Tuesday 12-19-17 Jive

Good evening, it's Tuesday December 19^th. 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, heard Wednesdays at 4pm, right before the Jive at Five.

At the Russell Library in Middletown, there’s Origami tonight/Tuesday evening. The Girls Who Code Club holds ongoing meetings every Wednesday at 6 pm. Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem perform their holiday program, Wintersong, on Thursday at 7 pm. There’s Adult Coloring for Stress Reduction on Friday at 11:30 am, and you can Wrap a Gift on Saturday from noon to 2 pm. www.russelllibrary.org

The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown offers Laughter Yoga and a Crystal Bowl Sound Healing in the evening. There’s Kanaha Yoga Wednesday morning. This Friday, it’s crucial roots Reggae Night with Don Minott. You can enjoy A Child’s Christmas in wales performed by Peter Loffredo on Saturday. Change It Up, the art exhibit with the work of Kathleen Curran Smits, runs through the month. www.buttonwood.org

The Mac 650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op in Middletown hosts Carlos Danger, The Fairview, Perennial, and Waveform on Tuesday at 7 pm. https://www.facebook.com/mac650gallery/

In New Haven at Café Nine, tonight’s bill features Where’s Walden?, King Bongo, and See Me For Me. On Wednesday, it’s a Christmas Nightmare, with Light Upon Blight, Eugene Gallagher, and more. On Thursday they bring you Dangerous Animals, The Right Offs, The Lost Weekend, and Javier Canales. Friday’s Happy Hour set at 5pm,  features Snake Hill Blues and holiday tunes from Hot Flash, followed by the late show, headlining the Of A Winters Night holiday show. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with the Geirge Baker Band, and the late show is a Puerto Rico Relief Fund Raiser, featuring Jose Oyola, Energy, El-Vee, and much more. . 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 classic. The Weekly Community Blues Jam on Wednesday is with Hash Brown, this week. It’s Liviu’s Invitational on Thursday, and on Friday they’ve got Jake Kulak on board, with special guest Braiden Sunshine from “The Voice.” It’s XY Eli and friends on Saturday with a Holiday Extravaganza. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown hosts an Ugly Christmas Sweater Day this Wednesday, offering participants an opportunity to enter a raffle for a $50 gift card by wearing their ugly Christmas sweaters to the store. www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

At Toad’s Place in New Haven, they host the John Valby X-Mas Show on Friday, and on Saturday, it’s a Holiday Jazz Spectacular with Rohn Lawrence, Jaye Rowe, and Trever Somerville. www.toadsplace.com

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford hosts a Nightmare B4 Xmas  event Friday, featuring Crucial Pain, Everybody Hates Me, and more. On Saturday it’s their CT PunX Xmas Xtravaganza with PUS, Savage World, Cry Havoc! and more. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

Infinity Hall brings you Mike DelGuidice & Big Shot – An Evening Celebrting the Music of Billy Joel, Saturday evening at 8 pm. www.infinityhall.com

You can skate for free seven days a week at the Winterfest ice rink at Bushnell Park in Hartford near the Pump House. Check the website for free skating lessons from Champions Skating Center instructors. Details at www.bushnellpark.org

You can enjoy the Holiday Light Fantasia through the season at Goodwin Park in Hartford, celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, the New Year and more. Santa is there on Friday and Saturday. www.holidaylightfantasia.org

The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their ongoing exhibit, Visions/Revisions: The Print Transformed, celebrating the 25^th 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 continues “The Florida Project,” about a family in a budget motel near Disney World, and “Big Sonia,” about a Holocaust survivor being evicted from a Kansas City mall. Also continuing is “The Other Side of Hope,” a Finnish movie about the friendship between Syrian asylum seeker and a restaurant owner. Details and screening times at www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford screens the 1946 Christmas classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” all week including a Sunday matinée. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/

Here's the rundown of tonight’s lineup here on WESU 88.1 FM Middletown:

From 5:05-8pm 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.

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, Franco is in the house for your favorite dance music from the 70s-80s.

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 an extended holiday break edition of acoustic Blender with Bill Revill!