The cultural sector, one of those that will be most affected by the current confinement situation, has sharpened its ingenuity to help everyone Let's get over the #yomequedoencasa in the best possible way and without giving up a good that in Bezzia We consider it a first necessity.
Authors, artists, publishers, producers and public institutions have launched in recent days different cultural initiatives that we can enjoy without leaving home; from opera performances to virtual visits to museums or concerts. Sign them up!
Opera at the Teatro Real and the Liceu
Access titles like La Bohème (Puccini), The Traviata (Verdy), The Barber of Seville (Rosini), Figaro's wedding (Mozart), Norma (Bellini), or I Capuleti ei Montechi (Bellini), represented in the Royal Theater and the Liceu it is possible thanks to the My Opera Player platform.
Tras access the platform You only have to register and enter the code «OperaEnCasa» to have Free access. In addition to the performance, you can enjoy interesting interviews with the directors and protagonists, information about the play and reports.
Virtual visits to museums
This Thursday, March 12, Prado Museum launched the "El Prado with you" initiative, an online action program, through both social networks and its website, to guarantee access to knowledge about its works and artists during the time it must remain closed.
You just have to enter the gallery website to enjoy, for example, El Jardín de las Delicias del Bosco, with comments from the botanical researcher Eduardo Barba. Or the Triptych of the Birth of Jesus, by the Master of the Zarzoso Triptych, with comments by Fernando Pérez Suescun, head of didactic contents of the National Museum of the Prado.
You will also find within this initiative a «Game for families». It is a plan, illustrated by Teresa Bellón, designed to play with the family that invites us to discover the Museum in a fun way. Every day a Prado room is shown with different challenges to overcome, providing solutions the next day on the same page.
The Reina Sofia Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Sorolla Museum, the National Museum of Decorative Arts and the Tobacco Company, offer virtual visits to their collections and / or tours of their facilities. He too Thtyssen-Bornemisza Museum allows virtual visits to its permanent collection, some of them immersive.
Theater
The Theater Library from the Center of Performing Arts Documentation y de la Música (CDAEM) is a service that was launched in 2016 restricted to researchers, educators and professionals of the performing arts and that last year was opened to the general public.
This cultural initiative allows free access from any computer to 1.600 full show recordings released in Spain since the seventies. It works like any library loan service and users have a period of two days to see each work.
Live music
Last weekend there were many of us who enjoyed #YoMeQuedoEnCasa, a live music festival of Instagram created by Franchejo Blázquez, in which Carlos Sadness, Rayden, Rozalén, David Otero, Georgina, Vega and Andrés Suárez participated, among others. Once finished, however, the live music has not stopped and the artists who personally give away their music through this network, join festivals such as:
The motto of the Quarantine Fest is "That the music does not stop and that both labels and artists have an alternative in order to offer culture in these difficult times". About thirty independent Spanish artists They will perform from their bedroom from March 16 to 27 and we can see them through the artists' YouTube channels or see them all in theirweb page.
@Blanket Fest, for its part, is a digital festival of singer-songwriters and songwriters. All the artists will connect from their own Instagram profiles, and in addition, many have also been encouraged to share it simultaneously on their official Facebook pages! So you no longer have reasons to miss a concert!
Initiatives to promote reading
Publishers also propose cultural initiatives to promote reading and make quarantine more bearable. The Editorial Planeta has made available a selection of some of the most popular titles to be downloaded for free and organized an agenda of activities with authors such as Dolores Redondo, Almudena Grandes, Santiago Posteguillo or Elvira Lindo.
Anagram has joined the initiative with 5 ebooks that you can download for free: Happy Years, by Gonzalo Torné; The things we lost in the fire, by Mariana Enriquez; A Good Detective Never Marries, by Marta Sanz; Fiesta en la buriguera, by Juan Pablo Villalobos and the eleven short novels that Alejandro Zambra collects in My Documents.
Roca Editorial also stays at home and puts at our disposal a score of free eBooks that can be found on the main electronic book platforms in Spain. Y Blackie books has launched an initiative called «House Blackie», a space in which readings and monologues will be given and texts such as the PDF of «Instrumental», by @jrhodespianist, already available, will be shared.
Did you know about these cultural initiatives?