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We have gathered together resources we have come upon in one place to help you during these crazy times.
Scroll down for ways to get your art fix without leaving home, activities to help with remote learning, and emergency resources for artists. If you know of any resources you think we should include, email us at thenewcollectives@gmail.com. |
Art For When You're Keeping Your Social Distance
Theatre Without Theater
is a nightly theatrical broadcast aiming to fill the current artistic void at curtain time. |
The Met Opera
is streaming operas for free nightly. |
Our friends at BARN Arts have created BarnWaves digital variety show featuring new theater, music, comedy and performance.
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The Paris Opera
will be showing its operas and ballets free of charge on their website. Programing changes weekly week. |
Social Distancing Festival
is a site celebrating artists and the work that has been cancelled/delayed/disrupted. They are collecting and streaming performing arts of all types. |
12 famous museums from around the world offer virtual tours.
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Author Neil Gaiman
has a website full of cool stuff, Including free downloads of some of his works, audio recordings, interviews reading, book excerpts and more. |
Stay at Home Fest
is bringing online music events together into a massive ongoing music festival-style calendar, along with a curated “Main Stage Event.” |
La MaMa
is streaming select productions and events for FREE. |
NPR Music
has compiled a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The list is updated daily. |
The Public Theater's Joe's Pub will be presenting a weekly series of live-streamed performances:
JOE'S PUB LIVE! Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night at 8PM, they will share free, live-streamed and archived performances. |
Dancing Alone Together
is bringing together the dance world online. They have lists of dance-based online classes, dance-making prompts & communities, and streamed dance performances. |
Piano bar Marie’s Crisis is going virtual, and each night, you can join by becoming a part of the
Marie’s Crisis Facebook group and watching the livestreams every night. |
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is livestreaming performances on their YouTube channel. You can find video of past performances there, as well.
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BroadwayWorld.com is presenting
Living Room Concerts. Broadway stars perform sets from their living rooms. New performers are releasing content every day. |
The Tank Theater has created
CyberTank: an e-home for e-merging artists. CyberTank is a weekly, remote, multidisciplinary, variety arts gathering open to all. Tune in Every Tuesday at 4pm EST. |
Stars in the House
brings Broadway stars right to your living room with online concerts each night (and afternoon) at curtain time. Hosted by Sirius XM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband and producer James Wesley, you must subscribe to watch, but all the money goes to support the Actors Fund. |
TrickleUP
NYC Artist Network is making original content by NYC artists and helping those affected by COVID-19 shutdowns in the process. Subscription is $10 a month and the goal is to get 10,000 subscribers do that they can give $10,000 to 10 different artists each month. |
The Show Must Go Online
was created by actor and director Robert Myles. The gaol is to stream the complete works of Shakespeare in the order they were written. First up Two Gentleman of Verona. |
Every night
Caveat will stream online versions of their shows. You can also watch past livestreams on their YouTube channel. |
HERE Arts
has developed a whole lineup of online programing. Join them weekly on Wednesday evenings for HERE@HOME watch parties of full-length productions, and on Friday afternoons for #stillHERE Livestreams from their artist community. |
The 24 Hour Plays has created
The Viral Monologues, a series of new monologues written, rehearsed, recorded and released on IGTV in 24 hours. There are so many extremely talented writers and actors are involved! |
The Everhart Museum
has gathered together an amazing list of resources. Explore their catalogue of online resources of museum lessons, inspiration boards, staff playlists, interactive experiences, and more. They will be adding content regularly and including links to content from other museums. |
The Globe Theatre
has paid-for recordings of many of the theatre's Shakespeare adaptations spanning more than 10 years. |
A.R.T./New York
is compiling all of the ways the nonprofit theatre community is still cultivating connection and sharing art online. They have created a catalog of online and alternative programming here, including but not limited to: Live-streamed and Pre-recorded Performances, Classes, and more! |
AFO Theater has created
Quarantine Content. They have gathered some of their favorite digital content for their solo artists for you to enjoy form the comfort of your home. |
The Sketch Book Project
has created a 28 day challenge. Sign up and you will get an automatic email every day for 28 days with a creative prompt. You can Pay What You Wish or sign up for free. |
The Parsnip Ship
has a huge number of recorded readings of new plays for you to listen to. The plays were recorded in front of a live audience with live music. Stay tuned to their Instagram and Facebook for special online offerings. |
The Public Theater
has compiled a whole host of resources and entertainment. Be sure to check out all their offerings. |
Filmed On Stage
has made a list of free musicals, plays, and operas that are now streaming! The list is updated daily. |
The National Theater
is streaming a full length play for FREE, every Thursday at 7pm UK time starting April 2nd! |
BAM
is presenting critically acclaimed films from around the world as a virtual theatrical experience. These at-home screenings are part of BAM’s current initiative to bring adventurous art directly to you during this uniquely challenging time. |
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Berlin’s Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Theater
is streaming a different play from their vaults starting at 6.30pm German time and running until midnight. Most modern productions come complete with English subtitles. |
You can now access over 1.4 million books for free as part of the National Emergency Library,
a project launched by the Internet Archive to help remote learning efforts. The National Emergency Library will run until June 30 or the end of the national emergency, whichever comes last. |
Friend of TNC, David Carl, will be live-streaming his hilarious one man show
TRUMP LEAR from his apartment! The first performance will be Friday, April 3rd at 8:30p EST. The show sold out it's past two runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and now you can see it from the comfort of your couch. |
The Met Museum
has created coloring pages of objects from The Met's collection. Print them out and create your won masterpieces! |
Digital Theater
allows you to stream a huge number of amazing theatre productions. You have the option to subscribe or rent individual plays. |
American Shakespeare Center
is now streaming 4 shows: Much Ado About Nothing, Henry IV Part 1 and 2, and A King and No King. |
Brooklyn Museum's First Saturdays – monthly evenings of free programming welcoming visitors from central Brooklyn and beyond –is going online. Join for art-making, performance, and music. You can tune in April 4 starting at 5 pm on Facebook Live or Zoom.
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For the Kids - Remote Learning Help
We at The New Collectives wanted to bring the fun of Bug Play, our new play for young audiences, to you at your homes, so we have created
Bug Play @ Home. Join Alex and the bugs on a whole new set of adventures! |
TNC Artistic Director,
Giverny Petitmermet, will be reading the Harry Potter series, out loud with voices a chapter a day. A new chapter will be read every day at 4:30p EST on Facebook Live, then posted on her website, so you can catch up. |
Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, which creates bold, original productions for young people and their families, is offering free streaming of their archival videos.
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New Victory Theater
has created Arts Break. Each week will offer different activities centered around a theme. Guided by New Victory Teaching Artists, every post will tell you what you need, what to expect and what to do. You can create a mini art class and do every activity at once, or just pick one or two to get your wiggles out. |
Author and illustrator
Oliver Jeffers will be reading one of his books live on Instagram every day at 6pm GMT/ 1pm EST/11am PST. |
For a small subscription fee, Kids to Artists - Remote Learning Programming
is offering videos made by artists form NYC and beyond specifically designed to aid in remote learning. Great things form kids while helping out of work artists. |
Teaching artist, creator of The Magician's Assistant, and TNC friend, Mélisa Smith is sharing videos of movement activities for little ones over on her Instagram.
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Mo Willems, author of Piggie and Gerald, Don't Let The Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny, invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE.
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Several New York City museums, including the American Museum of Natural History, have created online exhibits for kids. Here is
a complete list. |
Zodiac Math bassist and friend of TNC, Brittany Parker, has brought her kid friendly band
Bee Parks and the Hornets online The Hive, a new interactive musical web series. It is full of activities that families can do together along with the video, as well as ideas to share with others when the video is done. |
The Monterey Bay Aquarium
has 10 live webcams where you can watch different sea life do their thing. They also have curriculum for grades PreK-12 which include games and activities. |
Yo Re Mi Kids
combines music, yoga and mindfulness education for children from preschool to 5th grade. They are currently offering their app for free. |
Youth Remote Learning
is looking to connect students across the US with FREE online courses. Courses are grouped by grade level, subject, and time. |
Mouse Circus
is Neil Gaiman's website for kids. There are game and activities as well as Neil Gaiman him self reading his books out loud! |
The Brooklyn Public Library is offering virtual programing, home school resources, and a long list of online resources to help with remote learning.
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Audiable
is offering collection of stories entertain, engage, and inform young people, ages 0–18 for free from now until schools reopen. |
Girls Who Code
is making CS educational activities available for download free of charge, to anyone who wants to access them. They will release activities weekly. Each activity will include a feature of a woman in tech who pioneered innovative technology. |
The Story Pirates Creator Club
is a one of kind content and activity subscription where kids, families, and educators can: Livestream classes, listen to daily live episodes of Story Pirates Radio, download activities that link to each week’s podcast episode, watch our creative writing curriculum videos and access Story Sparks illustrated writing prompts. Your first month is free. |
Meet Franklin!
Created by Jessie Renee, an alumni of Sesame Street, Franklin is a furry friend to support kids & parents during COVID-19. Send a direct message to book a free, 15-min 1:1 video chat! |
Lincoln Center has created
Lincoln Center at Home. It's their new portal which enables families and communities to keep the performing arts front and center. They have a Pop-Up Classroom at @LincolnCenterNYC on Facebook Live every weekday at 10:00 a.m. ET, Concerts for Kids, and they have programming for grown ups, too! |
Puppetsburg
does interactive, culturally relevant puppet shows for 4mos-4yrs. They have livestreams and free videos online. |
Order some sweet treats and support one of the best candy stores in NYC!
Economy Candy has CandyCare Packs you can order online and have shipped to your door. |
Union Square Play
offers daily family activities, kids' videos, and parent events. They are offering all their content for FREE. You can find a full schedule on their website. |
FunikiJam World Music
has free online activities for you and your little ones! There is a weekly theme & activities designed to build developmental skills and celebrate world culture. let us know what else we can do to help during this challenging time. |
The Brooklyn Museum
has a slew of wonderful resources for educators, with activities centered around works in their collection. |
The National Museum of Math
has all sorts of fun online math activities, as well as virtual field trips! |
The American Museum of Natural History has an amazing science website for kids called Ology!
There are activities, games, videos, and more in all different areas of science! |
Taste Buds Kitchen has created a
At-Home Cooking Club. A new cooking video releasing every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm EST made with simple ingredients you hopefully already have in your pantry. Sign up is free! |
WNET
is now pre-empting the regular weekday schedules on WLIW21 and WLIW WORLD to broadcast a full day of K–12 educational programming. There are supplemental resources available from PBS LearningMedia - all developed with educators, and address DOE curriculum standards. Find out how and when to watch here. |
The New York Public Library is offering free one-on-one virtual tutoring in a partnership with
Brainfuse. All you need to access a session is a library card and you have access to free after-school homework help for K-12 students. Help is available 24 hours a day, as well as tutoring via chat from 2–11pm EST seven days a week in both English and Spanish. |
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums
has made a calendar of live videos and other online events form AZA accredited zoos and aquariums for across the US. |
Every Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9:30am ET,
The Kennedy Space Center gives a presentation, which is followed by a Q&A session for young children. Presentations for older kids are at 1pm ET. Both of these offerings can be found on Facebook, and resources like at-home activities can be found on the attraction's website. |
The Children's Museum of of the Arts (CMA) has started CMA Live!
These free interactive sessions take place over Zoom and invite children of all ages to participate in sing-alongs, create their own artworks, explore creative movement, and much more. |
Artful
has a wide range of free online arts education classes and lesson plan ideas from industry leading performers, professionals, and instructors for grades K-12. |
MoMa
has a put together a bunch of resources to help you teach and learn about art from your home. Be sure to check out their art making activities for families. |
Looking for online classes to supplement your remote learning?
Outschool offers online classes with subjects ranging from coding to photography, cooking to Greek. |
J.K. Rowling has launched Harry Potter at Home, aimed at keeping children and young adults occupied at home. The site includes videos, quizzes, articles, puzzles, and more, aimed at those familiar with her Wizarding World and first-time readers.
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ImaginationBand
(created by Seattle based friends of TNC Heather Anderson and Matt Peterson) offers Interactive Music Adventures-- Puppets, Jams, and Live Music for kids! They teach music and storytelling, encouraging babies, toddlers and children to imagine and be creative through music, dance, and drama. |
National Treasure Dolly Parton will be reading stories nightly at 6 p.m. starting Thursday, April 2, in her new Goodnight With Dolly series.
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The Moth’s Education
program is publishing a weekly storytelling activity to help parents and educators with some at-home curriculum. |
Summer Festival
of The Arts is offering FREE virtual art classes. Many classes will be offered at the same time each day in order to help create a schedule for remote learning. |
Check out the newly launched
Disney Magic Moments website, full of fun activities and videos.With inclusion of Star Wars, Pixar, Marvel and more, there should be something fro everyone. |
The Disney Parks How to Draw Series
on YouTube will teach little illustrators what it takes to draw famous characters. The videos are 10-20 minute-long and will give you parents a little, much needed, break. |
Amani Project
is a family of local organizations that teach young people music-making and emotional intelligence through a do-it-yourself curriculum. They have created an online curriculum with tons of wonderful activities to teach young people to use music as a tool to create connections and celebrate their communities. Even if those things need to happen virtually, for now. |
Sarah, a Girl Scout, reached out to us to let us know about a great resource she found for taking a
Road Trip from Home: Virtual Field Trips. She asked if we would include it in our list and we are trilled to do so. Great work, Sarah! |
Dav Pilkey, the author of Captain Underpants and Dog Man, is posting a free online video series called
Dav Pilkey at Home featuring read-a-louds, drawing lessons and more! |
You can take a virtual tour of the popular exhibit
Harry Potter: A History of Magic. This virtual tour is supplemented with links to episodes from the seven-volume series to historical objects from the incredible collection housed in the British Library. |
The Bronx Zoo just launched a free video tutorial series on Instagram called
"Zoodles," which provides step-by-step instructions to creating your favorite animals. |
Radiolab
has curated all their kid-friendly stories in one bingeable spot - Radiolab for Kids! From “What do dogs see when they look at the rainbow?” to “Do animals laugh?” the topics are squeaky clean (mostly) and all about curiosity. It is sure to delight and engage the most curious minds. |
Varsity Tutors
is offering free interactive classes to keep your K-12 learners engaged while schools are closed. These live classes are led by subject-matter experts in math, science, reading, literature, writing, and so much more. |
Sydney Krawiec, youth services librarian at Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, PA, has created a
Harry Potter-themed digital escape room which will let you enjoy the thrills of solving riddles and puzzling out problems while keeping your social distance. |
Architecture studio Foster + Partners
released a series of templates that kids can print out, color, and fold to create paper cities. released templates for a skyscraper, houses and even a tutorial on how to draw trees like an architect. |
Health and Wellness
Zodiac Math guitarist and friend of TNC,
Lyndsey Anderson, will be leading Zoom meditation sessions daily at 5pm & 8pm EST. |
Keep your mind and body centered with yoga and mediation teacher and TNC Movement Director,
Keri Setaro. She is offering daily mediation and yoga practices via Facebook Live. If you are able, she provides a link where you can Venmo her money for her classes. |
Friend of TNC Neil D'Astolfo will be leading mediation sessions via MNDFL Mediation's Instagram.
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Friend of TNC
Angie Sommerfeld Johnson will be teaching yoga via Facebook live twice a week at 5 PM Eastern time Sunday and Wednesday. Thes classes will be offered for free but if you are able please pay what you can. Payment info can be found on her page. |
Crafts and Food
The Poughkeepsie Grind
is a local coffee shop and cafe in Poughkeepsie, NY. They roast their own beans in house and you can order them online. They have had to close their doors but are doing all they can to stay afloat and pay their employees. You know you'll need coffee, so why not buy a bag? |
Up your home bar game with lessons from some of the country's best bartenders.
TimeOut has compiled a list of online tutorials. |
Chef Massimo Bottura is offering free cooking lessons via his Instagram page in a series he is calling KitchenQuarantine.
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Pomp and Whimsy
a female run gin company is hosting a weekly virtual book club. Mostess Book Club pairs books and cocktails, guest hosted by top women in business, fashion, the arts and hospitality. Join every Thursday at 8pm ET. All proceeds of donation-based ticket sales support New York City area food banks. |
The Neon Tea Party
offers free online craft tutorials for pompoms, friendship bracelets, tie dye and more. They have kits you can buy so you can craft your heart out along with them! |
Don't feel up to making a mask? Wish you could find a scrunchie that matched your mask perfectly? Have no fear, Elizabeth May (the creator of Zodiac Math as well as the music director on many a TNC show) is here! She is making masks and scrunchies to keep you safe and fashionable. Check out her wears and order at breathnoevil.
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Cashmere Treats
is a hand dyed yarn & knitwear company based in California and run by TNC Artist Director Giverny's college roommate, Jessica. Jessica's products are gorgeous and she is currently offering all her patterns for FREE and 10% all her products. Get knitting! |
If you are local to NYC
LIC Masks is a Facebook group full of info on how to make masks and where to donate them locally. Deaconess Health System in Indiana has compiled a list of hospitals nation wide that are in need of masks and how to donate to them. |
Mask Crafters
Is a great resource if you want to put your crafty skills to use to help with the PPE shortage hospitals are currently facing. This site has links to different patterns, information on where and how to donate, and volunteer opportunities. |
Happy DIY Home
has published an updated, comprehensive guide on how to make five types of DIY face masks at home. You will find several options, including two that don’t require any sewing and can be made with material you already have at home. |
Hospitals and doctors are asking for mission-critical help in solving the shortage of N95-type masks. If you are have a sewing machine and are looking for a way to help here is a list of
DIY mask sewing patterns, as well as information on where to send finished masks. |
No sewing machine? No problem.
Here is a mask pattern that does not require a sewing machine. |
BluPrint
has rounded up a bunch of mask patterns from no-sew to pleated to filter masks. There is one for everyone's crafty level. |
Masks for NY
is based in Westchester and has information on how to make masks, donate supplies and where to drop everything off. |
Help For Artists
Broadway Cares
has created a COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund. Every donation helps those onstage and behind the scenes get health care, emergency financial assistance and counseling during this pandemic. |
The Actors Fund
offers emergency assistance nationally to everyone who works int he performing arts and entertainment. |
A.R.T./ New York
is compiling resources for the theatre companies, independent producers, freelance artists and the general public in light of the spread of COVID-19 in New York City. |
The Indie Theater Fund
has launched a fundraising campaign to provide direct support and emergency relief to independent theaters and artists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
The Outrage has launched The Postcard Project.
You pick a postcard and decide what to pay and type your message. Then The Outrage will hire someone who lost their job due to COVID -19 to hand write it for you. You get to spread love and help out your fellow humans. |
The Drama League
has gathered a list of recourses to help artists affected by COVID-19. |
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New York Foundation
for the Arts (NYFA) has a huge list of emergency grants for artists across all disciplines. |
If you are a teacher or teaching artist and have found yourself without
enough work, check out Outschool. They are a platform for online learning that pay you to teach your subject of expertise. |
Calling all female and nonbinary writers!
Our friends at The Hearth are hosting a virtual retreat. Write a 10 pages and a 1 page pitch for a new play and submit it for a chance to win a $500 commission. See website for more details. |
Playwrights Horizons
has complied a list of job opportunities, unemployment help, emergency fund/grant information and more. |
Backstage has created
The Slate, a digital and on-camera series featuring insights and direct feedback from casting directors, acting coaches, personal trainers, agents, actors, and creators. There are multiple daily offerings. |
If you were diagnosed with COVID-19 and are now fully recovered, you may be
able to help. Consider Plasma Donation. Your plasma may be rich in antibodies and be helpful in the treatment or prevention of COVID-19 disease in others. Donated plasma could be used right now, for compassionate treatment, even before we have scientific trials, or as part of a trial to determine definitively if this treatment works. |
Due to COVID-19 the
New York Blood Center is experiencing critically low blood and platelet appointments, making it difficult to meet patient needs and hospital demand. As the virus spread continues this need will only grow. If you are healthy and able to safely get yourself to a donation center, please consider donating blood. |
Safe Horizon,
an organization TNC raised money for during Zodiac Math, is providing much needed services to domestic violence survivors. Right now domestic violence survivors face increased risks during isolation, homeless young people have no home to stay in during this crisis, and children are not in school where teachers are mandated to report child abuse. They have a long list of resources available should you be in need. If you are able, please consider making a donation. |
Cultured Magazine
has gathered together a list of resources and grants for artists affected by COVID-19. |
Bankrate
has put together a guide on how to donate your credit card rewards to social justice efforts and coronavirus relief. |
Sokolove Law
has put together a great list of resources for veterans including healthcare options, non-profit organizations and specialized programs. |
