Need help sorting through what's open, what's off-limits, and what you can do from home while social distancing is still in effect? We're here to guide you through our top picks in every genre—from an in-person JP Sears Past Event Like List comedy show to a livestreamed Queer Eye fundraiser for Joe Biden Past Event Like List to virtual Burning Man Past Event Like List .

MONDAY

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

Verzuz: Brandy vs. Monica Past Event Like List
The latest in the hyper-popular Verzuz series that isn't really a battle because nobody loses and everyone wins. This week's installment goes back to one of R&B's original head-to-head battles, before we could all watch people streaming live on our phones, and we had to wait for music videos to materialize after thousands of letters to the editor in Vibe magazine. Watch on Instagram, Apple Music, or Apple TV to find out, once and for all, who gets to say "The Boy is Mine."

MONDAY-THURSDAY

LIVESTREAMED - LOCAL

All Oregon E-Fair 2020 Past Event Like List
One of Oregon's most beloved traditions goes online for 2020, giving people all over the state one last chance to celebrate summer before everyone goes back to school we hopefully (maybe) enter Phase Two and start to get a handle on COVID-19's spread. So now the fair comes to your screen via livestream (but without the weird farm animal smells!) with events including acrobats, animal racing, and lumberjack feats of strength, as well as food demonstrations, live music, and more.

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

Burning Man Multiverse Past Event Like List
Kick up some sand in your own backyard and tie on your dust mask; Burning Man is going virtual this year. Instead of traveling to Black Rock City, you can "touch cosmic dimensions" by entering various "multiverses" (aka virtual offerings) during Burn Week. On September 5, you’re invited to download a blueprint and create your own burnable effigy and (safely) host your own burn. 

TUESDAY

IN-PERSON

Luminaries Past Event Like List
The dances, stories, and music on deck at this pop-up were created with the full moon in mind. Show up in your mask to see performances by Chisao Hata, Bevin Victoria, Heath Houghton, Tessa May, Wendy Cohen, and Cyd, and Aaron Wheeler-Kay. 

Meditation March for Black Lives Matter Past Event Like List
Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship leads this meditation march in support of Black Lives Matter. Attendees are asked to wear masks or face shields and observe safe social distancing practices as they encircle City Hall to call attention to Portland's need to reject white supremacy and enact anti-racist policies.

LIVESTREAMED - LOCAL

Aiden Thomas, Adam Silvera
Past Event Like List In Aiden Thomas’s queer YA novel Cemetery Boys, a trans boy summons a ghost who refuses to leave, just as he's trying to gain acceptance from his family. The author will be joined virtually in this virtual Powell's conversation with Adam Silvera, author of They Both Die at the End.

Waffle Taco Past Event Like List
Portland-based jazz duo Waffle Taco (aka bassist Ben Beauvais and trumpeter Kyle Linneman) will bring you some live tunes for this PDX Couch Tour show. 

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

The Aces Past Event Like List
Not to be confused with the local sketch comedy duo headed up by Shelley McLendon and Michael Fetters, Provo, Utah's the Aces bring their shimmering blend of indie online live from Los Angeles for this streaming concert supporting their latest, Under My Influence

Nude Kitchen Past Event Like List
NUDE KITCHEN is a weekly figure drawing class hosted by Seattle's Museum of Museums, and taught by Crystal Barbre and Madeline Owens. This two-hour class provides professional instruction and unconventional models, designed for a range of students, from the beginner to the trained artist.

Queer Eye Biden Fundraiser Past Event Like List
Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, and Antoni Porowski are giving 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden a campaign makeover—one geared toward Latino communities in battleground states and LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities across the country. Join them for a virtual fundraiser. 

TUESDAY–THURSDAY

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

Red Rocks Unpaused Past Event Like List
The well-known music festival is back on for 2020 thanks to Visible, calling attention to their wireless service by "unpausing" the music via virtual concerts from Phoebe Bridgers, Nathaniel Rateliff, Megan Thee Stallion, and more.

WEDNESDAY

LIVESTREAMED - LOCAL

Darrell Grant Past Event Like List
The renowned pianist and his trio come to the Lincoln City Cultural Center's "Quarantunes" stream series, with a special VIP concert.

A Gathering of Good Past Event Like List
Join an online celebration of frontline workers in Portland, which will focus on how Portland-based Metropolitan Family Service has responded during the COVID-19 crisis.

Ron Rash, Colum McCann Past Event Like List
In his new short story collection In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena, Ron Rash mirrors our current reality (the black hole of late-stage capitalism, the destruction of the planet, etc.), but also illuminates "acts of decency and heroism." Join him for a virtual Powell's reading. 

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

Gays R Us Comedy Show Past Event Like List
Nowhere Comedy Club is the venue, Erin Foley is the creator, and Gays R Us is the show she's created to spotlight some of the country's best LGBTQ+ comics (and even some of their straight allies), including tonight's set of performers: Gloria Bigelow, Bridget McManus, Bruce Daniels, and Jessica Kirson.

THURSDAY

IN-PERSON

JP Sears Past Event Like List
"Emotional healing coach" and comic JP Spears will encourage healing and growth at this live virtual event, just like he does on his YouTube channel.

Kiliii Yuyan: Rumors of Arctic Belonging Past Event Like List
Check out photographs of the Arctic, where climate change is rapidly melting ice caps and endangering wildlife, featured in Kiliii Yuyan's exhibition Rumors of Arctic Belonging.
Opening Thursday

LIVESTREAMED - LOCAL

Back to the Night: The Case for Dark Skies Past Event Like List
This virtual Science on Tap will make you consider lighting your house with candles instead of lamps—it's all about the effects of electricity on the planet, and how billions of migrating birds use only the moon and stars as navigation.  

Joe Kye, Niema Lightseed Past Event Like List
The Portland-based violinist-looper, composer, and producer brings his dynamic blend of indie-rock, jazz, classical, pop, and folk to this special livestream hosted by Portland Center Stage, in collaboration with poet and vocalist Niema Lightseed.

#WomxnCrush Music Virtual Tour Past Event Like List
The nationwide virtual tour turns its spotlight to Portland and Seattle with this livestreamed concert featuring some of the region's hottest local talent, including Kingsley, Letty Isabel, A Strange Bird, and Shaina Shepherd. Proceeds help benefit the Old Church.

LIVESTREAMED - NATIONAL

Drama Past Event Like List
Na'el Shehade and Via Rosa definitely live up to the name Drama, but the Chicago duo create it with subtlety. Shehade's beats aren't overbearing, and instead hang mystically behind Rosa's supple vocals. The project’s mellow dramatics could score both late-night dance parties and solitary introspection. CERVANTE POPE

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band Past Event Like List
The country blues and roots trio out of Brown County, Indiana return turn their Facebook page into a livestreamed hootenanny.