Artists of all disciplines and professional levels are welcome and refreshments will be served. Artist speed networking will accompany presentations from coLAB Arts and ArtYard with information on resources and opportunities for Central Jersey artists.

This is a free workshop performance of a new verbatim play, based on oral histories with abortion advocates and women who have received self-managed medical abortion services from international organization, Aid Access.

La Gatita returns to coLAB Arts!

Pizza and Poetry at State Theatre New Jersey: Join stART and Poet Alyea Pierce for a poetry workshop for stART participants only. The program is open to middle and high school students. Adults may participate if accompanied by a student! The program includes dinner and is free of charge. Please register in advance.

coLAB Arts, in collaboration with No punk time promotions, presents Mosh for Charity, a punk rock fundraiser for the Interfaith Mens’ Rotating Shelter of New Brunswick. Featuring: Fracture (Serenity’s Decay EP Release), Final Resting Pose, Sunburner, Depressionista, Sewn Away.

La Gatita returns to coLAB Arts!

James Gentile presents an evening of multidisciplinary performances to celebrate their new album “Notes From A Heavenly Soup” out on people | places | records.

Chronicling the mythical DIY drag collective La Gatita (@lagatitanb) based in New Brunswick, NJ, this production marks the sixth year of the TrueSelves art project in partnership between the Pride Center of New Jersey and coLAB Arts.

Description: Adapted for the stage by Emily Mann, Having Our Say revolves around the remarkable lives of African-American sisters, Sadie and Bessie Delany, who both surpass the age of 100. Their extraordinary journey unfolds as they share their personal experiences, which include growing up as the daughters of a former slave who became a respected professor, establishing successful careers, and integrating a New York suburb.

Join the JenLoveProject.org and Black and Pink NYC in collaboration with the Pride Center of NJ and coLAB Arts, for a special drop in community event to write holiday cards for our LGBTQIA2S+ community members who are currently incarcerated, with a special performance by Jennifer Love!

THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL!!⏰ ⏰ La Gatita is BACK with our Sexy Slutty Slumber Party Open Call! 🛌💤🐏

New Brunswick’s premier DIY drag venue is all about us getting some we’ll deserved rest 😴

Show is Friday, November 17th! Doors and DJ set by @sleepyclerb open at 7:30 and show will promptly start at 8:45! BE ON TIME! We’ll be out of face masks and nail polish super early 💅🏽

We’re also hosting this show in collaboration with the Pride Center of NJ! The address will be at 9 BAYARD STREET, New Brunswick NJ at the coLAB arts center!

The venue is also wheelchair accesible!

Register today for a special stART Event at Zimmerli Art Museum

coLAB Arts, in collaboration with No punk time promotions, presents Mosh for Charity, a punk rock fundraiser for the Interfaith Mens’ Rotating Shelter of New Brunswick. Featuring: Pottersfield, Odiame, Without Piece, Freezeheads, Linda and the Losers.

Artists of all disciplines and professional levels are welcome and refreshments will be served. Artist speed networking will accompany presentations from coLAB Arts, George Street Playhouse, and New Jersey Economic Development Authority, with information on resources and opportunities for Central Jersey artists.

Registration is now closed for TRUEly Heard. Please use the registration form for the waitlist. You’ll be contacted if a seat becomes available.

TRUEly Heard is a fictional play based on the true stories of survivors of sexual assault. It explores the question, “Why don’t survivors feel safe enough to disclose the truth?" 

TRUEly Heard is a collaboration between coLAB Arts and the Middlesex County Center for Empowerment.

Join us at Joyce Kilmer Park on Sunday, September 24, 2023, for a community paint day. Between the hours of 12 pm-3 pm. Drop in and assist our mural artist with the installation. Painters of all ages can do a sidewalk stencil painting activity.

Unase con nosotros en el parque Joyce Kilmer el Domingo 24 de Septiembre, 2023 para el día comunitario de pintar. Desde las 12pm hasta las 3pm, pasen por el parque a poder asistir nuestra artista con el nuevo Mural en Joyce Kilmer. Todas las edades son bienvenidos a pintar plantillas en la acera.

Register today for a special behind the scenes tour of Rutgers Gardens. Participants will each work with expert gardeners to plant seedlings in their own pots for them to take home.

coLAB Arts and Mission First Housing Group invite you to attend the staged reading of a new play based on the oral history and experience of one resident living in permanent supportive housing in Edison, NJ.  An Indian immigrant, mother, survivor of domestic violence, former Wall Street associate, and houseless in Middlesex County, this play shares one woman’s story through her own words.

Register today for stART’s Apr 2 trip to see George Street Playhouse presents The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center! This charming musical comedy tells the tale of six middle school “misfits” in Putnam County, NY finding themselves through one of the most competitive and brave journeys adolescents can embark on – a Spelling Bee!

Register today for stART’s March 26 trip to the Zimmerli Art Museum for a special behind the scenes tour exploring the role of Women in Art and History followed by a hands-on creative collage workshop. 

stART va al Museo de Arte de Zimmerli, para un recorrido especial que explora el rol de las mujeres en el arte y la historia, seguido por un taller creativo en donde haremos un collage.

Register today for stART’s Feb 11 dance workshop with Jin Won! Praised by The New York Times as “an exuberant dancer whose musicality transform[s] her dancing into something primal," dancer and percussionist Jin Won is a one-of-a-kind artist in the field of Indian performing arts who explores the sonic and visual possibilities of rhythm through dance and music.

El jueves, 2 de febrero a las 6 pm, coLAB Arts ofrecerá una proyección gratis del documental CRUZ, seguida por una conversación con la directora del documental, Teresa Camou Guerrero.

Thursday, February 2 at 6 pm, coLAB Arts hosts a free screening of the documentary CRUZ, followed by a Q&A with the director Teresa Camou Guerrero. 

Mothermotherland is a devised performance created by Slovo. Theater Group. The play explores motherhood, motherland, and the current war in Ukraine. It was inspired by the artists’ personal experiences and the novella “I am (a Romantic),” written by revolutionary Ukranian writer Mykola Khvylovy in 1924 and ultimately banned by the Soviet Union. 

Performances take place January 11-15 (Wed-Sat, 7 pm; Sun, 3 pm) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, a fully ADA-accessible venue, located at 502 West 53rd Street, NYC 10019.

Tickets are complimentary, but must be reserved in advance. A talkback follows Sunday’s performance.

Mothermotherland is a devised performance created by Slovo. Theater Group. The play explores motherhood, motherland, and the current war in Ukraine. It was inspired by the artists’ personal experiences and the novella “I am (a Romantic),” written by revolutionary Ukranian writer Mykola Khvylovy in 1924 and ultimately banned by the Soviet Union. 

Performances take place January 11-15 (Wed-Sat, 7 pm; Sun, 3 pm) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, a fully ADA-accessible venue, located at 502 West 53rd Street, NYC 10019.

Tickets are complimentary, but must be reserved in advance. A talkback follows Saturday’s performance.

Mothermotherland is a devised performance created by Slovo. Theater Group. The play explores motherhood, motherland, and the current war in Ukraine. It was inspired by the artists’ personal experiences and the novella “I am (a Romantic),” written by revolutionary Ukranian writer Mykola Khvylovy in 1924 and ultimately banned by the Soviet Union. 

Performances take place January 11-15 (Wed-Sat, 7 pm; Sun, 3 pm) at A.R.T./New York Theatres, a fully ADA-accessible venue, located at 502 West 53rd Street, NYC 10019.

Tickets are complimentary, but must be reserved in advance. An afterparty with live DJ follows Friday’s performance.