Good evening,
it's Monday, February 29th. This is the leap year edition of the Jive
at Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime
programming, here on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers a diverse
program of NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs. Each night and
weekend WESU offers the best in free-form community programming. That noise you hear in the background is the sound of your donations at work: we're having asbestos removed from the station. Music to our ears!
I'm Maria Johnson, producer and host of Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith, which airs every first, third and fifth Tuesday, from 4 to right before the Jive at Five. Tomorrow: with last night's Oscar telecast still resonating, we bring you a chat with one of those documentary filmmakers whom Louis C.K. pointed out do such good work for peanuts. Rebecca Parrish, Wesleyan class of '06, produced the documentary film Radical Grace, about how three American nuns dealt with a Vatican inquisition and crackdown. Can't listen live? Find the audio archived at wesufm.org and www.reasonablycatholic.com.
Now here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week: Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, Monday nights you can participate in their weekly Anything Goes Open Mic and Moments of Gratitude meditation. March 1st, this Tuesday, Laugher Yoga + Vegetarian Potluck and a coloring event for adults, Color Me Calm. This Thursday, it’s the Acoustic Open Mic with Bob Gotta. Friday evening you can catch saxophonist Charles Neville and bassist Avery Sharpe for an evening of live jazz. On Saturday, it’s the morning class of Transitional Tai Chi followed by the Aligned with Source mediation, this week guided by Annaita Gandhy. Saturday afternoon at the Buttonwood features the Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival and Saturday evening, blues and folk band Peregrine Road takes the stage. Sunday rounds out the week with the Great Make Believe Society Improv Show. www.buttonwood.org
I'm Maria Johnson, producer and host of Reasonably Catholic: Keeping the Faith, which airs every first, third and fifth Tuesday, from 4 to right before the Jive at Five. Tomorrow: with last night's Oscar telecast still resonating, we bring you a chat with one of those documentary filmmakers whom Louis C.K. pointed out do such good work for peanuts. Rebecca Parrish, Wesleyan class of '06, produced the documentary film Radical Grace, about how three American nuns dealt with a Vatican inquisition and crackdown. Can't listen live? Find the audio archived at wesufm.org and www.reasonablycatholic.com.
Now here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week: Here in Middletown, at the Buttonwood Tree, Monday nights you can participate in their weekly Anything Goes Open Mic and Moments of Gratitude meditation. March 1st, this Tuesday, Laugher Yoga + Vegetarian Potluck and a coloring event for adults, Color Me Calm. This Thursday, it’s the Acoustic Open Mic with Bob Gotta. Friday evening you can catch saxophonist Charles Neville and bassist Avery Sharpe for an evening of live jazz. On Saturday, it’s the morning class of Transitional Tai Chi followed by the Aligned with Source mediation, this week guided by Annaita Gandhy. Saturday afternoon at the Buttonwood features the Woman Scream International Poetry and Arts Festival and Saturday evening, blues and folk band Peregrine Road takes the stage. Sunday rounds out the week with the Great Make Believe Society Improv Show. www.buttonwood.org
Down in New
Haven, at Café Nine, tonight it’s the Leap Year Lounge! hosting Jazz with Kevin
St. James. Tomorrow (Tuesday) features New Haven alternative R&B artist
Moonchild. Wednesday brings blues artists, Gina Sicilia. On Thursday, it’s The
Jaws, This Criminal Soul and The Clams take the stage. Friday afternoon, you
can catch the Weekly Wind Down Happy Hour with Paul Panamarenko. Manic
Productions and Café Nine’s present
Go!zilla and The Roaring 420’s on Friday evening. The weekly Saturday afternoon
Jazz Jam Session is with Mike Coppola and Friends. Saturday evening it’s New
Haven’s longest running side show Circus Delecti at Café Nine. The Sunday
matinee features the Sarah Borges Band the Sunday evening Open Jam Session! this week is with Off the
Trax. www.cafenine.com
Also in New
Haven, at Toad’s Place, tonight and every Monday you can catch a Night of
Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends. On Thursday DMX performs and on
Friday you can catch the Cosmic Dust Bunnies. www.toadsplace.com
This Wednesday, Manic Productions in New Haven present garage-pop, surf-rock, punk band Jacques Le Coque with Worn Leather and Lea at BAR. www.manicproductions.org
Up in Hartford
at Black-Eyed Sally’s, tonight’s Jazz Monday’s the Jonathan Barber Trio. Tomorrow
(Tuesday) Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra gets funky and works out new
material. Thursday evening, it’s the first night of Strange Creek “Battle of
the Bands”. This event runs for the next four Thursday’s. Funk/jam band
Phonosythesis takes the stage at Black-Eyed Sally’s this Friday. On Saturday
it’s the first New England blues Guitar Summit showcasing a variety of top,
world class Electric Blues Guitarists. www.blackeyedsallys.com
This month,
Real Art Ways hosts the 5th CT Printmakers Invitational exhibition, Multiple Impressions featuring 23
artists who use a variety of printmaking processes. Also open this month, is
the exhibition, Keleti Station. Artist Alina Gallo
has painted a life-sized egg tempera mural directly on the walls of Real Art Ways
depicting a train station in Budapest where thousands of Syrian and Afghan
refugees were stranded in route to Germany during 2015. The mural is open
through April.
This Tuesday, Russell Library here in Middletown hosts several workshops. In the morning you can practice interview skills with Bob Carlson and in the evening Dr. Helen Evard, producer/host of “Your Mind Matters” presents a Career Workshop on Depression and Unemployment. Also tomorrow (Tuesday), there will be a Foreclosure Prevention Clinic. On Wednesday, you can catch the Teen Advisory Council. The Great Reads Book Discussion with Hedda Kopf also meets Wednesday. This and every Thursday, The Job Group meets mornings for a chance to network with other job seekers and professionals and the Veteran's Writing Group meets in the evening. Also this Thursday you can catch and Irish Step Dancing Workshop. Saturday will host a Resume Review session and a Hula Hoop Fitness class in the morning. www.russelllibrary.org
The Middletown
Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday at First Church on Court St.
Call 860-347-0278 for details.
On Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the MAC650 Gallery on Main Street in Middletown, there will be an opening reception for "Local Color: Seven Female Artists," an art exhibit to mark the 18th birthday of Durham artist Cas White-Ryan. The other artists are: Jan Wenzel, Marjee Wolfgang, Karen White, Linda DaSilva, Anastasia Andrews and WESU's own "Reasonably Catholic" host Maria Johnson. Details at www.arts2go.org.
On Tuesday, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts hosts The Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble for a live-electronic music show. On Wednesday, the Anchiskhati Church Choir present a concert of sacred music from the Republic of Georgia. This Saturday and Sunday, is the versatile DanceMasters Weekend featuring an array of Master Classes and Choreographer Conversations by dancers of varied backgrounds.
Up in Hartford
at Real Art Ways, you can catch the 2016
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts and Rams, winner at the Cannes
Film Festival about two estranged brothers in Iceland reuniting to save the
family sheep. Showings through Thursday. www.realartways.org
Tonight and
Tuesday Trinity College’s Cinestudio is showing Black Orpheus (35mm), winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language Film in 1959. Starting Wednesday, it’s a showing of the stop-motion
animation film Anomalisa, directed by
Charlie Kaufman. Anomalisa runs
through the week. On Thursday, the National Theater Live perform Hangmen. www.cinestudio.org
Now here's
what's on the air tonight on WESU:
Right after the Jive at Five, stay tuned for an hour of Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
From 6-6:30pm stick around for Brass Tacks with Emmet Teran and Alec Shea presenting news stories from around the
world through interviews with experts and newsmakers on topics not covered
elsewhere.
From 6:30-8, it’s 75% Folk with Michael Benson, offering contemporary folk along with a mix of
blues, jazz, world music and movie soundtracks.
At 8pm, Lord Lewis hosts Rumpus Room, the best in vintage and contemporary heavy funk, soul, club, jazz,
reggae, ska, afro and Latin dance floor grooves.
From 9:30-10:30pm, Scandinavian Sounds with DJ Northern Lights discovers music old and new from a variety of
genres -Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland.
At 10:30, Romancipation with Dr. Love
and DJ Smooth who offer advice on dating and love. You can submit questions to
the experts at www.romancipation.org
Sleep Paralysis is on from 11-midnight with Erin and Ethan, chatting about dreams,
floating on sounds, and poking around in the subconscious.
From 12-1am, it's Your Turn with Rachel Day featuring a new guest each week.
1-2am features Third Waves with
Georgia O'Queef and Madam Ovary, a show of eclectic music by queer and female
artists, quirky commentary and a critical look at women in
the world's news.
From 2-4am it's The Witching Hour with DJ
Hex Girl and DJ Tanner playing an eerie, dark and brooding mix of shoegaze,
80's Goth rock, lo-fi music and chatting about occult topics.
BBC World news comes your way at 4 and then we begin tomorrow’s broadcast
day with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.
That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you missed anything, you can find the script online at
wesufm.org/jive. And 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.
Now stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry.
