Good evening, it's Wednesday,
March 2nd, and this is 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!
Here's a rundown of what's happening in our area this week:
Here in Middletown, at the
Buttonwood Tree tomorrow (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
tomorrow (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 sideshow
Circus Delecti at Café Nine. The Sunday matinee features the Sarah Borges Band.
This week, the Sunday evening Open
Jam Session! is with Off the Trax. www.cafenine.com
Also in New Haven, at Toad’s
Place, Thursday evening rapper DMX performs and on Friday you can catch the
Cosmic Dust Bunnies with Bella’s Bartok, Danny Pease & the Regulators, and
Blessed 2 Be. www.toadsplace.com
This evening, 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, tomorrow (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 you can listen to the first New England blues Guitar Summit showcase
of a variety of top, world class Electric Blues Guitarists, at Black-Eyed
Sally’s. 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. www.realartways.org
Friday at the Katherine Hepburn
Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, or The Kate, the band Runa performs Irish
flolk music mixed wtht eh musical styles of bluegrass, flamenco, blues and
jazz. This Saturday, it’s the Met in HD performing the Puccini’s opera Manson
Lescaut. Also this Saturday at the Kate, you can catch songwriter Richard
Shindell performing ballads, dirges and diatribes on politics, prejudice, war
and religion. http://katharinehepburntheater.org/
Tonight, Russell Library here in Middletown hosts the The Great Reads Book Discussion with Hedda Kopf on the African American Experience in Poetry and Prose to discuss Open City by Nigerian/German American writer Teju Cole. This and every Thursday, The Job Group meets mornings for a chance to network with other job seekers and professionals. The Veteran's Writing Group meets in the evening. Also this Thursday you can catch and Irish Step Dancing Workshop hosted by the Mulcahy Academy of Irish Dance. Saturday will host a Resume Review session and a Hula Hoop Fitness class in the morning.
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. http://arts2go.org/
Today, Wesleyan University Center
for the Arts hosts the Anchiskhati Church Choir presenting a concert of sacred
and secular music from the Republic of Georgia. This Saturday and Sunday, you
can join the versatile DanceMasters Weekend featuring an array of Master
Classes and Choreographer Conversations lead by dancers of varied
backgrounds. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
Now here's a rundown of
cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Up in Hartford at Real Art
Ways, you can catch the 2016
Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts and
the film Rams, winner at the Cannes Film Festival
about two estranged brothers in Iceland reuniting to save the family sheep.
Showings through tomorrow (Thursday). 2016 Oscar Nominee for Foreign Film Embrace of the Serpent opens Friday and
runs through the weekend. www.realartways.org
Tonight through Sunday Trinity
College’s Cinestudio is showing the stop-motion animation film Anomalisa, directed by Charlie
Kaufman. On Thursday, the National Theater Live performs Hangmen, the darkly funny play right off it’s sell-out run at London’s Royal
Court Theater. 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 Ear Candy with DJ Sick
Nelden. Hear the pop songs that get in your head and won't leave you alone.
From 6-6:30pm stick around
for Your Mind Matters with Helen Evrard MD, exploring the
brain conditions known as mental illness from a holistic viewpoint with guests
who study them, treat them, or are affected by them
From 6:30-8,
it’s Fusion Radio with James Fusion offering the original and
best Techno mix on the radio.
At 8pm, Mike Nyce hosts The
Warehouse, showcasing the best of underground house music mixed live for
your listening pleasure.
From 9:30-11pm its The
Vault with DJ Anton Banks presenting the latest in hard techno,
minimal, tech-house and leftfield mixed live. Also featuring exclusive music
from international artists.
#blackmusicmatters with DJ Frau Miau and DJ Xan is
on at 11pm, a show dedicated to playing music for black people by black people.
Ranging from slave songs to Kendrick Lamar, this show serves as a reminder why
black lives matter.
From 12:00-1:00am, it's Metal
on Metal!!! with The Metal Messenger, bringing you the best in death,
thrash, black, progressive...as long as it has shredding solos, its on this
show.
1:00-2:00am features Nocturnal
Mom with DJava, playing stories and the songs we remember them by.
From 2:30-3:30am it's Scripted
Sounds with DJ Crystal Beth and Gideon Babe Howard. From the classics
to indie movies, Scripted Sounds plays a variation of movie soundtracks to show
how music and moving image can work together harmoniously.
At 3:30 you can catch the Something
Old, Something New with DJ Dazzle and DJ Aurora. In this show they
explore the sounds old and new looking at musical evolution in genres and
styles.
BBC World news comes your way
from 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 Ear
Candy with DJ Sick Nelden
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