As purveyors of Earth’s best experiences, our team has curated the best possible way to experience the remainder of this pandemic season from squarely within your four walls of “hygge-filled” cosiness, chez vous, aka. home!
// STAY ENGAGED
EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT
- Stay At Home Festival: www.stayathomefest.com
Live gigs via the comfort of your screen. - Social Distancing Festival: www.socialdistancingfestival.com/live-streams
A world-wide calendar of live-streamed events. - Culture Fix: www.culturefix.digital
Live theatre, art, design, film, music, talks, opera, etc. - Netflix Parties: www.netflixparty.com
Simultaneously watch and chat about a Netflix show. - Stan 30-day free trial.
- ACMI Cinema Nights: www.acmi.net.au/events/melbourne-cinematheque
Weekly on Tuesday. - SXSW Short Films: www.mailchimp.com/presents/sxsw
Screen SXSW movies that didn’t get the chance to premiere at the festival. - Virtual Brunch: www.virtualbrun.ch
Invite friends to cook and share brunch (virtually) together. - Broadway performances: www.broadwayhd.com
Use their 7-day free trial. - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: www.youtube.com/user/TheMSOrchestra
Live stream of MSO concerts. - Metropolitan Opera: www.metopera.org
MET live streams. - Schaubühne theatre: more info
Germany’s premiere theatre company streams plays daily. - Streamed Shakespeare: www.facebook.com/StreamedShakespeare
Sydney-based actors/creatives who livestream Shakespeare’s plays every week.
BEST WAYS TO CHAT
FOOD/DRINKS
- We Are Open Now: www.weareopennow.com
Find restaurants delivering food near you. #WeAreOpenNow @weareopennow - SaveHospo: #SaveHospo
Visit this Instagram tag to see which restaurants are offering takeaway, delivery, etc. - Keeping Local Alive: www.craftypint.com/keeping-local-alive
Help craft breweries in Australia. #KeepingLocalAlive
- Good Beer Always Helps: www.thegoodbeerco.com.au/good-beer-always-helps
Donate a 4-pack of beer to an essential services worker. - Buy Now, Shop Later: www.darlodarlings.com/buy-now-shop-later
Purchase vouchers to Darlinghurst/Surry Hills businesses from your fave hospo spots. - Still Local, Still Open: www.stilllocalstillopen.com
Buy a voucher for a group of nearby businesses in Surry Hills, Sydney. #StillLocalStillOpen
- Hospo Threads: www.hospothreads.com
Grab merch from your favourite hospitality companies. - Panic-Induced Edible Gardening Action Plan (VIC) – www.leafrootfruit.com.au/covid-19-panic-induced-edible-gardening
Learn what to plant to help with food insecurity.
Recipes based on ingredients available: Yummly | Cookpad | Foodwise | Allrecipes Dinner Spinner
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// FIND/OFFER SUPPORT & WORK
BUSINESS/FINANCE SUPPORT
- ILostMyGig.com – www.ilostmygig.net.au
Contribute knowledge and offer help. - Live Performance Australia Ticketing Code of Conduct
Don’t ask for refunds if you can afford not to. - Rental Waiver: View a template email to send to your landlord.
- Government Social Welfare Support details.
MAKE A DIFFERENCE FROM HOME:
http://gogonline.org/magazine/make-a-difference-from-home/
WORK ONLINE
- UpWork: www.upwork.com/freelance-jobs/online
- Freelancer: www.freelancer.com
- Fiverr: www.fiverr.com
- Airtasker: www.airtasker.com/earn-money
- Earn money from surveys: my.askable.com/signup
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// STAY HEALTHY
PHYSICAL HEALTH
- Happy Melon Studios:
www.instagram.com/happymelonstudios
Free daily guided meditations at 8:45am. - Yoga With Adriene: www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene
100+ free at-home yoga classes. - Exercise from home using this guide from the WHO
- Down Dog (app): www.downdogapp.com
Free to use till 1 April.
MENTAL HEALTH
- R U OK Day: www.ruok.org.au/staying-connected-is-more-important-than-ever
How to help with suicide prevention. - Crisis Hotlines:
– Lifeline: 13 11 14 - Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467
- MensLine Australia: 1300 78 99 78
- National Sexual Assault, Family & Domestic Violence Counselling Line: 1800RESPECT
- Beyond Blue – 1300 224 636
- Kids Helpline – 1800 55 1800
- Relationships Australia – 1300 364 277
- Headspace Free Medidation
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// UPSKILL & EXPLORE
WORKSHOPS & LESSONS
- Laneway Learning: www.melbourne.lanewaylearning.com
Online classes on anything and everything – for only $9 each. - Cork and Canvas: www.corkandcanvas.com.au
Paint a masterpiece via video instruction – while drinking at home. - Kennedy Centre’s Mo Williams: www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems
Do at-home art classes. - Learn a language for free: DuoLingo
- All Udemy free courses
- SkillShare two months of free lessons
VIRTUAL EXCURSIONS
- MONA: www.mona.net.au/tim
View Hobart’s most unusual art exhibition. - Virtual tours of U.S. national parks: www.artsandculture.withgoogle.com/en-us/national-parks-service/welcome
- Mars, via the Curiosity Rover: www.accessmars.withgoogle.com
- British Museum: www.britishmuseum.withgoogle.com
- Monterey Bay aquarium live stream: www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams
LECTURES & READING
- Free Ivy League classes: www.classcentral.com/collection/ivy-league-moocs
- Great Courses: www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/lp/t1/freemo
- EDX free university courses: www.edx.org
- MOMA art classes: www.coursera.org/moma
- Grab a free audiobook from Audible
- Blinklist one free book summary a day
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// STAY INFORMED
GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES
- Australian Department of Health: Social Distancing Guidelines
- World Health Organisation: Seven Steps to Prevent the Spread of the Virus
TRACKING
- Bing Tracker: www.bing.com/covid/local/australia
- World-O-Meter Tracker: www.worldometers.info/coronavirus
- COVID-19 WhatsApp: Australia WhatsApp Channel | WHO Channel
- COVID-19 Australia App – Apple | Android
INFORMATIVE VIDEOS
- What the ‘flattening the curve’ chart means
- See how germs spread
- What happens when there is a pandemic
- What happens when you get COVID-19/the coronavirus
- A demonstration of exponential growth
- How to tell if we’re beating COVID-19
- Exponential growth and epidemics
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We hope you and your loved ones are well and staying safe.
– Theresa, Ace, Ruki, Tomas
The Plus Ones
