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Airlie Press: The Animal at Your Side Launch

Online N/A, Portland

East Coast book launch for The Animal at Your Side, featuring DC band All Her Muses and the art of Sara Everett Washington DC band All Her Muses will be performing at the virtual book launch for our new title The Animal at Your Side by Airlie Prize winner @ayil_m tomorrow, October 1, at 7pm ET.

Free

Shelter in Place, Rain or Shine Outdoor Opening

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education 724 NW Davis Street, Portland

Social artist and activist Adam W. McKinney opens Shelter in Place in the windows and first floor gallery of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 1, 2020. Shelter in Place, which in its entirety is viewable from the sidewalk surrounding the museum, is a film, photography, and dance-based interrogation of the social tenets of Sukkot—departing and dwelling, expressing and atoning, striking and shaking. A Black Jewish response to histories of oppression, McKinney’s Shelter in Place is an inquiry into social isolation and the physical and emotional effects of anti-Black racial violence. While the museum is closed, the multimedia installation extends into the museum’s first floor gallery and windows and is completely viewable both day and night from the…

Free

Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts

Online N/A, Portland

Join us virtually for this year’s Bookmark: A Benefit for Literary Arts on Thursday, October 1 at 6:00 p.m. PDT! We’ll come together online to celebrate our creative community and hear powerful stories from some of Oregon’s brightest artists. Through story, we build community. RSVP and learn more here: https://www.avstream.me/bookmark.

Free