upcoming
The BCaT Lab hosts several events each semester, alongside open lab hours between 10am - 3pm from Tuesday to Thursday. If you’re interested in being active with BCaT, explore what events we’re hosting below or subscribe to our Google Calendar to be the first to know what we’re planning each month.
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BCaT Calendar
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
BCaT Eats & Mural painting!
BCaT Eats
and mural painting!
Join us at the BCaT Lab for our monthly ‘BCaT Eats’, for dinner and a painting session.
Our mural functions as a living archive; guests contribute to smaller painted canvases to be placed in interchangeable photo frames. We invite continual collaboration to mirror how homes function as living, changing archives.
Location: Skinner 3115 (Register here)
BCaT Speaker Series [Black Homeplaces talk and demo]
Black Homeplaces:
Talk and Demo
Join us at the BCaT Lab to discuss and play with the long-awaited Black Homeplaces VR exhibition! The installation includes outputs from 30 collaborators including video games, soundscapes, art, storymaps, and 3D scanned artifacts, housed within a virtual reality (VR) installation of a archetypal Black home.
Followed by BCaT Eats and mural painting!
Date: Wednesday, October 21
Time: 1:00 - 3:00pm
Location: Skinner 3115 or join via Zoom (Register Here)
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
BCaT Lab Workshop: Documentary Storytelling
Who Holds the Camera Holds the Story
Join us for a 1.5-hour virtual workshop on documentary storytelling as a practice of witness, resistance, and craft. Drawing on over fifteen years of filmmaking rooted in the Caribbean, facilitator Akley Olton guides participants through four core pillars: story structure built from lived experience, the ethics and politics of authorship, archival memory and the reclamation of suppressed narratives, and practical approaches to short-form digital storytelling. The first 45 minutes take the form of a public lecture — recorded for broader access — followed by an open Q&A and a hands-on working session with the BCaT Lab cohort, focused on the specific story challenges participants bring to the room. The workshop centers on a Caribbean and diaspora framework, treating storytelling not as a neutral technical skill but as a political and cultural act.
Date: Monday, October 19
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Location: Online Only (Register Here)
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
Lab Hours
Join us for BCaT Lab Hours every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM throughout Fall 2026! Whether you’re looking for a collaborative co-working space, a place to connect with fellow scholars, or opportunities to engage with ongoing lab initiatives, BCaT is the place to be! Our podcast room is available on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and select Wednesdays feature BCaT Body Doubling and BCaT Lab Programming. Come work, connect, and create with us!
BCaT Eats & Sock Puppet Making
Join us for good food, Sesame Street, and an evening of handmade crafts!
BCaT Applies: Academic Journal Publishing
New to Academic Publishing? Join us to hear from communication scholars across a range of career stages and research areas. Panelists will discuss their research, give guidance on the road to publication, and behind-the-scenes tips on journal editing processes.