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Texas Folklife's Hechos, No Miedo | Facts, Not Fear bilingual campaign features heritage arts PSAs by and for Austin's communities of color. Working with a variety of artists and community collaborators to produce public health messaging for communities that have experienced high levels of infection and low vaccine rates during the pandemic, this project seeks to engage community members in conversations that respect community knowledge, embrace lived experience, and help identify and overcome the complex barriers affecting equitable access to the COVID-19 vaccine. The landing page to learn more and access all media and content is available in English and in Spanish . The messages as of early August 2021 include: A Spanish-language message for recent Mexican immigrant populations featuring the Huapango music of Los Trovadores de Raúl Orduña, dancers from Ballet Folklórico Lo Nuestro, and murals by Luis Angulo (known as Uloang) and Carmen Rangel (both originally commissioned by the No Seas Wey campaign). Produced by eight-time Lone Star Emmy winning director, producer, and educator Chelsea Hernandez of Panda Bear Films, who was behind the documentary Building the American Dream. Long (3-minute) and short (1-minute) video and audio-only versions available. A mixed English- and Spanish-language message for a younger Latino/a/x audience featuring the Son Jarocho music of Güateque Son and dancers from Ballet Folklórico de Austin. Video work by local videographer Joe Rocha, who has produced nationally aired projects such as “Austin Revealed.” Long (3-minute) and short (1-minute) video and audio-only versions available. A Spanish-language message for an older, well established Chicano audience in Central Texas, featuring the Conjunto music of Johnny Degollado (“El Montopolis Kid”) and Jean Jacques ‘J.J.’ Barrera, and a mural by Raúl Valdez. Produced by Gabriela Kane Guardia, with videography by Chris Sibley of Papalote Productions. Long (2-minute, 21-second) and short (46-second) video and audio-only versions available. An English-language message for Black and African American audiences directed by Mobley, featuring musician and filmmaker Megz (Magna Carda) and others in a dialog about the vaccine and the Black experience. Jacob Weber served as director of photography and editor, while The George Washington Carver Museum provided the setting. Long (2-minute, 14-second) and short (1-minute) versions are available in both video and audio-only formats. View each & learn more on the landing page , or watch on YouTube and listen on Soundcloud .

Collaborating artist visionaries reveal cyberspace as a realm of ritual, to reimagine the future from the brink of collapse of the dominant system and re-emergence of cultural cosmologies. Technology is reclaimed to affirm connections between distant places and times. At a time of DisDancing: what is the message from human-to-human; what is the sacred invisible web that connects us? We reach into the constellations to remember ancestral stories of creation after destruction, to guide us forward.

PROJECT: MUSIC HEALS US is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide inspiration, education and healing through live music performances and interactive programming to marginalized communities across the United States, with a focus on the disabled, rehabilitating, incarcerated, and homeless. In order to continue our mission amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, for the past month PMHU has been offering its programming through one-on-one concerts via video livestream platforms to society's most isolated and vulnerable: COVID patients hospitalized across the country. Beginning with the New York Presbyterian Allen Pavilion ICU and Irving Plaza Emergency Department, and actively expanding to a network of major hospitals across the country, PMHU's musicians have been working tirelessly to bring beauty, dignity, and a sense of community to those who in many cases have become completely isolated from human contact.

Practicing Distance by Jeff Kasper is a multi-part guide for preparing for our futures together post-quarantine. Each part offers a series of short practices beginning with an introduction to the four proxemic distances: intimate, personal, social, public. What follows are guided creative exercises to engage with solo, with a partner, or a small group, in imagined physical proximity during the time of the pandemic and beyond. This guide is adapted from the ongoing development of art and design-based tools used in peer-to-peer care circles, workshops, and social spaces for queer and disabled folks, survivors and allies, from 2016-present. The project uses Edward Hall's proxemics as a creative structure to explore personal boundaries through deep listening, self care, conflict, harm prevention, and accountability. Jeff Kasper is Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at UMass Amherst where he works in the Department of Art and is a Civic Engagement & Service Learning Fellow. He develops curriculums, workshops, and interactive projects from a healing-centered lens based in disability justice and trauma support culture.

Oberlin Center for the Arts and StoryLens Pictures are partnering to offer interACTS, a program to virtually deliver engagement and enrichment to older adults across Lorain County, using the power of arts and culture to help alleviate the impacts of social isolation. The interACTS program will offer virtual performances and educational programs drawing on resources from the arts and culture community and from public and partnering institutions. Oberlin Center for the Arts will also commission individual artists to produce original works in an effort to direct much-needed income to those whose livelihood has been put on hold by the pandemic. All works will be curated into thirty-minute episodes hosted on the artsoberlin.org website and delivered on-demand to care facilities, medical institutions, and individual households (via cable access channels) throughout Lorain County.

The Skid Row Arts Alliance, a consortium of Skid Row Arts Organizations (Urban Voices Project, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Street Symphony, Piece By Piece, Studio 526), are acting to simultaneously bring their programming online and into the community with various immediate relief efforts. The Skid Row Arts Alliance project "Skid Row Arts TV Guide” provides a weekly calendar of online Skid Row arts activities with culturally literate instructions on how to connect created by Leeav Sofer, Artistic Director for Urban Voices Project with Daniel Villa, of Arts Alliance member Piece by Piece, and Cornell. The intention is to promote neighborhood based connectivity as best as possible in the face of COVID-19 and the hardships of social distancing. All programs are accessible by either calling in, through Facebook Live, Zoom or Youtube. These resources are being distributed to all Skid Row residences from the tents to SRO tenants.

With so many quarantines happening so rapidly, many volunteers or paid artists who help bring life and joy to long-term care settings, are banned from entry. We at TimeSlips are saying Yes, And to this moment and using the incredible creativity of our facilitators to imagine creative ways to engage with residents virtually. One is our FREE Creativity Center - which has an ""invite a friend"" feature - built just for this purpose. You can explore tools to spark meaningful engagement by choosing a prompt to share your response by audio, image or words. You can then share with family or friends, or invite them to create with you!

Bring a little beauty to someone's day with our window mural templates - a fun, interactive way to be creative together while still observing the physical distancing rules of quarantine. TimeSlips is delighted to bring you a selection of beautiful art images from artist, Andee Rudloff. (Psssst: we are offering these art templates at no cost but we greatly appreciate your donations so we can keep resources like this free for everyone!)

We know how important it is that we all remain meaningfully engaged and connected, especially right now. Social isolation can lead to poor health. We want to create opportunities for us all to feel socially connected while we remain physically distant. We have opened up our voicemail to receive your responses to Beautiful Questions. A Beautiful Question is one that engages our minds and has no wrong answer. One in which we can all participate. Please visit our TimeSlips Creativity Center for more Beautiful Questions and then call our Beautiful Question Voicemail and respond (1-800-220-1822, ext. 1). You'll share which question(s) you are answering and, let us know the city and state you are calling from. Your response may be shared on our website or the radio.

TimeSlips has turned their incredible two-year project ""Wendy's Neverland"" with elders into a series of bite size creative workshops and worksheets. Now you can reimagine the story of Peter Pan at home or in care communities. Perfect for all ages! You can follow along with the videos on our website or by filling out the printable worksheets. New activities will be added weekly!