Boston University’s Arts Administration program has compiling media items related to the pandemic, aiming to highlight the creativity of our field in these listings of streaming performances, virtual exhibitions, and media reports of the ways in which the crisis is affecting the arts community – and the ways in which artists and arts organizations are responding. We are also tracking community resources to support artists and arts organizations in these difficult times. More…
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BRIC: Resources for Artists During a Public Health Crisis
As we take heightened precautions to support public health initiatives, including temporarily closing our doors, we want to maintain our unwavering support of the artistic and creative community and ensure that you continue to thrive. To that end, we have compiled a list of shared resources from local and national arts and culture organizations.
These resources offer assistance, such as financial support and opportunities for artists to continue to express their creative potential during these difficult times. More…
Digital Tools for Artists to Run a Remote Career During Coronavirus
At least temporarily, the world around us is changing. Especially in stressful times such as these, we need art in our daily lives. We can still come together and use art as healing. Because although we are being asked to do our part and stay in, it’s now easier than ever to stay connected to our communities and still run our art businesses online. To help the artists who feel shocked by these changes, we rounded up our favorite tools that make it easier to run an art business online. More…
Creative Capital: List of Arts Resources During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Creative Capital has always been anchored by a rich spirit of community and mutual generosity, and we believe that continuing communication and exchange are crucial for all of us. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the United States, we have created a list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well as arts philanthropists, and arts professionals. More…
Theatre Without Theater
Theatre Without Theater is an Instagram account started by 3 theater artists to honor the productions that have been cancelled or postponed during this time, with the work shared every evening at “curtain time” of 7:30pm. The platform was created 5 days ago and the response has been beyond exciting – there are already over 4,000 followers and we were featured in the New York Times on March 17.
If you, like so many of us, have had work cancelled during time, and would be interested in sharing it on our platform, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We are committed to sharing work in a wide variety of forms – you can currently see on the account a mix of everything from a midwestern high school production of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls, to an actor from Broadway’s Harry Potter performing a scene, to a playwright reading a monologue from her cancelled workshop production, to a designer sharing their renderings. More…
Canada’s National Arts Centre and Facebook will pay musicians for livestreams
The National Arts Centre has teamed up with Facebook to offer artists a paid alternative to the livestreaming they’re already doing. The Facebook-National Arts Centre Fund for Performing Artists will provide $100,000 in artists fees to support online performances.
The first in the #CanadaPerforms series, which will run on NAC’s Facebook page, will take place Thursday, March 19 at 2 pm EST. Blue Rodeo frontman Jim Cuddy and his Jim Cuddy Band will be joined by Devin Cuddy, Sam Polley and Colin Cripps. The artists will perform in a studio and stand 1.5 metres apart from each other.
Other early performances include Serena Ryder, William Prince, Irish Mythen, Erin Costelo and Whitehorse. More…
Dancing Alone Together
In this unprecedented time of isolation, Dancing Alone Together aims to be a central resource for the digital dance world that is beginning to bloom.
MOVE — Dance-Based Online Classes
CREATE — Dance-Making Prompts & Communities
WATCH — Streamed Dance Performances
Ways of Gathering in the Age of COVID-19: A Guide to Livestreaming on HowlRound TV
As COVID-19 continues to spread, we know many theatre organizations are thinking carefully about their planned gatherings and events. We here at HowlRound want to remind you that going digital may be an option for your theatre and performance events. We can help with that!
HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world’s performing arts and cultural fields. It seeks to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop the theatre’s knowledge commons collectively. Since creating HowlRound TV in 2011, we have partnered with over one hundred organizations annually to livestream thousands of events from countries all over the world, creating an ever-growing video archive of discourse and practice around contemporary theatre and performance. More…