Lewiston, Maine, April 10, 2020 – Now as much as ever, arts experiences are important ways for us to engage, connect, and get inspired! LA Arts offers the following list of available web and social media arts engagements for our community to enjoy and share during this period of social distancing.
- ACLA calendar on the LA Arts website shares upcoming virtual arts and culture events.
- Bates College Museum of Art is active on social media with features like Marsden Hartley Monday.
- Children’s Museum + Theatre of Maine offers some daily online programs for families.
- Center for Puppetry Arts offers puppet shows, workshops and more, all from home!
- Connors Elementary School art teacher Kelsey Boucher is posting videos of fun art projects on a distance learning art website.
- Gendron Franco Center is sharing fun local and not-so-local musical performances on Facebook.
- LA Arts Facebook page is sharing all the arts content we can find as we find it!
- Lewiston Public Library is hosting virtual events on Facebook like read alouds and book chats.
- LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems are free videos on the Kennedy Center website.
- Maine Historical Society is collecting your Covid-19 pandemic stories for the My Maine Stories web pages.
- Maine Public’s Maine Museum Portal lets you virtually explore some exhibitions currently on view at museums across Maine.
- Maine State Museum is celebrating Maine’s Bicentennial by sharing insights and stories about Maine’s path to statehood.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium has multiple animal live cams you can tune into!
- Museum LA offers cultural content and features on Facebook like ‘Object of the Month.’
- NPR live virtual concerts is a continually updated list of live audio and video streams. Most are free.
- Opera Maine started a weekly web series that explores different aspects of opera.
- Portland Museum of Art is offering virtual film screenings.
- Portland Ovations offers some fun theater activities to try with your family.
- Portland Press Herald Do This calendar offers lots of virtual arts and culture experiences to try.
- State Theatre, Portland is livestreaming digital concerts on its Facebook page.
- Sun Journal/ Encore calendar lists online arts and culture happenings around L-A.
Have an arts experience to add to this list? Please let us know: contact@laarts.org