Good
evening, it's Tuesday December 5th. 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
Marianne O’Hare Producer of Conversations on HealthCare. Now, here's some of what's going on in our area this week:
At the Russell
Library in Middletown, the Racial Justice Book Group meets tonight (Tuesday) to
discuss “The Street,” by Ann Petry. The start twenty sessions of Girls Who Code
Club meetings on Wednesday at 6 pm, open for girls grades 6 through 12.
Award-winning author William Mann will speak Wednesday on his book, “The War of
the Roosevelts.” The Friends Book Sale happens this weekend, starting on
Friday. You’re invited to their Make An Ugly Sweater Day workshop Friday at 11
am. The award-winning Avery Ensemble performs chamber music on Saturday at 1:30
pm. www.russelllibrary.org
The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown offers Laughter Yoga in the evening, tonight. Tomorrow/Wednesday morning, you can enjoy HulaZen Yoga with Tiare Kahana, rooted in Hawaii’s oral tradition. Bob Gotta holds his monthly Acoustic Open Mic on Thursday night and it’s a double bill Friday night with Ashley Hamel and Orice Jenkins at The Buttonwood Tree. The Aligned with Source workshop is back Saturday morning, and Saturday evening’s bill features the Ken Serio Jazz Trio. Sunday afternoon, it’s the NEAR and Far Storytellers. Change It Up, the art exhibit with the work of Kathleen Curran Smits, runs through the month. The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday morning. www.buttonwood.org
It’s a full week of
music and more at the Wesleyan Center for the Arts in Middletown, this evening the
CFA presents the WesWinds Fall Concert. Wednesday, the Wesleyan University
Steelband Concert happens at Beckham Hall, while the Graduate Composers Concert
takes place at the World Music Hall. John Cage’s Musicircus is at Crowell on Thursday.
Also on Thursday night, The Gamelan Ensemble performs in Concert at World Music
Hall. The Winter Dance Concert, happens at the CFA Theater on Friday, or you
can enjoy the Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble Concert at Crowell Friday night.
Saturday at the Goldsmith Family Cinema, there’s a screening and discussion
with artist and Wes alumni Amanda Palmer and filmmaker Michael Pope along with students
from their Wesleyan course entitled “The Art of Doing,” Also on Saturday you can
catch the Winter Dance Concert at CFA Theater. Sunday, they wrap up this
very busy week with the Worlds of Dance Concert at Crowell Concert Hall. Details
at www.wesleyan.edu/cfa
In New Haven at Café
Nine tonight, you can catch The Novel Ideas and Calvin DeCutlass. It’s a Comedy
Open Mic tomorrow/ Wednesday with Dan Rice. The Love-Birds and Zero Years take
the Café stage on Thursday at Café Nine. Friday’s Happy Hour features Bronson
Rock, followed by a late show with China Crisis, Reduction Plan, and Falconeer.
Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with Gary Grippo & Friends, and the late
show Saturday night features Elison Jackson, Laundry Day, Grubby Little Hands,
and Toyz. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features The Birdmen and The Tommy’s. http://www.cafenine.com/
Up in Hartford at
Black-Eyed Sally’s, on Tuesday nights you can see Michael Palin's Other
Orchestra get funky with their take on jazz, R&B, and soul classics on
Tuesday. It’s Liviu’s Invitational on Thursday, and on Friday you’re invited to
celebrate with Vitamin B-3. Grayson Hugh & The Moon Hawks takes Sally’s
stage on Saturday. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/
At the Wesleyan RJ
Julia Bookstore in Middletown there’s a Story Time and Gift Making Workshop on Wednesday at 6 pm. Caryn Davis is in on
Thursday with “A Connecticut Christmas: Celebrating the Holidays in Classic New
England Style.” It’s Holiday Story Time on Saturday morning featuring Corduroy
The Bear. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com
The Mac 650 Gallery
& Artist Co-Op in Middletown hosts its monthly Makers M’ART’ket Thursday at
6 pm featuring Marc Pettersen demonstrating green screen software. There’s
a Cassette Release Show for Sentiments’ “A Widow & A Forest Burning
Down” on Friday. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/
Manic Presents brings
Tokyo Police Club and Vern Matz to The Ballroom at The Outer Space in Hamden on
Thursday. At the Ballroom on Friday, it’s Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, along
with Sad13. They bring comedian Tig Notaro to the College Street Music
Hall Sunday night. www.manicpresents.com
Infinity Hall Hartford
brings indie rock to the stage on Thursday with The Empty Pockets. On Friday,
it’s pop and R&B with Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals. On Saturday, Blood, Sweat
& Tears returns to the Infinity stage. The Glenn Miller Orchestra performs
on Sunday afternoon. www.infinityhall.com
At Toad’s Place in New
Haven, on Friday, they headline CT’s
very own heavy metal hometown heroes, Hatebreed, appearing with Dying Fetus, Code
Orange, and Twitching Tongues. www.toadsplace.com
On Friday, Cherry St. Station in
Wallingford they bring you Blanket Jackson, The Sparkomatics, and more. Their
annual Tree Trimming Party starts on Saturday at 5 pm. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/
The Hartford Gay Men’s
Chorus Holiday Concert, From Tinseltown to Times Square, happens this weekend
at the Wadsworth Athenaeum with performances Friday through Sunday. It’s also
Second Saturdays for Families this weekend with free admission and special
activities. Their Festival of Trees Traditions runs daily through the holiday
season. Details at www.thewadsworth.org
You’re invited to Sip,
Snack, & Shop, a holiday market at The Galleria Hair Studio on Highland
Avenue in Middletown, Friday evening from 6:30 to 9 pm. WESU’s Your Mind
Matters host Dr. Helen Evrard will be there with her book, “Positive Matters.”
Call 860-344-9900 for details.
The Middletown High
School Bands and Chorus holds an Open House this Saturday at 10 at the high
school. Enjoy Christmas music and bring your presents for wrapping. www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
Artists for
World Peace holds its annual Market Place this Saturday, and inaugurates a
Pop-Up Gallery with handmade gift items from Tanzania, Kenya, and Nepal. It’s
at the deKoven House on Washington St., from 11 am to 4 pm. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
The Exchange Club of
Middletown hosts its annual Holiday Evening of Harmony featuring acapella
singers and songs of the season this Saturday a 1740 Randolph Rd. Details
at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice
Enjoy music and
stories for mature audiences this Sunday at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown
with Welcoming Light – Stories for a Dark December. Details at www.wadsworthmansion.com
You can skate for free
seven days a week starting on Friday at the Winterfest ice rink at Bushnell
Park in Hartford near the Pump House. Check the website for details on hours
and free skating lessons. Details at www.bushnellpark.org
The Connecticut
Historical Society invites you to their ongoing exhibit, Visions/Revisions: The
Print Transformed, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the
Printmaker’s Network of Southern New England. Or check out their new exhibit,
That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s material culture,
happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org
Now here's a rundown
of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:
Hartford’s Real Art
Ways has extended their held-over run of “Loving Vincent,” a painted animation
about the life of Vincent Van Gogh, through Sunday. They also continue “Bill
Nye: Science Guy” and “The Florida Project,” a poignant look at summer
childhood. Weekend openings include “God’s Own Country,” a love story in the
Yorkshire highlands, “The Breadwinner,” about an Afghani girl in search of her
father, and Polish animated shorts. Details and screening times at www.realartways.org
Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues “2001; A Space Odyssey,” the 1968 classic projected in 70mm film, through Saturday. They screen National Theatre Live’s comedy, “Young Marx,” on Thursday and Sunday. “Easy A,” starring Emma Stone in a movie about ‘80’s teenage angst, is the Friday late show. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/
Now, here’s a rundown
of our Tuesday night lineup on air here at WESU.
Right after the jive
at Five stay tuned for Spilled Milk with Charlotte offering assorted sounds
right off the bedtime stories shelf!
From 6-8pm
tonight, it’s Acoustic Blender with Bill Revill offering an eclectic
selection of new and older folk, Americana, bluegrass, blues and other music
that has a roots influence with a concert listing at 7pm and frequent concert
and festival ticket giveaways. Tonight, Tonight, Grammy award winner Paul
Winter calls into the show to chat live with Bill.
At 8pm, The Voice of
the CITY with J-Cherry offers a weekly dose of live and local Connecticut arts
and music.
From 9-10pm it’s The
Test Patterns Show with Chaim O'Brien-Blumenthal
At 10pm it’s Wes
Sports and Beyond with DJ Steven featuring Sports Talk and interviews.
From 11-midnight stay
tuned for Dumpster Dive with DJ Smelly featuring punk, art pop and D.I.Y coming
from a garbage compactor near you.
At Midnight, it’s
Mixed Media with DJ Pig in the City and DJ Megnanimous
From 1-2am soup sounds
with joseph features home recordings, lo-fi, concerts, field recordings, and
esoterica.
Maximum Rock and Roll
Radio takes over with an hour of loud rock and roll from 2-3am
at 3am M-Th this Fall
season at WESU, we'll rebroadcast the day's noon-time run of Democracy
Now! from Pacifica
at 4am we bring you
BBC's world report before we kick off our Tuesday morning programming with
Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.
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That's all for today's
Jive at Five. Join us weekdays at 4:55 for a daily rundown of area happenings a
rundown of evening programming on WESU Middletown!
Now stay tuned for
Spilled Milk with Charlotte, up next!
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