🎨 #CovidCreativesToolkit ✂️

A set of curated* mostly free & open source resources to support creative practitioners (artists, makers, curators, designers, hackers, educators, facilitators, etc) who need to migrate their practice onto digital places & spaces, and don’t have time to mess around.

🕯 Digital gathering spaces 🕯        2

🔮 Digital tools for co-creation & support 🔮        4

🔊 [Alt & open] home-working platforms 🔊        5

🏛 Digital syllabi  🏛        5

🗺 Digital guides 🗺        6

🎍 Online facilitation resources 🎍        7

🎟 Online events 🎟        8

🐚 Digital well-being 🐚        10

🍥 Digital opportunities 🍥        11

🚦 Data on how covid impacts creatives 🚦        12

🕯 Digital gathering spaces 🕯

1. The Social Distancing Festival: “An online artists’ community made to celebrate and showcase the work of artists around the world who have been affected by the need for social distancing that has come about due to the spread of Coronavirus.”
2. NetBehaviour: Long-running discussion list by/for practitioners engaged in networked creativities, used for “sharing ideas, artworks, and knowledge; posting events & opportunities in the area of networked distributed creativity & facilitating collaborations.”
3. Upstage: Free web-based venue for online performances and social gatherings, via artists associated with NetBehaviour list. "Remote performers collaborate in real time using digital media, and online audiences anywhere in the world join events by going to a web page, without having to download and install any additional software."
4. The Show Must Go On: For viewers, The Show Must Go On provides a streamlined video entry point to discover and directly support the arts. For artists, this is a platform to showcase content and connect with technical resources and audiences.
5. CoronaVirus Makers [Español]: A network of 10,000 makers coordinating in Spain via @Coronavirus Makers on Telegram to 3D print and fabricate masks, masks, respirators.
6. There are also many other gatherings of hardware hackers/makers who could use help in 3D printing/fabricating med-tech for covid-19: List of COVID Maker Networks (Global) | Community Make, 3D face-shield printing & Canada Make (Canada) | Guide & Design for Rapidly Printed Face Shields (Columbia) and another one here (DoES Liverpool, UK) | Prusa Protective Face Shield for print (Czech Ministry of Health) | Open source 3D model for Decathlon Subea snorkelling mask (by Czech Technical University, in Czech), & Restart Project (UK) on the need to repair ventilators & medical equipment, together.
7. Crowdfightcovid19: Researchers looking for volunteers to help them fight covid-19.
8. Storytellers United: A diverse community chat on Slack of folks into innovative forms of storytelling: immersive, interactive, mobile, spatial, web-native & more. [@StoryUnite]
9. Stone Soup Virtual: A virtual Zoom space that’s always open for nourishing collective experiences (shared by calendar), started by a lively community of experience designers.
10. Codebar virtual meetings: A non-profit initiative supporting people who are underrepresented in IT professions in learning how to code.
11. Live Streaming Arts: Facebook community bringing together expertise, information and practical advice on how to share live performance with audiences online.
12. Frenalacurva.net: Online community (Spanish speaking - 14 countries) organizing information and supporting mutual aid initiatives in time of crisis. 
13. The Museum Inside Me: A Facebook group for anyone who loves museums, featuring ‘The Museum Inside Me’, a challenge to create + share images on FB & Instagram via #the museum inside me, to show how museums remain open inside us all.
14. CLOUD9: A global collaborative livestream made for young people by young people, with a calendar full of programming aimed at creative makers from all backgrounds.
15. London Renters Union Covid-19 Hub: Is the covid-19 making you worried about how you’ll pay rent? You’re not alone. The London Renters Union (UK) is a community made up of thousands of renters across the city, and offers resources like a template letter you can use to start a conversation with your landlord about the rent crisis (en español), and a coronavirus Q+A for help with rent concerns, and information on renters’ rights.
16. Weekly online meetings with The World Transformed, co-hosted with Momentum (UK): Gatherings every Tuesday to create a space for activists and organisers to come together, share experiences and knowledge and develop strategies for a leftist response to covid-19.
17. UVW Designers & Cultural Workers Union: Cross-sector trade union organising isolated & precarious workers across the creative industries to fight for collective rights, offer legal representation and take action against exploitative practices. All creatives welcome to join.
18. Stream Slate: An invaluable online resource for the cinema culture of New York City, compiling daily aggregate of NYC alternative screenings; commissioning and publishing original essays, cultural criticism and print projects such as zines and books; and presenting public programs that spotlight overlooked or marginalized works, support artists and build community. They have reconfigured as “Stream Slate” in response to movie theaters closing during COVID-19 and migrating in all forms to online media, and partner with alternative spaces to stream films that help keep alternative film culture alive.
19. Home Cooking: A multi-platform open-source digest of new activities, poetry, movement and live events, begun in March 2020, founded by Asad Raza and organized in collab with Marianna Simnett, with daily contributions by artists, critics, and thinkers. Mainly on Instagram, Home Cooking provides new content every day under a detailed schedule.
20. The Problem-Solving Network (for COVID-19 response groups, such as mutual aid groups and community organisations) will next meet over Zoom on Thursday 17 December, from 1pm-2:30pm. If you know someone running a Facebook mutual aid group or a community group that is supporting local people in the pandemic, please tell them to attend - this is a great way to share information, ideas and problems.

 🔮 Digital tools for co-creation & support 🔮

1. Electric Zine Maker: Free & open source printshop and art tool for digital zine creation by @alienmelon that is set up for collaboration, printing out and then sharing with others.
2. Miro: Collaborative whiteboarding platform for group brainstorming and ideation, which is free for unlimited users and up to 3 digital whiteboards.
3. Social Movement Technologies: Trainings on how to use a wide variety of web-based resources to help digital campaigns and movements build progressive power.
4. CryptPad: A collaborative suite (docs, markdown, spreadsheets, etc) which is open source and encrypted (even the server admins can’t see your content). Storage for free registered accounts increased to 1Gb during covid. No email or personal data required to register.
5. Jitsi: Open source, encrypted Zoom alternative. Channels are set up, like Zoom’s, as URLs, and people can join without software or logins. You can set up a meeting without software at Jitsi.meet, or download the software itself at Jitsi.org. Github list of Jitsi instances, too.
6. Lost Earnings Log template by Laura McSweeney.
7. Girls garage: Distance learning tutorials (mostly videos) for young makers, on Instagram.
8. Wemunity: WIP initiative to mobilise covid-19 immunized folk to help vulnerable groups.
9. Event alternatives: List of tools to help run digital events, via Corona Tech Handbook.
10. Glia Free Medical Hardware: Open source hardware instructions for medical devices.
11. A list of creative challenges to get you through COVID-19: “Trying to keep busy during covid? Join the club”. Many on Instagram: #30dayartquarantine, #quarantineartclub, #drawfromadistance, #antisocialartshow, Quarantine photo challenge, #frommywindow.
12. Keep it complex - make it clear: Tools for organising around everyday politics.
13. Live streaming for the arts: A collection of lo-fi and low cost options, from The Space.
14. Covid19Italia Help: An open platform for crowdsourcing and aggregation of information to support people during covid-19. Free to be reused in different countries.
15. Video4Change co-viewing platforms: Review of film screening ‘watch party’ platforms that include co-viewing and chat. Includes links to both proprietary and open source tools.
16. Stimulus Check ASAP (US): Turbo Tax has created an online portal where low-income citizens in America who don't file a tax return can send their information to the IRS, and get their stimulus direct-deposit as soon as possible.

🔊 [Alt & open] home-working platforms 🔊

1. With thanks to Tactical Tech, EFF & others for helping us wade through all the crap!
2. End-to-end encrypted messaging alternatives to WhatsApp: Signal.
3. Video conferencing alternatives to Zoom: Jitsi (see above).
4. File storage alternatives to Google Docs: Veracrypt; Cryptomator.
5. Free VPNs for connecting securely: Riseup VPN; Proton VPN; Psiphon VPN.
6. Collaborative document alternatives to Google Docs: Riseup Pads; Cryptpad (see above).
7. Browser add-ons for more security: Panopticlick; Privacy Badger; HTTPS Everywhere.
8. Digital Solidarity Networks: Excellent compendium of open source and F/LOSS tools, practices and readings for digital solidarity and conviviality.

 🏛 Digital syllabi  🏛

1. #coronavirussyllabus: "A crowdsourced, cross-disciplinary resource".
2. The cyberflâneur: A series of short-read lists from ‘trusted guides’ across the arts, journalism and academia. “The Cyberflâneur saunters where others sprint.”
3. Moving dance-based education online: A list of resources by the Dance Studies Assoc.
4. Teaching theatre online amidst coronavirus: A list of resources by Daphnie Sicre.
5. Distance Design Education: Resources to share + add, supported by the Design Research Society Pedagogy Special Interest Group & the Design Group at Open University.
6. Programmers, Hackers and Hacks. The people & practices behind our machines: A free podcast of short, easily-teachable insights by Paula Bialski @PBialski and many others.
7. Heritage Crafts teaching resources: FACE & the UK Heritage Crafts Association have come together to provide teachers with free downloadable kits with tested craft projects which are easy to deliver and accessible, and tailored to the UK National Curriculum.
8. Kadenze: Loads of interesting and free creative arts MOOC courses taught by some very interesting people, ranging from ukulele playing to machine learning in the arts.
9. The Coding Train: Can’t think of a better time to binge on the most entertaining and accessible ‘how to code’ series. Covers Processing and P5 for creative graphics-based coding for artists. Just read the YouTube comments!
10. Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: A nicely curated collection of free, reusable resources to aid in teaching and research - from curation to community, blogging to gaming.
11. National Emergency Library: A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.
12. FreedomNews and CovidMutualAid: Overviews of covid-19 civic aid groups for the UK.
13. Codecademy / Learn to Code: A lot of excellent coding courses for free (although the “pro” status is subscription), but free part is excellent for intro to various coding environments.
14. FreeCodeCamp: Free online courses for coders, for beginners as well as more advanced.
15. EdX: Lots of free online classes that can be taken at university/college level, including excellent technical offerings from Harvard and MIT.
16. Remote Teaching Resources for the humanities: Useful crowd-sourced list of pre-recorded lectures and presentations across literature, history, theory and creative practice.
17. Teaching Design Online: Another emerging GDoc collection of ideas and resources aimed at design educators, displayed in a colourful and casual format, via teaching-design.net.
18. Making design research work remotely: A slide deck of methods and approaches useful for facilitating remote design research activities, via FutureGov.
19. Emergency Remote Teaching: A guide to the differences between online learning courses, and emergency remote teaching during covid-19 (also has some good tips on both).
20. Free online courses by The Open University: From society, politics and law, to nature and the environment, to history and the arts.

🗺 Digital guides 🗺

1. Community-covid unofficial guide: An evolving 6 page PDF explaining how to engage in local community organising in a time of lock-down, by Extinction Rebellion UK.
2. Corona Virus Tech Handbook: Very diverse set of resources by Newspeak House.
3. Covid-19 Freelance Artist Resources: An aggregated list of free opportunities and financial relief options for artists of all disciplines. Local sites: [US] [UK] [NZ] [Canada].
4. Surveillance Self Defense: A handy kit of step-by-step guides on how to install and use a range of privacy and security tools on your devices, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
5. Doing fieldwork in a pandemic: Crowdsourced document initiated by Deborah Lupton.
6. How can researchers and experts in Human-Computer Interaction & Interaction Design contribute in the COVID-19 crisis: Crowdsourced document initiated by Peter Dalsgaard.
7. The Liminal Experience of Crisis: Facing Suspended Animation in the Era of COVID-19: Medium article about learning from other crises by Leysia Palen.
8. Leading groups online: A “down & dirty guide to leading online courses, meetings, trainings & events during the coronavirus pandemic.” Intended audience: teachers, educators, trainers, organizers, consultants & event planners.
9. Creative Capital’s List of Arts Resources for COVID-19: Many of the resources here are US-based, but they can also be expanded for global use. Same goes for this collection, by the National Endowment for the Arts, of Covid-19 resources for artists and arts orgs.
10. Creative Industry Federation resource guide for remote working: To support those with creative businesses, a peer support group to share best practices, tips, learning and advice accompanied by a “REMO” - Remote Working Best Practice Group. 
11. Design Responder guide: A one-page guide by University of the Arts London on how designers can use service design and design thinking expertise to respond to Covid-19.
12. Coronavirus support and resources for social enterprises, by Social Enterprise UK.
13. A Daily Report on How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Art World by Valentina Di Liscia.
14. How Can I Contribute? Four Steps I’m Taking to Figure it Out by Nina Simon.
15. Digital Engagement Framework: A step-by-step framework template that helps organisations identify the value creation opportunities of digital engagement. 100% free to use, and in development by hundreds of organisations around the world.
16. Tiny Revolutions of Connections: Sharing practical suggestions for how to make personal ‘Fun Palaces’ to connect with local communities and pass time creatively in self-isolation.
17. Covid-19 Sexual & Mental Health Guide by Decolonising Contraception: A guide to provide support with reproductive health (e.g. contraception, HIV, PEP and PrEP, abortion care, periods, menopause) domestic abuse support and mental health.
18. L.A. Tenants Union - Food Not Rent: Guide for those unable to pay rent during covid-19.
19. How to run a Zoom meeting for local groups, by QueerCare: Useful guidelines for ethical co-use of web video tech. QueerCare also offers data protection resources for local groups.
20. Manchester International Festival resources for creative freelancers: MIF have put together this evolving list of resources for the creative community who might be looking for support, guidance or advice as a result of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19.
21. Surveillance Self-Defense: A guide by EFF for defending yourself online with secure tech.

🎍 Online facilitation resources 🎍

1. Useful reflection on facilitating a digital design workshop, by Neighbourhoods by Design.
2. Facilitator Guide: Help with virtual organising methods, gathered for the Mozilla Festival.
3. Go Virtual: A quick guide to planning and delivering an online event (PDF) in 10 key steps, by King’s College London Arts and Humanities Research Unit.
4. 9 quick virtual event format ideas, by Billetto.
5. How to host a virtual gathering in Mozilla Hubs - a free, open source 3D environment.
6. Establishing a Virtual Makerspace for an Online Graduate Course: A Design Case - useful run-down from an academic context, available as an open access PDF.
7. Learnings by the organisers of Dat:// conference on facilitation, streaming and CfPs online, “for other operators or our-future-selves to not repeat mistakes.
8. Pretalx: "An open source conference management tool. It starts you off by creating a Call for Participation that is exactly right for you. You can then review incoming submissions with your team and choose the best ones." - Catalog of Digital Discomfort

🎟 Online events 🎟

1. List of remote art events via UK arts organisation Book Works on Twitter.
2. The Manchester Collective: MC Live Programme, House Arrest Edition! “We’re thrilled to launch our first ever MC TV guide - listing our live programme for the next 7 days.”
3. Quarantine Book Club: Conversations with authors. Adding here as inspiration for other artists/authors as an example of ticketed (cash-flow-generating) events.
4. Daily Gugak: Gugak (traditional Korean music) performance videos, including VRs, uploaded at 11 am (Korean time) daily, via the National Gugak Center.
5. How to beat coronavirus capitalism: Online teach-ins and live-streamed conversations / chats with Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Youtube).
6. Vera List Center for Art and Politics: List of relevant virtual programs and events.
7. Furtherfield: Excellent events and free workshops from artists hosted by Furtherfield.
8. Dance Church: Dance like no one’s watching. Lightly guided dance & workouts. Streams now for US audiences only, but the free ZenMate VPN add-on will help with that ;)
9. National Theatre at Home: Live-streamed UK National Theatre productions every Thurs.
10. Online hackathons: Upcoming digital events on Eventbrite, which are mostly dedicated to project/tech, and could help in tackling challenges related to covid-19.
11. Club Quarantine: Online queer party happening every night of the quarantine on Zoom.
12. Uma Gahd's Weekly Drag Race Viewing Party (8:45pm ET, every Friday): Just because we're watching RuPaul's Drag Queen from home doesn't mean we can be entertained by some of Canada's best queens in the process. One example is Uma Gahd, who is hosting a virtual viewing party with special performances every week!
13. Live Stream Archive: A temporary digital archive collating all of the work that can currently be shared online by theatre & performance artists across the U.K.
14. United We Stream: Currently streaming out of Berlin (and Manchester, starting 29 March), offering excellent electronic live-streams from different clubs several days a week, with all proceeds going to a relief fund for local artists and venues impacted by covid-19.
15. The Wrong TV: Online TV platform for digital art, music & culture, 24/7 free live stream.
16.  Spectacle Theater: This NYC-based theatre is kicking off a new, ongoing series of single-stream digital screening events, starting with Empty Metal (2018), directed by Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer, on April 1 @ 7PM EST. “Three aimless millenials in a go-nowhere band are recruited as willing pawns by a shadow revolution.” This one-night-only event includes a Q&A with filmmakers in the chat - all welcomed!
17. The Disruption Network Lab (Berlin) presents DISRUPTIVE FRIDAYS, now streaming live every Friday at 5pm CEST starting April 3, 2020. The aim of these videos will be to share creative solutions, resistance to the isolation caused by covid-19, and strategies to keep working with art and culture in ways that generate new forms of collective care.
18. ASSEMBLY! (Bristol) Get up, get out of your apocalypse pyjamas,  and get together, every morning, 9am, Monday to Friday! Like a school assembly, but for support. All invited to participate, host a session, and get involved in working out a new normal.
19. Theatre/opera/ballet screenings: A pretty comprehensive list of upcoming theatre and dance streams - some of the best theatre in the world is being put online for free right now.
20. The Kin-Ship: Dance party with performers every Friday & Saturday 9pm-2am PST. Starting Sunday April 19th there will also be some new wellness programming (update with details on the way!). LGB, queer, trans, womxn inclusive event, bringing coin to communities in the underground who need it most right now. Free RSVP, with all donations going to DJ’s, performers & local non-profits helping people during the crisis.
21. Femmes of Colour online comedy night: Live on Instagram daily at 7pm GMT.
22. Leeds Queer Film Festival’s list of free LGBTQ+ films: Collection of hundreds of films to watch, including shorts, features, docs, drama, experimental, and animation.
23. ANTIUNIVERSITY Festival: A yearly programme of self-organised, radical learning & mutual education events, and more broadly a collaborative experiment to challenge academic and class hierarchy around existing institutional structures.
24. Bristol Arts Channel: A lockdown lifeline for audiences missing the buzz and community of Bristol's brilliant arts scene. There should be something for everyone – from experimental digital initiatives through to day long music festivals, some of the best theatre offering to live cinema watch parties, living room raves to more intimate conversations.

🐚 Digital well-being 🐚

1. Covid well-being: An ongoing list of regeneration ideas for fostering personal well-being in times of crisis, via the Extinction Rebellion UK #AloneTogether campaign.
2. Cabin fever: A list of free experimental films and videos to aid in coping with Covid-19.
3. Being-isolated-being-OK Twitter thread: Useful tactics from full-time artist @degreyish.
4. Digital self-care Twitter thread: Free online spaces for staying sane, by @codekat.
5. Hurry Slowly: Podcast about creative work that focuses on well-being rather than ‘productivity’. This is a list of episodes collected especially for these times.
6. Listening Care Package: Curated list of podcasts poems for uncertain times, via OnBeing.
7. The Creative Independent: “Emotional and practical guidance” for indie creatives, e.g. A creative person’s guide to feeling healthy & How to recession-proof your creative practice.
8. WFH with kids: Some valuable tips (baby, toddler, teen and everything in between).
9. Meta.observer: Actionable philosophy decks, frameworks and cards for the modern age.
10. Arts in the time of quarantine: Boston Review will be offering readers a dozen or so short stories in the coming month. Some will be on the theme of disease, social isolation, and sorrow; others, we hope, will simply be a momentary escape through imagination.
11. CBC Arts suggestions of 5 stress-relieving activities via art therapists to try at home.
12. Collection of virtual tours of 30 world-class museums, by openculture.org.
13. Podcasts that promote mental health and wellbeing, from Mental Health Foundation UK.
14. BFI Player: Extensive list of free films to relax with, from the BFI’s film archive. The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world's largest documentary film festival, is also giving viewers free access to 302 films released between 1988 and 2019 on its website, cited as"a godsend for both professionals and film enthusiasts".
15. Thyself: A browser extension for recentering, via mindful moments throughout your day.
16. Covid Pause: Another handy browser extension that removes covid content from websites.
17. Liberate: The only meditation app by, and for, the Black & African Diaspora, offering free dharma talks and meditations guided by teachers of colour.
18. Maha Devi Live online yoga: Support this community yoga centre for children with special needs while it’s closed due to covid-19 by joining its free live hatha yoga classes for adults.
19. Play Tone online roller skate, hula hoop & jump rope workouts: Support Play Tone as it closes due to covid-19 by doing an online play-therapy class rooted in joy & spontaneity.
20. Do it Home: A beautiful project started by Hans Ulrich Obrist with an assembled set of artists and 30 collaborating art spaces around the world, who release regular instructions that "will take you away from your screens and recreate an art experience at home".
21. Creative Online Sessions: A series organized by Recrear to help check in with ourselves and how we relate to the world around us, using creative writing, painting and movement.

🍥 Digital opportunities 🍥

1. National Arts Centre Facebook Livestream Grant (CA): Canada's National Arts Centre and Facebook will pay musicians who are resident of Canada for their live-streams.
2. GM Culture & Creative Commissions (UK): Deadline 1st of April for artists to propose a work which then be made into part of the GMCA archive, fees £500. Details on Twitter.
3. #artistssupportpledge: Hashtag on Instagram where artists put work up for sale (up to £200) and pledge to buy another artist’s work when they sell £1000 of their own work.
4. Funding information for support for creatives from the third sector (UK).
5. Help policy makers in the creative industries understand and respond to the ongoing crisis: Opportunity to contribute to Nesta’s policy initiative, which is looking at how the creative industries can come together to share how COVID-19 is impacting the sector.
6. Creative Scotland’s COVID-19 Impact Fund (Scotland): 3 funding programmes designed to help sustain the nation’s creative community during the COVID-19 outbreak.
7. Spotify’s COVID19 music relief fund: Supporting artists and creative communities who are especially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
8. World Design Organisation call for designers: In an urgent effort to mobilize the global design community to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Design Organization (WDO) is calling on all available designers to commit to an initiative that will propose design-led solutions to a number of pressing challenges that are affecting us all.
9. Communication Inspiration Challenge organised by OpenIDEO: “Have you got an idea for how to design great information about how to stay healthy at this time?”
10. a-n: Artists Network information & guidance on funding for artists and arts organisers.
11. Arts Council England emergency funding (UK) for arts organisations and individuals, and for those based in Scotland, the Creative Scotland Funding and Resource directory.
12. Global Call to Creatives by the United Nations: The UN has announced a call to arms for creators, influencers and media makers to tackle health awareness during covid-19.
13. Grants from Finnish foundations and Finnish Ministry of Education are also providing emergency aid for a cultural sector in distress.
14. Berlin freelance grants: €5000 government grant for freelancers, creative professionals or anyone registered as self-employed in Berlin. Paid within a week (!!!).
15. Artist Relief Tree: Small emergency grants, no questions asked, for those in need.
16.  Creative Capital: This is already featured in the ‘Guides’ section above, but it also has an excellent range of resources that feature relief funding for those based in the U.S.
17. Mozilla Covid-19 Solutions Fund: Fund by creator of Firefox web browser which will provide awards for up to $50,000 to open source technology projects (including creative and interdisciplinary initiatives) that respond to the pandemic.
18. Help with Covid: A regularly-updated list of new and established community initiatives helping fight covid-19 that need volunteer help from designers and other creatives.
19. Opportunities for Artists (US): From relief grants to exhibition open calls, an ongoing list of opportunities that artists and creatives can apply for, curated by Hyperallergic.
20. Outdoor Arts Sector Support Fund (UK): £500,000 to directly support individuals in the outdoor arts sector during this challenging time who don’t qualify for other funds.
21. Culture Quarantine (UK): The SPACE is looking for creatively ambitious ideas that feel that they could have been made at no other time. Commissions do not need to be about the current emergency, but must engage imaginatively with ideas of social isolation. The requirements of social distancing must also be adhered to in the making of the work.
22. #FACTtogether (UK): A new series of grants by @FACT_Liverpool aimed at supporting 10 early-career artists, freelancers & gig-workers in the North of England with £1500 commissions to create new work from home.
23. Well-funded open call from the artist network EYEBEAM, with grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, to support artists and creatives who are imagining a more humane digital realm and fighting surveillance capitalism in times of mass disruption.
24. Open Call for Digital Collaborative Grants: Grants of up to £4,000 are now available for creative and cultural practitioners in Birmingham, Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of the British Council’s ground-breaking project Transforming Narratives.
25. Trusthouse Foundation has small and major grants open for applications, with a new focus on organisations that support families.

  🚦 Data on how covid impacts creatives 🚦

1. New Yorkers for Culture & the Arts: List of covid impact surveys directed at artists (US).
2. Hyperallergic’s daily report on how the covid pandemic is affecting the art world, and a similar daily report by Artsy.
3. ALI Covid-19 impacts: Project gathering data on how covid impacts artists, cultural workers, freelancers and gig workers, including an anonymous loss-reporting tool.
4. Survey of the impact of covid-19 on 600 makers in the UK by the Crafts Council, and on impacts of covid-19 on arts and cultural charities by Nesta.
5. Infographic on how covid-19 impacts art workers in the US, by Art Handler magazine. For art workers in America, the survey remains live (and they want more input) here.
6. Practitioner reflections on how the creative industries are hit, by young makers and visual designers associated with @everpresshq, and by creative freelancers in Singapore.
7. Open letter to museums and galleries in support of education and other essential workers (US) is asking for signatories to express concern about a growing trend of layoffs targeting precarious staff at museums like MoMA, LA MOCA, Mass MoCA and others.
8. Report on impacts of covid-19 on gig workers worldwide by the Fairwork Foundation, which indicates over half have lost their jobs, and suggests solutions for better practice.
9. Report on impacts of covid-19 on creative freelancers associated with Creativepool.
10. Wikipedia listing, regularly updated, on how covid impacts arts & cultural heritage.
11. Curating the pandemic image: An archive of curatorial strategies & failures in response to covid-19 by cultural institutions, curators and practitioners, by CSNI's Marco De Mutiis.
12. Writeup of Creativepool report on covid-19 and freelancers in the UK by ItsNiceThat, stating that half of currently unemployed creatives lost their jobs due to the virus.