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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Pandemic prompts streaming opportunities in education, arts
By Mark Brennan
for The Sentinel
The COVID-19 pan-
demic has forced many
changes in the ways Amer-
icans conduct their lives
and these changes differ
both from state to state
and region to region.
One thing that has been
a loss in the lives of nearly
everyone in the country is
the elimination of live en-
tertainment, youth sports
leagues, education and
group gatherings.
The cessation of pro-
fessional and collegiate
sports, music, and the-
atrical performances, re-
tail shopping, dining out,
weddings and church
services, fraternal organi-
zations and going to the
movies, has been national
in scope.
An unexpected positive
outcome of all this has
been the unprecedented
expansion of live streamed
events, often available for
later viewing, presenting
everyone with the chance
to enjoy world class per-
formances, lectures from
renowned educators and
how-to classes from some
of the world’s great artists.
There are hundreds
of online exercise class-
es available on YouTube,
which has become an even
more essential media plat-
form during the COVID
crisis, and through Zoom,
including livestreams of
yoga and fitness classes.
In addition, major uni-
versities Harvard, Yale,
the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology (MIT),
Stanford and many state
schools, including the
University of Oregon and
Oregon State University,
have added free classes for
community members to
take.
Most of these are of-
fered to interested resi-
dents with registration
fees waived or eliminated.
These institutions have
generally updated their in-
dividual websites to share
the classes and activities
available both to regis-
tered students, and for free
to interested community
members.
Many museums, the-
aters and performance
groups are also increasing
the number of live stream-
ing performances, archival
tours and lectures and vid-
eo retrospectives of past
exhibits that are available
on their websites.
The Smithsonian In-
stitution is the largest
complex of educational,
research and archival col-
lections in the world. It
has added significantly to
all the institute’s virtual
platforms in light of the
pandemic.
These efforts have made
the Smithsonian one of the
world’s foremost online
educators in the world.
The decision by the
Smithsonian to find some
way to continue with its
mission, despite the re-
strictions put in place to
fight the COVID-19 pan-
demic, has resulted in a
unique opportunity for
homebound citizens with
many different types of in-
terests.
The wide array of educa-
tion and cultural assets are
owned and maintained by
the American people and
are now available to more
people — not just here but
around the world — than
ever before.
There are daily sched-
ules of classes, workshops
and lectures that are often
live, with museum guides
from the featured institu-
tion, and special archived
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items that are only suitable
for viewing under con-
trolled circumstances.
One of the main areas of
American culture that has
been diminished during
this time of closure has
been in the realm of artis-
tic performances.
Concerts, plays and an-
nual tourist favorites like
Eugene’s Oregon Bach
Festival and Ashland’s Or-
egon Shakespeare Festival
have cancelled their re-
spective seasons.
While the Bach Festi-
val has cancelled its 2020
season, for the first time is
presenting a “Best Of ” se-
ries, which includes many
virtuoso
performances
from the nearly 50-year-
old festival.
Sabrina Madison-Can-
non, Dean of U of O
School of Music and
Dance,
oversees
the
world-famous event and
recently released a state-
ment announcing the sea-
son cancellation.
“We’ve all been finding
new ways to connect in
this unprecedented era
of social distancing,” said
Madison-Cannon.
“In
the weeks and months to
come, we’ll be announc-
ing a variety of ways that
you’ll be able to enjoy
the rich musical legacy of
the Oregon Bach Festival
from the comfort of your
own home.”
One initiative is a series
of “Oregon Bach Festival
Radio” shows that will be
broadcast on KWAX-FM
Classical Oregon and live-
streamed at KWAX.uore
gon.edu with hosts Peter
van de Graaff and Rocky
Lamanna.
Madison-Cannon also
suggested listeners relive
special past performances
from, since every episode
of the radio show will fea-
ture a selection of memo-
rable past performances.
There will be a new
broadcast to listen to ev-
ery weekday during June
26 through July 10, the
dates when the festival
would have been held this
summer.
For more information,
visit oregonbach-festival.
org.
While the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival will
not be entertaining visi-
tors this season, Nation-
al Theater Live (NTL),
ntlive.nationaltheatre.
org.uk, has scheduled a
free performance of “The
Madness of George III”
for this week. Another UK
based live performance
platform, What’sOnStage.
com, lists free upcoming
performances at the Roy-
al Opera House, Shake-
speare’s Globe Theater and
performances by the leg-
endary troops of Cirque
du Soleil.
New York, one of the
American cities hardest
hit by the COVID-19 pan-
demic, has been the most
proactive when it comes to
transferring live produc-
tions to online platforms.
The NYC American
Museum of Natural His-
tory has a daily live event
scheduled, which will
include commentary by
staff, and the New York
Metropolitan Opera will
be streaming performanc-
es from its vast archives on
a nightly basis at 4:30 PDT.
The nation’s first pub-
lic broadcasting station,
National Education Tele-
vision, WNET, produces
and presents PBS series
“Nature,” “Great Perfor-
mances,” “American Mas-
ters” and a range of doc-
umentaries,
children’s
programs, and local news
and cultural which are all
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The Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts will
be presenting a variety of
free musical productions
over the summer, listing
events from the Met and
the New York Philhar-
monic as scheduled.
The NY Times is of-
fering an ongoing series
of lectures from its staff
writers and columnists.
Highlighted this month
is children’s graphic artist
Wendy McNaughton, who
will be live streaming daily
at 10 a.m. PDT for 30 min-
utes or so, “Which is just
long enough for a parent
to get a little work done,
take a shower and take a
couple of deep breaths,”
McNaughton said.
These are just a small
number of the ever grow-
ing list of online viewing
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