It's a better week than last week as far as the future of the White House is concerned, and that calls for changing into a fresh pair of socks and queuing up some fine online entertainment from Portland movers and shakers. Here are our picks for the best streaming events through Sunday, from an evening with rock icons Kim Gordon and Carrie Brownstein Past Event Like List to Sávila Presents: Earth Without Borders Past Event Like List , and from Portland Audubon’s Wild Arts Festival Past Event Like List to HUMP! Past Event Like List

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MONDAY

FILM

Collide-O-Scope: Fantastic Distractions Past Event Like List
Last week's doomscrolling has eased its grasp a little, but we've still got a global pandemic, a couple more months under a tyrannical leader, and a whole lot of systemic injustices to fight against, so mental distractions are still key to staying resilient. Let Collide-O-Scope do that work for you with tonight's "free-wheelin' phantasia of ephemeral footage."

Class: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Movies Past Event Like List
This three-part online workshop will delve into the late, legendary Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin’s work as it's been adapted for the screen. Filmmaker Arwen Curry (director/producer of the 2018 feature documentary Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin) will begin each class with rare interview footage with Le Guin.

READINGS & TALKS

Squeeze Me: Carl Hiaasen & Karen Russell Past Event Like List
Prolific author Carl Hiaasen will discuss his new novel, Squeeze Me, which centers around a wealthy Palm Beach widow's disappearance—the only clues for which are her beaded clutch, her martini glass, and a broken tab of Ecstasy found on the banks of a koi pond. He'll be joined by former Floridian and current Portlandian Karen Russell (Sleep Donation, Swamplandia!) at this Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List event.

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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TUESDAY

COMMUNITY

Musical Conversation: Diversity, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the Arts with Aaron Dworkin Past Event Like List
Renowned violinist and filmmaker Aaron Dworkin will share his personal story and his thoughts on the importance of arts in transforming society. He'll take questions from the audience at the end of the night. 

What Just Happened? What Happens Next? Past Event Like List
Now that we've all had some time to pop some champagne and celebrate the eventual end of Trump's reign, Oregon Humanities will get down to business with a breakdown of federal, state, and local election outcomes. 

MUSIC

Extra '80s Livestream Past Event Like List
Dance to '80s hits with reckless abandon on this nicer-than-usual Tuesday, courtesy of DJ NoN. 

READINGS & TALKS

Burnout and The Ballot: Evette Dionne & Anne Helen Petersen Past Event Like List
Bitch Media editor-in-chief Evette Dionne (who's also the author of Lifting As We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box) and BuzzFeed culture writer and celebrity gossip expert Anne Helen Petersen (Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation) will talk about "how politics, voting, and elections will be only way to fight the forces that lead to burnout" as part of the Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List .

Family Ties: Brit Bennett & Bryan Washington Past Event Like List
Britt Bennett, the author of The Vanishing Half, weaves together multiple generations of a family as they migrate from the Deep South to California between the 1950s to the 1990s. She'll read and discuss alongside Bryan Washington, who will share excerpts from his new book Memorial as part of the Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List .

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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WEDNESDAY

COMMUNITY

Virtual Statewide Veterans Day Celebration Past Event Like List
Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs will host this statewide Veterans Day celebration on Facebook Live, featuring remarks from Governor Kate Brown, ODVA Director Kelly Fitzpatrick, and other regional officials.

READINGS & TALKS

Powell's Books Presents Kiese Laymon in Conversation With B. Brian Foster Past Event Like List
The new edition of Kiese Laymon's 2013 book How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, the writer’s first collection of essays, features six new ruminations on everything from OutKast to the labor of Black women to his own family. Join him for a conversation with Powell's. 

Silent Reading Party Remind Like List
A lot of people are taking the opportunity to turn the online version of The Stranger's super-successful words 'n' vibes experience into a weekly online destination, a respite from (waves hands exasperatedly at basically everything) and an opportunity to simply... slow up, sit down, and just listen to live piano music while sinking into a good book. If you haven't tried it out yet, tonight's the night, and we'll see you at 6pm. If you have tried it out before? Welcome back. It's a damn nice oasis of low-key bliss, isn't it?

Tales of Two Planets: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kawai Strong Washburn & John Freeman Past Event Like List
The climate crisis and economic inequality will prove inseparable in this Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List conversation with John Freeman (editor of Tales of Two Planets and author of The Park) and poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil. 

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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THURSDAY

MUSIC

Dolphin Midwives * Niksen * Strategy - VIRTUAL SHOW! Past Event Like List
Portland-based improvisational group Niksen (which takes its name from the Dutch term of taking time to purposefully do nothing) will make its debut on Holcene's virtual stage. "Their music takes influence both from ambient and contemporary classical music with a focus on the ephemeral beauty that can happen when making music," reads press materials.

READINGS & TALKS

The 50th Anniversary of Blasted Blubber: A Conversation with Paul Linnman Past Event Like List
On this day in 1970, a sperm whale washed ashore near Florence on Oregon's south coast, and the people in charge of dealing with such things decided that the best way to remove it was to blast it into the air with literal dynamite. On the 50th anniversary of the event, OHS Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk will sit down (virtually) with Oregon television and radio broadcaster Paul Linnman.

Book of Revelations: Rumaan Alam & Jonathan Lethem Past Event Like List
A blackout on the Eastern seaboard forces two families together in an isolated rural house cut off from the outside world in Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind. In Jonathan Lethem’s The Arrest, two siblings in a dystopian world have their lives changed by a man with a nuclear-powered supercar. Join both authors for a Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List reading. 

If Then: Jill Lepore on OPB Past Event Like List
After touching on the Cold War-era beginnings of Instagram algorithms in These Truths, historian Jill Lepore is out with a new book (longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction), Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, that expands on that data-driven period. She'll be joined in conversation by OPB's Anna Griffin as part of the Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List . 

Kim Gordon: No Icon Past Event Like List
As a photo-heavy follow-up to her fantastic 2015 memoir Girl in a Band, former Sonic Youth frontwoman Kim Gordon's No Icon is a scrapbook of the artist's life, art, and style. Join her for a virtual conversation with Portland rock and roll icon (and memoirist) Carrie Brownstein.

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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FRIDAY

MUSIC

'80s New Wave Video Dance Attack Livestream! Past Event Like List
This longrunning throwback dance party will continue to dive into the archives for a night of videos from artists like Depeche Mode, Yaz, the Cure, A-ha, Siouxsie & The Banshees, New Order, and the like. 

Fridays with 45th Parallel: Keep Calm and Cellout Past Event Like List
Husband and wife duo 45th Parallel (aka Trevor Fitzpatrick and Marilyn De Oliveira) will play an evening of cello duets for the whole family. 

Noche de Serenata Past Event Like List
Latinx singer Edna Vasquez will serenade you in support of Bienstar, which helps build housing and community for Latinx immigrant workers.

READINGS & TALKS

Live Wire Radio at PBF: 99% Invisible & Shayla Lawson Past Event Like List
This Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List edition of Live Wire Radio will feature interviews with Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt, hosts of the 99% Invisible podcast. Poet and author Shayla Lawson (This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope) will also join. 

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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SATURDAY

FILM

HUMP! Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Past Event Like List
The HUMP! team is bringing back some fan-favorite amateur porn shorts from years past in the second volume of streamable compilations.

MUSIC

Anthony McGill & Gloria Chien: Clarinet Tours de Force Past Event Like List
Anthony McGill, a principal clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic who performed at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009, will continue his collaboration with Chamber Music Northwest’s new Co-Artistic Director Gloria Chien with a performance of pieces by Brahms and Weber. 

Virtual Play Date with DJ VNPRT & CHUCKK PASTA Past Event Like List
DJs VNPRT and CHUCKK PASTA will spin R&B, hip-hop, and house beats on Holocene's YouTube and Twitch channels. 

THEATER & PERFORMANCE

A-WOL After Hours Past Event Like List
The A-WOL Dance Collective will get extra steamy in this after-hours exposition of aerial and movement arts.

Earth Without Borders/Tierra Sin Fronteras Past Event Like List
Sávila's pre-recorded musical journey celebrates the plant and animal life that thrives along the U.S/Mexico border with songs, dancing, and visual poetry. 

See Also: Multi-Day Events

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SUNDAY

MUSIC

Virtual Concert: Fauré Piano Quartet Past Event Like List
The German-based Fauré Piano Quartet will bring their fresh interpretations to the table on Friends of Chamber Music's YouTube channel.

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MULTI-DAY

FESTIVALS

Adult Swim Festival Past Event Like List
Your favorite adults-only animation network will host a two-day festival for internet-havers around the world, featuring panels with the creators and talent behind shows like Rick and Morty and the Eric Andre Show and a  Run the Jewels x Cyberpunk 2077 music video premiere.
(Friday-Saturday)

FOOD & DRINK

Two Rivers Cookbook Extravaganza Series Past Event Like List
Tune in for three nights of programming from food writers. The lineup includes vegan activist and Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential author Haile Thomas, Maine chef and farm-to-table advocate Annemarie Ahearn, and Saint Cupcake founder and Candy Is Magic author Jami Curl.
(Tuesday-Wednesday & Friday)

GEEK

OR e-Con Past Event Like List
Oregon's annual science-fiction/fantasy convention will move to another dimension (the internet) this year. Tune in for three whole days of writerly advice and talks from the likes of guest of honor A. Lee Martinez.
(Friday-Sunday)

MUSIC

PYPFEST Past Event Like List
The Portland Youth Philharmonic will open its 97th concert season online with its first-ever New Music Festival, featuring pieces by each of its ensembles.
(Saturday-Sunday)

PODCAST

Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill: A Podcast Past Event Like List
Portland's Theatre Company is bringing Caryl Churchill’s modern critique of 17th-century femme witchiness to your home to kick off their inaugural season. They recommend that you "turn off your screens, make a pot of soup, turn up the volume, and take down the patriarchy."
(Monday-Thursday)

READINGS & TALKS

Literally Crawling: A Virtual Lit Crawl Past Event Like List
This two-day online festival of curated prose and poetry readings is brought to you by Zines + Things, the Poetry Brothel and the Death Rattle Writers Festival.
(Saturday-Sunday)

SHOPPING

Portland Audubon’s 40th Wild Arts Festival Past Event Like List
Support the work of the Portland Audubon Society by shopping for nature-themed works at their annual Wild Arts Festival, moving online this year.
(Saturday-Sunday)

SPORTS

Virtual Kitten Yoga Past Event Like List
Oregon Humane Society kittens will roam across the screen as you stretch your way through an easy flow class.
(Thursday-Friday)

THEATER & PERFORMANCE

Hot ‘n’ Throbbing Past Event Like List
A single suburban mom writes feminist erotica to help pay the bills in Paula Vogel's latest production for Profile Theater.
(All week)

OBT Act I: Wish List Past Event Like List
The Oregon Ballet Theater had to cancel its in-person events for the season, but they'll stream performances—like the solo showcase Wish List—online.
(All week)