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In these disorienting times, we hope we can still offer a touchstone for advice and guidance, and continue our artist support and development work. In the recent days and weeks we have been keeping track of online content that might help, educate, entertain or distract from the crisis at hand.
Here are our findings. This page will be updated as we hear of more. If you’d like us to add something please email us.
Covid-19 – Resources for the Self-Employed collated by Lucien Anderson
Coronavirus and claiming benefits
The latest advice, guidance and emergency funding measures Arts Council England have put in place to address the Covid-19/Coronavirus crisis.
Creative Scotland’s A-Z of funding and resources available to those in the creative community, who have been affected by Coronavirus (Covid-19).
The Arts Council of Wales: Responding to Coronavirus (Covid-19)
The latest guidance from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland for the arts sector on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Compilation of advice and useful links for businesses and freelancers by Metal
a-n: Information and guidance for artists and arts organisers
Manchester International Festival’s guide for artists and freelancers
Become a member of Artists’s Union England!
Twitter thread of resources from Shape Arts, who work to remove barriers for disabled artists
UNLIMITED: Resources for disabled artists and freelancers in response to Covid-19
Rent Strike Resources from The New Enquiry
Generator are posting lots of useful content and webinars on their Vimeo page
Not eligible to apply for the Arts Council emergency fund? Form a Solidarity Syndicate
Apply for a-n Bursaries: Time Space Money
Sail Creative have made a map of support available in Newcastle
a-n: Artists and Mental Health
Advice from Mind on Coronavirus and your Wellbeing
Mental Health Foundation: Looking after your Mental Health during the Coronavirus outbreak
NHS: Mental wellbeing while staying at home
30 days of Yoga – free YouTube classes
Free trial of the Headspace app
Mental Health Advice from The Recovery Village
Online Meditation Sessions with The Newcastle Meditation Centre
Find out how to volunteer for the NHS
Citylife Line – a new volunteer service for Newcastle City Council
Grainger Market Delivery Service – gets booked up quickly!
Slugtown are crowdfunding to fix up their new premises in Shieldfield, with some amazing artworks as rewards
Commercial Union House are crowdfunding to support their community of artist spaces
A lot of artists are taking part in the #artistsupportpledge – an initiative whereby artists promise to buy £200 of another artist’s work for every £1000 they sell themselves. Follow the hashtag on instagram to find others involved.
Donate to support Alphabetti Theatre
Donate to The Hygiene Bank to help provide nappies and other hygiene products
You can view our latest exhibition by Chris Alton online here and SCRAMBLE, an exhibition by our Collective Studio artists and Jessica Bennett online here.
Curated online moving image screenings from The New Flesh
Virtual tours of past and present exhibitions at Eastside Projects
Monthly online resident artist on The White Pube homepage
12o Collective’s 30works30days will be running throughout April
Alchemy Film Festival will be a one-off live stream over three days this year
sadgrads2020 is an instagram page devoted to sharing the work of art students graduating this year
Glasgow International’s Digital Programme is online 23 April – 10 May 2020
Graeme Hopper recently released this great album under the band name Chlorine
Tom Lines just released an album too, under the name That Which Crawls
Make your own Chimera Collage with Mat Fleming
Keep up to date with the current Collective Studio artists on their instagram
Musings from a Lockdown on Helen Shaddock’s blog
The Spaghetti Factory interviewed by Jessica Bennett on Young Artists in Conversation
The monthly open decks DJ night Roiler Boom has now become a facebook group
BALTIC videos about Kara Chin and Ben Jeans Houghton‘s solo exhibitions at BALTIC 39
Shuttered: short reflections on closed exhibitions for Corridor8
Thought Foundation’s call for a People’s Street Art Gallery
Compilation of creative responses to the virus by Conway & Young
A new collaborative Google Doc a day by Folium Publishing to continue sharing thoughts, work and create a document filled with fragments from artists life’s during social distancing
Invite to use RTM.FM online platform to continue reaching your audiences
Apply for Virtual Residencies with Cel del Nord
Submit to Gaada’s monthly Quarantzine published every month until ‘the end’
SITE have launched an open submission of sound and text works that will be circulated daily
Apply to Forced Collaboration: Self-Isolation Special
Creative Waves is a project to share thoughts and art about the current situation
Group Show is a podcast and now radio show developed by Caitlin Merrett King in residency at NewBridge
Laura Yuile records each episode of Asset Arrest during a viewing of a luxury property where she poses as a potential buyer
Alex Lockwood’s Shift & Signal podcast is a series of aural explorations of the urban space in Newcastle and Gateshead
Aesthetica’s pick of Art Podcasts
Spotify playlist of music to make art to by Foundation Press
NTS Radio’s music to relax to mixes
The Late Junction has lots of great episodes online, we recommend Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha’s session and Sonic Self Care
Furtherfield: A cultural discussion podcast grounded in news from where we are
Check out the new Star & Shadow Radio
Stay at Home Movies curated by Herb Shellenberger for Map Magazine
CABIN FEVER: Coping with COVID-19 playlist of online experimental films & videos
Open Culture: Watch 1,150 movies free online
UbuWeb has loads of artist films, we recommend ‘The Way Out: A Portrait of Xentos Jones’ as a starting point
List of free queer films online from Leeds Queer Film Festival
MUBI are currently offering three months of films for £1
Lots of good artist films to rent and watch for free on the LUXPLAYER
Ian Nesbitt has made all three of his feature length films free to watch online:
Arise, You Gallant Sweeneys! (2009)
Taking The Michael (2012)
The BFI have put a large selection of films from London Film-Makers’ Co-op (now LUX) online for free – lots of artist film from the 70s & 80s
Goldsmiths CCA’s new streaming channel will be updated with two new artists’ films every Monday
Interview with Chris Alton on his NewBridge exhibition, by Lesley Guy for Corridor8
There’s a wealth of northern art writing on The Double Negative and Corridor8
Free Quarantine ebooks from Verso
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
Take the ART of the MOOC: Public Art & Pedagogy course
A whole host of free Open University courses, including several on arts and culture
The NewBridge Project is supported by Arts Council England, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund, Newcastle University’s Institute for Creative Arts Practice and the North of Tyne Combined Authority.
