There’s much more than the Log Driver’s Waltz but sure, you can start there! The National Film Board of Canada (“NFB“) has over 4,000 films available for free online, offering a vast selection of short and feature-length films, whether you’re looking for animation, documentary or fiction.
The Artisans, a documentary feature by Daniel Léger
The NFB is also taking part in the International Festival of Films on Art online film festival. Three NFB productions will be featured beginning Wednesday, March 18, until midnight on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Earlier this month, a collective called Breaking Bread launched in order to be a central hub on the many ways that people can show support for the restaurant industry other than dining-in. With frequent online updates, they have a great database of delivery and take-out from independent Vancouver restaurants.
Delivery and Take-Out From Independent Vancouver Restaurants
March 18, 2020: Restaurants and bars in British Columbia are closing down as provincial health officials announced a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Some of these restaurants may or may not have done take-out or delivery before, so thanks to Breaking Bread for assembling this database:
6 Degrees Eatery AJ’s Brooklyn Pizza Ask for Luigi Bao Down Olympic Village Baroness Beetbox Bodega on Main Bombay Kitchen + Bar Burdock & Co. Butter Baked Goods Café Medina Cantina Pana Centro Ristorante CHOMP Darby’s Pub Di Beppe Dockside Restaurant Edible Canada Fable Diner Fanny Bay Oyster Bar & Shellfish Market Fiore Famiglia Fiore Famiglia Heritage Asian Eatery Heritage Asian Eatery Jamjar Canteen Jamjar on Granville
Jingle Bao Juke Fried Chicken Moderne Burger Mordimi Bite Of Italy Mumbai Local Restaurant Nuba Number E Food One Bowl Pacific Poke PiDGiN Pizza Carano Pourhouse Robba da Matti SMAK – Healthy Food Fast Sopra Sotto Sprezzatura The Cannibal Cafe The Chopped Leaf The Federal Store The Greek – By Anatoli The Greek Gastown Via Tevere Pizzeria
Other ways you can support the hospitality industry at this time include:
Subscribe to digital newsletters
Engage on social media
Share photos on social media
Purchase gift cards
Write a positive online review
Breaking Bread also has listings available for Langley, Maple Ridge, Richmond, Kelowna and the North Shore.
The VSO School of Music announced on Tuesday that it will move its Spring Break Mini Music Maker and Arts Explorer Preschool classes to an online format. Classes will be delivered via Zoom, a free, user-friendly online system for virtual classrooms.
VSO School of Music Moves Programming for Kids Online
When: Between March 17-26, 2020 Registration:Mini Music Makers $65 for 4 classes; Arts Explorers $275 half day and $495 full day per 5 days.
“Classes will take place from the safety of the family home during a time when social distancing is crucial,” said Gillian Hunter-Gibbs, Interim Director of Operations at the VSOSoM. “Music brings us together and the VSOSoM wants to support families during these unprecedented times. Now, more than ever, we need music to help us heal, relieve our stress and anxiety, and perhaps, to help us discover something new.”
The Mini Music Maker classes are for children ages one to three years and Arts Explorer Preschool is for children ages three to five, and both require the use of Zoom, a user-friendly online system for virtual meetings.
In Mini Music Makers, children will listen to music, sing along move and be introduced to the world of music through engaging group classes, using the VSOSoM’s own ‘An Alphabet of Songs’, introducing musical concepts, including, pitch, rhythm, pulse, dynamics and musical form in fun, interactive classes.
The classes are suitable for children and their grownups with or without prior music class experience and are still open for registration.
About the VSO School of Music
The school engages a faculty of 122 of Vancouver’s finest teachers, including members of the VSO, and serves over 1,750 students annually. Since opening, around 8,000 students and families have enrolled, and almost 200 bursary and scholarship awards have been given to students in need.
The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is currently in great need of financial donations, shopping bags and volunteers, to ensure that they can continue to provide their essential service to those who are food insecure across our region.
“While people across the lower mainland have spent the past days filling their pantries, it is important to keep in mind our neighbours who face food insecurity,” said Cynthia Boulter, Chief Operating Officer of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. “Food insecure people cannot afford to stockpile food, and we are here to ensure they have access to a continuous supply of it. We are unsure if our food industry donors will be able to continue providing us with critical donations we rely on, and we have to mitigate that risk.”
A press release this morning outlined some of the ways you can support the Greater Vancouver Food Bank during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Support the Greater Vancouver Food Bank During COVID-19
“Our top priority is to protect the health and safety of our clients, volunteers, and staff, while ensuring that we continue to provide food to all those who need it across the Greater Vancouver area,” said David Long, Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. “We are not currently receiving any additional support from provincial or national industry bodies, and we receive no government funding. As such, we rely solely on donations from the public, businesses and granting foundations so that we can support our clients in need in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and on the North Shore.”
At this time, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank is issuing an urgent call for the following:
Financial donations – GVBF may need to purchase more food than expected in the near future and they’ll need the public’s help with that. They can make donated dollars go much farther than donated food, because of their buying power. Donate to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank online here »
Shopping bags – To protect everyone’s health and minimize the amount of time clients spend in their community food hubs, they have shifted from a market style shopping model to pre-packed grocery bags for individuals, couples, and families. And they need more bags! Tens of thousands of them. They are asking retail businesses to donate their shopping bags of all sizes.
Volunteers – In order to ensure they get pre-packed grocery bags to their clients each week, they need more volunteers now! To all the employees of companies that have shut down operations such as Lululemon, Aritzia, Apple, Lush and Great Canadian Gaming, if you are healthy and want to help your community, they have a place for you to give back! Come join us on the front line.
To protect the health and safety of volunteers, they are limiting group size to no more than 25 people at a time, they have gloves for everyone and clear procedures around frequent hand washing, they have increased sanitization procedures, an will refuse entry to anyone who appears ill or who should be under self-isolation. For more information about volunteering, please contact Rebecca at [email protected].
Today Canada’s shut its borders (excluding non-citizens, non-permanent residents, and Americans) and the BC Provincial Health Office banned all gatherings over 50 people.
At a time like this, when we’re all shuttered in at home, entertainment and the arts can be a wonderful thing to share – virtually of course. Yesterday the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performed Beethoven’s 6th to a theatre audience of zero, and an online audience of 26,000.
Free Concerts to Watch at Home During COVID-19 Distancing
If you’re looking for more free LIVE concerts to watch at home during COVID-19 distancing in Vancouver and beyond, here’s a quick list of artists playing Quarantunes:
Dan Mangan was supposed to play a concert last night in Toronto. Instead he recorded a little show (for no audience) that will be played tonight on YouTube starting at 6:00pm PT on March 16th. Watch his “Quarantunes” show here »
Social Distancing Festival opera, poetry, choirs, art, theatre and more! A daily lineup of free, streamed entertainment here »
Stay at Home Festival, a lineup of live-streamed concerts from a variety of musicians March 20-22nd.
Keith Urban played an Instagram show from his home on March 16th, watch it here »
Diplo will be doing live sets from his home, daily at 7:00pm on Twitter, YouTube and Twitch.
Neil Young will have a Fireside Concert series streaming live online, dates currently unconfirmed, follow on Facebook here »
New York’s Metropolitan Opera is streaming past productions from its award-winning Live in HD series of cinema transmissions while the opera house is closed.
Ivan Fischer and his Budapest Festival Orchestra will be livestreaming nightly chamber concerts in a series they have called Quarantine Soirées on March 16-18th at 6:45pm.
Hozier #TogetherAtHome live stream on Instagram March 20th at 12:00pm PT here »
Jenn Grant will host a special online concert on March 21st via Instagram »
Diesel Bird is a digital music festival on March 28th that will feature Dallas Smith, Jess Moskaluke, Meghan Patrick, Tebey and more. Hosted by Dan Davidson on Instagram »
Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine host In my Bed With ExJ + Friends via Instagram and Facebook Live every Thursday at 6:00pm PT; every Sunday at 2:00pm PT they host In the Kitchen; and every Tuesday at 4:00pm PT they host In the Basement via Instagram and Facebook Live.
April 11th A Choir!ntine Sing-Athon for The Canadian Cancer Societyon Facebook »
These will most likely become more common over the next few weeks so this list will be updated as-necessary. Have a tip? Leave a comment below and follow Miss604 on social media. Thanks!
