CREATIVE @ HOME

Stay Active For Health + HAPPINESS

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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...

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 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

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

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

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 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 well and connected with your friends, family and the community...

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!

Click here to find out more about Netflix Party

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

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

Cooking with Bindi Bindi Dreaming


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

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

Discover online exhibitions and work from some of Western Australia's unique collections and artists...

WA's First Cultures

Books + Publications

Freycinet Collection

First World War

10863 Bushranger

Toys of the 1940s + 50s


Free Digital books + PUBLICATIONS

Take a new adventure, pick up an old classic or discover stories from our local history...

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

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

Listen, watch, read, and learn! We encourage everyone to take on a challenge and learn something new....

Stuff To Know Podcast

TOP 25 TED Talks

Happiness Lab Podcast

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

Here are a few beginners guides to keeping active and well at home...

Yoga

Gardening

Zumba

Meditation


Keeping well working @ Home

Working from home? Here are a few links to to help keep you well...

20 Tips for Working at Home

Creating a Routine

Taking Effective Breaks


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.