The University of Bristol’s Liberal Arts Virtual Cultural Arena: Art in the Age of Corona
Necessity is the mother of invention! The whole world is a crazy place right now, but on the plus side, there are so many new, exciting ways to access the cultural productions, works of art, literature, scholarship, and learning opportunities on the interwebs, and the options keep growing. You are not in this alone.
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The Bristol Liberal Arts teaching team has compiled a list of online cultural events. This is a mere starting point. Please feel free to add other resources in the comments!
And we would love it if you would share your reflections, thoughts, analyses -- tell us what surprised you, what challenged your thinking, what made you understand something in a new way!Here are our links. Let us know if any don’t work (or just fix them!):
General
Google Arts and Culture (you can access tours of Musee d’Orsay, the Uffizi, and more)
The Social Distancing Festival (a site for celebrating artists whose work has been cancelled or disrupted)
Neighbourhood Finds (this article reminded me there is wonderful art everywhere)
Kanopy (documentaries, classic/arthouse films, recordings of theatre - access through UoB library site)
Galleries & Museums
State Hermitage Museum, Russia, video tour
Metropolitan Museum of ArtMoMA on youtube
Science Museum Medicine Galleries Highlights
Pitt Rivers Museum Virtual Tour
Underpinnings Museum - collection and exhibitions online - The Underpinnings Museum: Home
Turkish museums (free virtual tours)
Guggenheim art books
Challenge yourself to be quarantine art!! (love this!)
Music
Daily list of live stream concerts and theatre
Virtual Music Festival - Left Bank LiveMet Opera streaming
Bachtrack (the biggest site with live classical music events) now lists over 400 events
Theatre
US theater streamingOnline theatre and danceDaniel Bye’s works (including the topical “Going Viral”)
The work of The Royal Shakespeare Company (30 days free access)
https://globeplayer.tv/ (Globe Theatre Streaming past productions online- though there are fees for some content)
Education
Free online courses from Ivy League universities
Podcasts
You Must Remember This Podcast
She Speaks: Academic Muslimahs
Dan and Eric Read the New Yorker So You Don’t Have To
Bonnets at Dawn (Austen vs Bronte)
Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis
Levar Burton Reads (short fiction)
Past Present (with some nicely timely pieces, aka on quarantine and cabin fever)
Film and Television Broadcasting
Check out Box of Broadcasts!! --log in through U of Bristol single sign on -- has an incredible collection!!
Chai Films -- 30-day free subscription for Jewish-themed films
Estates and Ancestral and Ancient Sites
Mount Vernon virtual tour (home of George Washington)
Some countryside and coastal National Trust sites
You can explore Petra from home!
Reading
Free book downloads!
Read our alumna Phoebe Graham’s “Why I Write”
Language Learning
Use Duolingo to learn French, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, or many other languages. It’s great, and it’s free!
Exercise
Down Dog for Schools. DownDog have made all of their apps completely free for students and teachers until 1st July. Visit www.downdogapp.com/schools to add your school/university email for free access. They offer Yoga, HIIT, Barre, and general 7-min workouts.
Finally, this is a very challenging time, and we need to do our best to stay healthy and happy now we’re a lot more isolated from one another. Here are some links regarding
Mental Health .