Research Guides (LibGuides): Keep Calm and Study On: Staying Busy

Antoni Porowski (Queer Eye) Cooking Lessons
Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye star and cookbook author, is offering a mini-series of cooking lessons called "Quar Eye: Cooking Lessons in Quarantine."
Chef Michael Symon
Iron Chef Michael Symon has begun hosting live cooking demos on Food NEtwork's page called #TheSymonDinners.
Disney Park Favorites
Disney is publishing recipes for many of its park favorites on their blog online.
Giada de Laurentiis, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Valerie Bertinelli
Giada De Laurentiis, Alex Guarnaschelli, and Valerie Bertinelli hosted a progressive dinner party on Instagram, where they each filmed a demo cooking a different dish.
Maddy Goldberg
Maddy Goldberg, a chef at Aloette, is now posting step-by-step instructions for various meals on her Instagram stories.
New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute (NOCHI)
NOCHI has started offering a virtual series of cooking classes called "Cooking in Quarantine." This class is offered on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 PM CT, and a chef will be available through Zoom to help you cook. The pricing is based on a pay-what-you-can donation system.
Rachel Ray
Renowned Food Network Chef Rachel Ray has shared demos for a variety of dishes that viewers may want to cook at home.
Sam Medeiros
La Palma sous chef Sam Medeiros has been posting tutorials to a variety of exotic and decadent dishes on her daily Instagram stories.

Art Books Online for Free
The Guggenheim Museum in New York has released more than 200 books about modern art online for free. These books can be downloaded into PDF or ePUB formats from the Internet Archive.
Art Musuem Tours
Google Arts & Culture has offered free tours of renowned museums all over the country, some of which include: the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Uffizi Galley in Florence, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Butler Virtual Campus Kit
Butler Blue and his entire team want to keep students, faculty, and the entire Bulldog community engaged during this time. The Virtual Campus Kit offers a variety of fun Bulldog activities, including Coloring Pages and Activity Sheets, a drawing tutorial, and Butler related Zoom/Desktop Backgrounds and Phone Wallpapers.
Exquisite Corps (42 Choreographers, 1 Dance)
This dance-film features 42 American contemporary choreographers showing how all of us are linked together.
Fender Guitar Lessons
Fender Guitar Company is offering three months of free guitar, bass, and ukelele lessons to the first 100,000 new subscribers to their Fender Play Service.
La Louvre
The Louvre is offering online tours of the museum's exhibition rooms, galleries, and architecture.
The Metropolitan Opera
During the COVID-19 outbreak, a different encore presentation from the company's "Live in HD" series will be made available for free streaming for 24 hours after its initial stream. This schedule includes complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions.
Musuem of Modern Art
Visit the Sophie Taeuber-Arp exhibit at the Musuem of Modern Art.
The National Gallery
The United Kingdom's National Gallery is offering free virtual tours of some of its current exhibitions including "Titan: Love, Desire, Death," "Sin," and "Nicolaes Maes: Dutch Master of the Golden Age." New exhibits will continue to open monthly.
Nikon Photography Classes
Nikon has made its entire 10-class curriculum available at the Nikon School free to stream through April 30th.

There are a variety of fun, remote activities that are now available for people to connect with their friends and family. Some of these options may include:

Using Zoom or Google Hangouts for any of the following activities:
- Virtual Coffee Breaks
- Virtual Happy Hour
- Virtual Petting Zoo
- Virtual Dinner Parties/Lunch Breaks
Texting and calling relatives.
Snail mail!
Shift your group workouts to online. Some easy workout include:
- Core Power Yoga
- Echelon and Peloton (Both are apps free for the next 90 days, live classes yoga, dance, core, Pilates)
- Barre3 (Classes are free for 15 days, combination of ballet and pilates)
- Planet Fitness (Free daily class at 7pm ET on Facebook Live)
Watch movies together through one of the following services:
- Netflix Party
- Discord
Play board or card games together
- Jackbox Games
- AirConsole (Free during COVID)
- Pogo Games (Mahjong, Word Games, Bingo)

Visit the following locations virtually without having to leave your couch!

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