During the current pandemic, many of us are confined to home. I'm gathering together a set of links to sites that may help: from official government sites with information about the virus and how to cope, to educational resources that may make the time pass quicker.
There's not much here at present, so your help is needed! Please let me know about other resources that might help others, by emailing webmaster@gransdens.org. The BlueBell Benefice (which covers the episcopal parishes of Abbotsley, Waresley, and Little and Great Gransden) has set up the Bluebell-19 support group, with the website bluebell19.gransdens.org. Visit it if you are needing help, or are able to offer help!
UK government and NHS sites about Covid-19
- Bourn Surgery updated their advisory on COVID-19 on March 29 with information about how best to ask for, collect and pay for prescriptions
- The home page of Greensands Medical Practice has information about their response to Covid-19, including the handling of prescriptions
There are a large number of other sites with information about Covid-19,
but too many of them contain misinformation (deliberately or
otherwise); in general, steer clear!
- The National Theatre are planning to broadcast via YouTube a number of their performances that were previously recorded as part of their NT Live scheme for bringing live theatre to cinemas. Each will be available for a week starting at 7pm on a Thursday; the first is One Man, Two Govnrs, released on April 2nd. Visit www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/nt-at-home to find more info, or go straight to their YouTube channel. Are you a teacher at a UK state-funded school? Even better, you and your pupils can make use of the full National Theatre Collection.
- The Metropolitan Opera are doing a nightly stream of operas, viewable online for free - visit www.metopera.org. You can also subscribe, and browse their back catalogue
- The Royal Opera House is also streaming operas online for free, starting with Acis and Galatea from Friday 3 April at 7pm BST: visit their home page, https://www.roh.org.uk/
- or go direct to their YouTube channel.
- Universal and Andrew Lloyd Webber are streaming some of his productions online, one a week on Fridays: see 'The Show Must Go On' YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/theshowsmustgoon
- What's On Stage has a page with info on a large number of stage shows, musical, opera, etc that are streaming for free: www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/stage-shows-musicals-opera-free-stream-online_51198.html
- Forbes (a US-based news site) has an article entitled Europe Comes To You: Best Exhibitions, Concerts, Operas, Ballet To Watch Online For Free - well worth a visit!
- Billboard (another US site) has lots of Concerts & other livestream events listed on their Coronavirus quarantine page; some (but not all) are free.
- The Classic FM coronavirus page lists many classical music organisations live-streaming, or that have made their concert archives available online:
They also list a number of individual events.
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