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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.
Join us for a movement-based gathering where the body becomes a living archive, carrying memory, resistance, and cultural survival. Through physical theatre and co-creation, participants will explore the power of the individual and collective body as a vessel for protecting oppressed cultures. Led by Audrey Dégez, this workshop offers a rare opportunity to engage in an active creative process rooted in care, community, and embodied storytelling. The experience concludes with a showing of ДрімМати (Dream-Mother), a developing work responding to the sleepless nights shaped by war and resilience in Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hause always wins! ;) Hosted by Tangelina Holes and Sourdoe! Doors are at 7:30 and show starts at 8:00 pm.
Join us for the second Community Dialogue to take a look at how the design for the Central Jersey Monument is shaping up!
A Film in Color, in association with coLAB Arts, will start our season with a great line up!
Join for a wonderful night with IMGE Dance as they celebrate and review pieces they have created over the past 8 years.
stART invites you to join us for a special holiday outing to see Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Jersey Christmas Show at George Street Playhouse at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
We will meet up at 12::30 at coLAB Arts, 9 Bayard Street, and then get ready to be dazzled!
Open to Families and Individuals 12 Years and Older. Free event, includes lunch and event entry fees.
Join the JenLoveProject.org with Garden State Equality, Pride Center of NJ and coLAB Arts, for a special drop in community event to write holiday cards for our LGBTQIA2S+ community members who are currently incarcerated, with a special performance by Jennifer Love!
Check out theVOM with RWJ!
No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, is having their release show of “Tools for Survival.” Kick it with us. $10 tickets until the first band plays then goes to $15.
Ever receive a gift you weren’t expecting? Ever give away more than you had? We are sharing out 5–7 minute true story about what we give to ourselves, what we gift to others, and all the struggles in between—from volunteering to decorating, from literal to lavish, from gratitude to attitude.
No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, is kicking it with amazing bands like Mondrary, Our Wits, Ariadne's Thread, Pierrot Lunaire, and Entierralos.
Join us for our Pizza & Debrief session on Wednesday November 19th 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.
Únase a stART para nuestra excursión a la compañía Crossroads Theater para ver una obra extraordinaria de la visionaria dramaturga estadounidense Lynn Nottage. Ernestine Crump, una joven de 17 años, está madurando a la vez que navega las tensiones sociales y políticas del Brooklyn de la década de 1950. Luego del fallecimiento de su adorada madre, Ernestine y su hermana, Ermina, deben afrontar la pérdida, la mudanza de la familia a Florida, la irrupción de la progresista tía Lily, y el repentino matrimonio de su padre con Gerte, una inmigrante alemana blanca, en medio de las tensiones sociales y políticas de la Gran Migración.
Apropiado para todas las famlias e individuos de 12 años en adelante. Evento libre de costo, incluye almuerzo y los costos de entrada de la presentación.
No Punk Time Promotions, in association with coLAB Arts, is kicking it with To Each Its Own, Final Resting Pose, Of Temperament, Dejected, and Scum Throne. Doors at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm.
Join coLAB Arts for an evening of North Indian classical music with Pat Lambdin (sarod) and Mike Lukshis (tabla). Pat, a Burlington-based artist and music therapist, trained in the traditional gurukul style under sitar maestro Pandit Shivnath Mishra and performs in both the USA and India. Mike, an acclaimed tabla soloist and co-director of the Taalim School of Indian Music, has over 20 years of training under Guruji Pandit Divyang Vakil. Together, they create a powerful dialogue of rhythm and melody. Tickets: $20 | $15 students.
Join us between 11 am to 1 pm to celebrate the artwork of New Brunswick residents who developed their own personal ‘monument’ to migration and labor led by Central Jersey’s Monument artist, Chat Travieso.
Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble, as Halloween Homecoming 2.0! Get ready for a full night of mind-blowing circus, DJs, special guests, and a costume party to remember!
Join coLAB Arts and social practice and studio visual artist, Chat Travieso, for a free community Monument Workshop series that will culminate with participants creating their own new unique monument. Participants must be able to attend both scheduled workshops. coLAB Arts will be providing all needed materials and instruction for participants to create their own project..
¡Únete a coLAB Arts para una divertida Fiesta de Distribución de Halloween! Celebra la temporada con disfraces, música y diversión comunitaria mientras recoges dulces. Un evento familiar que reúne a los vecinos para disfrutar del espíritu espeluznante y compartir creatividad. Join coLAB Arts for a festive Halloween Distribution Party! Celebrate the season with costumes, music, and community fun while picking up treats. A family-friendly event that brings neighbors together to enjoy the spooky spirit and share in creativity.
Enjoy light refreshments, drinks, and speed networking in our NEWLY RENOVATED space! New faces are encouraged so please feel free to bring your friends and colleagues.
Learn about the New Brunswick Documenters program housed at coLAB Arts! We document public meetings by training people like you to attend and get paid for taking notes.
Join us for Documenters series On the Ground at the Zimmerli Museum, Scavenger Hunt edition!
Join coLAB Arts and partners on October 7, 2025 (5–8 PM) at coLAB Arts, New Brunswick for a community kickoff celebrating a new monument on migration and labor. Meet artist Chat Travieso, explore artwork, join design activities, enjoy dinner, and share stories with Newark Story Bus. Childcare provided.
Join us for our Pizza & Debrief session on Wednesday October 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.
Join us on Saturday, September 27th starting around 10 am. It will be a great day featuring a panel discussion, lunch, and community activities celebrating our collective impact.
Join us for Documenters series On the Ground at our space for night of board games and healthy competition!
Join us September 14th at our new time of 3–5 PM at coLAB Arts for a fun, supportive intro to self-defense with judo & jiu-jitsu basics. Ages 12+, $5–20 suggested donation. Wear workout clothes & bring a friend—space limited to 50 participants!
Fundraiser screening of Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood to support Thinkery & Verse’s upcoming production of Macbeth, with proceeds going towards actor & designer stipends.
coLAB Arts is proud to host a free Community Dialogue with Caritas, bringing together artists, educators, and neighbors to foster collaborative conversation around labor and migration in the New Brunswick area. Lunch will be provided!
Join coLAB Arts at the 2025 Natya Darpan Theater Festival for Shiv's Project, a verbatim play written by Dan Swern and directed by Arpita Mukherjee, exploring generational perspectives and mental health challenges in New Jersey’s South Asian community through oral histories with the family, friends, and mentors of 14-year-old Shiv Kulkarni, who died by suicide in 2021.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of drag, joy, and remembrance as we honor the life and spirit of Mendi. This community-centered celebration uplifts queer artistry and mutual care through performance, laughter, and collective love.
