With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing across the state, it’s more imperative than ever that you wear a mask and keep your distance if you decide to head out. But if you’re cool with staying in, good news: We’ve got plenty of things to do in Portland this week, including a battle between hip-hop top dog(g)s, the marriage of science and beer, authors who should be congressmen, congressmen who are authors, and more. And as our Editor-In-Chief likes to say: If you’re going to go out, Wash Ya Damn Hands, Wear Ya Damn Mask, hit the links below, and plan your weekend accordingly!
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Comic-Con @ Home
The mecca of all merchandising, the promised land of pop-culture religion, the convention that was once about comic-books and is now just sort of, like, one giant festival for marketing marks and advertising aficionados, is going online for 2020 because even when there wasn’t a pandemic on, squeezing 100k people into San Diego’s Convention Center was getting to be a bit too much in terms of crowding and also being a disgusting germ factory. So now, if you want to watch panels, watch trailers, watch people introduce new things for you to buy that you can’t buy yet but you’re excited and making a reaction video already, Comic-Con @ Home is five straight days of that regular Comic-Con experience, but on your TV instead! All panels will be available on the Comic-Con YouTube channel, and there’s going to be about 350 of them spread out over the event.
Write Around Portland’s Weekly Writing Workshops
Write Around Portland’s creative writing workshops were a great investment in developing your imagination muscles even before there was a Coronavirus crisis. But now that you’re home pretty much all the time, why not combat that sense of restlessness by learning how to channel your creativity as creatively as you can? Weekly registration for the workshops opens Mondays at noon and closes one hour before the workshops begin.