We’ve compiled some resources to help support our theatre community in response to the recent COVID-19 developments. Please note, this is constantly evolving list. If you have resources, advice and opportunities to share, please send them to Niamh, niamh@civictheatre.ie.
FUNDING BODIES
ONLINE NETWORKING AND RESOURCE SHARING
- Axis Ballymun has started the Twitter hashtag#axisonline for posting videos, photos, links to resources.
- Mothers Artists Makers facebook group
- Coronavirus Northern Ireland / Ireland facebook group
- Theatre Network Ireland facebook group
EMERGENCY FUNDS
EMPLOYMENT RELATED
- Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection – COVID-19 Information for Employers and Employees
- COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
- COVID-19 (coronavirus) and social welfare payments
- Your employment rights during COVID-19 restrictions
- Irish Equity
COMMUNITY RESPONSE
- Aoife Spillane Hinks is offering Pay What You Can Coaching
- About Face Ireland will be doing their Great Plays Gang via online video
- John Gunning will be streaming script reads with casts dialling in
- Newpark Academy of Music has moved its teaching to online
- Follow this great hashtag #ShowMustGoOnline
- Submit your play for the About Face Ireland 2020 NEWvember Festival
LIVESTREAMING PLATFORMS and RESOURCES
- The Social Distancing Festival provides a list of livestreams happening all around the world
- On the Boards TV is offering free streaming of contemporary performance until end of April
- Vimeo is giving advice on how hold virtual events – online talk on 26th March
- Howlround TV is hosting livestreams for free and offering guidance to artists
ADVOCACY / SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS
- Theatre Forum
- National Campaign for the Arts
- Arts & Disability Ireland
- Create
- Irish Theatre Institute
- Irish Street Arts Circus and Spectacle Network
- National Women’s Council of Ireland
- Contemporary Music Centre
- First Music Contact
- Irish Writers Centre
CULTURE ONLINE for FREE
- Nightly Met Opera Streams
- LimeTree has compiled as list of links to artists who decide to put their work, normally seen in a venue, online for the public to watch at home.
- Drama On One on RTÉ Radio 1 has an extensive online archive
- Watch documentary on painter Claude Monet via RTE
- The Ark’s classroom resources and activities
- List of children’s authors doing online read aloud’s and activities
- Stories Online – for children & families
- Anna Newell Theatre Adventures has uploaded a full version of her show BigKidLittleKid for audiences 3 – 6 years
- Branar Teatar has uploaded a full version of their show How To Catch A Star for ages 4+ – limited time only!
- South by Southwest festival has uploaded a number of shorts you can watch right now
READING MATERIAL
- BorrowBox – Borrow ebooks from your local library
- Total Theatre Magazine offers a pdf digitised version of every issue (1989 – 2012)
FUN STUFF
- Have a #CovideoParty – everyone simultaneously presses play on the same Netflix film, then chats virtually
- Take part in The Sofa Sessions with the Casual Choir
