For when you need a break from refreshing your Twitter feed and studying infographics this election week, choose from our picks for online events in every genre—from Comedy Crossing: The Animal Crossing Standup Comedy Show Past Event Like List to a concert with Patty Griffin Past Event Like List benefitting Revolution Hall, and from the Portland Book Festival Past Event Like List to HUMP! Greatest Hits, Volume 2 Past Event Like List . Plus, peruse our complete in-person and streaming calendars, and look out for a roundup of socially distanced things to do in the flesh this weekend.
Jump to: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Multi-Day
MONDAY
MUSIC
Laura Veirs
Past Event
Like
List
In 2016, fresh off a collaborative album and tour with a supergroup rounded out by Neko Case and k.d. lang, Portland singer/songwriter Laura Veirs went on to write a picture book chronicling the life of American folk legend Elizabeth Cotten. This is all to say that Viers is cool and we like her. Join her for a show on Music Millennium's virtual stage.
See Also: Multi-Day Events
TUESDAY
COMEDY
Comedy Crossing: The Animal Crossing Standup Comedy Show
Past Event
Like
List
Your two favorite COVID-coping activities, playing Animal Crossing and watching live comedy, will merge for some much-needed laughs, hosted by the hilarious Jenny Yang, who writes for Last Man Standing.
COMMUNITY
Election Day
If you haven't already, use The Mercury's endorsement cheat-sheet and spare no time dropping your ballot in the nearest ballot box. Once you've done that, watch the first round of results come in online with the Democratic Party of Oregon
Past Event
Like
List
.
See Also: Multi-Day Events
WEDNESDAY
READINGS & TALKS
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?
See Also: Multi-Day Events
THURSDAY
COMEDY
Speakeasy!
Remind
Like
List
Do you love to make cocktails? Do you love to draw? Want to chat with ‘Police Reports Illustrated’ creator Callan Berry? Join the party at Speakeasy!— the talkshow where you get to make cocktails!— every other Thursday! You’ll learn how to make a cocktail, draw a small comic, and get any questions asked— ANY questions!— by the one and only Callan Berry!
MUSIC
Outer Orbit on the Portland Music Stream
Past Event
Like
List
Funk/soul music collective Outer Orbit will treat you to a night of music influenced by everyone from Sly Stone and the Meters to Aretha Franklin and Emily King.
See Also: Multi-Day Events
FRIDAY
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
The Businesswoman, the Swordsman, and the Servant
Past Event
Like
List
Portland Baroque Orchestra presents an evening of early classical string quartets by Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen and Chevalier de Saint-Georges, as well as Joseph Haydn’s “Sunrise” quartet.
See Also: Multi-Day Events
SATURDAY
MUSIC
The Cabin Project on the Portland Music Stream
Past Event
Like
List
Womxn-composed indie-rock band the Cabin Project will bring haunting choruses, two-part harmonies, pedals, synths, and string sections to your ears via the Alberta Rose Theatre.
2020 Induction Ceremony
Past Event
Like
List
Celebrate the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's latest inductees (Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and Ahmet Ertegun Award honorees Jon Landau and Irving Azoff) during this special HBO program packed with special guests from Iggy Pop to Alicia Keys to Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Patty Griffin - Live from The Continental Club
Past Event
Like
List
"Chances are you've already heard the music of Patty Griffin. Her songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Dixie Chicks, even Bette Midler. But you haven't really, truly experienced Griffin until you hear her perform her own stellar originals," wrote former Stranger contributor Kurt B. Reighley. She'll "stop" at Revolution Hall as part of a series of livestreamed concerts benefitting indie music venues around the country.
See Also: Multi-Day Events
SUNDAY
MUSIC
Red Bird on the Portland Music Stream
Past Event
Like
List
Press materials describe the sound of soul band Red Bird as a "musical love child" between Tom Waits, Prince and Brandi Carlile. Catch them live from the Alberta Rose Theater stage.
THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Drag Queen Bingo
Past Event
Like
List
Join local drag queen Poison Waters for a couple rounds of prize-bearing bingo on the internet. If you buy at least four bottles of wine for delivery from Hip Chicks Do Wine, you won't have to pay admission.
PWNW Retrospective: Linda Austin Dance—Ensemble Works
Past Event
Like
List
Performance Works NorthWest will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a look back at the group choreographies of its director, Linda Austin.
MULTI-DAY
FILM
Portland Latin American Film Festival XIV
Past Event
Like
List
The Hollywood Theater is moving the Portland Latin American Film Festival online, which is bittersweet. Bitter: Everyone loves a big screen, especially at this historic gem. Sweet: You'll have a full 48 hours to watch a film once you hit play. From September to November, the festival will present six movies from Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Switzerland, and Belgium that celebrate and honor the cultural diversity of Latin America. The upcoming film is Juliana Fanjul's Radio Silence (starting Thursday), about a journalist who fights misinformation at the radio station where she's worked for years.
(All week)
MUSIC
Mini Concert 1
Past Event
Like
List
Fear No Music directors Kenji Bunch and Monica Ohuchi will kick off the season with a virtual program of music by Black American composers, including Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s "Sonoran Storm" and Regina Harris Baiocchi’s "Azuretta."
(Monday-Wednesday)
READINGS & TALKS
Portland Book Festival
Past Event
Like
List
Literary Arts' annual book and author extravaganza will be extended into not one but over 20 days of online events with over 100 authors from Oregon and beyond, and all but three are free to attend. Presenters include Cold Millions author Jess Walter
Past Event
Like
List
, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright Ayad Akhtar, National Book Award honoree Bryan Washington, acclaimed Black history scholar Isabel Wilkerson
Past Event
Like
List
, and Margaret Atwood
Past Event
Like
List
.
(Thursday-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.
(Wednesday-Sunday)
