Good evening, it's Tuesday, March 31st, and this is the Jive
at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of night time programming
here on WESU 88.1 FM 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, Producer of CHC Radio
Now here’s some of what’s going on in our area this week.
Tonight at 7, at the Russell Library in Middletown, Joe
Flood discusses his upcoming premier multi-media event on three Middletown
composers, Reginald deKoven, Henry Clay Work, and Edward Barrett. Tomorrow/
Wednesday they’re screening “2001 A Space Odyssey” at 7. A discussion follows
the film. The Veterans Writing Group meets every Thursday at 7. On
Saturday at 10 you can learn the art of Zentangle with Pam Hartz Miller. Visit http://www.russelllibrary.org for
details and information on more community activities
Manic Productions brings you Kind of Like Spitting, The City
On Film, and more tonight at the Space in Hamden. Tomorrow/
Wednesday, Manic presents Dinowalrus,
Glamour Assassins, and Terrible Roars take at Bar in New Haven. http://www.manicproductions.org
In New Haven tonight, at Cafe Nine, you can catch 10 String
Symphony and The Teaspoons at 9. On Wednesday Shel and Olive Tiger
take the Café stage. Thursday they’ve got Roger Street Friedman and
Seth Adam. On Friday, it’s Wess Meets West, Ports of Spain, Fishing
The Sky, and Grace Notes at 9. Saturday afternoon’s Jazz Jam session is with
Mike Coppola and Friends, and at 9:30 Manic Productions and Fistful of Jokes
present Eugene Mirman and Andrew Donnellyhttp://www.cafenine.com
Also Tonight, in New Haven, Toad’s Place, rapper Curren$y headlines a bill
featuring Tone Eyeful, Keyz Royal, Marquise Green, and Dutch The Dreamer. Tomorrow/
Wednesday they bring you New Found Glory and the Sleep When I Die Tour. Thursday
it’s Break Science, Marvel Years, and Vibe Street. On Friday, WYBC
Radio presents Ante-Fling featuring Giraggage. On Saturday, Lost
Soles Productions brings you The Spring Fling Sneaker Show, with a sneaker
raffle, custom demonstrations, and a door prize. www.toadsplace.com
Up in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights,
Michael Palin's Other Orchestra, an 18-piece band, works out new material. Their
weekly Wednesday night Blues Jam will be hosted by Ed Bradley, this week. On
Thursday, it’s Slacker’s Union playing cover tunes. On Friday, enjoy
the Xy Eli & D. Smith Blues Band with a Tribute to Muddy Waters. On
deck for Saturday is West End Blend, a West Hartford Afro-Funk/Hip-Hop Jam
Collective aiming to fill the dance floor.www.blackeyedsallys.com for
more.
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts holds a reception for Week
Two of the Senior Thesis Exhibition at the Zilkha Gallery this Wednesday at 4.
At 8, Asian Cultural Senior Advisor Ralph Samuelson performs music on the
Japanese flute, followed by a performance with dancer choreographer Eiko
Otake. Check the website for location. On Thursday at noon
dancer Eiko Otake and photographer William Johnston discuss their exhibition “A
Body in Fukushima” at the Mansfield Freeman Center. The Spring Senior Thesis
Dance Series happens this week from Thursday through Saturday. The
multimedia solo performance “Ida” is presented in CFA Courtyard. Senior
choreographers present a collection of new works at the Patricelli
Theater. A Senior Music Recital by Oluwaseun Odubiro, “Flies
Flucht,” occurs at Crowell Concert Hall on Friday at 7.
Details at http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
Writing at Wesleyan presents poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips
this Wednesday at 8 at Russell House. He’s the recipient of the 2013
Pen/Joyce Osterweil Award and a contributor to The New Republic and The New
Yorker. A reception and book signing follow the talk. http://www.arts2go.org
This Wednesday at noon, the Hartford Public Library presents
an author talk on “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” a show based on the book “The
Children of Willesden Lane” that will run through April 26 at Hartford Stage.
Author and piano virtuoso Mona Golabek is featured, and shares the true story
of a Jewish musician’s survival in World War II. http://www.hplct.org
The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet Wednesday at
First Church on Court St. Partners not necessary. Call 860-347-0278
for details.
A spiritual/psychic development and meditation circle is
offered every other Wednesday at 6:30 at Healing in Energy Wellness in
Essex. Details athttp://www.healingnergywellness.com
At the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, on Thursday it’s Open
Mic with Bob Gotta at 7. Friday they’ve got acoustic/pop performer
Alec Chambers at 7. The Aligned with Source workshop series with
Annaita Gandhy continues this Saturday at 10:30. This week’s theme is Living in
Divine Order. At 1, there’s a Free Poets Collective Open Mic, hosted by Andrea
Barton, with featured poets Lisa Taylor and Brenda Krosnicki. The
Doug White Quintet takes the stage later at 8. Sunday’s worship service at 10
is with Rev. Ronnie Bantum and at 11 with Pastor Sandra Steele. Food Not Bombs
serves food outside the Buttonwood Tree every Sunday at about 1 p.m. Help
prepare the meal at First Church on Court Street at 11:30. Next Monday morning
at 10:30 the Hearing Voices Network meets.http://www.buttonwood.org
There’s an opening reception on Friday at 7 for the new
exhibit “The Wandering Uterus II” at the Mac 650 Art Gallery on Main St. in
Middletown. Diverse fine art and media pieces from ten female Connecticut
artists are presented. http://www.arts2go.org
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, they bring you Moondance, “The
Ultimate Van Morrison Tribute Show,” this Friday at 8. On Saturday
the Boston Comedy Festival presents Best of the Fest! with Jim McCue, Al Park,
Dave McDonough, and Danny Boulger at 8. All details athttp://www.infinityhall.com
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, they continue their run of
“Living is Easy with Eyes Closed,” about a Spanish English teacher who takes a
road trip in 1966 in hopes of meeting John Lennon. It continues
through Thursday. Also continuing is “Gett: The Trial of Viviane
Amsalem,” about an Israeli woman seeking divorce from her manipulative
husband. Their film series Cinema 101 presents a one-time matinée
screening of “The Magnificent Seven” on Thursday at 1. The GAZE happy hour
occurs this Friday at 5:30. Also on Friday, they open a run of
“Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,” about a Japanese woman who believes she can find
buried money revealed in a treasure map from the movie “Fargo.” It
runs through the weekend.www.realartways.com.
Trinity College’s Cinestudio, ends their run of “Timbuktu,”
tonight. It’s a political film about resistance to the jihadist takeover of a
region in northern Mali. Tomorrow/ Wednesday they begin a run of “Mr. Turner,”
a movie biopic of the 19th century English artist J. M. W.
Turner. It runs through Saturday. On Sunday they
open “Girlhood,” a French coming-of-age film about a young Muslim girl growing
up in the poverty-ridden suburbs of Paris. www.cinestudio.org.
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU:
Right after the Jive at Five stay tuned for Wild Wild
Live with DJ Hibiki and DJ Rachie for a sneak peak into the live music scene at
Wesleyan.
At 8pm stay tuned for The Voice of the CITY with J-Cherry, a weekly show featuring the area’s finest artists and musicians of every genre.
From 9-10:30pm DJ Babelfish fills in for Dj Cheshire Cat’s Wonderland.
From 11:30-12:30am its Thinking out Loud with DJ Stinky, a Contemplation through music and audio art.
At 12:30am Fictive Sound with DJ LN presents a new soundtrack on each show inspired by an adored novel.
From 1:30-2:30am its The Blast Zone with Baggins and the G-O who will journey, drill, grab, sing, and banter our way through the wild world of sports.
From 2:30-3:30am stay tuned for Occupy Radio from Pacifica, An extended conversation about the issues which gave rise to the Occupy Movement.
3:30-4am it's The Graveyard Shift with DJ Otto Nation
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/jive
Stay tuned for Wild Wild Live with Rachie and Hibiki
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