coLAB Arts

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

coLAB Film Fest continues to bring the most forward thinking American film to New Brunswick with its latest installment, focusing on queer film and film makers.

coLAB FILM FEST: QUEER(ING) FRAME
Thursday, November 12 at 7pm
@ THE DEN (700 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ)

$5 at the door
Food will be provided, cash bar

Featuring:

“Who’s the Top” by Jennie Livingston
(official selection of the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, Frameline, and Outfest)

“Freeheld” by Cynthia Wade
(Academy Award winner for best documentary short subject, Special Jury Prize winner at 2007 Sundance Film Festival)

“Cupcake” by Emily North

Saturday, October 17th at 9pm in the black box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ).

Advance tickets are available online or at the door.  Sliding Scale: $6-$10 each

Sliding Scale

- $10.00 - $9.00 - $8.00 - $7.00 - $6.00

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!

Featured stand up comics include Jiwon Lee, Andrew Lascar, and George Higgins

Performers include Pandora Scooter, Jack Leary, George Higgins, and Ranessa Porter

CALL FOR ENTRIES

coLAB Film Festival : Queer(ing) Frame
This festival aims to showcase the diversity and potential of the queer filmmaking community, as well as to explore the diversity and potential of the word ‘queer’. coLAB Film Festival: Queer(ing) Frame will also present short film Who’s The Top? from Jennie Livingston, New Queer Cinema pioneer and director of acclaimed landmark documentary Paris Is Burning. Tapping a wide range of subjects from Busby Berkeley musicals to the Lesbian Sex Wars, Who’s The Top? is a fantastical S/M musical comedy in which one writer finds her true self by determining who’s the bottom.

Deadline: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009
1. We will need both a preview copy AND a final exhibition copy.
PREVIEW COPY: can be either a playable DVD or a link to an online video
EXHIBITION COPY: must be a QuickTime file (.mov or .dv), with resolution between
640×480 and 1440×900. Files will be recompressed onto a DVD, so make sure you
send something of high quality.
In addition, please be sure to email (to filmfest@colab-arts.org) or include a text file
with a short filmmaker biography.
2. Films may be as short as the filmmaker desires, but must not exceed 30 minutes.
3. Submissions should be sent to:
coLAB Film Festival, c/o Collaborative Arts, 5 Lorain Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
4. Submission fee is $5, payable via PayPal, check or money order. Make check or
money order payable to: Collaborative Arts.

Find us on Facebook, Withoutabox, and COLAB-ARTS.ORG.
Email us at FILMFEST@COLAB-ARTS.ORG.

To Create or Not Create: a Sharing of Work and Exploration of Process.

coLAB Arts offers artists a chance to come together in a supportive and inspiring environment to discuss their artwork. For this Salon, bring a piece of your work: photographs, poems, video, scenes, images, drawings, etc., to share and discuss your project. We’re also going to be doing an exercise that addresses what stops us from creating – even when we want to. Everyone is welcome from all artistic disciplines. Please come and join this growing community.

Sunday, September 20. This is a FREE event at Sanctuary (135 Easton Avenue) from 2-5pm in their upstairs space.

Come for a beer and a burger, stay for the play! This is a FREE Reading.

REVELATION
by Samuel Brett Williams

A New Play Network commission of a new play based on the Book of Revelations.

Samuel Brett Williams is a 2008 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award winner. He was in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project 07-08 season under Charles Fuller with his play “The Woodpecker” that he initially developed at the O’Neill conference. He went to the Kennedy Center last summer to develop his play “The Revival.” He holds an MFA in playwriting from MGSA.

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work.

Tumulty’s (361 George Street) is located in the heart of Downtown New Brunswick right on George Street, between Bayard and Paterson Streets. Free side street parking is available, as well as free deck parking at the Wolfson Deck, entrance located on the corner of Liberty and Nielson Streets.

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.

THE ORPHANAGE

The Orphanage is the only new play reading series in Downtown New Brunswick, providing a home for local theater artists and a safe environment for playwrights to develop their work. This year’s Breakthrough Arts Fest will feature readings of three new plays by both emerging and early career playwrights.

The Orphanage series happens on Saturday, July 18, 25 and August 1st and is FREE, located at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901).

Saturday, July 18, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of Lia Romeo’s “SUPER”

A New York yuppie discovers he has super powers. Aided by a homeless guy who is similarly “challenged” he picks up the call to fight crime. But when it interferes with the life and relationship he’s trying to rebuild, what choice should he make?

Lia Romeo is an MFA playwrighting graduate from MGSA Theatre. She went to the Kennedy Center last summer with her play “Green Whales” which will be getting its world premiere this season at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas. With her brother, Lia co-authored the book “11,002 Things To Be Miserable About.”

Saturday, July 25, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Night Cycle” by Jessica Corn

If having the perfect life means making everyone around you happy and making yourself miserable is the perfect life worth having? Should one compromise one’s dreams for security?

Jessica Corn is a graduate of Wheaton College and has worked previously at Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Highwire Theatre Company . She currently works at George Street Playhouse as manager of education where she teaches playwrighting and is co-producer of the coLAB new play development program, The Orphanage.

Saturday, August 1, 3pm – The Orphanage: a staged reading of “Fraternity” by Samuel Brett Williams

Samuel is a 2008 Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award winner. He was in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor project 07-08 season under Charles Fuller with his play “The Woodpecker” that he initially developed at the O’Neill conference. He went to the Kennedy Center last summer to develop his play “The Revival”. He is an MFA in playwriting graduate from MGSA Theater.

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.