Good evening, it's Thursday, July 27th. 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 talk radio from NPR and Pacifica, as well as
independent and local public affairs sources. Weeknights and weekends our
student and community volunteers bring you the best in free-form programming.
I’m Maria Johnson, producer and host of "Reasonably Catholic: Keeping
the Faith," which this summer airs every Tuesday, from 4 to right before
the Jive at Five. On Tuesday, playwright Jacques Lamarr and punk rock caterer
Rossi, the woman who inspired Jacques's latest play "Raging Skillet, will
be in the studio to talk about this deep, funny production, up now at
TheaterWorks in Hartford. Can't listen live? Find the audio archived at www.reasonablycatholic.com
Here's a rundown of what's going down in our area this week.
The Middlesex Drum Circle meets at The Buttonwood tonight at 7 pm. Tomorrow
(Fri), enjoy West-African jazz fusion with singer/dancer Lorens Chuno. On
Saturday morning it’s the Aligned With Source Workshop, and the evening brings
you jazz with the Rosemary Minkler Trio. The Hearing Voices Network meets
Monday morning at 10:30. http://buttonwood.org
In New Haven at Café Nine tonight it’s The Rubinoos along with the Shellye
Valauskas Experience. Tomorrow’s (Fri’s) Happy Hour is with The Buttondowns,
followed by the night show headlining The Hymans. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session
is with Billy Cofrances. The late show’s got The Zambonis, The Stents, and Dust
Hat. The Sunday Buzz Matinee brings you Sez Zion, and they round out the
weekend with the George Lesiw Band on Sunday night.http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s tonight, it’s Liviu’s Invitational.
Tomorrow (Fri) they bring you Brooklyn Swamp music with the Michael Louis Band
from New York City. Saturday’s headliner is the Liza Colby Sound with good old
rock ‘n’ roll.http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
Tonight Manic Presents The New
Pornographers and Cloud Nothing to the College Street Music Hall. On Sunday, at
The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden, they’ve got Moose Blood, Choir
Vandals, and McCafferty. http://www.manicpresents.com/
Tomorrow (Fri), Cherry St. Station in Wallingford presents Half Dragon,
Pinto Graham, Holding On To Nothing, and ThunderPhunk. On Saturday it’s Part 2
of their 20th Anniversary Celebration, with a fundraiser for a new
roof.https://www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation
At Toad’s Place in New Haven tomorrow (Fri) it’s another Bright Night Glow
Party.www.toadsplace.com
Riverfront Recapture in Hartford offers a free fitness class at Mortenson
Plaza in Hartford every Tuesday at 6 pm. There’s also free yoga every Wednesday
at 6 p.m. Bring your own mat. Tonight, there's Thursday Nights on the Plaza,
with free music and more.www.riverfront.org
At the Russell Library in Middletown this evening at 6:30, it's Fitness for
Teens with Cromwell Martial Arts. On Saturday morning there’s Yoga in the
Courtyard, and they continue the hands-on fiddling tutorial sponsored by the
Connecticut Bristol Old Tyme Fiddlers Club. Full details of these activities
and more at www.russelllibrary.org
In Hartford, on Constitution Plaza tomorrow (Fri), you can enjoy the Pratt
Street Music Series, featuring To The Power this week. www.hartford.com/events/
At Infinity Hall in Hartford, tomorrow (Fri) brings folk rock as part of
their Backyard Music Series, with The Penniless Wild, The Girls from Ruby
Falls, and Belle of the Fall. Enter the Haggis comes your way on Saturday with
folk and world music. Details atwww.infinityhall.com
The Sounds of Summer free concert series is back at the Great River Park in
East Hartford starting this evening at 6 pm. This week’s featured performer is
Full Crew, with oldies and classic rock. Details atwww.riverfront.org
It’s the last weekend of the Greater Hartford Shakespeare Festival tonight
through Sunday on the grounds of the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford.
Enjoy the Capital Classics’ production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Details atwww.capitalclassics.org
The Old State House in Hartford brings you free music tomorrow (Fri) and
every Friday at noon, this week featuring the Klezmer Big Band Nu Haven
Kapelye. www.hartford.com/event/
The Oddfellows Playhouse Youth Theater presents “Another Circus History of
Middletown” tomorrow (Fri) at 5 pm at Spencer Elementary School. Enjoy circus
acts, clowning, puppets and more. Details atwww.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
There’s free Music Among the Memorials tomorrow (Fri) at 6 pm at Cedar Hill
Cemetery in Hartford. Enjoy the bluegrass band Five in the Chamber. Rain date
is Saturday, same time. www.cedarhillfoundation.org
The Middletown Commission on the Arts and Price Chopper sponsor a free
Summer Dance Performance this Saturday at Middlesex Community College by the
Connecticut Ballet at 7:30 pm. Stay for a talk-back with performers afterward.
Details atwww.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
The Connecticut Historical Society hosts an all-day hands-on history
workshop for teens this Saturday, Introduction to Photography with professional
photographer Marc-Yves Regis, at their Hartford location. Details at www.chs.org
Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford brings you the Hartford Steel
Symphony, a steel drum/West Indies music group, as part of their free Summer
Courtyard Series this Saturday at 1:30 pm.www.charteroakcenter.org
Toivo is sponsoring an intimate evening with actress Jessica Pimentel from
the hit show “Orange Is The New Black” on Saturday at 7 pm at the Lyceum
Resource and Conference Center in Hartford. RSVP is required. Call 860-296-2338
X 113.
Artists for World Peace presents their 5th Annual Dance for Peace this
Sunday at 5 pm at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old
Saybrook. World-class local and regional
dancers will perform.www.artistsforworldpeace.org
Connecticut’s Farmers Markets offer an opportunity to enjoy home-grown
goods and support local growers. Open now are: Middletown’s North End Farmers
Market on Friday’s from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, as well as Middletown’s long
running market on the south green on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8am to 1pm.
Cromwell’s market is on Fridays 4-7 pm; Durham, Thursdays 3-6 pm; and
Glastonbury, Wednesdays 4-7pm, Plainville Fridays 3-6 pm, and Berlin Saturdays,
9-1 pm. Info at www.ctnofa.org
Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art Ways wraps up its run of “Letters from Baghdad,” a
documentary about the British spy and explorer Gertrude Bell, and “The Women’s
Balcony,” an Israeli film about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
"Lost in Paris" continues through Aug. 2nd. Tomorrow (Fri) they open
“Marie Curie,” a biopic of the Nobel-winning scientist. They also open “The
B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography,” a movie celebrating her
thirty-five year career. Their Afternoon Movie tomorrow (Fri) through Aug. 1st
will be Sofia Copolla’s remake of “The Beguiled,” starring Nicole Kidman and
Colin Farrell. Details &screening times atwww.realartways.org
Tonight, Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford wraps up its run of “
“Endless Poetry,” an autobiographical tale from Chilean Renaissance director
Alejandro Jodorowsky. Tomorrow (Fri) they open “Maurice,” a 4K restoration of
the 1987 classic about British aristocracy. It runs through the weekend. Their
National Theatre Live screening, happening Thursday and Sunday, is “Angels in
America Part Two: Perestroika.” http://www.cinestudio.org/
The Hartford Free Movies in the Parks series brings you “Beauty and the
Beast” tomorrow (Fri) at Bushnell Park at 8 pm.
www.bushnellpark.org
Now here's what's on the air tonight, on WESU:
Right after The Jive at Five
5:05‑6:30pm
Homegrown with Rob DeRosa
6:30‑8pm
Imagine with Karen Stein
8‑10pm
Evening Jazz with Bill
Denert
10‑11pm
From the Archives with
Sundermunich
11pm‑12am
Feminist Bloc (2,4) with
Vicky
12‑4am
Franco’s Studio 54 Disco Mix
with Francaccio Di Roma
4‑5am
BBC World News
5‑9am
Morning Edition from
National Public Radio with NPR
That’s all for today’s Jive
at Five. Tune in to WESU 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.
If you missed any of today’s
Jive, you can find the audio archived at www.wesufm.org/jive.
Thanx for listening! Now
stay tuned for Homegrown with Rob DeRosa!
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