coLAB Arts

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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.
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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.

Saturday, November 21; doors at 10:30pm, music starts at 11pm
Black Box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)
$5 cover charge
21+ to drink

Featuring the best of homegrown New Brunswick music including pop, rock, punk, hip hop and R&B. Pulling from both bars and basements, coLAB keeps its finger on the Hub City pulse.

These are the bands we’ve got in store:
1. FUSE www.fuseplanet.com
2. TRINITRON www.myspace.com/trinitronsound
3. Hartwell www.myspace.com/hartwelllovesyou
4. Mattress www.myspace.com/meattress

Thursday, July 30 at 8pm, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). $6 tickets available ONLINE HERE.

coLAB features the best of homegrown New Brunswick music including pop, rock, punk, hip hop, and R&B. Pulling from both bars and basements, coLAB keeps its finger on the Hub City pulse.

Featuring: Communipaw, Mike Bruno, The Delfields, and WUPA!

Saturday, August 1 at 8pm, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ). $6 tickets available ONLINE HERE.

Pandora’s Box is hosted by coLAB Member and spoken word rockstar Pandora Scooter and features live music, stand up and sketch comedy, poetry, and spoken word.

What IS Pandora’s Box?  A hilarious variety/comedy show featuring stand-up comics, sketches and a whole lot of laughing.  It’s a fun, funny, fun-a-licious show. Don’t miss a night of laughter and serious silliness!

Featuring stand up comic RON LONG. He’s previously been an opener for Chris Rock and featured at the Apollo Theatre, Caroline’s, and the Comedy Store (LA).

Musical guest, virtuoso bassist Mark Wallace.

Sketch Comedy performers: Corynn Egreczky, Dianna Jones, James Herrera, Suze Chic, MooseJaw Muldoon, and Jack Leary.

Friday, July 31 at 7pm. Email info@colab-arts.org for address. $6 tickets.

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.

Friday, July 17th at 8pm. Tickets are $6 each at the door and ONLINE HERE.

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. Friday, July 24th features members Jessica Lipman and Avianna Perez. See all 4 new works on Sunday, July 26 at 5pm.

• “Castle On a Hill,” a staged reading of a play by Dan Swern

A high school principal and two students – one past and one present. One apart and one tearing at the seams. Is the principal their only hope or a gilded monster. Fictional characters based on the true events of Teaneck High School in 2003 and 2007.

Dan Swern is a co-founder of Collaborative Arts. Previous positions include NY Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Studio 42, 365 Days/365 Plays Festival, NYC Fringe Festival, Godlight Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club. Currently works at George Street Playhouse and coLAB. Primarily a director, this is the first play that Dan has written.

• “Make It,” the premiere of Jack Leary’s music/performance happening

“Make It” is an exciting exploration into creating music – it’s part jam band, part audience interaction and an all enthralling music experience.  This unparalleled show will appeal to everyone who would have flocked to Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and their spiritual descendants.

Collaborative Arts, George Street Playhouse, and the Somerset Jazz Consortium partner for one incredible night of music. 

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Friday, March 13th
8:00pm to 12:00am
George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick)

Start the evening with George Street Playhouse’s production of “The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith” starring the incomparable Miche Braden as the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith.

Following the production, continue with the music of The Dan Epstein Band and The Jim Jasion Band, complete with flirty flappers and cash bar.

$5 cover.

$15 tickets for students to that evening’s performance of The Devil’s Music. Call the George Street Playhouse box office at 732-246-7717.

Hosted by Pandora ScooterStarring the serious silliness ofJames HerreraJack LearyIzzie SteeleDan Swern Featuring stand-up comics:Allie BrandMatt JenkinsMusical guestMJ Muldoon & Poly SuaveSketches conceived and written byJames Herrera, Jack Leary, Izzie Steele, Dan Swern, Poly Suave and Pandora ScooterBios:James Herrera (Featured Actor) is very excited to be here tonight. I hope you all smile and enjoy the show.Jack Leary (Featured Actor) has recently departed the world of stand-up comedy, preferring the far more lucrative realm of lie-down Kennedy. His unique blend of spaced-out sophistry and cashed-in fakery has enervated audiences from Istanbul to Constantinople. In fact, the previous sentence doesn’t even exist. Not even somewhat. I’ll show you, you little twit.Izzie Steele (Featured Actor) was a crazy child. She spent the majority of her childhood running around like a chicken with her head cut, playing with imaginary people, making mud pies, forcing the other little children to perform in plays written/produced/directed/starring Izzie Steele and pooing in bidets. Her parents quickly grew tried of her wild and crazy antics and swiftly enrolled her in theater camp…thusly she is an actress who received her BA Theater degree at Rutgers University last year. Izzie Steele also enjoys a cup of Early Grey and a biscuit at promptly 4pm, she’s very British.Dan Swern (Featured Actor) is away from his desk so he can perform in Pandora’s Box this evening. He will return your call as soon as he puts his pants back on.

Allie Brand (Stand-Up Comic) is a student of Rutgers University and is just getting her feet wet   when it comes to the world of comedy.  Much thanks for listening! Contact:   abrand@eden.rutgers.edu

Matt Jenkins (Stand-Up Comic) has performed in Cleveland, Philly, NY and NJ. He was in NBC’s standup for diversity competition. I opened for comedian Bill Mccarty And perform regularly at the Comic Strip Live in New York.MJ Muldoon (Musical Guest) Mature (sometimes R rated), witty, and attractive alt/folk/rock/ songwriting duo ISO intelligent audiences who love to laugh, are open minded, and have a slightly twisted outlook on life. Appreciation of cheeky lyrics, rhythm guitar, and percussion a must. Open to fans of all race, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, musical taste, hair color, and handed-ness, however must know how to clap or otherwise express aforementioned appreciation. Pandora Scooter (host) is an outrageous “spoken word rock star”. She leaves audiences laughing their asses off about everything from personal neuroses to political plunders. She has performed at venues including New Jersey Performing Arts Center and univesities up and down the East Coast including Rutgers, Boston, George Washington and NYU. www.pandorascooter.com. Power to the Peaceful and Love to All… Note from hostess Scootress: “It’s been a long f-g eight years, man, and we are ready to have some real fun! I want to laugh, make people laugh. Let’s get together, get some great funny mainlined into our veins and laugh until it hurts. I want a space where people can come together and share some great comedy in the name of making the world a better place. No, really. I think serious silliness is going to make us feel a lot better in the wake of the last eight years. Let’s get it on!”February 26, 2009April 2, 2009 April 30, 20098-10pmLocation: The Black Box @ George Street Playhouse, 9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Collaborative Arts Presents the “Outside the Box Tour”

Saturday, January 31, 10pm-3am

George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ)

$5 tickets at the door

FEATURING:

Like Trains & Taxis
www.myspace.com/liketrainsandtaxis

Jessica Tonder
www.myspace.com/jessicatonder

and

Diverse
www.chocolateindustries.com/diverse/index.php

with special guests:

Communipaw
www.myspace.com/communipawmusic

and a late night set by WUPA
www.myspace.com/wupaband

Contact: Dan Swern

March 27, 20097pm-3am

The theme of this ArtHouse is

SOCIAL MOVEMENTwhat is social movement? it’s how we talk, how we listen, how we love, how we celebrate, how we fight, how we struggle, how we learn, how we express, how we communicate. how we live.Hannabeil and Midnight Blue will be headlining, as well as featured as the house band for the stylings of a diverse collection of poets and performers, all expressing their own understanding of Social Movement.(showcase performers TBA)Insurgo Stage Project will conduct a Social Movement Experiment, engaging the audience in a performance piece dealing with social interaction and observation.Visual artists will engage their topic in their own right: exploring an extension of the theme of social movement —> being an artist is a political statement. what statement am i making?EON (Empower our Neighborhoods) will step to the mic and speak on their social movement.And YOU will take part in a living/evolving installation piece that will document the entire evening as it unfolds…WHAT IS ARTHOUSE?ArtHouse celebrates the artists who stay and fight; to all those who struggle to build something new, original and promising. A place for those who work to make New Brunswick a city you’re proud to be from and excited to come home to. In the spirit of its origins (the first ArtHouse in 1999 was a benefit for World AIDS Day), ArtHouse will continue to open the mic to all art forms, including the art form of change. This means that ArtHouse will continue to be a forum that invites dialogue concerning all aspects of life in New Brunswick, including social and political movements. ArtHouse considers these aspects of life (and of the community) just as important as and intrinsically connected to the enjoyment and creation of art.For the past 10 years, as more and more venues have been shut down and torn down, artists and organizers all over New Brunswick have transformed basements, garages, living rooms, and attics to host us artists in exile – with no other spaces to go. We hang words from the rafters, wrap music around basement poles, rearrange living rooms into galleries, dance on palettes. Share in the abundance of art that makes New Brunswick pulse.GET INVOLVEDCalling all artists/musicians/creators/organizers: interested in performing at ArtHouse? Want to volunteer to help make this event a success?Then come out to the next planning meeting:Monday, March 23 at 9:30 pm (message Avianna or Elena for location)Event Coordinators: Avianna Perez, Elena Callahan, Alana Integlia and Mary Ann Thomas$5-10 suggested donation at the door. Refreshments/Libations will be served for the afterparty…Interested? Inspired? Contact:Avianna Perez: aviannaz@gmail.comElena Callahan: elenacal@eden.rutgers.edu