coLAB Arts
49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Please join us for the first coLAB Arts gallery opening at our new space at 49 Bayard Street in Downtown New Brunswick, featuring the work of past coLAB artists who have participated in our previous gallery exhibitions and our Transitional Art space at the George Street Co-Op.

Participating artists include:
Ariana Arancibia
Carissa Baldino
Kaitlin Deering
Marie Nyquist
Rachel Saitzyk
Jonathan Sykes

Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

THE LEAK
by FERNANDA COPPEL

FREE Staged Reading. To reserve a seat, please email us at info@colab-arts.org.

Sunday, February 21st at 7:30pm
coLAB Arts
49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

When a leak starts dripping in Lucia (single mother) and Drea’s (only child) modest Los Angeles apartment their first reaction is to ignore it. The dripping grows stronger and stronger as Lucia’s boyfriend Carlos moves in. Lucia’s sister, Cuca isn’t fond of Carlos because of his fascination with Drea. After the leak begins to drip blood, this family is left to deal with generations of secrets and the ghosts that live under our tongues.

Playwright Fernanda Coppel was born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, and raised in San Diego California. A poet and playwright, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU with a concentration in Playwriting. Her thesis play, Chimi-Changas and Zololft was nominated for the Goldberg Award (2009) and won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater (2009). She received NYU’s John Holden Playwriting Award upon her spring 2009 graduation. Fernanda is currently in the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at the Juilliard School.

Director Alex Correia is currently the Director in Residency for the INTAR Actors’ Collective where he directed 365 Plays/ 365 Days by Suzan Lori Parks and Thorny Bushes, a Staged Radio Novella, written by INTAR Playwrights Group. In INTAR’s New Works Lab he directed plays by Desi Moreno-Penson, Cusi Cram, Mando Alvardo, and Mariana Carreno. Some of his Directing Credits include: The Woman by Michael John Garces for the 24hr Plays Company; Dwarfs  by Harold Pinter and Dutchman by LeRoi Jones at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop; I Am Yours by Judith Thompson at Center Stage (NY); and Othello by William Shakespeare at the  John  Houseman Studio Theater (NY).

Producer Jeremy Karafin Is currently the Program Associate for DNAworks (Dialogue and Healing through the Arts).  He founded and produced the first three seasons of the Kinetic Poetics Project, an annual spoken word and poetry festival on the west coast (now in its 7th season).  He is also the producer for the show See Something…Say Something and Love Redefined.  He has directed half a dozen productions including the world premiere of Kristina Goodnight and Darren Blaney’s What the Hell is Going on Here?  Previously he was the Assistant Director of Student Media and the SCTV Broadcast Adviser at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He has worked with the Penguin Repertory Theatre, Houses on the Moon Theater Company, MADD Productions, Intangible Collective, Textbook Execution, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Rainbow Theatre, Brooklyn for Peace and the Wild Project.

A Music Benefit for Haiti
All proceeds donated to DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

Co-Sponsored by New Brunswick Cultural Center and New Brunswick City Market

Friday, February 5
Crossroads Theatre (7 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901)
Doors open at 5:30pm
Tickets $10 – $20 Sliding Scale at the door

We will be accepting canned food for SALVATION ARMY

Featuring:

NATURAL BREAKDOWN
WUPA
HEY BULLDOG!
AMBER BLUES
BLACK CIRCLE SYMPHONY
SILENT KNIGHT

PLUS… Special reunion performance by the GROUND LEVEL ORGANIZATION!!!

Yoga and meditation led by Dan Farrella of Natural Breakdown available 4:30 – 6:00pm.

Food and beverages available for purchase, silent auction, art sale, craft and merchant tables… All to benefit the relief effort in Haiti.

Between putting together our board of trustees, applying for federal nonprofit status, moving into a new space, and getting a new website, there’s a lot to look forward to.

Stay tuned, as new developments are happening fast for the organization that brings you the hottest new art work in New Brunswick.

Sunday, November 22 at 7:30pm
Black Box at George Street Playhouse (9 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick)
This is a FREE staged reading

A new play where lines blur between fantasy and reality, charm and tragedy.

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.

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