• **Live bedtime reading of children’s books with Dolly Parton
• **MOS At Home: STEM activities, podcasts, webinars at the Museum of Science’s new virtual museum
• **Boston Children’s April Make-a-thon Challenge
• **Resources From Sesame Street
• **Lincoln Center At Home: A Gateway to the Perfoming Arts – A pop-up classroom for kids and concerts
• **Boston Symphony Orchestra Home School
• **Armchair Travel with Travel Zoo: San Diego Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Safari Live, Volcanos National Park and so much more
• **Explore the Entire World–from the Comfort of Quarantine–with 4K Walking Tours
• **CS50x Puzzle Day – Register Here anytime before 23:59 on Monday, 6 April 2020. [this has been hugely commented on our Twitter feed] If curious (and to practice!), here are last year’s puzzles and solutions
• Runaway With the Big Apple Circus at Home
• Free Play and Learning Resources For Families to Use at Home (Boston Children’s Museum)
• 100 Ways to Play (Boston Children’s Museum)
• Family Resources compiled by the Discovery Museum
• Olaf From ‘Frozen’ Will Read Books To Your Kids On Twitter
• STEM Beyond Walls: Developing Pre-K Problem Solvers (Museum of Science)
• NASA’s free STEM activities and e-books for kids and adults
• Zoos and aquariums live-streaming animals
• Build Pictures From Basic Shapes (Brookline Arts Center)
• Art Projects for Kids (Peabody Essex Museum)
• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

PERFORMING ARTS  and TALKS

• **Lincoln Center At Home: A Gateway to the Perfoming Arts

Theatre and Dance:

• ** WhatsonStage in the U.K. is continually updating their listing of digital offerings  – the latest:  Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is releasing 40 productions
• **National Theatre Live at Home
• **Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has released Ailey All Access, an online streaming series featuring performances of full length works from their repertory, dance and fitness classes from the Ailey Extension, original short films created by the Ailey dancers, and more
• **Boston Theater Marathon XXII: Special Zoom Edition
• 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals
• Patrick Stewart is reading a Shakespeare sonnet a day to get us through the coronavirus lockdown

Music:

• **Live @ Sawdust: a digital home for the voices and work of the artists – featuring weekly releases from their archive of live performances
• Silk Road Project Home Sessions
• Live From Scullers Jazz Club
• Metropolitan Opera On-Demand
• WCRB Classical Radio presents BSO Encores: Nightly @ 8  [ https://www.classicalwcrb.org/post/bso-encores-nightly-8-0 ]
• BSO @ Home
• 92nd Street Y has opened its archives of 145 years of concerts and talks
• NPR’s list of live virtual concerts
• Quarantine soirees’: classical music and opera to stream at home (The Guardian)

Talks:

• Read and discuss War and Peace with Yiyun Li and A Public Space
• 92nd Street Y has opened its archives of 145 years of concerts and talks
• Podcasts for the Theatre Buff (New York Times)

MOVIES : The theatres are all closed, but here are some great digital resources:

• Visit O&I’s Hidden Gems Tab for links to Harvard Library for films, documentaries and more
• Coolidge Corner Theatre Virtual Screening Room and Online Film Education
• **Tribeca Film Festival  presents a short film a day, presenting an online series of shorts, with a new film rolled out at 11 a.m. every day for a moment of entertainment and refuge in a world unknown.

MUSEUMS: The museums are all closed, but many museums are posting great digital resources on their websites and social media channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter. Visit your favorite museums anywhwere locally or globally – most have put virtual tours and exhibits online. Here are a few selected resources you may not be aware of:

• Ten of the Best Virtual Museum Tours: Vatican Museums (The Guardian); J Paul Getty Museum; Guggenheim Balbao; Rijksmuseum; Musée d’Orsay; British Museum; National Gallery / London; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / South Korea; MASP / São Paulo

GETTING OUT & ABOUT AND KEEPING IN SHAPE:

• See resources on O&I’s seasonal attractions section – Walk Boston maps; Boston Parks & Recreation
• **Harvard’s Center for Wellness–Virtual Resources: meditation and yoga
• Live Virtual Workouts from Harvard Recreation
• 15 Stagey Songs for an Indoor Workout
• Visit Our National Parks Virtually