Your Weekly Guide To Virtual Events + Live Streaming

You’re more than likely familiar with our weekend guide, but there’s still a lot to mark down on ye olde calendrier during the weekdays. Hence this pocket guide! We’ll cover everything from tunes to books to art to…you name it, basically; if it’s virtual, and good, we’re gonna talk about it:

Monday August 10th

• Very obviously catch Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow talking Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close with Samhita Mukhopadhyay for Politics and Prose! Starts at 8pm ET!
• You can also tune into Strand Bookstore’s live-streamed chat w/ Adam Rutherford on How To Argue With A Racist; that one starts at 6pm ET.

Tuesday August 11th

• Kick things off over on our IG Live, because Puddin’ will be giving us a run-through of some new menu items at 1pm ET!
• You can also catch Mirah going live on NOONCHORUS starting at 8pm ET; she’ll be doing songs from You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This, and tickets start at $15.
• Plus most definitely catch Bully over on KEXP’s YouTube channel at 6pm ET!
• SummerStage Anywhere, meanwhile, will feature a talk w/ Chris Frantz (of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club) and Julia Cumming (of Sunflower Bean) at 8pm ET!
• Into learning? Brooklyn Brainery will host The History of Scotch Whisky ($6) at 6:30pm ET, Paint & Sip ($13) at 6:30pm ET, and Foraged Medicine and Virtual Weed Walk ($10) at 5pm ET!
• You can also find out all about the art of pickling via Atlas Obscura’s 7pm ET class! Tickets are $25 per device.
• OR if witchcraft is more your speed, then hit up Catland’s course all about the upcoming harvest moon! Tickets are $15.

Wednesday August 12th

• Start with some guided meditation courtesy of the Phillips Collection! Free to tune in starting at 12:45pm ET.
• For literary vibes, catch Diane Cook in conversation about The New Wilderness with Arianna Rebolini! Books Are Magic will be streaming the chat live via Zoom starting at 7pm ET.
• Plus Sara Schaefer will be in conversation with Naomi Ekperigin to celebrate the release of Schaefer’s memoir, Grand, via Strand Bookstore’s live stream! Starts at 7pm ET.
• You can also do a little bit o’ learnin’ via Brooklyn Brainery’s class lineup tonight; Herbs for Stress and Anxiety ($12) is at 6pm ET, The Archaeology of Beer ($6) is at 7:30pm ET, and Collage Self-Portraits ($15) is at 7pm ET.
• More into TV? Catch the first season of (Un)Well, which hits Netflix at 3:01am ET.

Thursday August 13th

• For starters, head on over to our IG Live feed; Killa Cakes will be taking over at 3pm ET for an afternoon of baking!
• And while we’re on the foodie vibes, you can also learn how to forage a meal via Atlas Obscura’s 5pm ET class! Tickets are $25 per device.
• For conversational vibes, most definitely tune into the Phillips Collection’s artist talk with Luca Buvoli, who’ll be speaking about his contributions to Phillips’ first digital Intersections project, Picture: Present, and his series Astrodoubt and the Quarantine Chronicles! Starts at 5:30pm ET.
• Plus catch comedians Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos, co-hosts of Adulting, over on 92Y’s live-stream at 8pm ET! Tickets are $10.
• If books are more your jam, hit up Books Are Magic’s Zoom conversation ft. Michele Filgate on What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About with Kiese Laymon, Nayomi Munaweera and Brian Gresko! Starts at 7pm ET.
• Plus Heather Cabot will be in conversation with Zibby Owens to celebrate the release of her book, The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream, over on Strand Bookstore’s live stream starting at 7pm ET!
• More into music? Surfer Blood will celebrate 10 years of Astro Coast on NOONCHORUS tonight starting at 6pm ET; tickets start at $10.
• You can also scope Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith at 9:30pm ET for $15+…
• …and on YouTube, meanwhile, you can scope Lucinda Williams on KEXP’s channel at 6pm ET,
• Plus Charli XCX is going live via BOILER ROOM TV starting at 6pm ET! Tickets start at $5.

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