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Category: COVID-19 Resources

The Rauschenberg Foundation Is Launching Emergency Medical Grants for Artists Who Need Help Paying for Healthcare

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts, has launched a new program for emergency medical grants, which has been in the works for several months, according to a spokesperson for New York Foundation for the Arts.

The Rauschenberg Emergency Grants—expected to be rolled out in late May or early June—will provide visual artists, media artists, and choreographers up to $5,000 worth of assistance for medical emergencies. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. More…

Stars in the House

The Actors Fund, the national human services organization for everyone in performing arts and entertainment, announced today that SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley, will produce daily online mini-shows, entitled “Stars In The House”, featuring stars of stage and screen singing and performing live (from home!) to promote support for The Fund’s services for those most vulnerable to the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19). More…

Stay at Home: Online Music Festival and Events Calendar

Until COVID-19 ends, artists are moving their events online, and we need a place to find them. Stay At Home Fest brings these events together into a massive ongoing music festival-style calendar, along with a curated “Main Stage Event.” We can slow the spread of COVID 19, support the artists we love, and fight the effects of isolation. Stay at home. But stay together. Read more…

Stuck at home? These 12 famous museums offer virtual tours you can take on your couch

Google Arts & Culture has partnered with over 2500 museums and galleries around the world, including Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, London’s National Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The featured collections vary depending on the museum, but most include online exhibits, a “street view” that lets you explore inside the institution itself, as well as galleries of the artwork, where you can deep dive into paintings such as Vermeer’s The Milkmaid (at the Rijksmuseum) or da Vinci’s Adoration of the Magi (at Florence’s recently closed Uffizi Gallery). If you’re not sure where to start, Google curated a handy shortlist of their top 10 virtual museums. Read more…

The Social Distancing Festival

This is a site for celebrating artists and the work that has been cancelled/delayed/disrupted. So far, submissions have included clips from rehearsals, scenes done with cast-mates over webcam, recordings from previous workshops, design plans, and performers just doing the song they were really excited about singing into their webcam. It doesn’t need to be anything formal or polished! Learn more…

Distance Learning: Ideas and Resources for Your Drama Classroom

Since our ability to congregate has taken a pause while we overcome the current health crisis, many educators across the globe must devise tactics for teaching via the internet. How can we inspire our young artists to keep working that creative muscle? How can we teach theatre over the web and on the fly? Here are some quick ideas from Stage Partners as we try to figure out Distance Learning together. More…

15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home

More and more, live musicals are being filmed for PBS or streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BroadwayHD and more. Productions of Off-Broadway’s Puffs to Broadway’s Indecent to the West End’s An American in Paris, new captures of stage productions regularly become available. Let’s take a look at some of the best filmed Broadway shows to know about and where to find them. More…

OntheBoards.tv offering free unlimited performance rentals through April

As On the Boards continues to determine how best to move forward with public performances, and is considering public health guidelines around COVID-19, we recognize, and truly believe, in the need for art in trying times. In this spirit, we offer free access to On the Boards.tv to our local, national, and global community.

Anyone may access unlimited On the Boards.tv rentals through the end of April 2020. Artists featured on On the Boards.tv include Ahamefule Oluo, Beth Gill, Okuwi Okpokwasili, Pat Graney, Young Jean Lee, Crystal Pite | Kidd Pivot, Zoe|Juniper, Michellle Ellsworth, Amy O’Neal, Lars Jan, and many more. Read more…