coLAB Arts Presents "Our Common Thread"

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- coLAB Arts presents "Our Common Thread" on Saturday, April 6 at 7:00pm in the Loree Dance Theater. This is an annual performance event presented by coLAB Arts and the First Reformed Church, to support New Brunswick's Interfaith Mens' Rotating Shelter. The event features theater, choral performance, and a panel discussion about homelessness and poverty in New Brunswick. 

For this year's performance, coLAB Arts will be presenting monologue selections from 37 Voices, based on interviews with local individuals who find themselves within the ALICE threshold - those who make too much money to qualify for federal assistance, but are unable to save agains the high cost of living in New Jersey. Choral performance will feature the First Reformed Church Choir, under the musical direction of Benjamin Berman.

Admission is free.  Click here to register for the event. The Loree Dance Theater is located at 70 Lipman Drive in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

37 Voices project partners include Free Press of New Jersey, United Way of Northern New Jersey, Oral History & Folklife Research, New Jersey Policy Perspective, Newest Americans, Feeding New Brunswick Network, Anti-Poverty Network, Center for Cooperative Media, and NJ Spark.

37 Voices is made possible through lead funding from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Our Common Thread is made possible with support from Johnson & Johnson, the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

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