Good evening, it's Monday, June 3, 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, we go out on my back deck, uncork a few bottles of wine, and talk
with my lapsed Catholic and lapsed Episcopalian neighbors about why they left
the church and never looked back. I'll also bring you a digest of recent Catholic news and a remembrance of the late Father Andrew Greeley.
One more thing before we get to our rundown of what's
happening in the community this week. WESU’s spring pledge drive is coasting to
a close, a bit shy of the $15,000 goal. A generous supporter has offered to
match your donations over the next two weeks. So if you haven’t already, please
go to www.wesufm.org and click on DONATE NOW. Any amount means so much.
Okay, on with the Jive!:
Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, at 8 tonight, it's the Anything Goes open mic night. Tomorrow at 6 brings Laughter Yoga to the
Buttonwood, along with a potluck dinner. Wednesday at 7, Kirtan with
Shubalananda gives a free performance of kirtan, a form of yoga that has a
musical aspect. Thursday from 7 to 9, it’s
open mic night with Bob Gotta. Friday at 8, the Eight Mile River Band plays
bluegrass. Saturday morning at 7:30 brings weekly Quigong (Chi Kung) to the
Buttonwood, followed by community yoga. Saturday at 8 brings a co-bill of
country-soul and folk pop with Emily Hurd and Stephanie Lynn. 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. Also, all month, the Buttonwood will be exhibiting “Forest, Form and Fantasy,” a show of mixed-media works. 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. Tomorrow is the Decibel Magazine
Tour, with Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Immolation and Magrudergrind.
Wednesday is the weekly EDM Night. Thursday brings Funk Master Flex & Uncle
Murda.
Saturday, it’s the Glodown: Electro Glow Party, with electro/house/prog/dubstep
and DnB. The bands are Austin Diogo, DJ Blink, A-Ron & Kapsoul, Greddy,
Diatonic, Jimmy Fingaz, Tango, Psylar, Larry Luck, CarmyFresh, and e|roc. Also
on Saturday in Lilly’s Pad, Gorilla Music presents New Haven’s Battle of the
Bands, with Chaser Eight, Friends Without Benefits, The Ultra Violets, Grinning
Dog, Victory Am I, Kamikaze Fighter Pilots, Set In Motion, Great Blue, Funk You
Up, and This Was A Tragedy. Go to www.toadsplace.com
for details.
This Thursday Brings The “Art for Haiti” art exhibition to Middletown. This Gallery show features the work of 12 visual artists in support of “Movin' With The Spirit", a
non-profit organization dedicated to helping
Haiti’s poorest communities. WESU is proud to sponsor Art For Haiti’s exhibit at Wesleyan’s Zilkha
Gallery in Middletown on display June 6-15 with an opening reception, This Thursday, June 6, from
5-7pm featuring – wine, hors d'oeuvres, an opportunity to meet the
artists and a global mix of music by Ben Michael aka DJ Big Bent. Among the artists is WESU's own Bauer Hour host David Bauer, along with Andria Alex, Paul Baldassini, Catherine Epright, William Lawson, Ralph Levesque, Connie Nichols, Leif Nilsson, Tina McCurdy, Joyce Senesac and Balam Soto. The curator is Pierre Sylvain. We hope you will join
us to celebrate fine art and artist supporting a worthy cause. Art For Haiti June
6-15, in Wesleyan’s Zilka Gallery 283
Washington Terrace. Call (860) 685-2695 for information.
On Thursday, also 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 Saturday, it’s Much Ado About Something: The Shakespeare
Series, part 1. Middlesex Community College and the Middletown-based theater
company ARTFARM are collaborating to offer a three class series focusing on
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing on Saturday mornings in June. The classes
are offered in
preparation for ARTFARM’s Shakespeare in the Grove production of Much Ado,
which will be presented on the College campus July 18 – 21 and 25 – 28.
Also on Saturday in Middletown, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Middlesex
County Historical Society Participates in Connecticut Open House Day by participating
with dozens of other museums around the state by offering free admission. The
museum is at the Society’s headquarters, the General Joseph Mansfield House, 151
Main St. Current exhibits are award winning Hard & Stirring Times:
Middletown and the Civil War and Within These Walls: One House, One Family, Two
Centuries, the story of the Mansfield house and the family who occupied it. Of
particular interest is a display of items owned by General Mansfield who was
mortally wounded at the Battle of Antietam, and personal equipment used at the First Battle of Bull Run by
Charles Pelton, the founder of Pelton’s Drug Store.
On Sunday afternoon, from 4 to 6 p.m., the Shaped Note
Singers Meet at the MAC650 gallery on Main Street. Potluck follows the singing. Bring a dish to share. Contact
Neely Bruce at nbruce@wesleyan.edu for information.
And at 7 p.m. on Sunday, as well as at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, the
Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society will hold auditions for The Yeomen
of the Guard at Congregation Adath Israel, 8 Broad Street, Middletown. For more
details, call 1.800.866.1606 or visit the Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan
Society online.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut.
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, screenings continue of Room
237, a subjective documentary that explores the numerous theories about the
hidden meanings within Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining plus a screening of
the original thriller itself. Also continuing this week, courtesy of Real Art
Ways and Cinestudio, the Trinity College Cinema, is the 26th CT Gay &
Lesbian Film Festival. Tonight and tomorrow only brings Burn to Real Art Ways;
it’s an action-packed documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of
Detroit firefighters. Opening Friday is Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and
Mentors of Ricky Jay,the world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor, a
performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded
audiences. Saturday marks the return of The Room; the best terrible movie ever
is booked for monthly late shows at Real Art Ways. Visit realartways.org and
cinestudio.org for details and links to trailers.
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 from 11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., it's the Explorers' Hour,
with Pickup Sticks, a synthesis of science, spoken word and a lot of popular
music.
At 1 a.m. it’s Distilled Discographies with Cheshire Cat, distilling
down the discography of an artist to an essential 60 minute career
retrospective, sampling something from every cataloged release.
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.
Again, WESU needs to raise $15,000 dollars by the end of
July. Please help us out by making a
donations as soon as you can and the amount will be matched by a generous
supporter. If you tune in to WESU for
information and music that you can’t find elsewhere, then we are counting on
you to help support the service you depend on. Please take a moment to make a
donation of any size online at www.wesufm.org. Every dollar counts and we need
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Thanks for listening!
Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
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