Weekend Round-Up

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Friday, September 20
7pm - Ashpet @ South Church St
8pm- Green Street Limelight: Latino Voices
8pm - Breaking Ground Dance Series: Orpheus and Eurydice
8pm - Happy Days @ '92 Theater
8pm - Heathers, w/ producer Denise De Novi speaking afterward @ Film Center
10pm - Megafun and the Shade @ Earth House
10pm - Explosion @ Psi U
10pm - Outdoor Dance Party @ Alpha Delt

Saturday, September 20
1pm - F___CK BBQ @ behind the Bayit
1pm - WesLAN Party
2pm & 8pm - Happy Days @ '92 Theater
2-3:30pm and 4-5:30pm - Precision Troupe Auditions @ 156 High
7pm - Ashpet @ South Church St
8pm - Metropolis @ the Film Center
9pm - Jazz in the Grotto @ Alpha Delt
10pm - Sex Party @ Eclectic

Sunday, September 21
1pm - Terp Auditions @ Fayerweather
2pm - Isis Dance Troupe Auditions
2pm - Senior BBQ (rescheduled)

[edit by Sam at 9:46, 9/18--added another event]
[edit by Mad at 12:48am, 9/19--changed date of Senior BBQ]

Stuff @ ADP this weekend

Becca Martin '10 sends us word of two events ADP is holding this weekend:

Outdoor Dance Party

It's like a dance party...BUT OUTSIDE!

Date: Friday, 9/19
Time: 10 p.m.- Midnight
Location: Outside the front of ADP

Jazz night in the Grotto

Looking for something more relaxed than the sex party, or just want to do something chill earlier in the night before going out and committing acts of debauchery? Join us listening to Jazz and hanging out in the Grotto. There will be snacks!

Date: Saturday, 9/20
Time: 9 p.m.-11 p.m.
Location: The ADP Grotto

Megafaun, The Shade, At Earth House

Megafaun is playing this Friday at Earth House, with Wes acts The Shade and Jacob Millstein '09 opening. From AuralWes:

MEGAFAUN is your mama's mama's ancient hand-stitched patchwork quilt accumulating mildew in the hall closet. Ripping at the seams with a hundred years of musical history, it's hand claps, tape manipulation, Beach Boys harmonies, melodies your grandpa might hum, and lyrical advice he might give you. It's also kind of psychedelic. You may (you should) remember these dudes opening for Akron/Family last spring...

Members Joe Westerlund, Phil Cook and Brad Cook hail from Eau Claire, Wisconsin but are currently based in Durham, North Carolina - a locale probably better suited to their particular brand of experimental old-time American folk. That description hopefully merits a listen: Megafaun's Lazy Suicide and Beloved Binge (via Hype Machine).

Wesleyan's own THE SHADE (Adam Tinkle '08, Josh Koenig '09, Matt Paterson '09, Will Brandt '10 and Jake Nussbaum '10) will open Friday's festivities. From what I hear of Adam's solo work this summer, we're in for some sweet sentimental guitar work with a bit of Jon Brion-esque violin arrangement. You may (you definitely should) remember these dudes playing a party last year without any clothes on.

Also, Sam Bernhardt '10 announces:

Jacob Millstein '09 is beginning the whole shebang. However, nobody is opening for Jacob Millstein, thats just the beginning. The end is Megafaun. They opened for Akron/Family last year, and enjoyed us enjoying them so much that they are back.

Megafaun, The Shade

Date: Friday, September 19th
Time: 10 PM

Place: Earth House

Bessy Reyna: Conversación con una Escritora

Gina Ackeifi '09 writes:

Discuss social justice and poetry with award-winning Latin poet Bessy Reyna. Born in Cuba and raised in Panama, she is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and earned her Masters and Law degrees from the University of Connecticut.

Reyna’s poems and stories are found in U.S. and Latin American literary magazines. She has also been published in numerous anthologies including El Coro: A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry, In Other Words: Literature by Latinas of the United States, The Arc of Love: Lesbian Poems, and The Wild Good.

There will be a potluck reception before the discussion, at 7:00. You can also listen to readings of her poetry online.

Date: Friday, Sept. 19
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Green Street Arts Center
Cost: $5 for students

ASHPET: An Appalachian Cinderella Story

ASHPET: An Appalachian Cinderella Story, will be performed at South Church this weekend. There are only two shows, and no tickets, so show up early to get a seat. The show is free, but donations will be accepted and will go toward fixing the broken organ at South Church.

Date: Friday, Sept. 19 and Saturday, Sept. 20
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: South Church (corner of Church and Main)

More details are available on Facebook.