The first Colored Ink show, titled "Showcases of the New Faces of Theatre" was performed on January 18th and 19th, 2002.
Colored Ink performed "Blackbuster Nights, Short Month/Long History" on Feb 22nd and 23rd, 2002 to a sold out audience.
April 9th, 2002 marks the first time that Colored Ink incorporates hip hop theatre into their performances, resulting in the successful "What If The Streets Had A Heartbeat". This was a performance for the Campo Santos Hybrid Project.
In the months after, Colored Ink begins to outreach their hip hop theatre piece, "What If The Streets Had A Heartbeat" throughout the Bay Area community. Production starts on "Urban Healing, Dealing With How We're Feeling", a series of theatrical events that combine spoken word and hip hop theatre. These performances serve as the foundation for the "Two Generations, One Heartbeat" project. As the name implies, this series was a multi-generational collaboration that brought together the members of Colored Ink with elders in the Bay Area's progressive and highly diverse arts scene, including poets of SF's legendary Beat generation.