Fear Junkie 2012: Are you Addicted?
written and performed by Pandora Scooter
August 5, 6, 7 at 8:00 pm
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick)
The world is coming to an end in 2012. Or is it? You gonna make a buck or be taken for a ride? Pandora Scooter takes a hilarious whirlwind tour of the craziness that’s gonna rain down on us as the Mayan calendar comes to an end.
$10 tickets

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Puppet Slam!
curated by Mary Gragen
August 8th at 8pm
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick)
Puppeteers from All Around the Tri-State area come to perform everything from shadow to hand puppetry. This is not-just-for-kids puppetry; this is puppetry like you’ve never seen before on subjects ranging from freedom, to coming of age, to oppression. You don’t want to miss this once-a-year event. Underwritten by IBEX Puppetry.
$10 tickets

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LMAOpen Mic: Laughing My Ass Off – an open mic for Stand Up Comics
Mondays, Aug 9, 16, 23, 30 at 8:00 pm
coLAB Arts (49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor, New Brunswick)
Come bust a gut with some of the funniest up and coming stand up comics in our area.
$5 Tickets (only available at the door)

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Motion: New Dance Works
a collaborative choreographic event by artists from New Jersey
Thursday & Friday, August 12 and 13th at 8:00pm
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
Modern Dance takes center stage at Breakthrough Arts Festival with these engaging and experimental works by the next generation of choreographers.
$10 tickets

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Flash in the PAN: Performance Art Night
Saturday, August 14 at 8:00pm
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
$10 tickets

SLAM! Poets in Action
Sunday, August 15th at 7:00 pm
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
Ever seen a slam poet spit out words like a machine gun and totally change your perspective all at once? Slam Poets (a la Def Poetry Jam) from New York City and all over New Jersey are going to come and compete for prizes. This is where art and competition meet and it promises to be a blast.
$10 Tickets

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Romeo and Juliet / Romeo y Julieta
by William Shakespeare
adapted and directed by Dan Swern
August 19 – 29 (Thu – Sun) at 8:00 pm
First Reformed Church (9 Bayard Street, New Brunswick)
This contemporary bilingual production of Romeo and Juliet, brings the classic tale to present day New Brunswick. Cast with professional actors from New York City and community members from New Brunswick, the Montagues (Romeo’s family) are played by Afro-Caribbean actors and the Capulets (Juliet’s family) are played by Latino actors. The beautiful and tragic love story is set against the sometimes positive, sometimes challenging changes facing our home town. This is a Romeo and Juliet like you’ve never seen.
All performances are FREE!!!

Collaborative Arts is the only guaranteed place to catch the hottest emerging artists in Central New Jersey. Breakthrough Arts Fest, for its third year, is the only summer ticket in New Brunswick, with something happening almost every night through August. There’s something for everyone, featuring puppetry, music, dance, theater, and visual art over three separate spaces in Downtown New Brunswick.

You can also follow us on Facebook and Twitter for periodic updates as we countdown towards the festival.

Hands on:
This ArtHouse (like the past few) will have interactive elements where the audience can artfully engage the theme including:

**Group Mural: Throughout the night people will be able to contribute to the painting of an ArtHouse banner!

Artists and Performers TBA
Please contact Cat (trestini@eden.rutgers.edu) if you are a visual artist and want to show work and Elena Callahan (dansingirl8@gmail.com) if you would like to perform.
If you would like to help plan and/or volunteer contact Avianna Perez (avianna@colab-arts.org).

ArtHouse celebrates the artists who stay and fight; to all those who strive to build something new, original and promising. A place for those who work to make New Brunswick a city we’re proud to call home.

coLAB’s core includes some of the most talented and exciting artists in New Jersey. The Membership Showcase is an opportunity to see their work realized in stripped down productions. Featured work includes theater, film, music, and dance. Friday, July 17 feature coLAB members Dan Swern and Jack Leary. Sunday, July 26th features members Jessica Lipman and Avianna Perez.

• Untitled, a short film by Jessica Lipman.

Street corners, basements, classrooms, bars, dance studios.  Abandoned
spaces, forgotten spaces. Dancers of Insurgo Stage Project, a New
Brunswick-based experimental dance and theatre troupe, use multiple
forms of expression to take up, and take back, New Brunswick spaces.

Jessica Lipman is a Studio Mentor in the Rutgers English Department’s
Plangere Culture Lab, and is the Collaborative Arts Series Coordinator
of coLAB Film Festival.  Currently, she is the resident videographer
of Insurgo Stage Project.  She made this film in collaboration with
Insurgo Stage Project’s director, Avianna Perez, as well as the
dancers of Insurgo Stage Project.

• Untitled, a new solo dance piece with text by Justin Woo and Avianna Perez. Performed by Avianna Perez.

Intention, objective, purpose, direction, aspiration.  In her latest work,  Avianna Perez explores these ideas in hopes of arriving at a new understanding of her intention as an artist (and as a human), and why these questions are important.

ST/ART is a dance/theater showcase featuring the ensemble members of the Insurgo Stage Project. ST/ART will be featuring Sentient, choreographed by Insurgo artistic director, Avianna Perez and previously premiered at Collaborative Arts’ recent Breakthrough Arts Fest. Other original works premiering with ST/ART include Undercurrents choreographed by Meagan Woods, Pennies on the Dollar by Kim Benedict, and a new dance piece by Heather Favretto.

Sentient uses improvisation, writing exercises, and discussion to hone in on what it is that the ensemble is itching to express. Choreographer serves as moderator while the dancers invent the material.

ST/ART is being produced at the Cabaret Theatre located at the corner of Nichol and Suydam Avenues on the Douglas College campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Performances are Friday, September 12 and Saturday, September 13 at 8pm. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students. For more information and to reserve tickets, please direct email to inquiry@colab-arts.org.