Recreation and Hobbies - Open Access
Dance
- Canada's National Ballet School (L'École nationale de ballet du Canada)- Community Dance programs remain on hiatus; however, we want to make it easy to bring dance into your home. On our website, we are now offering a selection of online dance resources that may be most useful to you, especially now. The resources are free, easy to access and available for kids, seniors, or the whole family. www.nbs-enb.ca
Art
- National Arts Centre – #Canada performs: Free videos of Canadian artists from all genres including comedy, dance and theatre on NAC Facebook page. New schedule every day.
- Many museums to learn about and tour using Google Arts and Culture
- Russia’s Hermitage museum (only 5 hours long :)
- Listen to famous artists discuss their favorite parts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection
- And, similarly, “The way I see it” of the MoMa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovyEMlNZlTE&list=PLfYVzk0sNiGG8mvBWAXGnETXurUviXfkj and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9CswYtb5rL31CHwyVoyJvQ
Music
- The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Live streaming opera
- Metropolitan opera live streams (have to register)
- Ottawa Live Music Streams! on Facebook (no account needed)
Video Tours of Gardens and Manors
- Claude Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France
- Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, England (and this video on YouTube)
- Chicago Botanic Garden, Chicago IL
- Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, Papaikou, HI
- Kew Gardens, Richmond, England
Video tours of famous sites (from Google)
- Heritage on the edge (protecting major cultural sites against climate change)
- Roman Colosseum
- Stonehenge
- Machu Picchu
- Egyptian Pyramids
Explore space
Library
- Ottawa Public Library has many online resources in both official languages, including audiobooks, music, videos, films