Creative Responses from Wisconsin's Creative Sector

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Dance: ​

- Kanopy Dance creates new video for supporters.​


Literature: 

- From the Little Writing Room over the Garage, Author Michael Perry reads​ daily.

- WI Poet Laureate Alumnus, Max Garland, shares a poem​


Multi-discipline: 

- Door Community Auditorium created a Spring Training​ program - an online series of virtual and live-streamed programs and prompts shared by the DCA and Door County Friends!  ​

- The Oshkosh Grand Opera House “At Home" posts some great arts content

- Lynden Sculpture Garden launches site with Virtual Tours/Education Materials​


Multi-media:

- Janesville Performing Arts Center's “Home movie" submission request for a “AT HOME- FILM FESTIVAL". Encouraging submissions from all areas of the state. https://www.facebook.com/events/222167842486917/


Music:
- Peninsula Music Festival launches 'PlayON' Fund to assist festival musicians through COVID-19 financial crisis.​

- The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra welcomes you to join their #coucherto social media series​ by uploading home musical performances using the #coucherto hashtag and tagging WCO. ​​

- Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society shares its Tiny Desk Concerts​ every Tuesday and Thursday at noon.

- Milwaukee Symphony invites us to stream an audio recording, recorded live in an empty Uihlein Hall on 3/14. As President & Executive Director Mark Niehaus and Music Director Ken-David Masur remarked, music is a balm we can turn to in times of uncertainty, and we hope it brings you comfort and relief​.​​

Storytelling:

Ex Fabula​ has moved all May programming online, including upcoming Virtual StoryCircles and StorySlams.


Theater:

Milwaukee Repertory Theater​ - Our Home to Your Home​; Playwright Essays; What the Tea; Free Art Kits; etc. 

- WI Alliance of Community Theaters

Northern Sky Theatre's "​​​Promise Pass" is good forever, ​like a “Flexible-Forever-Stamp!” Promise Passes can be used for a show at the outdoor Park Amphitheater or in the indoor Gould Theater. Promise Passes also retain either venue’s highest ticket-type value, even if our ticket prices increase in the future. 


Visual Arts and Crafts:

- The Racine Art Museum has created an online scavenger hunt, and other ways for people to enjoy, explore, and engage with art from home. 


Peninsula School of Art offers several new virtual initiatives, including posting family and kid-friendly art projects on Fridays via social media (for local families, free "art-kits" will be available for pick-up at the PenArt entrance beginning at 10am on Fridays), launching weekly "Creative Challenge" prompts via social media, sharing virtual gallery tours, demonstrations, and videos for art appreciators (or e-learners) on Tuesdays, and devoting Mondays to beginners and those curious about getting started in art-making, focusing on demystifying basic art terms, tools and principles.​

- The Trout Museum of Art launches "Made to Order​," a match-making program for art buyers and artists.​

- Artists Helen Klebesadel and Mary Kay Neumann launched a virtual collaborative art exhibition as a part of their ongoing “The Flowers are Burning: An Art and Climate Justi​ce Project.​​” ​Klebesadel ​also created the ‘Cabin Fever Creative Community’ group on Facebook, a space for members to share resources, how-tos, creative responses and community.


Bonus: Fun Resources from Elsewhere

- The Kennedy Center LUNCH DOODLES​: Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE.