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6 things to do this week: Portland Youth Philharmonic’s ‘Cushion Concert,’ children’s theater, Polaris dance performance
Updated May 19, 2021;
Oboist Catherine Lee
This May, oboist and improviser Catherine Lee released her second solo album, “Remote Together.” In it, Lee offers a range of genres and styles that take the listener on an evolutionary journey responding to pandemic culture. Audiences can listen to Lee’s work during a streamed concert moderated by All Classical Portland’s Robert McBride.
5 p.m. Friday, May 21; streaming on the
; free.
The Portland Youth Philharmonic in a file photo from 2011. (Heidi Hoffman For The Oregonian) LC- Heidi Hoffman For The Oregon
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What it’s about: In this hilarious and biting memoir-in-essays, Ben Philippe chronicles a lifetime of being the “Black friend” in predominantly white spaces.
The buzz: “Philippe has created a funny and at times harrowing, memoir of his experience as a Black man,” Library Journal writes.
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Ecco, nonfiction, $35
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