Good evening, it's Friday, February 21st, and this is the
Jive at Five - WESU's Daily community calendar and run down 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. I'm Stephan Allison,
host of River Valley Rhythms heard Thursdays at 4 pm here at WESU. Thanks for tuning
in.
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For the latest in local arts and entertainment
anytime you're not hearing it on our Jive, go to arts2GO.org – the City’s website for what’s going on and what’s to do with a highlight
on the arts in Middletown. That's arts2GO.org
Now, here’s a rundown of some of what’s scheduled in the community
this weekend.
Tonight at The Buttonwood Tree on Main Street in Middletown there will
be a CD release party for the acoustic duo BluesGrass. Saturday morning brings
qigong (chi kung), tai chi, community yoga and an empowerment workshop. At 8 p.m. Saturday, the Dan DeChellis trio plays
original jazz compositions. On Sundays, Food Not Bombs serves food outside the Buttonwood
at 1 pm and all are welcome. You are also invited to help prepare the meal beforehand
at 11 am at First Church Congregational on Court Street. At 3 on Sunday afternoon, the 2014 CT Youth Poetry
Slam Tryouts take place at The Buttonwood Tree. Contestants must be between 13 and
19 years old to compete to join the OneWordCT National Youth Poetry Slam Team. Details
about all Buttonwood events are at www.buttonwood.org.
The Art Guild of Middletown invites you to take part in a workshop
on Saturday, from 9 am to 3 pm at Middlefield Federated Church in Middlefield,
CT. Master Sumi-E Artist and Printmaker Keiji Shinohara will lead a workshop in
Sumi-E Art (The Art of Japanese Brush painting) and printmaking. Please contact
Eva Dykas at evagdykas@gmail.com or
860.508.4852.for details.
The Green Street Arts Center of Wesleyan University invites you to
participate in their Greening Green Street Mosaic Project by taking a mosaic
class taught by nationally known pebble mosaicist Debora Aldo. In the 4-hour Make+Leave
Workshop you will learn how to make a black & white pebble mosaic that will
become part of a permanent installation in the front Green Street garden – a
space for youth education programs and community gathering. Workshop fees
help us purchase materials for the AfterSchool portion of the Greening Green
Street Mosaic Project. Call or email Green Street today at 860-685-7871 or gsac@wesleyan.edu to sign
up.
In Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s tonight, Jen Lowe and the Sensitive
Dudes are appearing. Saturday, The Bob Margolis Blues Band & Friends perform
at Black-eyed Sally’s.You can find out more at www.blackeyedsallys.com
In New Haven tonight the happy hour at Café Nine is with Victor Roland,
followed at 9 by Atrina, Beasty, and New Turks. Saturday’s Jazz Jam session at 4:30
is with the George Baker Band, followed at 8 by Mission O and The Simple Pleasure.
Sunday’s Bluegrass Jam at 4 is with Stacy Phillips, followed at 8 by the Original
Sunday Night Jam with the Morris Trent Band. You'll learn more at www.cafenine.com
Winter White featuring DSK CHK, Tommy Two Times, and Joey Fedz are
at Toad’s Place in New Haven tonight. Also tonight, Afton presents Keeping Company,
Aye-Jay, Negative Three, Foxes in Sockses, Orice Jenkins, Cheem, MyOhMy!, Eli Cannon,
and J-$wag General. Sunday, Toad’s Place, in association with Manic Productions,
brings “Into It. Over It”, along with “The World is a Beautiful Place”, “A Great Big Pile of Leaves”, “Old Gray”, and
“Ovlov”. Visit www.toadsplace.com
At 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday, back by popular demand after its sold-out
January run, Circus in Wonderland will be performed at the Oddfellows
Playhouse, 128 Washington St. in Middletown. This fast-paced, 45-minute show is
performed by the talented teens of Circophony, a collaboration between the Oddfellows
Playhouse Youth Theater and Artfarm. Circus in Wonderland explores the magical world
of Alice in Wonderland through the joy and spectacle of circus, with juggling, unicycling,
clowning, and acrobatic feats. More information is available by emailing info@artfarm.org or by calling
the Oddfellows Playhouse at (860) 347-6143.
Now here's a rundown of some of the films you can view off the beaten
track in Central Connecticut:
At RealArtWays in Hartford, Oscar-nominated shorts programming – both
live action and animated – continues through the end of the month. Also, tonight brings Best Offer, a mystery starring
Geoffrey Rush. And Saturday brings a one-time showing of How to Die in Oregon, about
physician-assisted suicide. realartways.org has more
detail.
At Cinestudio, the Trinity College cinema in Hartford, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom continues through Saturday. Sunday, Visitors, by the director of the Koyaaniqatsi
trilogy, with music by Philip Glass, opens for a three-day run. Visit www.cinestudio.org
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And now let’s
take a look at tonight’s programming on WESU.
Right after
the Jive At Five from 5:05 to 6:00pm it’s
Chocolate Cake with DJ Rob. An
hour long musical sugar high. Power-pop plus Brit-pop and singer/songwriters from
the 60's to today.
From 6 to 6:30pm, pick up Blackout with dj smoothchilD. Upon
waking up, dj smoothchilD and dj ROCK find out they are lost. Having no idea where
they are, they must explore, listening to music, speeches, poetry, and anything
else they can find to figure out where they are and how to get home. The first person
to call in and guess the correct mystery location win's a prize (of the dj's choosing).
Coming in at 6:30 it's a half-hour with the Middletown Youth Radio Project - A weekly radio program featuring the
thoughts, voices, creativity and talent of the
kids in the WESU neighborhood.
At
7 until 8:30pm we have the Universal Sound Wave with Sistah Tee - Informing listeners about local
and global issues with health, nutrition, and stress reduction tips, featuring a
wide range of music including African, reggae, gospel, R&B, Latin, and blues.
Next
up until 10pm, we take it
From the Otherside
with
Rok-A-Dee - The Voice of Hartford, including local artists from Connecticut,
New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He also features upcoming artists performing
Caribbean R & B, Soca and international music.
From
10 until Midnight, we go
In the Master Bedroom,
Under the Bed with
Dope Dave - Celebrating conscious hip-hop and its offshoots
& influences. Acrobatic emcees and down-tempo poets mix it up over varied oceans
of sound.
At Midnight
until 2am Saturday we go into OVERDRIVE with
Clarence Scott and Shantay Scott - taking the word of God and mixing it with
the music of God then shifting it into overdrive! Praising God with the best Urban
Contemporary, Hip Hop, and Traditional gospel music on the planet!
At 2 to 2:30am
it's Bassment Beats with DJ Lokash -
Celebrating its 10th year of bringing you the latest in aboveground & underground
hip-hop mixed live.
Then at 2:30
until 3am catch the New World Show with DJ
Lokash from Pacifica - The best in Global Bass mixed live. Baila coño!
The
next hour 'til 4am it's Maximum Rock & Roll Radio - A weekly radio show
featuring the best international DIY punk, garage rock and hardcore from the astounding,
ever-growing Maximum Rock n roll radio record collection.
Sing Out! Radio Magazine with Tom Druckenmiller comes
on at 4 until 5am with a weekly, hour-long “magazine format” program, featuring
interviews in addition to “live” and recorded traditional folk musics.
And
we bring in the daylight from 5:00 to 6:00am with the
BBC World News
- a daily News roundup from the British Broadcasting
Corporation
And
staying on the other side of the big pond, from 6:00 to 7:00am it’s
the Celtic Café
with Pat Laffan and Mark Gallagher
presenting traditional and contemporary music with a Celtic connection.
And now that
the coffee’s hot enjoy Caffé Italia from
7:00 to 8:00am
with Francesco Fiumara,
the former host of WESU's own WESParla
- A weekly roundup of news, music and memories
from Italy.
That’s all
for today’s Jive At Five, tune in each and every weekday at 4:55 pm to hear about
what’s going on in the community and on the air right here at 88.1 FM WESU, a community
service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
The Music behind today’s Jive At Five is from the Anthony Braxton
Quartet, 8 Standards (Wesleyan) 2001, featuring Anthony Braxton, Kevin O'Neil,
Andy Eulau, and Kevin Norton. The selection is Nuages and it's out on Barking Hoop
Records.
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