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In a special online project, part of the city’s RISE season (which pays tribute to extraordinary women across the globe), Culture Liverpool will showcase podcasts, blogs, music, visual art, photography and film showing female responses to the crisis, exploring social inequalities, isolation and trying to understand the ‘new normal’.
Read MoreJapanese motorcycles manufacturer Yamaha launches the Remote Cheerer app that is meant to be linked to a stadium’s audio system so that athletes can hear the pre-recorded soundbites as if people were actually in the stands. They performed a field test earlier this month at Japan’s Shizuoka Stadium, with 58 speakers around the outdoor venue and users sending applause and jeers.
Read MoreA virtual protest on Animal Crossing: New Horizons made it possible to denounce violence without leaving home during COVID. It happened just after the Autonomous University of Nayarit (UAN) reported the death of Diana Carolina Raygoza Montes, a 21 year old who was studying law at the institution, which seemed to be a femicide and raised enormous social indignation.
Read MoreAGF Aarhus will welcome local rivals Randers for the reopening of the season, with a giant screen of 40 metres long and 3m high filled with fans watching via video link. Supporters have signed up for free tickets to take part, with two smaller screens allowing for neutrals and away fans to be there too. The concept, created in partnership with Zoom, has taken weeks of preparation.
Read MoreAtria, the leading food company in Scandinavia, is donating BBQ grills to libraries (that usually rent out not only books but also sewing machines, board games or even sports equipment) so Finns can embrace their love of BBQing when lockdown ends. Atria wants to make the staycation time of all Finns as enjoyable as possible, while also promoting Finnish cuisine.
Read MoreThe Living Room Cup, which started April 5, offers a new space to compete against Nike pro athletes through weekly fitness challenges. Special workouts to help provide a competitive advantage during each week’s challenge will be made available on the Nike Training Club app.
Read MorePuzzle Break has created an online version of its traditionally in-person escape room, The Grimm Escape. Co-workers, family or friends can join a Zoom video call for a 90-minute game filled with team-building, problem-solving, and puzzles.
Read MoreThe #QuarantineFightChallenge consists of one person punching the camera, which then makes a cut to the next person in the fight challenge chain getting ‘hit’ and fighting back with a counter-punch/kick, until a creative moment caps the whole thing off. Laika Studios came up with an inventive spin on the challenge that harnesses their strengths and promotes their activities.
Read MoreLa Presse has decided to host the magazine L'Itinéraire as long as the COVID crisis continues. Once a month starting in May, readers will be able to find the street newspaper in a tab of La Presse+ reserved for it. With this gesture, La Presse wishes to allow L'Itinéraire and its camelots to continue their activities, despite the precariousness of their situation due to a major decrease of sales during COVID.
Read MorePeace N Peas Farm will rent Mambo, the 8-year-old miniature donkey, and his friends to crash company conference calls by showing up as a surprise guest. According to the farm animal’s meeting registration website, they include three horses, Heiren, Zeus and Eddie, along with some chickens and ducks.
Read MoreStarting in June, library patrons will be able to place orders for Curbside Pickup by calling or emailing their local branch, or by filling out a form on the library website. A maximum of 10 titles can be requested at once, and a maximum of 10 items can be checked out at one time.
Read MoreLondon Business School’s Real Innovation Awards is seeking to celebrate exciting business innovations forged during COVID in their ‘Innovation in Adversity Award’. Businesses can enter their application until May 29th.
Read MoreThe Flame Jazz home delivery car can be ordered in the Turku area for people's own yard between 3 pm and 9 pm. The band will play about 15 minutes for one performance and subscribers can listen to music in the yard or from a window at a suitable safe distance. The initiative aims at supporting artists impacted by COVID.
Read MoreThe Sound Of Colleagues is a substitute to the sound of colleagues in a workplace to anyone working from home, missing it. Just unmute the website and start working with typical workplace background noise.
Read MoreThe exhibition, called ‘BEDSIT’, will showcase pieces made at home during the lockdown period by students who have applied to study, or are currently studying, at the Canterbury School of Visual Arts (CSVA), and aims at showing the current mood, focusing on the themes of ‘isolation’, ‘working from home’ and ‘lockdown’.
Read MoreChautauqua Park, that has always been a landmark for concerts, TEDx events or craft fairs, launches The Creative Community Project, an online art auction, featuring more than 70 pieces donated by local and international artists. All the proceeds will go to the park’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, COVID-19 Response Fund Boulder County and Boulder artists.
Read MoreiWant released ‘Love Lockdown’, a fist of its kind film that has been shot by the actors themselves from their own homes. This was done in virtual coordination with their team of directors. Therefore, these actors had to also be responsible for their own production design, costumes, hair and makeup.
Read MoreMount Laurel native and Hollywood veteran Josh Sugarman partners with restaurateur Stephen Starr to launch an immersive pop-up experience. Philadelphia residents can order a 'Vampire.Pizza' meal for two or four that will be delivered by a Pizza Vamp (who will practice proper social distancing), along with a black box containing an interactive, immersive experience.
Read MoreIkea has designed a set of manuals to fight against lockdown boredom, to teach people at home how to build fortresses, caves and wigwams out of furniture and household items.
Read MoreIn this system, the disinfectant is stored on the ground, and pumped through a hose to the hovering drone, which then spreads it throughout the theater. Meanwhile, another drone drifts underneath it to make sure that the hose doesn't get tangled in any of the seats.
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