13 June 2020

Sequestrian Arts | June 13, 2020


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What is/are Sequestrian Arts?
With the world in lockdown due to Covid-19 (link to the CDC info site), many people are stuggling, practically, emotionally, and creatively. As a long-time creative & librarian I thought I might be able to help by doing what I do best: finding/sharing information. Below is part a series I am developing on the Sequestering Arts. The notion is to provide links to interesting, comforting, & creative online resources that you can explore & enjoy while home- or place-bound.

The series can be accessed via the image link at left or this link. 

COMMUNICATION

THEATER | THEATRE | DANCE | MOVEMENT

Theater | Theatre
  • Stratford Festival on Film | Love's Labour's Lost | Runtime: 2:42:40
    https://youtu.be/tq1YvubSKdc
  • National Black Theatre | NBT @ Home | Videos
    Playlist: https://youtu.be/PiohTzKjq6o
    [From description] " About the series: NBT @ Home is a weekly series of artists in the NBT family engaging in one-on-one discussions with other creatives on topics including theater and the arts, community, health, and more." ⁣⁣
  • Miracle Theatre | The Importance of Being Earnest | By Oscar Wilde | Video | Runtime: 1:53:06
    https://youtu.be/Cf79vaYdi2s
    [From description] "Miracle Theatre presents ‘the funniest play ever written’. Set in 1912 with the Titanic sinking, mass production just beginning on the Morris Oxford and the Turkey Trot causing outrage across the dance floors of polite society, this tale of the strange contents of a handbag found at Victoria station cries out for the sort of surreal treatment that has become Miracle Theatre's hallmark."
    "Cornwall's award winning Miracle Theatre produces a rich mix of touring theatre, always with a unique comic style, joyful use of language, immediate visual appeal and suitable for anyone & everyone - and we'd like to share the love with viewers around the world!"
  • Compass Collective | Imagine
    https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/watch/imagine-by-compass-collective/
    [From website] "Created in isolation by young people from across the UK, the film combines spoken word, animations, lockdown stories and songs, and invites everyone to celebrate the creativity and contribution of those seeking sanctuary in tumultuous circumstances.The film will be released for free across the Globe’s social media channels on Saturday 20 June, Refugee Day. Migration Matters Festival will host a live Q&A with members of Compass Collective that evening. Further details can be found on their website and social media channels."
  • National Theatre (UK) | The Madness of King George | June 11-18, 2020 | Mark Gatiss as George III
    https://youtu.be/fofiKCV9wGc

Dance | Movement
  • New York City Ballet: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1986) | Runtime: 1:45:53
    https://youtu.be/tYz5GKkH_4s
  • HALLELUJAH - A Circus/Queer Film | By Matthew Richardson | Runtime: 5:33
    https://youtu.be/KDgA2sxQIn8
    [From description - see full notes] "Hallelujah” is a queer/circus concept about religion and the importance of choosing kindness regardless of our differences or beliefs. Religion is a tough subject for many in the LGBTQ community, and this piece is a reflection of the struggle and rejection we often feel. It tells the story of an individual troubled by the hate in the world and his partner who is fighting to lift him up, to remind him he is beautiful exactly how he is. My message is that religion should inspire more kindness and open arms, even towards those you may not understand."

  • Symposium | Theresa Ruth Howard “Dark Muse: Balanchine and Blackness” | The Museum at FIT  | Runtime: 24:35
    https://youtu.be/JKPQzNAJfoM
    [From description] "Ballerina: Fashion’s Modern Muse was The Museum at FIT’s 23rd academic symposium. The one-day event explored the ways in which twentieth-century ballerinas and their glamorous, romantic costumes profoundly inspired modern fashion. Theresa Ruth Howard danced with Dance Theatre of Harlem and was a founding member of Armitage Gone! Dance. Founder and curator of Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet, a website documenting nearly 500 dancers of color, Howard has become an internationally recognized teacher, lecturer, and consultant."
  • Dance-Tryptich (1/3): Songhay Toldon | Interview (text) & Video | Runtime: 6:36
    https://neu.schauspielhaus.ch/de/journal/18816/dance-tryptich-1-3-songhay-toldon

    JJ Note: Toldon's choreography is eloquent and powerful, his dancing poignant, aggressive, and allusive.

MUSEUMS | VIRTUAL TRAVEL
  • Pompeii Live from the British Museum | Video | Runtime: 1:27:27
    https://youtu.be/0Cinu9yIbp0
    [From description] "In 2013 we broadcast live from our blockbuster exhibition Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. This 90 minute broadcast presented by Bettany Hughes and Peter Snow includes interviews with Rachel De Thame, Giorgio Locatelli and Mary Beard. Please be advised this recording is BBFC rated as 12A and contains some sexual imagery and swearing, viewer discretion is advised."
  • Vikings: Live from the British Museum | Video | Runtime: 1:28:52
    https://youtu.be/NuL0Q0tsid4
    [From description] "The Vikings are coming... again! In 2014 we followed on from the success of Pompeii Live with another live broadcast- this time from the exhibition Vikings: life and legend. Here is that broadcast, presented by Bettany Hughes and Michael Wood, featuring the largest Viking warship ever found, Roskilde 6 along with interviews with Viking scholars from across the world. Michael and Bettany explore the viking world from the homelands to its farthest reaches, Viking ship craft, trading, warfare and religion are brought to life through the spectacular objects that were brought together for this blockbuster exhibition. This video has a BBFC rating of 12A and contains descriptions of graphic violence that some viewers may find distressing, viewer discretion is advised."
  • Cincinnati Zoo | Daily "Home Safaris"
    https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/live_videos/
  • [9:56 Hours] Train Journey to the Norwegian Arctic Circle, WINTER [1080HD] SlowTV
    https://youtu.be/3rDjPLvOShM

READING | LITERATURE | NOVELS, GRAPHIC & TEXT
  • Public Domain Review | Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time (1896)
    https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/old-english-customs
    [From website] "Some of the old English customs that Peter Hempson Ditchfield describes in this fascinating late Victorian book are still familiar today. Carols and plum pudding for Christmas, hot cross buns on Good Friday, the maypole on May Day remain familiar features, if not of common English experience, at least of nostalgic imagination. But many other customs will be completely unfamiliar to twenty-first-century readers."
  • QueerReader.com
    http://queerreader.com/  (Has an RSS feed link)
    [From About page] "Dean Van de Motter is the editor and publisher of QueerReader.com.  The purpose of QueerReader.com is to provide information for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readers seeking quality literature"
  • U.S. Copyright Office YouTube Channel
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFBtCMrH0sf3CvA-K3s6r5g

    JJ: Their new instructionals are quite good.

MUSIC
  • Jean-Marie Leclair:  Sonata III "Un poco Andante"
    Performed by: Saskia Birchler - Violin, second half 18th Century & Miguel Rincón -  14c Archluth by Andreas V. Holst
    https://youtu.be/lwa-QN6YGco
  • African Music | African Conga Drums | Traditional African Drum Music | Video | Runtime" 3:02:35
    https://youtu.be/4hPCuMfMv50
  • NPRs "Tiny Desk Concerts now has a Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts channel on YouTube
    Playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2PCKGkKRVYPm1tBwoX45ocAzuhVyvJX
    [From description] "The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts, bringing you performance sessions from across the country."
  • Elementary, My Dear Soundtrack | Tedium.co | By Andrew Egan
    https://tedium.co/2020/05/29/sherlock-holmes-music/
    [From website] "Tedium takes you from foggy London to the Australian Outback and even into the 22nd century as we look at some of the amazing theme songs produced by the various versions of Sherlock Holmes."
  • 10 Contemporary Black Classical Composers | Alternative Classical
    https://www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/features/living-black-composers
  • Library of Congress | The Boccaccio Project | See site for daily weekday concerts 15-26 June 2020
    https://www.loc.gov/concerts/boccaccio-project/?loclr=twloc
    [From website] "In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we draw on Boccaccio’s example to offer some musical responses. We have asked 10 pairs of composers and performers to write and perform brief solo works to be premiered online over the course of 10 weekdays in June."

QUIETING | MEDITATIONS
  • The Irish Blessing - over 300 churches from our island sing a blessing over Ireland and beyond | Video | Runtime: 6:50
    https://youtu.be/TascsWZPj8U
    [From description] "Individuals from 300 Christian churches and organisations located in every county on the island submitted self-recordings of vocals and instruments which have been compiled by our creative team to produce this music video - we hope you receive a blessing as you watch it." Click ""CC" for closed captioning.
  • The Silent Watcher  | YouTube Channel
    https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSilentWatcherCom/featured
    [from About] "Here you will find a unique and original collection of highest quality relaxing videos. ALL of the footage and ambient sounds on this channel are personally recorded, edited and produced by me and are not available anywhere else. The purpose of these videos is to help in healing and re-balancing the mind, body and spirit, by helping people experience moments of peace, clarity and relaxation. Produced with attention to detail, the videos are available in 4K UltraHD or FullHD resolutions and high definition audio for full immersion and a realistic experience."

ART | CULTURE | MAKINGS | SELF CARE
  • Alphonso Dunn | Pen & Ink Drawing Tutorials | Ballpoint pen portrait demo
    https://youtu.be/leuxyrQ48Jk

    JJ: I'm gearing up to take some online drawing courses. I have Dunn's books and am hauling together my drawing tools. Here's the link to Dunn's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LighterNoteProd

    Also noteworthy in this video is that the subject of the portrait is Black author/activist James Baldwin. See this 1962 essay of his from The New Yorker, "Letters From a Region of My Mind" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind

  • Easiest Self-haircut 2020 | How to Cut Your Own Hair (best for white men/women with short styles;)
    https://youtu.be/ZrTC5D-zYBs

    JJ Note: I've been Bob's barber for years now. I've let him trim my hair . . . once . . . two weeks ago, and only in back. This video tempts me to try a self-trim, not quite as short--but it shows me how to use the tools we have.
  • Warp Earth Catalog
    https://mailchi.mp/warprecords/warp-earth-catalog-01
    [From website] "Warp Earth Catalog is a weekly mixtape of ideas to inspire, inform, enable and energize creativity and positivity in a time of global disruption and uncertainty. Based on the classic countercultural guide the Whole Earth Catalog and its credo of ‘access to tools’, these are tools for strength, awareness and thoughtful entertainment. From wherever in the world we are, let’s support each other, make things and help maintain the ecosystem of independent creativity."
  • Can We Escape From Information Overload? | 1843 Magazine | By Tom Lamont
    https://www.1843magazine.com/features/can-we-escape-from-information-overload
    An artist tries to live in total darkness for 30 days.
  • This Mural in Queens Highlights COVID-19’s Impact on People of Color | An image of a brave doctor, large enough to be seen from space.
    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/queens-coronavirus-doctor-mural?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=atlas-page
    [From website] "In the parking lot of the Queens Museum, at the heart of one of the American neighborhoods most impacted by the coronavirus, a masked face now looks up at the sky, large enough to be seen from space. This is the face of the late medical doctor Ydelfonso Decoo, who was thinking about retirement before the pandemic struck. Rather than retire, he treated coronavirus patients from his community, and subsequently died of COVID-19."

    JJ: This is an astounding work of public art. Included is a description of its inception and video about its making.
  • Architecture Hub | Belgian Guy Creates An Archive Of Ugly Belgian Houses | Via The Mind Circle
    https://themindcircle.com/ugly-belgian-houses/
  • Mind Circle | Artist Paints Beautiful Flowers on All Over The Walls During Quarantine https://themindcircle.com/paints-walls/

    JJ Note: see the website of the artist too: Nathalie Lété

FOOD | CULINARY

SILLY | FUN | KIDS | GAMES

SOCIAL JUSTICE | SOCIAL AWARENESS | SOCIAL CULTURES
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