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If you‘re going stir-crazy hunkered
down at home in Seven Lakes,
consider these great ideas. You
can refocus morbid thoughts to all
kinds of endeavors and arts. Some
are classical music performances.
Some are Broadway plays. And
some are museum virtual tours.
We‘ve compiled links and
information provided to us by arts
and entertainment organizations.
THE SANDHILLS
Joseph Campbell, Carl Sagan,
Leonard Bernstein, Buckminster
Fuller. This is a site you‘re going
to wonder why you waited for
Coronavirus to visit.
www.openculture.com
Watch The Unusual
San Antonio Zoo Webcam.
www.sazoo.org/media/
The San Antonio Zoo is closed,
but do you ever wonder what the
animals are up to while everyone
is at home? Now you can virtually
connect with the zoo’s animals,
from anywhere. Audiences can go
to the zoo’s to find a collection of
videos, including a live webcam of
jellyfish, animal chats and other
unique videos.
annual SXSW Film Festival in March
(since it was canceled), you can
now watch almost all of the short
films that would have screened
at the festival online, thanks to a
partnership between MailChimp
and Oscilloscope Laboratories.
That includes animated,
documentary and plenty of Texasmade
shorts, including all films
in the Texas High School Shorts
category.
www.mailchimp.com/presents/
sxsw/
complex in Schertz will allow you to
come and watch movies projected
on their wall, and the price is pretty
affordable: free. You can order
food from their kitchens and make
it an evening out there, if that‘s your
pleasure. Those of us old enough to
remember drive-ins, it‘s a real old
school throw-back. To those who
have never been to one, here‘s your
opportunity. www.evodrivein.com
Gourmet Cooking Classes
Looks like you might be spending
more time at home ‚til we make our
way through this thing, so why not
finally make some headway in the
kitchen? Gucci Osteria‘s Massimo
Bottura is offering free cooking
classes on Instagram. You could
pay an arm and a leg for cooking
classes from an acclaimed chef or
get them for free in the comfort of
your own kitchen... Hey, that works!
www.timeout.com
Broadway Plays
You won‘t get to see anything on
Broadway for the near term, but
you can see Broadway productions
streaming in the comfort of your
own living room. Newsies, Sweeney
Todd, Rent — we‘re talking
blockbusters here — Billy
Elliot, Sunday in the Park With
George. All available on multiple
platforms, all with Broadway casts,
and all viewable right there at
home. www.playbill.com
South By Southwest
Metropolitan Opera
A day after canceling upcoming
performances due to concerns
around the coronavirus, the
Metropolitan Opera announced
that it would stream encore
presentations from the awardwinning
Live in HD series of cinema
transmissions on the company
website for the duration of the
closure. From Wagner To Verdi to
Puccini, these change every night.
www.metopera.org
Virtual Museums
While you can‘t go right now to the
British Museum in London or New
York‘s Guggenheim, you can go
there virtually with the help of the
internet. Washington DC‘s National
Gallery of Art, the Musée d’Orsay in
Paris, Seoul‘s National Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art can
all be accessed through this snazzy
little site. Berlin‘s Pergamon
Museum, LA‘s Getty, Sao Paolo‘s
MASP, Amsterdam‘s Van Gogh and
the Uffizi Gallery in Florence are all
there for you to see. And you won‘t
need to update your passport!
www.travelandleisure.com/
attractions
Senior Planet
Senior Planet, an online social
community for people 60 years or
older, is now offering courses on
Zoom. The sessions allow the social
connections, great conversations
and fun to keep happening, despite
social isolation. Lots of really cool
tings to dexplore. seniorplanet.org
SXSW Short Films
If you were among the thousands of
film fans who missed going to the
A Kind of Drive-In Theater Opens
For Movie Lovers
And really, doesn‘t that include
us all? A multi-screen movie
Open Culture
The title is a good description:
1150 movies, 265, lectures from
Harry Potter Wizarding World
For the kids at home
A new at-home hub offers games,
videos, articles and more for anyone
looking to cure their boredom.
www.wizardingworld.com/
By: Millie Jameson SLN Reporter