ART
Watch and learn
FREE ON TUESDAY EVENINGS?
At 8pm on 12th May Life Drawing Live will hold the biggest ever life drawing class attempted. Watch live on BBC 4 with pen and paper to hand or catch up on iplayer.
'WHAT IS STRESS? IT’S WORRYING ABOUT SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE. ART IS NOW.'
Locked down in Normandy, Hockney provides us with some inspiration. Read the full interview and tips on how to get drawing and painting here. The 83 year old has already released a series of paintings of spring for those in isolation and two of his recent exhibitions are replaying at the RA ready to be watched here.
DRAMA
Contributions from Libby Symons
FREE ON THURSDAYS?
The National Theatre releases one of its productions every Thursday evening at 7pm which is then available for another 7 days. Let Benedict Cumberbatch in Frankenstein or Ralph Fiennes in the new Antony and Cleopatra into your living room.
Click here for more.
INTO PHYSICAL THEATRE?
Gecko are a Suffolk based, internationally acclaimed physical theatre company.
Watch their productions here
SHAKESPEARE IS NOT DEAD.
Theatres are shut for the foreseeable, but they are still putting out some great content. Check out The Globe's free viewing of Two Noble Kinsmen
plus a special 'Love in isolation' series, with famous faces reading Shakespeare sonnets and poems from their places of isolation.
TIME FOR A SING ALONG
Andrew Lloyd Weber is releasing one of his musicals every Friday evening at 7pm BST. Watch them all here
MUSIC
ALWAYS FOUND THE BALLET TOO EXPENSIVE?
The Royal Opera House have put together a programme of curated online broadcasts, musical masterclasses and cultural insights to get under the skin of opera and ballet at this world famous institution. Watch on Youtube, or BBC/BBC iplayer