Monday 01-22-18 Jive

Good evening, it's Monday, January 22^nd. 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.

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The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown hosts their usual Anything Goes Open Mic & Moments of Gratitude tonight with Bill Katz.  There’s Empowering Yoga on Tuesday afternoon. On Thursday, the Middlesex Drum Circle meets. It’s jazz and blues on Friday night with BOP TWEED. The Aligned with Source Workshop and Meditation happens on Saturday morning, and he evening brings you the Everything Turned To Color trio, presenting “Poetically Pop and Artfully Serene.” The Hearing Voices Network meets Monday morning. Enjoy the art exhibit, Mystic Collages, by featured artist Flo Bartosiak, throughout the month. www.buttonwood.org

In New Haven, Café Nine’s Manic Mondays brings you Snake Oil, and J. Russell and the Split Coils. On Tuesday, it’s Aisha Burns and Leila Crockett. Thursday’s headliners are Laini and the Wildfire, Chaser Eight, and Treadwell. Friday’s Happy Hour features Frank Critelli, followed by the late show with The Suitcase Junket, Kate Lorenz, and An Historic. Saturday’s Jazz Jam Session is with the George Baker Band, and the late show features Girls, Guns and Glory, along with Jeremy & The Harlequins. The Sunday Buzz Matinee features Ian Moore, and they round out the weekend with a Blues Jam Session with the George Lesiw Band. http://www.cafenine.com/

At Toad’s Place in New Haven, it’s the usual Night of Smooth Jazz with Rohn Lawrence & Friends tonight. ON Friday, they’ve got Shakedown, The Dead and Beyond, and the Kazoo Crew Family Band. The Blameless Project takes the stage in Lilly’s Pad. This week brings another Original Saturday Night College Dance Party.   www.toadsplace.com

Up in Hartford at Black-Eyed Sally’s, it’s Jazz Mondays with the Mike Carabello Trio. Michael Palin’s Other Orchestra comes your way Tuesday night. The Community Blues Jam happens on Wednesday with guest Tommy Whalen. It’s Liviu’s Invitational on Thursday, and on Friday it’s blues with the George T Gregory Band. Australian singer/songwriter Harper & The Midwest Kind takes the stage on Saturday. http://www.blackeyedsallys.com/

At the Russell Library in Middletown, Middlesex Hospital continues the Tobacco Cessation Workshop on Tuesday at 11 am. The Girls Who Code Club holds ongoing meetings every Wednesday at 6 pm. There’s Adult Coloring for Stress Reduction on Friday morning, and they host Yoga in The Hubbard Room on Saturday morning.  The Vintage Players presents Carolyn Kirsch’s new play, “So Bea It,” on Sunday at 2 pm.  Check the website for more activities and offerings for patrons of all ages. www.russelllibrary.org

Connecticut’s Old State House hosts an open discussion, The First Amendment Works For You, on Tuesday at 12:30 with featuring journalist Denis Horgan and attorney Dan Klau from the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government. Details at www.ctosh.org

Learn African Kizomba Dance, a fun, low impact activity, at The 224 in Hartford on Tuesday at 6 pm. Details at www.hartford.com/events/

The Hartford Mindfulness Center hosts Mindfulness Meditation After Work every Wednesday at 6:15 pm at their Farmington Avenue location.  www.facebook.com/pg/hartfordmindfulnesscenter

The Wesleyan Center for the Arts invites you to the opening of “A Body in Fukushima: Recent Work,” a photography exhibit by Eiko Otake and William Johnston, Thursday at noon at the Zilkha Gallery. www.wesleyan.edu/cfa

Storyteller Tom Lee is back by popular demand Thursday at 7:30 pm at The Hubbard House in Middletown, sponsored by Artists for World Peace.  Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice/

Enjoy country, rock, and more from the American songbook at the Hog River Brewing Company in Hartford every Thursday starting at 7 pm. Hartford native Connor Zane Millican partners with local musicians to bring you Twang Thursdays. www.hartford.com/events/

Cherry St. Station in Wallingford presents Crosby, Over the Line, and Outside My Head on Friday. On Saturday, it’s Zombii, Cherry Pop, Jake Fullington, and more. Details at www.facebook.com/CherryStreetStation/

Infinity Hall brings you singer/songwriter Howie Day on Friday. Speak Up Storytelling presents “Unfinished Business” on Saturday. On Sunday, you can catch alternative rock, hip-hop, and more with G. Love and Special Sauce. www.infinityhall.com

The Hartford Flavor Company presents “Tell Me Another: Snow Job,” with extraordinary stories told by ordinary folks, on Friday at their Arbor Street location. Details at www.hartford.com/events/

Manic Presents brings Umphrey’s McGee and Nicole Atkins to The College Street Music Hall in New Haven on Friday. On Saturday, they’re at College Street again headlining Maria Bamford, appearing with Jackie Kashian. On Saturday, they bring Bad, Bad Hats, Photocomfort, and Glambat to the Space Ballroom in Hamden. www.manicpresents.com

The Connecticut Science Center in Hartford hosts a Women in Science Day Saturday at 11 am featuring a Q & A with members of the Society of Women Engineers. Details at www.ctsciencecenter.org

The Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore in Middletown hosts an event for kids on Saturday at 2 pm, featuring MarcyKate Connolly presenting her new middle-grade fantasy, “Shadow Weaver.” www.wesleyanrjjulia.com

Vinnie’s jump and Jive in Middletown hosts The Hot Cat Jazz Band Saturday night for a session that includes swing lessons with JC Noble. Details at www.facebook.com/CityArtsOffice

The Connecticut Historical Society invites you to their ongoing exhibit, That’s Weird, of strange objects connected to our state’s material culture, happening every Saturday. Details at www.chs.org

Baby Grand Jazz at the Hartford Public Library presents Ronnie Burrage this Sunday at 3 pm. Details at www.hplct.org

The National Cyber Security Alliance sponsors an international Data Privacy Day 2018 this Sunday. Visit www.staysafeonline.org for resources and information.

Now here's a rundown of cinema off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways continues Rebels on Pointe,” a documentary about the drag group Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and “In Between,” about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv, through Thursday. They bring back “Loving Vincent,” an animated film about the iconic artist, through Wednesday. Weekend openings include “The Final Year,” a documentary about the last year of Obama’s foreign policy team, and “Django,” a French film about a jazz guitarist in Nazi-occupied Paris. Check the website for details and screening times at www.realartways.org

Trinity College’s Cinestudio in Hartford continues “Wonderstruck,” about deaf children escaping to New York City, through Wednesday. On Thursday they open Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel,” about an unmarried mother raising a son in the Coney Island of the 1950’s. It runs through Saturday. Sunday’s Exhibition on Screen series continues with the work of David Hockey at The Royal Academy of Arts, and they open a run of “The Square,” a Swedish film about conflict between the classes. Check the website for full schedule and screening times. http://www.cinestudio.org/

The Connecticut Science Center is screening two films in 3D all week at the Hoffman Foundation Science Theater in Hartford. You can enjoy “Dream Big: Engineering Our World,” about inventions and structures from across the globe, or National Geographic’s “Extreme Weather: Powerful Forces Are Colliding.” Details at www.ctsciencecenter.org  

The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford is screening “The Divine Order,” a dramatic comedy about the suffragette movement in Switzerland. Visit the website for dates and times. www.thewadsworth.org

Now here’s a rundown of tonight’s program hereon WESU

Right after the jive at Five stay tuned for Afternoon Jazz with Charles Henry until 6pm.

At 6pm Karen Stein fills in for Michael Benson’s 75% folk.

from 8-9:30pm  Rumpus Room with Lord Lewis offers the best in vintage and contemporary funk, soul, jazz, reggae, dub, afro and Latin dance floor grooves.

at 9:30pm Cruiser’s Radio Program with Jack Sullivan offers Music from the 1950s & 1960's as well as LIVE requests, TV Trivia, and more.

Hits of the 60s and 70s with Jimmy Z takes over from 11-12:30am Playing billboard hot 100 hits of the 60's and 70's

from 12:30-1:30am stay tuned for up front Soul with Sanguine fromage.

At 1:30 it’s spoiler alert radio.

from 2-3am RootsWorld Radio with Cliff Furnald takes you on a tour across borders and genres.

and at 3am  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.

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!