A selection (most from 2020) of some of the many wonderful resources that people have been putting online to help keep us interested, informed, involved while staying at home, including heritage, music, landscape, stained glass … More added from time to time … (But not updated)
For other resources, see three other posts: Online resources – heritage & the arts and Online resources – swim advice + exercise & health and Online resources – places, nature, wildlife
A massive range of collaborative resources for coronavirus, including things to do when staying at home, how to do things differently … https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/
A random selection of other interesting resources …
Environmental Education Virtual Field Trips for Nature Lovers, www.avasflowers.net/environmen
Virtual tour of museums in Singapore https://www.bestinsingapore.co/best-museum-singapore/, together with guide to the museums
https://www.theaterseatstore.com/blog/virtual-theater-experiences (thanks to Aubrey from centerlinearts.org for this one)
https://www.bl.uk/sounds-of-our-shores
Walking Weirdly Explore Indoors – Payhip https://payhip.com/b/i0zp
Distance Socialising -sharing online events, gatherings and watch parties https://www.facebook.com/groups/148550973211258/
Let’s get cultural and creative online – Suffolk Libraries https://www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/events-activities/online-and-streamed-events/arts-activities/
Ideas to spark creativity https://www.sparkcreativity.net/
EDP roundup of online events https://www.edp24.co.uk/going-out/online-events-in-norfolk-during-coronavirus-lockdown-from-exercise-to-quizzes-1-6589718?fbclid=IwAR014en_7pCVaCbSfXNda3UDFMGBk4AUu5pPpVllTxnVGzfRYfl-cNt2CXM
Dan Snow’s History Hit: Origins of the Spanish Flu on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan-snows-history-hit/id1042631089?i=1000470312087
These 20 women were trailblazing explorers—why did history forget them? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/03/these-20-women-were-trailblazing-explorers-why-did-history-forget-them-feature/
Coronavirus: Buckinghamshire couple dress in period costumes for walks – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52214966
People dressing up as in paintings https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/getty-museum-challenge-art-paintings-dress-up-costume-klimt-girl-pearl-earring-a9466661.html
Art calogues to download (I couldn’t find them) https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-can-now-download-over-200-art-books-from-the-guggenheim-for-free-042920?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&cid=%7Enewyork%7Enatsoc%7Efacebook%7Eechobox#Echobox=1588188334
Culture in Quarantine – BBC Arts https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts
British Museum makes 1.9 million images available for free https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/04/28/british-museum-makes-1-9-million-images-available-for-free/?fbclid=IwAR18OtZx2U3ZVYywMjhB_aBsQEJ5rlWJFCuyA9wxASyerhK6ZnNN8ggyDkA
Cultural and political history, 1978 Film, due for release Sept https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/30/echoes-of-todays-uk-revealed-in-rock-against-racisms-1970s-struggle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other and https://bylinetimes.com/2020/04/30/review-white-riot-why-we-need-a-new-rock-against-racism/
Shakespeare’s Globe is streaming ‘Romeo and Juliet’ for free for the next fortnight (23 Apr) https://www.timeout.com/london/news/shakespeares-globe-is-streaming-romeo-and-juliet-for-free-for-the-next-fortnight-042120
Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew #ASonnetADay (on Twitter) https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1253109763103227904?s=20
Theatre For All – West End Shows Available To Stream – Felixstowe Spy https://felixstowespy.com/2020/04/10/theatre-for-all-west-end-shows-available-to-stream/
Music and nature – Dawn chorus event 16 May (and generally) https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/tripideas/national-trust-to-host-sunrise-classical-music-event-to-celebrate-the-beauty-of-dawn/ar-BB13fL3L?li=AAJsPCA&ocid=mailsignout or https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/dawns-to-brighten-your-day
MUSIC
Zoom/virtual jazz – proud that two of these are my talented cousins, Millie vocals and Miranda on drums! Richmond Trust Virtual Jazz Band – Fly Me To The Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrkumflFIiM&feature=youtu.be
Yo-Yo Ma (@YoYo_Ma)will be playing Bach’s complete cello suites live 24 May as a memorial to those we lost and a tribute to the resilience of our communities. Until then, this is the Prelude from Suite No. 2. #songsofcomfort https://t.co/0YfJuoZXSf https://t.co/PpNUaPrDB1
Karol Szymanowski’s Etude op. 4 no. 3 in B flat minor, Nico de Villiers (and other pieces) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LerDrttqkWw&feature=youtu.be
Gareth Malone’s online choir https://decca.com/greatbritishhomechorus/
Free online choral workshop with David Hill, Musical Director of The Bach Choir, Monday 4 May 2020 6.30-8.00pm https://www.thebachchoir.org.uk/news/the-bach-choir-choral-workshop-with-david-hill/
Aude Gotto have made publicly available their recording of one of J.S. Bach’s cantatas for Easter Sunday: ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’, BWV 4. Click here.
Bach’s St John Passion Live Performance | English Touring Opera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buHlU9NzVGk
Watch “St John Passion from Isolation – Episode 1” on YouTube https://youtu.be/pUmxx_mNG1s
Will Fen: ‘LONELY PIANIST’, a daily piano piece https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVIziYC66yBIoS-ULhnavXw?fbclid=IwAR3uELN2mg5iFoGJ5zj7BcJ7yKPAngJkx1Xjy5m8dd1cHBjHkVxd1csWuww&app=desktop
Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/?fbclid=IwAR1NH5SLu66JSSzBhbf_zR-4N2KgdpHYxVNmrWHxwyqwyjvmAmv4h947w4M
Classical music free online: ClassicFM, including lists of concerts etc https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/live-streamed-classical-music-concerts-coronavirus/
ClassicMPR https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2020/03/16/free-online-classical-concerts, lists of concerts etc https://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2020/03/16/free-online-classical-concerts#Concert%20Libraries
BBC Radio 3 on the Sounds app (you need to register/sign in)
Leigh Folk Festival (virtual) https://frontroomfolk.com/, archived on YouTube channel, https://t.co/D32XhnSJnE
Norfolk Record Office: Unlocking Our Sound Heritage – activity packs, learning resources, and games to help to keep kids entertained during lock down, and to assist parents who are home schooling. Packs include:
-Music Activity Pack: Discover the wonderful world of an orchestra, learn about instrument families, make your own instrument, and hear the music of the English composer Benjamin Britten.
-The Science of Sound Activity Pack: Learn how sound is made through interesting facts and hands on experiments, play a tune in a water xylophone, and have a long distance conversation through a piece of string.
https://www.archives.norfolk.gov.uk/events-and-education/at-home-activity-pack
Virtual tours:
https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/virtual-train-rides
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/netherlands-tulips-online
STAINED GLASS
Several Facebook groups
Virtual tour of “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKkE5EH520&feature=youtu.be
The Stained Glass Museum – browse collections by title https://stainedglassmuseum.com/collections/glasstitle.htm or period https://stainedglassmuseum.com/collections/glassperiod.htm, and their list of external links https://stainedglassmuseum.com/links.html
British Society of Master Glass Painters https://www.bsmgp.org.uk/stained-glass/, external links https://www.bsmgp.org.uk/resources/external-stained-glass-resources/ and https://www.bsmgp.org.uk/stained-glass/historical-stained-glass/historic-glass-collections-and-websites/
Suffolk (and Shrewsbury) Rope family stained glass artists http://www.arthur.rope.clara.net/ and https://margaretrope.wordpress.com/
Mary Lowndes stained glass artist, Flickr group https://www.flickr.com/groups/3060739@N23/
My photos of one third of Mary Lowndes’ windows https://www.flickr.com/photos/imogenradford/collections/72157694328645711/