monologue selections from 37 Voices, based on interviews with local individuals who find themselves within the ALICE threshold.
May
11
3:00 PM15:00
Music Swims Back to Me: Elise Brancheau in Recital
Join us for an incredibly special coLAB Arts fundraising event at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick!
May
4
12:30 PM12:30
stART goes to The American Repertory Ballet
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Download Permission Form Here
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and arts administrators.
Apr
16
6:00 PM18:00
Life, Death, Life Again @ Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Apr
10
6:00 PM18:00
SOLD OUT - Life, Death, Life Again @ Rutgers Law School-Newark
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Apr
8
6:30 PM18:30
Life, Death, Life Again @ Drake Theater in Philadelphia
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Apr
7
12:00 PM12:00
stART Goes to THE IMMIGRANT at George Street Playhouse
Russian-Jewish emigrate Haskell Harelik arrives at the port of Galveston, Texas in 1909 seeking refuge from his homeland. With only his banana cart in tow, Haskell finds compassion and friendship from an unlikely couple, falls in love, and creates a pastoral life for his family. About The Immigrant, USA Today said “the scenes evoke the rural era with the firm-handed clarity of a Jewish Horton Foote … they glow.”
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location:
Poke Nagomi, 342 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Mar
31
6:00 PM18:00
coLAB Arts Stakeholders Meeting
Please join us for our annual Stakeholder Event to learn more about coLAB Arts’ artist residencies, programming, new initiatives, and partnerships. Hear from staff, collaborators, board members, and community partners, and find out how you can get involved.
Mar
31
11:30 AM11:30
stART Goes to see The Rehearsal at Mason Gross School of the Arts
If all the world's a stage, then why fill it with utter nonsense? In this wicked satire of epic proportions and theatrical pretensions, an invitation to see the final dress rehearsal of a tragedy proves to be pure comedy.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: George Street Playhouse, 103 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Mar
15
7:30 PM19:30
Motion: New Dance Works - 2nd Performance
Presented by coLAB Arts and Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Dance Department. Featuring new works of dance created in collaboration with local social advocacy organizations and their constituencies.
Mar
14
7:30 PM19:30
Motion: New Dance Works - 1st Performance
Presented by coLAB Arts and Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Dance Department. Featuring new works of dance created in collaboration with local social advocacy organizations and their constituencies.
Feb
23
7:00 PM19:00
The Vagina Monologues
Advance sales are now closed. Please click here for the waitlist to place your name, contact information, and number of tickets requested. We’ll start releasing waitlist tickets to those present at 7:00pm in the order in which they were reserved.
Jan
19
10:30 AM10:30
stART goes to McCarter Theatre to see The Niceties
Race. History. Power. Zoe, a black student at an Ivy League University, visits her white professor’s office hours to discuss her thesis about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. In this riveting two-person drama, a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent and dangerous contemporary debate. “Scintillating,” raves Peter Marks in the Washington Post. “The story of America, it seems, is destined to be wrestled over to the bitter end.” Kimberly Senior (Disgraced on Broadway) directs.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Rutgers Barnes and Nobel, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions: email coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Dec
16
1:00 PM13:00
stART Goes to State Theatre for Crossroads Theatre Company Common Ground Christmas Concert
Common Ground by Crossroads Theater Company
at
State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ
CO-PRESENTED BY STATE THEATRE NEW JERSEY AND CROSSROADS THEATRE COMPANY
Join us for a unique concert that celebrates the holiday seasons in and around the month of December. This co-production between the State Theatre and the Tony Award®-winning Crossroads Theatre Company features local choirs, Broadway talent, and community organizations including Gospel choirs, South Asian Dance, and more! Featuring the Youth Choir of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, Abundant Youth Dance Troupe, JP Stevens South Asian Dance Troupe, Rutgers Liberated Gospel Choir, and the Body & Music School from Piscataway. “We are honored to partner with Crossroads to celebrate the diversity of our community during this holiday season," said Sarah Chaplin, President & CEO of State Theatre New Jersey.
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Shalimar Restaurant, 349 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Dec
14
7:30 PM19:30
Ladies' Night: A Concert Benefit for the residents of Dina's Dwellings
Join the cast of The Vagina Monologues and some special guests for Ladies’ Night, a benefit concert of fun and empowering songs celebrating and uplifting women. Co-directed by Mariella Klinger and Dave Seamon and produced by coLAB Arts, this concert will benefit Dina’s Dwellings, a New Brunswick-based nonprofit that provides permanent, supportive and affordable homes to survivors of domestic violence and their children.
Dec
11
6:00 PM18:00
Life, Death, Life Again @ United Way of Northern New Jersey
This performance is open to New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania attorneys with ticket. Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Dec
6
8:00 PM20:00
theVOM Grand Story Slam - Silver Linings
THIS IS IT! THE 2018 CULMINATING SLAM! Free Event!
Ever felt like you reached the end of your rope? Ever faced adversity head on and lost? Ever found a ray of hope amid the darkness? What got you through? What kept you going? What gave you strength?
Dec
5
6:15 PM18:15
Life, Death, Life Again @ Monmouth University
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Nov
11
7:00 PM19:00
Comic in a Day
Comic in a Day is an annual art-making competition held by coLAB Arts where teams of illustrators and writers work together to create a standard American size comic book of 24 pages, all within the span of 24 hours. The entrants’ comics are read live by a group of actors and is underscored by new original music at a showcase at Pino's Lounge in Highland Park that will close the event, and is adjudicated by a panel of judges from the industry and community. The winning comic book receives a first place prize and online distribution!
Nov
3
12:00 PM12:00
stART Goes to Camino Real at Rutgers Theater Company
Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
at
Rutgers Theater Company, New Brunswick, NJ
Williams’s phantasmagorical play is set in a plaza of a teeming tropical seaport where the rules are not always clear and the dangers real. A young, idealistic boxer stumbles into a world of figures from history and literature, artists and criminals, tyrants and idealists, the poetic and the banal, in a fever dream that Williams called “a prayer for the wild of heart kept in cages.”
Content Advisory: The show has adult language and themes. If it were a movie it would be rated PG-13
Cost: just $5 (includes ticket, lunch, and artist talk back)
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Levin Theater, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Oct
21
12:00 PM12:00
stART Goes to Pirira at Luna Stage Company
stART Goes to Luna Stage to see Pirira
Luna Stage Company in West Orange, NJ
This powerful new play explores the challenges of international aid across interpersonal borders, and how e bridge seemingly impossible cultural divides.
Content Advisory: The show has adult language and themes. If it were a movie it would be rated PG-13
Ticket, Chartered Bust Transportation and Lunch provided for just $5
Pick Up and Drop Off Location: Lord Stirling School rear parking lot, 101 Redmond Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Depart: 12:00pm, Return: 6:00pm
Questions email, coLAB Arts Director of Education John Keller, jpkeller@colab-arts.org.
REGISTER HERE
Download Permission Form HERE
Produced by New Brunswick Cultural Center and coLAB Arts, stART is an access program for teens to attend regional performing arts events, mingle with other area students, and engaged with professional artists and administrators. All events include a performance and meal for just $5. To learn more or register for any of the events below check us out at: www.colab-arts.org/start
Oct
11
7:00 PM19:00
TheVOM: Ghosts!
Ever hear a bump in the night, come in contact with the spirit world, or run into a string of bad luck? Has a memory, person, event from the past, suddenly shown up again without invitation? Ever gotten to know someone and they suddenly disappeared? Collect your black cats, voodoo dolls, and a lock of your ex’s hair, and come to theVOM and tell a five to seven minute story about GHOSTS.
Sep
25
6:30 PM18:30
SOLD OUT - Life, Death, Life Again @ Drake Theater in Philadelphia
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison is a verbatim theater piece by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, that shares the stories of four people sentenced to die in prison for violent crimes committed as children, and a victim’s grandson who chose to lead with forgiveness. Each performance will be followed by a facilitated discussion on the themes discussed in the play - radical forgiveness and how we can create a more humane criminal justice system.
Sep
22
11:30 AM11:30
stART goes to the Zimmerli and Graphic Novel Workshop
Alison Bechdel (American, born 1960)
Page 134 from Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
(New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006)
Courtesy of the Artist
Jul
20
6:00 PM18:00
Mural Unveiling Celebration and Community Story Slam
Join us for a community celebration as we dedicate French Street’s newest mural and share stories of perseverance, grit and determination.
Jun
9
7:00 PM19:00
TrueSelves: A New Gender Play
TrueSelves: A New Gender Play is an original play based on oral histories of the NJ transgender community. TrueSelves was created by coLAB Arts in partnership with the Pride Center of New Jersey. One performance only on June 9 at 7pm.
Jun
9
1:00 PM13:00
stART Double Header (Promise Culinary School and World Premiere of Trueselves!)
1) Elijah's Promise Culinary School Cooking Demo
Join stART for a special communal meal in the kitchens of Promise Culinary School June 9, 2018 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Followed by...
2) TrueSelves: A Play On Gender
An original play based on oral histories of the New Jersey transgender community. Saturday, June 9 (6:30pm – 9:00pm)
NOTE THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN NB
1) Promise Culinary School 211, Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
2) Trueselves Play at Levin Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $10 total for both events!
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Thursday June 7. Bring Form and Money with you.
REGISTER HERE
DOWNLOAD A PERMISSION FORM HERE
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.
May
24
7:00 PM19:00
theVOM: Here Today. Gone Tomorrow.
Ever find yourself in a race against the clock? Ever feel stuck? Ever notice the world rapidly changing around you? Or reinvented yourself in a new place? TheVOM returns for its second slam of the year and we want to hear your stories about speed, regret, missed connections, missed opportunity, last minute plans, time slipping away, and everything in between.
May
20
2:00 PM14:00
stART Goes to Crossroads Theater Company for BACK TO THE REAL
Join stART for BACK to THE REAL at Crossroads Theater Company on tour at Rutgers VJM Theater.
Produced by Crossroads Theater Company
Set in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, Back to the Real – a smart and insightful play about a brother and sister along with their respective girlfriends navigating this new political reality – confront their own identity concerns with respect to racial and sexual identity. However, a recent genealogy discovery impacts several aspects of the house-hold including romantic relationship as well as tolerance in spiritual houses of worship.
Date of Event: Sunday, May 20 (2:00pm – 6:00pm) (Drop off/Pick Up: Victoria J Mastrobuono Theater, 85 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Cost: $5 total!! This includes lunch and show ticket.
Due Date: YOU MUST REGISTER ONLINE BY Friday May 18. Bring Form and Money with you.
REGISTER HERE
DOWNLOAD A PERMISSION FORM HERE
stART is a program in partnership with the New Brunswick Cultural Center and made possible through generous support from Middlesex County.