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Good evening, it's Monday, Aug.3rd, 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 JCherry producer and host of VOICE of the CITY,Tuesday from 8-9PM, Showcasing live and local music, arts, and culture.
Now here’s some of what’s going on in our area this week:
Tonight it's Middletown’s art walk, across the street from the Buttonwood at the MAC650 Gallery, a new exhibit of comic-themed art, titled “KABOOM,” opens. Among the work on display will be panels from a non-fiction graphic novel in progress by WESU’s own Reasonably Catholic host Maria Johnson. It tells the story of Dr. Nancy Cappello, who brought awareness to the risk of mammography’s missing cancer in “dense breasts.” The opening for the exhibit is from 5 to 8, followed by a home brew and open mic celebration of the gallery's first anniversary. www.mac650.com.
There’ll be an opening reception on tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. for another nearby exhibit, at the Green Street Center for Teaching and Learning. Featured is Matt Low’s show, “Persistence,” featuring powerful and poetic photographs of beach debris. Also on display will be “The Little Things,” a photo exhibit by Hannah Vecchitto, a Middletown High School leukemia survivor. www.arts2go.org.
At the Russell Library in Middletown, Veteran’s Writing Group meets this Thursday at 7. Visit their website for information on summer events, children’s activities, and more. http://www.russelllibrary.org
Tonight at 7 at the Buttonwood Tree is host to Bob Gotta’s open mic. Also on Thursday, the Buttonwood will be one of the stops along the monthly Middletown Art Walk. Featured will be the Saratoga Soul Photo Exhibit. Then Saturday at 8, Kate Callahan performs with Donna Gentile. www.buttonwood.org.
Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum’s First Thursday Block Party from 5 to 8 p.m. is themed “One Love” and takes place between the museum and City Hall. Featured will be live Caribbean music, body art by Amazing Face Art, complimentary snacks, Reggae dance lessons, and more! Music for the evening includes the De Four Ah Wee Steel Drum Band, the Hartford Hot Several, and a special appearance by the latest sensation, boy band NK5, presented by Maurice Starr and Joe Young Studios. www.thewadsworth.org has details.
Also in Hartford, at Blackeyed Sally’s, tonight brings Pigeons Playing Ping Pong to Sally’s. Then Friday, it’s Albert Castiglia. Saturday, Shokazoba performs. www.blackeyedsallys.com
Down in New Haven at Toad’s Place Friday brings the OMG Music Fest to Toad’s, featuring Dylan Holland, Jonah Marais, the Nick Tangorra Band, Reed Deming, and Gavin Becker. Saturday at Toad’s, it’s the Bright Night: Electro-Glow Party, with DJs spinning in two rooms, including ATAU, DJ Deafstar, DJ K4DI, Jigsaw, JORCE, Justin Vade, Mex-Em, Oracle, Schoddy, Steve Lynch, v1bes, Wired-Up, and Wtchcrft. More at www.toadsplace.com.
Also in New Haven, at Café Nine, tonight brings A Tribute to Andy Warhol to Café Nine, with Jacques Le Coque, If Jesus Had Machine Guns, and DJ B the T. Friday at Café Nine, you can catch Cygnus Radio Happy Hour, with Lines West, at 5 p.m., followed at 9 by Javier & Los DishDogs, with Zombii, Thrust, and Mind Over Master. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session at 4:30 is with Gary Grippo & Friends, followed at 9 by the Lipgloss Crisis Summer Burlesque Cabaret. Sunday’s Soul Service is at 8 p.m. www.cafenine.com
Manic Productions brings concerts to area venues this week, Friday at The Space in Hamden, Manic Productions brings Saintseneca, Zanders, and Orders. www.manicproductions.com.
You can tango every Friday at First Church on Court Street in Middletown, starting at 4 p.m. Details at http://www.firstchurchmiddletown.org
Up in Hartford, Ricki Lee Jones comes to Infinity Hall. Then Saturday brings Little Texas. www.infinityhall.com
On Saturday and Sunday, starting at 1 p.m., Middlesex Community College hosts an expanded Middletown Music Festival, celebrating local musicians. This year the festival includes 13 bands: Jennifer Hill, gigglejuice, JCherry & The Strawberries, Someone You Can Xray, Joey Batts & Them, SuperTrance, Straddle, Daddy Kalimur, Randomizer, The Terry Rand Band, Hannah’s Field, The Balkun Brothers, and The Michael Cleary Band, along with six acoustic acts: Robert C. Fullert on, Julia Autumn Ford, Erica Lynn, Joe Paresi, Rust’d Keys and Seat Of Our Pants. The festival also includes local artisans and food vendors, along with yoga, belly dancing, hula hooping, outdoor games and dancing. This family festival is open to everyone and the suggested donation of $10 includes entry in a drawing for music CDs, vendor gifts and other items. In the event of rain, the festival will take place inside MxCC’s Chapman Hall. Festival info is available at www.arts2go.org and at JCherryPresents.blogspot.com.
You can support Connecticut’s Farmer’s Markets and enjoy healthy food while you’re at it! The East Haddam Farmer’s market happens every Wednesday from 4 to 7, Durham’s is on Thursdays from 3 to 6. The Clinton market is every Thursday from 4 to 7. Middletown’s North End farmers market is on Friday from 10 to 2. There’s one in Higganum Village on Friday from 3:30 to 6:30, and in Cromwell on Friday from 4 to 7. On the shore, in Old Saybrook markets are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The Chester market is open on Sundays from 10 to 1. Middletown’s long-running market on the South Green runs Tuesdays and Thursdays through October. The oldest market in the state is at the Old State House in Hartford. It was established in 1643. It runs through Oct. 31. You can learn more about it at www.hartfordfarmersmarkets.org/old-state-house. Tune in to the Jive for updates on more openings, and visit http://www.ctnofa.org for details.
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
The Hartford Parks Free Movies After Dark series continues this Friday with a screening of "LEGO Movie," the 2014 animated adventure about an intrepid little LEGO figure, in Sigourney Park.http://www.courant.com/entertainment/movies
The Hartford Public Library continues its Global Lens Film Series on Wed. and Fri. with the Turkish film “K & Ali,” about a friendship between an aging collector and his doorman, an unusual exploration of class and privilege in modern Istanbul. http://www.hplct.org
At Real Art Ways in Hartford, “Tangerine” opens on Friday for a run through Aug. 13. It was shot on an iPhone 5 for practically no money. Also opening on Friday and running through the 13th is “Court,” winner of top prizes at the Venice and Mumbai film festivals. It’s described as a quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, caste prejudice, and venal politics in contemporary India. Closing Thursday are runs of “Beyond the Brick: A LEGO Brickumentary” and “A Borrowed Identity.” http://www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio continues its run of the 1949 Cold War masterpiece “The Third Man,” starring Orson Welles. The film runs through Thursday, then “Far from the Madding Crowd” opens. www.cinestudio.org.
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU, as we work our way through our summer program line up:
Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU
5:05-6:30pm
5:05-6:30pm
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa
The best crop of Connecticut-connected music presented for a global audience.
6:30-8pm
Imagine with Karen Stein
Peace through music! Listen to the best music from around the world and around the block!
8-9:30pm
Evening Jazz with Bill Denert, with Evening Jazz with a broad range of swing, be-bop, and avant-garde as well as a sprinkling of new releases.
9:30-11pm
(1,3,5) Underdogs Edge with DJ Malik1Fam
Featuring local hip hop artists across the region with tracks from mainstream artists not normally played on the radio.
(2,4) Experience The Experiement (ETEShow) with DJ Marquis
Album Cuts of main and non mainstream artists. The show does interviews from all backgrounds of music.
11-1am
Metal on Metal!! with the Metal Messenger
Welcome to Metal on Metal!! Traditional heavy metal, progressive metal, death metal, power metal, black metal...any kind of metal as long as it's shreddin'!
1-2am
Mentaltown with El Vee
Ill vill for the unsigned artist, small biz, and non profit with different guest hosts plus dj's
2-3am
RootsWorld Radio with Cliff Furnald
3-4am
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 air right here at WESU 88.1 FM, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.
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