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Keep active + stay connected with a range of 'Creative @ Home' activities, workshops, community projects and more.
Can you recommend an addition to the program? Would you like to do a live-streamed gig or workshop? Click here to get in touch!
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Get your hands moving, colouring or making with these creative projects. Did you create that masterpiece?? We encourage everyone to share their creations on our Creative @ Home Facebook group.
Do you have a creative activity you would like to share? Please click here to get in touch with us!
the Sketchbook project
the Sketchbook project
Order a sketchbook, fill it up, and send it back to be a part of the world’s largest collection of artist sketchbooks! Every participant is sent the same 5x7'' blank custom sketchbook. Each book will be given a unique six-digit barcode so we can easily catalog it into Brooklyn Art Library's system.
Paper prawn pattern by lisa lloyd
Paper prawn pattern by lisa lloyd
London-based artist Lisa Lloyd is offering an amusing tutorial to create her tiny paper prawns at home. The downloadable instructions, which are available for free on her site, are complete with a printable template and a supply list. She also released a simple video series for those who prefer visual learning.
tHE bIRD mAKERS pROJECT: CO:3
tHE bIRD mAKERS pROJECT: CO:3
The Bird Makers Project is a global initiative devised by Raewyn Hill and Naoko Yoshimoto with Co:3 Australia. Suitable for beginner and advanced sewers, you will be guided through online resources to create a single black bird made from your own donated piece of black clothing. These black birds will represent your time in isolation as we stand side by side in an unimagined situation, making history together.
Cooking with Kids
Cooking with Kids
Cooking with kids is fun and educational. They improve their reading skills while learning some maths, and about weighing and measuring and the whole chemistry of putting ingredients together in certain ways for a delicious treat they can enjoy with their family.
This page has recipes for kids of all ages, toddlers through to teenagers.
10 things to cook with toddlers
10 things to cook with toddlers
As cooking engages all of the senses – seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and (most fabulously) tasting – cooking with toddlers provides them with fabulous sensory input that is really important for brain development. Click here for more!
PRE-RECORDED Performances
PRE-RECORDED Performances
Performances straight to your home! Here's a few top bills connecting you to the world. If you're a local musician, performer, poet, comedian in the Mid West and would like to stream a gig click here to get in touch!
Sounds of...
Sounds of...
Focusing on musicians in remote and regional areas with limited or no access to professional recording facilities, the ‘Sounds of’ and ‘Demos from’ projects provide an avenue for the development of digital recording skills for emerging and skilled audio engineers, while also providing artists with song producing knowledge as well as professionally recorded singles. Click here to access the 'Sounds of' albums....
Sounds of Tom Price
Sounds of the Goldfields
Sounds of the Great Southern
Sounds of the South West
Cirque Connect
Cirque Connect
Cirque du Soleil is a Montreal-based entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. From 60 minute specials, virtual reality, original webinars to Cirque du Soleil music you can be lost in the land of imagination for hours.
Click here to access Cirque Du Soleil Cirque Connect
Arts & Culture courses + Resources
Arts & Culture courses + Resources
We encourage you to Act-Belong-Commit and get creative for health + happiness by taking part in an online course or using some of the great resources below.
Are you a local artist in the Mid West and would like to run an online workshop or course? Please click here to get in touch with us.
John curtin gallery @home
John curtin gallery @home
JCG@HOME brings together a wide range of material to provide some inspiration.
Click here for artist and curator talks, exhibition flashbacks, short videos, exhibition catalogues, virtual tours and more.
art history courses from moma
art history courses from moma
MoMA has launched a series of five free classes for those interested in better understanding the 91-year-old museum’s collection. Covering contemporary art, fashion and photography, the courses aren’t just a glorified video clips, either. Instead, they’re comprehensive beginner courses with corresponding readings and exercises that will take anywhere from 12 to 38 hours to complete. Click here for more details.
AFTRS Short Courses
AFTRS Short Courses
AFTRS Short Courses offers a broad range of training in the fields of film, television and radio throughout the year in state-of-the-art facilities of the Australian Film Television and Radio School, as well as around Australia and online.
Click here to find our more!
STAY CONNECTED
STAY CONNECTED
Stay well and connected with your friends, family and the community...
NETFLIX with friends
NETFLIX with friends
Netflix Party is a Chrome extension for watching Netflix remotely with friends. It can be used for movie nights with friends and family members! It synchronises video playback for all viewers and adds group chat!
Virtual gatherings
Virtual gatherings
Get together virtually with your family and friends with one of these ideas. Why not hold a virtual game night, dinner party, belt out some karaoke or setup a book club session? Maybe a group play-date for the kids or organise a watch and learn party where musicians can play, poets recite, dancers can dance or people share their skills... the options are endless!
Here are a few platforms that can be used for virtual gatherings
If you have other suggestions or platforms, please share your ideas!
AT HOME WITH FAMOUS SHARRON
AT HOME WITH FAMOUS SHARRON
GUIDE TO ART
GUIDE TO ART
If you're anything like Sharron the closest you've come to a painting is in the doctors waiting room and most of the art you own is made of pasta and stuck on the fridge door!
Check out a Guide to Famous (and not so Famous Art) by Famous Sharron
A Realistic Workout
A Realistic Workout
Cooking with Bindi Bindi Dreaming
Cooking with Bindi Bindi Dreaming
VIRTUAL TOURS
VIRTUAL TOURS
Online exhibitions, work from some of WA's best art galleries and world's largest and most well-known institutions.
Sculptural Silver
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Gallery of WA Artists
Artsource
Nikulinsky Naturally
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Revealed 2019
Fremantle Art Centre
Art Almanac's guide to australian virtual galleries
Art Almanac's guide to australian virtual galleries
Australia's Art Almanac is collecting the country's best virtual exhibitions, check out their free guide for dozens of acclaimed exhibitions.
VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS: Local Art + History
VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS: Local Art + History
Discover online exhibitions and work from some of Western Australia's unique collections and artists...
WA's First Cultures
WA's First Cultures
Books + Publications
Books + Publications
Freycinet Collection
Freycinet Collection
First World War
First World War
10863 Bushranger
10863 Bushranger
Toys of the 1940s + 50s
Toys of the 1940s + 50s
Free Digital books + PUBLICATIONS
Free Digital books + PUBLICATIONS
Take a new adventure, pick up an old classic or discover stories from our local history...
WRITING WA BOOK CLUB
WRITING WA BOOK CLUB
If you're wondering what book you should read next, subscribe to receive Writing WA's free monthly Book Club e-news. Each edition of the Love to Read Local Book Club e-news contains detailed information about their selected 'Book of the Month' with accompanying notes.
582 free art history books
582 free art history books
MetPublications is offering "five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free." Click here to access the free library catalogue.
LEARNING HUB
LEARNING HUB
Listen, watch, read, and learn! We encourage everyone to take on a challenge and learn something new....
Stuff To Know Podcast
Stuff To Know Podcast
TOP 25 TED Talks
TOP 25 TED Talks
Happiness Lab Podcast
Happiness Lab Podcast
Kurzgesagt Science Channel
Kurzgesagt Science Channel
Explore lovingly made animated videos from a small team who want to make science look beautiful. Because it is beautiful.
Click here for more information.
ACTIVE WELLNESS
ACTIVE WELLNESS
Here are a few beginners guides to keeping active and well at home...
Yoga
Yoga
Gardening
Gardening
Zumba
Zumba
Meditation
Meditation
Keeping well working @ Home
Keeping well working @ Home
Working from home? Here are a few links to to help keep you well...
20 Tips for Working at Home
20 Tips for Working at Home
Creating a Routine
Creating a Routine
Taking Effective Breaks
Taking Effective Breaks
SUPPORT SERVICES
SUPPORT SERVICES
If you or someone you know needs help, please find links to resources and Australian support services below...
Youth: Handling stress around COVID-19
Looking after your mental health
Coping with COVID-19 related anxiety
Looking after yourself and dealing with anxiety
Being active, having a sense of belonging and having a purpose in life all contribute to happiness and good mental health. We encourage you to Act, Belong and Commit. For more on Act Belong Commit, check out their website or watch the below video...
We're proud to work with Healthway to promote the Act Belong Commit message through our Community Strengthening Program. Our many thanks to the Government of Western Australia, Healthway and Act Belong Commit for helping keep our community happy, healthy and connected.
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