Good evening, it's Thursday, June 25th, 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 Ben Michael, thanks so much for
joining us. Thanks also for your patience throughout out enduring Spring pledge
Drive. With under $900 to go to reach our goal, the end is in sight! We’ve
already begun putting listener funds to work on upgrades to improve the service
we provide. At this point all new donations will directly go towards upgrades. Donations
can be made online at www.wesufm.org/pledge
Now here’s some of what’s happening in our area this week:
The Middlesex Drum Circle meets at 7pm this evening (Thurs) at
the Buttonwood Tree in Middletown. Tomorrow/ Friday you can join The
Hollands! for Americana folk harmonies and a sing-along. On Saturday The Red
Hots take the stage, with classic blues, jazz, and more. 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. The Hearing Voices Network meets
weekly on Monday morning at 10:30. http://www.buttonwood.org
Tonight, Manic Productions presents Cibo Matto and Invisible
Familiars at The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden. Saturday, manic
presents Old Gray, Milo, Clique, and Setsuna at The Space. Sunday, Manic
brings you Melvins, and Le Butcherettes at The Ballroom at the Outer Space in Hamden. http://www.manicproductions.org
In New Haven tonight, Cafe Nine tonight they’ve got a triple
bill featuring Mark Sultan, Jack Oblivian, and The Sheiks. Friday’s early set
at 5pm features Victor Roland, followed later by A Muscle Shoals Music Revue
featuring Amy Black and Sarah Borges. Café Nine’s weekly Saturday afternoon
Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker Band. Butch Hancock and special guest
Rory Hancock take the main stage at 9pm. On Sunday at 1pm there’s a
Tribute to the Life of Kenny Melillo, with the usual Sunday Soul Service
happening later at 8. http://www.cafenine.com
At Toad’s Place in New Haven, tonight, Zach Deputy takes the
stage, along with Organically Good Trio. On Saturday you can catch
Shakedown, Eggy, and The Remnants. www.toadsplace.com
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, The Seldom Scene performs
bluegrass this tonight (Thursday) at 8. On Friday, Liberty Comedy
presents “Letterman’s Favorites” at Infinity Hall Hartford. On Saturday,
Connecticut’s own Jeff Pevar and “Mo” Pleasure bring an all-star lineup to the
stage with special guests. On Sunday, iconic folk artist Tom Rush
performs at 7:30. Details at http://www.infinityhall.com
At, Black-eyed Sally’s in Hartford Tomorrow/ Friday, you can
catch award-winning music by Roots of Creation, bringing you reggae, funk,
electronica and more. You can enjoy blues rock on Saturday with Night
Train. www.blackeyedsallys.com
The Hartford Public Library celebrates LGBT Pride
Month. Thursday there’s a panel discussion and book signing led by John
Wenke, author of “The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity.” Their Poets on Poetry series continues this Saturday with a
discussion of the work of Galway Kinnell. http://www.hplct.org
The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford now offers free admission
every Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 5 p.m. It’s free as well this
Saturday as part of their Second Saturdays for Families series. http://www.thewadsworth.org
At Scatz Restaurant and Lounge in Middletown, you can enjoy
the Medusa Band tomorrow/Friday. Saturday, Rahsaan Langley takes the
stage. http://www.scatzrestaurantandlounge.com has
details. That’s Scatz with a Z.
Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours happen this Friday and Saturday
at the Mark Twain House in Hartford. Visit http://www.marktwainhouse.org for
details.
Artists for World Peace holds its third annual Dance for
Peace this Saturday at the Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old
Saybrook. Proceeds benefit the Dr. Yoram Kaufmann Scholarship Fund.
Details at http://www.artistsforworldpeace.org
The Middletown Symphonic Band performs an outdoor concert
this Saturday at Riverfront Recapture Great River Park in East Hartford.
Details at http://www.middletownsynphonicband.org
By supporting Connecticut’s Farmer’s Markets you can enjoy
healthy locally grown food. You can visit East Haddam every Wednesday from 4 to
7, Durham every Thursday from 3 to 6, Clinton every Thursday from 4 to 7,
Middletown North End Friday from 10 to 2, Higganum Village Friday from 3:30 to
6:30, Cromwell on Friday from 4 to 7, Old Saybrook on Wednesdays and Saturdays,
and Chester on Sunday from 10 to 1. Middletown’s Long Standing Farmer’s
market on the south green will begin in July. Stay tuned to the Jive for
updates on more openings, and visit http://www.ctnofa.org/FarmersMarkets for
full details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in
Central Connecticut:
The Global Lens film series resumes at the Hartford Public
Library’s downtown location. This week they’re screening “Image Threads,” a
film from India about self-discovery through the eyes of an internet
hacker. Visit http://www.hplct.org for
days and times.
Hartford Parks free Movies After Dark series returns,
showing “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory this Friday in Bushnell
Park. http://www.bushnellpark.org
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, they continue their run of the
Sundance Film Festival Award-winning shorts of 2015, along “When Marnie Was
There,” an animated parable about friendship and emotional repair. Both run
through tonight (Thursday). On Friday they open “The Ye Men Are
Revolting,” a documentary about an activist group taking on climate
change. They also open “Charlie’s Country,” about an aboriginal lost
between the old and new cultures of northern Australia. Their third
offering is “The Wolfpack,” a Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary
about brothers locked in a Lower East Side apartment who discover the world
through movies. www.realartways.org
Tonight Trinity College’s Cinestudio ends their run of
“Juaja,” starring Viggo Mortensen in a drama about a Danish engineer who sets
out to find a city in Argentina in the 1880’s. Tomorrow/Friday they open
“The Last Waltz,” a restored version of Martin Scorsese’s 1976 concert film of
The Band’s farewell performance in San Francisco. Saturday’s
matinee is Julie Taymor’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Sunday’s matinee is the National Theatre Live’s proction of “The Audience,”
starring Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. Details at http://www.cinestudio.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU:
Right after the jive stay tuned for our extended summer
edition of Homegrown with Rob DeRosa featuring the best crop of
Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.
From 6:30-8pm Someone will fill in for Karen Stein’ Imagine.
From 8-9:30pm Evening Jazz with Bill Denert, presents
broad range of swing, be-bop, and avant-garde Jazz as well as a sprinkling of
new
releases.
From 9:30-11pm Experience The Experiment with DJ Marquis
featuring less heard album cuts of mainstream and underground artists.
After that we switch gears from 11pm-1am on Metal on
Metal!! with the Metal Messenger presenting traditional heavy metal,
progressive metal, death metal, power metal, black metal...any kind of metal as
long as it's shreddin'!
Mentaltown with El Vee hits the airwaves from 1-2am offering
Ill vill for the unsigned artist, small biz, and non profits with different
guest hosts and dj's
At 2am We offer RootsWorld
Radio with Cliff Furnald
From 3-4am we’ll rebroadcast today’s edition of Democracy
Now.
Morning edition from NPR starts tomorrow’s broadcast
day at 5am.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. Tune in each and every
weekday at 4:55 p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the
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