Good evening, it's Monday, May 20, and this is the Jive at
Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming
here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown, your station for NPR, Pacifica, independent
and local public affairs by day and the best in free-form community programming
week nights and weekends. Thanks for Tuning in. I'm Maria Johnson, producer and
host of "Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith," which airs every
1st, 3rd, and 5th, Tuesday afternoon, from 4 p.m. to right before the Jive at
Five. Tomorrow’s topic: Mouthy Women of the New Testament! Have trouble
speaking truth to power? Or are you already a mouthy woman? Either way, you’ll
find the encouragement and validation you need.
One more thing before we get to
our rundown of what's happening in the community this week. It may be hard to
tell, but you're listening during our spring pledge drive. We've decided to
take a subtler approach to fundraising this season -- there is no one manning
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Okay, on with the Jive!:
Here in Middletown at 8 tonight, it's the Anything Goes open
mic night at the Buttonwood Tree on Main Street. Tomorrow at 6 brings Laughter Yoga to the
Buttonwood, along with a potluck dinner. Wednesday at 7, it’s karaoke with Deni.
Friday at 8, Karl Rausch and the Moments Notice Ensemble plays contemporary and original jazz compositions. Saturday
morning at 7:30 brings weekly Quigong (Chi Kung) to the Buttonwood, followed by
community yoga. Saturday night at 8, the South Carolina Broadcasters bring
their harmonies and acoustic music to the Buttonwood., And, of course, on
Sunday, Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood Tree. You're invited
to help prepare the vegetarian meal at 11:30 a.m. at the First Church on Court
Street. Information about all Buttonwood events can be found at buttonwood.org.
Down in New Haven at Toad's Place, tonight brings A Night of
Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. Wednesday it's the weekly EDM
Night. Thursday is the Ultimate Local Showcase, with Round 3, Dexter, Drawing a
Blank, The Foresters, The Yogibros, If Not for Dreaming, Big Charlie’s Rubber
Band, Chaser Eight, Auburn Row, Deception Fades, Branchwater, Loki, Terra
Firma, and Rockerific. Friday brings Talib Kweli, Cory Mo, and Jus &
Company with special guest Sotorios of Political Animals; plus, The Shift. Saturday brings the Reggae Springfest to Toad’s, with I
Anbassa, B-plus, Gnostic Roots, All Good Feel Good Collective, I Am Natty Congo
and the Kronic Band, and BruckHeart. Sunday, Styles P performs. Go to www.toadsplace.com for details.
Also in New Haven, at Cafe Nine, tonight brings the Fistful
of Jokes Comedy Series, hosted by the Morgan Brothers, Andrew and Jerry.
Tomorrow, Manic Productions presents James McCartney; w/ Brian Dolzani; and Alyssa
Graham. Wednesday, it’s Jess Klein, with Ada, playing gutsy folk rock.
Thursday, JEFF the Brotherhood plays, along with Hunters and Lemuria. Friday’s happy
hour is with Sal Paradise, followed by Broken; w/ Tomb & Thirst; and Anu.
The Saturday Afternoon Jazz Jam is hosted by George Baker. Then Saturday night,
it’s The Morning on Fire; w/ Milksop: Unsung; and Kindred Queer. Sunday’s
Bluegrass jam is hosted by Stacy Phillips. And the Sunday After Supper Jam is
hosted by the Legendary Cafe Nine All Stars, w/ master of ceremonies Dom Zullo.
Go to www.cafenine.com for details.
Up in Hartford at Blackeyed Sally's, tonight is Jazz Monday.
Tomorrow brings Michael Palin's Other Orchestra. Wednesday is the Blues jam
with Tommy Whalen. Friday brings Latanya Farrell & Bookman Styles Band to
Sally’s. Saturday, it’s Mixed Signals. Go to www.blackeyedsallys.com for more.
Also up in Hartford, on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Bushnell
Center for the Performing Arts, it’s “Middletown High School Goes to the
Symphony,” a biennial event in which students in the concert band, string
orchestra and concert chorus perform side-by-side with the professional
musicians of the Hartford Symphony. Tickets are still available. Go to www.middletownschools.org for
information.
Also on Thursday, back in Middletown, Oddfellows Playhouse presents “Hear What's
In The Heart - A Shoemaker's Tale,” a theatrical family portrait celebrating
the life of an Italian grandfather from Middletown. The show’s creator, Stephen
Scionti, plays all eight characters, including some Middletown fixtures whom longtime
local residents may recognize. The show will be performed every Thursday
through June 20.
On Friday at 6 p.m., Middlesex Community College hosts an
opening reception for its annual Arts and Media Festival, showcasing the most
accomplished projects produced by the school’s humanities division students. In
addition to the student film and multimedia projects screening, student art
works will be displayed throughout the Jean Burr Smith Library, Pegasus Gallery
and the Niche.
Over at Wesleyan University on Saturday afternoon at 2,
there will be an opening reception at the Zilkha Gallery for the graduating
seniors’ thesis artworks in this showcase of drawing, painting, printmaking,
photography, sculpture, mixed media and architecture. For more information, visit
www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
On Saturday evening at 7, the Middletown Symphonic Band will
perform an outdoor concert at Riverfront Recapture in East Hartford. Go to www.middletownsymphonicband.org
for details.
Sunday morning at 9 –
and every last Sunday morning of the Month – have breakfast while
enjoying the music of The Rusted Keys, an acoustic duet. They play at
BrewBakers, 169 Main Street, Middletown.
On Sunday afternoon, from 4 to 6 p.m., the Shaped Note
Singers Meet at the MAC650 gallery on Main Street. Shaped notes are a music
notation designed to facilitate congregational and community singing. The
notation, introduced in 1801, became a popular teaching device in American
singing schools. Potluck follows the singing. Bring a dish to share. Contact Neely Bruce at nbruce@wesleyan.edu for
further information or directions.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut.
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,”
a post 9/11 story in which conflicting ideologies have the power to determine
life or death, continues through Thursday. Then Friday begins a run of “Molly's
Theory of Relativity,” a sexy, funny, surreal, and devastating portrait of a
beautiful twenty-eight-year-old astronomer who, having unexpectedly lost her
job, is poised to make perhaps the first reckless decision of her life. Also
opening Friday at Real Art Ways is “Gimme the Loot,” in which Malcolm and
Sofia, two determined teenage graffiti writers from the Bronx, hatch a plan to
get revenge on their rivals by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to
raise $500 to pull off their spectacular scheme. Go to realartways.com for
details.
Over at Cinestudio, Trinity College's cinema in Hartford, tonight
and tomorrow are your last chance to see “No”: in which Mad Men meets 1980s-era
political repression in Chile. Then Wednesday begins a run of “Quartet.” Dustin Hoffman’s first film as a director is
set in a home for retired singers and musicians, as they prepare for their
annual benefit operatic concert. Find show times at www.cinestudio.org.
And now here’s a run-down of what's on the air here at WESU,
88.1 FM in Middletown:
Right after the Jive at Five stay tuned for a well-rounded
jazz show on Charles Henry’s Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry until 6pm.
Weekdays at 6 Free Speech Radio News From the Pacifica
Network offers a daily dose of alternative international news and reporting.
At 6:30 it's The Fermata with DJ Semiquaver for 90 minutes of free-form radio goodness.
At 8pm The Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis offers the best in
vintage and contemporary heavy funk, soul, club jazz, reggae, ska, afro and
latin dancefloor grooves.
Aargh! with Tom Stoner, plays stoner cosmic doom psychedelia avant garde noise chair from 9:30-11:30 pm.
Then it's the Explorers' Hour, with Pickup Sticks, a synthesis of science, spoken word and a lot of popular music.
At1 a.m., DJ Otto Nation's night train offers a free-form mix of music from the WESU library until the BBC kicks on at 4, followed by NPR's Morning
Edition at 5.
And that’s all for today’s Jive at Five, if you didn’t get a
chance to write down some of the information mentioned in our community
calendar, the script is published online at wesufm.org/jive.
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Thanks for listening!
Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
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