Film Fest 919 is now hosting a Social Distancing Film, Song and Photo Festival. Participants are encouraged to submit short films, re-enact scenes and songs from a favorite film, create a music video or create a photo montage.
Mi Pueblo hosted a virtual Latin Night to keep members connect despite not being together on campus.
Following the cancellation of extracurricular activities due to COVID-19, members of these dance groups have continued to try to celebrate their hard work and share their performances with the community.
Using Spotify, live streaming and social media, the CPA at Home program encourages its users to reconnect with the performances they missed.
"It's not ideal, but if there's one thing I've learned from the past 3.75 years, it's that it will take far more than a global pandemic to stop Carolina in its tracks."
Rachel Pollock, a costumer with the PlayMakers Repertory Company, has dedicated much of her time to sewing masks for hospitals across the U.S. as their demand has soared in recent weeks. She has posted mask-sewing tutorials across her social media in an effort to encourage others to do the same.
Chapel Hill Art + Transit is bringing back their Artistic Bus Shelter program, an opportunity for local artists to decorate bus shelters in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
“We’re still writing, and we’re still going to keep writing,” Alexis Byrd said. “All of us are writers at heart.”
Town of Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle is urging everyone to read and share poems during April's Poetry Month.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School arts teachers have had to get creative to continue teaching students online.
These artists are using their creativity to identify new ways to approach their craft, remotely.
Over spring break, UNC professor Matt Randal O'Wain traveled with his wife from their Durham home to their farm in West Virginia, as they typically do when classes aren‘t in session. Now, a stay-at-home order has them stranded there, and O'Wain treks to a nearby McDonald’s three days a week to teach his classes.
Arts Everywhere at UNC is encouraging students to create art at home to relieve stress during quarantine.
“We’ve been relying a little bit more on social media to get the word out,” said Loreleis public manager Amy Smith. “We usually still use social media pretty heavily when we are on campus, because everyone uses it for the most part, but now it’s more of a transition from publicizing the concert to publicizing the album.”
Arts Everywhere is providing a creative outlet to discuss the impact of the pandemic on people's lives through a writing competition. Poems, fiction, and non-fiction stories ranging in length of 250-500 words, reflecting on writers' emotions during this period of isolation, can be submitted until April 30 at midnight.
"Taylor Lorenz recently wrote an article called 'Stop Trying to Be Productive,' and it was exactly what I needed to hear. So I’m putting down my phone and its anxiety-inducing news notifications, and instead picking up a book." Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Maddie Ellis shares the books on her quarantine reading list.
In light of the current coronavirus crisis, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History has created a new format to continue their 2020 Author's Discussion Series. They plan to offer a virtual platform to their speakers and are attempting to find similar alternatives for other such speaking engagements that have been recently cancelled.
Assistant City & State Editor Sonia Rao swaps NSYNC for NPR with a playlist featuring her favorite podcast episodes.
An admin for “Kevin G’s Big L Meme Self-Quarantine (UNC)” said the Facebook group's activity peaks around Duke games. When he checked the stats recently, curious how engagement had fared amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he found a spike over three times as tall as the others, and he attributed this activity to the student body’s collective boredom.
Much of the museum’s collection has been digitized and made available in an online catalog. Visitors can browse through featured selections from the collection and use keywords to search for their favorite works.
