Join us at coLAB Arts on May 16th for a drag competition hosted by La Gatita! Expect fierce performances, high kicks, and claws out as contestants battle for the crown!

Join us for an artist talk and conversation around “Resonance,” a solo exhibition by Chanika Svetvilas presented by coLAB Arts. Svetvilas will be in conversation with Karin Jervert, a teaching artist, writer, and Mad Pride activist, and founder of the Woodland Sunflower Collective. Art Talk is at 2 pm, the open gallery is from 12:00 to 4:00pm.

coLAB Arts invites high school students from the graduating classes of ‘26, ‘27 and ‘28 to apply for the position of Youth Board Member on the coLAB Arts Board of Directors for the 2025-2026 academic school year. Youth board members will have the opportunity to learn about socially engaged art and the world of nonprofit management. 

coLAB Arts está lanzando una nueva y emocionante oportunidad de desarrollo de liderazgo, e invita a estudiantes de escuela secundaria de las clases graduandas ‘27, ‘28 y ‘29 a postularse para el puesto de Miembro Juvenil de la Junta de Directores de coLAB Arts para el año académico 2026-2027.

No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, will have an amazing night with another Mosh for Charity— help raise money for the Mens’ Interfaith Rotating Shelter.

coLAB Arts goes to Aqualumina Festival: Join us as for a riverside lantern festival involving music, performance, and inspiring lighting at the river’s edge. May 9th parade field trip includes dinner and transportation to Artyard in Frenchtown NJ from coLAB Arts Studio in New Brunswick. Program is open to all ages but adults must be accompanied by a student!

New Brunswick’s favorite Story Slam returns with a night of fierce love, complicated legacies, and the many forms of motherly power. Join us for theVOM: Mother is Mothering, an evening of true stories told live, off the cuff, and straight from the heart.

Thinkery & Verse will host an immersive, family friendly event that explores Indigenous History during the American Revolution as well as celebrates Indigenous culture and life. The event will include traditional dance, tribal story-telling, a presentation led by historian, Dr. John Meyer, gourd painting, pinch pot crafting, as well as a Q&A with Native American educators from the Rappahannock and Karankawa tribes. There will also be snacks and music to enjoy. This event is 100% free to the public.

Art City Open Studio events are monthly opportunities to meet and see the work of our resident artists. May features the work of Resident Artist Chanika Svetvilas.

Join us for our first stand-up comedy night at coLAB Arts. Come laugh with us and celebrate the kind of Jersey energy that even Jon Bon Jovi would appreciate.

Deathness and rtf Presents Eric Raven: Send Off to Seattle. Doors are 6:30 pm, will music starting around 7:00 pm for a full. night of music. $15 in advance, $20 day of— join us for a great night of goth, techno, and darkwave.

Join us on April 14 from 5:30–7:30 PM for the New Brunswick Documenters Board of Education Election Forum, an evening focused on community access, election information, and voting rights education.

SETU presents, in collaboration with coLAB Arts, When Gandhi and Mohammed Meet. Neel Gandhi from London and Mohammed Aslam from New Delhi meet at a scientific conference in Bangalore, both facing intense opposition from families and friends in their planned interfaith marriages to their girlfriends.

SETU presents, in collaboration with coLAB Arts, When Gandhi and Mohammed Meet. Neel Gandhi from London and Mohammed Aslam from New Delhi meet at a scientific conference in Bangalore, both facing intense opposition from families and friends in their planned interfaith marriages to their girlfriends.

Join our paid training program and become a Documenter with coLAB Arts, where you'll monitor local government and contribute to a communal knowledge pool. Help democratize information and represent diverse, intergenerational communities by sharing vital insights with the community.

Get ready to werk.

Join us for our Pizza & Debrief session on Wednesday, April 1st at 5 PM at coLAB Arts (9 Bayard St, New Brunswick, NJ)! This event is perfect for anyone interested in learning more about our Documenters program, staying updated, and connecting with other civic-minded individuals.

We are excited to welcome back our second Soundgarden, and it’s shaping up to be an unforgettable evening. Join us for a night filled with trumpets, rhythms, vibes, and more as an incredible lineup of artists takes the stage, including Monte Maybe, Teen Idle, Skyrat, Brea Fournier and the Dream Ballet, and Wavebreak.

Enjoy light refreshments, drinks, and speed networking. New faces are encouraged so please feel free to bring your friends and colleagues.

No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, will have an amazing night with Overhand, Guack, 3 Dollars, and Somewhere Not Here!

Join us for a night of envisioning the future of cities, homes, and communities in 2026! We will spend an evening creating boards that reflect the pride we have in our community and also the ways that we want to grow in our community.

Join us between 11 am to 2 pm to review the monument that will be taking shape in our very own community of New Brunswick.

What does it mean to be from New Jersey?  Are you tapped into its ancestral vibrations? How has Snooki affected your rhythms of being? On Saturday, March 7th, for the first time ever, famed drag collective La Gatita joins forces with local filmmakers to probe New Jersey for epiphanies in some seriously unexpected places. Join us for a night of films, drag, vendors, and music while we imagine alternative ways of creating myth.

coLAB Arts presents Jag One’s Farewell Show with support from Milkshake Grenade, Pillowinde, and Diet American.

A HoLee Servicing is a night to gather with community, share in the HoLee word, some good music, share a laugh, and to let go of all that’s got you down. The servicing led by Tangelina HoLee and The Zanything.

Looking for film work that reflects the New Jersey experience, whatever that may mean to you. Applications due February 15th! QTPOC artists strongly encouraged to apply. Selected works will be included in a hybrid film screening & drag show at coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ on March 7th 2026 (NEW DATE) that will fundraise for a victim of state violence.

Application due February 13th. coLAB Arts is requesting applications for eight (8) available artist residencies in New Brunswick, NJ from artists in the New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania region. Artists and artist teams will be responsible for creating a temporary public art installation, to be installed at various locations along a three-quarters of a mile route in New Brunswick as part of the city’s inaugural Heartbeat of the City Arts Festival, September and October, 2026.

Whether you’re coming to share, judge, or just sip and listen, theVOM: Exes and Woes promises a night of connection, catharsis, and collective “wow, same.”Spotted: you, at coLAB Arts, listening to stories you’ll be talking about long after the night ends.

No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, is having the last FRP show! Join us with FRP, Potters Field, Depressionista, and Wichita Pete and The Washboards.

Join us for our Pizza & Debrief session on Wednesday, February 4th at 5 PM at coLAB Arts (9 Bayard St, New Brunswick, NJ)! This event is perfect for anyone interested in learning more about our Documenters program, staying updated, and connecting with other civic-minded individuals.

Trained but ended up not taking notes yet?This is training is for you! Wrote notes once-wrote notes ten times? This training is for you! The website has changed, and we've learned a lot. It's time for us to gather and share our learning over the past 1.5 years for this paid (refresher!) training.