COVID-19 has presented many challenges to the entertainment industry.
Despite this, many artists and organisations (including Cape Town Concert Series and the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra) have found new platforms online. And now that lockdown rules allow venues to reopen, you can enjoy outdoors movies at the Galileo Open Air Cinema; new productions at Theatre Arts, the Baxter Theatre, and Gate69; exhibitions with First Thursdays, the Norval Foundation, and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa; as well as museum tours on Robben Island and in District Six.
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Here are this week’s links:
- Coronavirus ban on mass gatherings hits entertainment industry suppliers
- City of Cape Town cancels annual festival lights switch-on event
- Covid-19 halts Cape Town’s annual festive lights event
- Covid-19 cancellations hurt artists
- CTCB forced to retrench staff due to Covid-19
- How Cape Town City Ballet cope during Lockdown
- Netflix teams up with SASFED to create film and TV relief fund to help SA creatives | Channel
- City backs Light SA Red campaign
- SA International Ballet Competition Pivots online
- 55th Fleur du Cap Theatre Award winners announced virtually
- Invitation to artists to send ideas for Virtual Festival
- Stand by for the first-ever virtual NAF
- AfrikaBurn Goes Digital
- How the comedy industry is adapting to the COVID-19 era
- Shimmy Isaacs on the importance of being adaptable in the COVID-19 era
- Marc Lottering chats ‘My Fellow South Africans’ #1
- Marc Lottering chats ‘My Fellow South Africans’ #2
- Why it’s important to keep laughing during lockdown
- Beat the lockdown blues with #LoveCapeTown
- Cape Town Tourism ropes in celebrities for #LoveCapeTown Lockdown Survival Guide
- Stay Home And #StayENTERTAINED | ENTERTAINER Hub
- The Brothers Streep present Agony Uncles
- CPO COVID-19 video 1
- CPO COVID-19 video 2
- CPO COVID-19 video 3 CPYO Intermezzo
- CPO COVID-19 video 4 Meditation with Alexander Gilman
- CPO COVID-19 video 5 LOCKDOWN WALTZ Cape Town City Ballet
- CPO COVID-19 video 6 The Lion Sleeps Tonight (“MBUBE”) CPYWE
- CPO COVID-19 Video 7 SEAL LULLABY with VOX Cape Town
- Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra during Lockdown
- Cape Town Concert Series – Fine Music Radio
- Symphonic Masterpieces in Miniature PROMO 1
- Symphonic Masterpieces in Miniature PROMO 2
- The Galileo Picnic is back!
- The Galileo Drive-In invites you to enjoy the big screen from the comfort of your car
- The Galileo Drive-In 2020: Moonlit Movies In Your Car
- Everything you need to know about Mother City Drive-in
- Mother City Drive-In Theatre Ticket Costs
- LABIA HOME SCREEN VOUCHERS
- Re-opening of cinemas, theatres, libraries, galleries and museums
- Coronavirus inspires socially distanced theatre
- Baxter Theatre launches Baxter Radio
- WATCH: Appeal to ‘buy Baxter Theatre a cup of coffee every month’
- #LockdownLessons: Theatre will remain but will need to recalibrate
- Baxter back on stage with a benefit gala
- Baxter Back on Stage with Gregory Maqoma and Zolani Mahola
- Ways of Dying
- First Accused
- Cape Town Opera presents Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
- Così fan tutte Cape Town 2020 in rehearsal
- Talking point – Cape Town Opera – FMR Radio
- Cape Town Opera in the midst of COVID-19
- CTO and Artscape lunch hour concert
- Behind Doors Collaborative Ensemble
- First Thursdays is back
- First Thursdays in Cape Town
- Out and about: First Thursdays are back in Cape Town
- How public venues are ensuring safety during COVID-19
- Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture – Short Film Trailer
- Norval Foundation: Kentridge & Ballet
- New Exhibitions at Norval Foundation
- #MissingYouCapeTown online exhibition reconnects locals with their city during Covid-19
- Zeitz MOCAA is bringing the WOZA vibe to your home
- Home is where the art is at Zeitz MOCAA
- Zeitz MOCAA reopening exhibition celebrates Cape Town’s talent
- Robben Island Museum to reopen for tours
- District Six Museum needs your help to stay open
- District Six Museum asks visitors to help keep their doors open
- ‘Cape Town museums in a chronic state of neglect and disrepair’
If you enjoyed exploring the best ways to support theatre and the arts during COVID-19, here are some international perspectives:
- A bailout for Britain’s theatres
- Paris is opening a cinema on the Seine
- This Berlin theatre shows what socially-distanced entertainment might look like
And here are some inspiring TED Talks:
- The transformative role of art during the pandemic
- How to support and celebrate living artists
- How museums help communities heal
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