Good evening, it's Tuesday, October 27th. This is the Jive
at Five our 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 Marianne O’Hare, Thanks for joining us.
Here’s a rundown of some of what’s going on in our area this
week:
Tonight at 9:00 PM in the World Music Hall, The Center for
the Arts at Wesleyan presents Daniel Fishkin: Transcriptions in which graduate
music student Daniel Fishkin presents American avant-garde compositions
filtered through and radically reinterpreted by invented instruments. As
part of the Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan series, tomorrow/Wednesday night
you can see the stage production “Hkeelee” (Talk to Me) which offers a personal
and political exploration of family, memory, and what it means to be(come)
American. Thursday night at 7pm in the CFA Hall, Playwright Leigh
Fondakowski will discuss the development of her newest work, SPILL, a
multimedia play about the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil
spill. Thursday night also brings the Fall Senior Thesis Dance Concert to
the Patricelli ’92 Theater at 8pm. This is a collection of new works presented
by senior choreographers as part of their culminating project for the dance
major. The weekend brings other Senior Thesis performances as well and you can
learn more at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Down in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight, GO KAT GO
PRESENTS! LOS STRAITJACKETS FEATURING DEKE DICKERSON of THE FLESHTONES.
Wednesday night the bands CHILLED MONKEY BRAINS, MONSTER EATS PILOT, Hot Girl,
and Roadkill share a bill. Thursday night Café nine hosts a Bloodthirsty
Thursday Pre - Halloween Party!! With THE CONVERTIBLES and THE CROWN STREET
ORCHESTRA. Friday at 5 you can catch an early set with MARK
FERRARO, followed at 9:30 by Zak G C.D. release / Halloween Party
featuring VINYL CAPE, SKETCH THE CATACLYSM, JULES BAXTER, APOLLO SUNS,
ZAK G, MISTER, DJ MO NIKLZ, and ABNORMAL AREA. Saturday’s jazz jam will
be with Mike Coppolla & Friends at 4:30, followed at 9 by A DAY OF THE DEAD
BURLESQUE CABARET with Robin Banks, Kitty Katastrophe, Dot Mitzvah, Circus
Delecti,and Lipgloss Crisis. Sunday evening you can catch BLUES BOOT CAMP
WITH GREG SHERROD. www.cafenine.com.
Also in New Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight, Hip Hop artist,
Jeezy, takes the main stage. The funk band “LETTUCE” will perform at Toad’s
Place on Wednesday night with Exmag opening the show. TY DOLLA $IGN
PRESENTS: THE “IN TOO DEEP TOUR” featuring Lil Bibby Joe Moses and Tone
Eyeful. Friday night the TWIDDLE: HALLOWEEN Show features MUN and the
Bobby Paltauf Band. Sunday night Toads presents BROTHERS KEEPER WITH JOHN
POPPER (of Blues Traveler). www.toadsplace.com.
Up in Hartford, at Black-eyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights
Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material on
the Black-eyed Sally’s Stage. Sally’s longstanding Wednesday night blues jam
will be posted by Tim McDonald this week. On Friday night Ray Morant's
Soul Tsunami Takes the Black-eyed Sally’s stage. Saturday night The
Cedric Burnside Project takes the stage. Cedric Burnside is the grandson of the
legendary late blues man R.L. Burnside. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Tonight MANIC PRODUCTIONS AND PREMIER CONCERTS PRESENT:
Primus & the Chocolate Factory at The Palace Theater (Waterbury, CT).
Tomorrow/Wednesday manic presents Orchestra of Spheres, Florida=Death, and Sun
at Bar in New Haven. Friday night you can catch Ex Hex (feat. Mary Timony from
Helium and Wild Flag), alongside Speedy Ortiz, Ovlov, and loom. At The Space in
Hamden. Saturday night manic presents AJR, Minor Soul, and The Go To at the
Space. Details at www.manicproductions.org
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, Thursday night you can catch
Jubilee Riots, formerly known as Enter The Haggis. Friday
night the Legendary Los Lobos take the Infinity Hall Hartford Stage and
Saturday classic rockers, America, take the stage www.infinityhall.com
Wednesday night (and November 5) Middlesex Chamber
Prevention Committee presents a Mental Health First Aid training workshop
from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm at DeKoven House, 27 Washington St., Middletown . there
is a Registration fee. Contact Sheryl Sprague, 203-630-5357 orsheryl.sprague@hhchealth.org (Attendance
required at both sessions to receive certification)
Wednesday evening, Middletown Scottish Country Dancers hold
classes for beginning and experienced dancers from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at First
Church on Court Street. Partners not necessary. Wear soft-soled shoes. For
information, call Lucile Blanchard at 860-347-0278
Guided tours of the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown happen
every Wednesday at 2 p.m. www.wadsworthmansion.com
Hypnotist Mathew James performs at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
of Art Thursday night at 6:30 p.m., in a "Hypno Hartford" with
opening act, Comedy jugglers King & Ryan. www.hartford.com for info.
Every Friday and Saturday in October, “Spirits at
Stowe: An Otherworldly Tour” happens at 6:30 at the Harriett Beecher
Stowe House in Hartford. Join them for a flashlight tour in the dark and
learn about unexplained events from past and present. www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
At the Buttonwood Tree, here in Middletown, The Aligned With
Source workshop, led by Annaita Ghandy, continues on Saturday morning at 10:30,
with this week’s theme being “Your
Life, Your Purpose, Your Story.” Saturday night, vocalist Sissy
Castrogiovanni and her group & Intra Lu Munnu,
offers a provocative blend of Sicilian / Mediterranean music and contemporary
jazz. www.buttonwood.org
On Sunday’s Food Not Bombs serves food outside the
Buttonwood Tree around 1pm. All are welcome to enjoy the meal and to help
prepare it at First Church on Court Street in Middletown at 11:30am. You can
learn more at: www.foodnotbombs.net
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
Tonight at 7 p.m., Common Ground, the 6th Annual Middletown
International Film Festival continues at the Middlesex Community College campus
with a screening of Shun Li and the Poet. The film is a study of the friendship
between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many
years ago. Both live in a small
city-island in the Veneto lagoon. www.russelllibrary.org
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, the French thriller “The Blue
Room” continues through Oct. 30th and the documentary Pump, that tells the
story of America's addiction to oil, begins a run tonight through Tuesday.
Visit www.realartways.org www.realartways.org
At Cinestudio, The Trinity College cinema in Hartford, you can catch Michel Gondry’s latest film, Moon
Indigo, tonight and tomorrow. This is an adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian that
uses puppets, animation, and ingenious inventions like a piano that makes
cocktails to order. On Wednesday night Cinestudio opens a run of Woody Allen’s
10th film, Magic in the Moonlight. www.cinestudio.org.
Now here's a rundown of what's on air on WESU-FM tonight.
Now here's a rundown of what's on air on WESU-FM tonight.
Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for:
Wild Wild Live with Rachie and Hibiki for a peak into the
live music scene at Wesleyan.
At 6:00 it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill for 2 hrs of Americana, country, folk, bluegrass, and other music that has a
roots influence, Plus a comprehensive concert listing at 7pm, live guests
on occasion and ticket giveaways too!
From 8-9pm it’s The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, for a
weekly show featuring area artists and musicians of all genres.
At 9pm it’s Wonderland with DJ Cheshire Cat a free
form music show offering a wide range of music from krautrock to post-rock,
grunge to garage, novelty to New Romantic, punk to prog.
From 10:30-11:30pm tonight, Galactic Thematics embark on a
cosmic musical odyssey that transgresses the hermetic bounds of genre itself.
From 11:30-12:30am The Wily Windy Moors with Ian
McCarthy presents pop or pop-adjacent tunes to get you revved up for
bed, with a different title-based theme every week
After that at 12:30, Cryfest with Orlando Gloom invites
you to take a stroll down this trail of musical tears with some of the most
melancholy and grim, yet cathartic songs from across the decades.
At 1:30 Phantom Transmissions with DJ
Scarecrow for Spoken Word, Poetry, Prose and Rap over Fluid Beats.
From 2:30-3:30am It’s the The Blast Zone with Baggins
and the G-O inviting you to step into The Blast Zone for bantering about sports
and interviewing student athletes.
From 3:30-4am it’s The Graveyard Shift with DJ Otto
Nation an eclectic mix of music from the WESU library.
The BBC world news kicks on at 4 and we start
tomorrow’s broadcast day at 5am with Morning Edition from NPR.
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 www.wesufm.org where you’ll also find
our live internet stream, program archives, and our program schedule as well as
news and information about WESU’s 75th anniversary. Atwww.wesufm.org, you can also make a
donation I support of WESU and learn more about our Annual, Fall Record fair
and sale, happening on Sunday October 26.
Thanks for listening and stay tuned for Wild Wild Live with
Rachie and Hibiki.
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