Community Arts Online

Luminate at Home

Luminate as launched a new online programme of creative activities called Luminate@Home.  

There are lots of older people at home or in care homes right now who are isolated because of the coronavirus outbreak.  Luminate hopes you will enjoy trying the activities in the films at this difficult time, and also afterwards when the outbreak is over. 

The activities are designed to be done at home or in a care home.  They are led by professional artists, and feature different artforms including crafts, poetry, music and dance.

Short films are uploaded every Tuesday and Friday at 2pm. You will find them on Luminate’s facebook page and on their YouTube or Vimeo  channels. Below is an example, visit their website for more activities.

Click here for more video activities

Art for All

North Edinburgh Arts offers local residents a place to relax, explore, learn, meet, share, volunteer and have fun in.

During the Coronavirus lockdown, they are providing some online activities. Here’s an example from their “Art for All” page.

Click here for more activities from North Edinburgh Arts

Fabric Painting from the Royal Academy

This activity is a take on ‘batik’, a technique that originated in Indonesia and traditionally uses wax to resist the colour when dying textiles. For some design inspiration, check out the batik patterned fabrics in the artwork of Yinka Shonibare RA.

Click here for step by step instructions and to view a “how to” video.

Computer Explorers

ComputerXplorers offers children specialist computing education in their own school and online. This may be in our after-school computing clubs, our creative computing theme days or our popular daily classes during the school day or our online sessions at home.

Click here to explore all the other activities on offer

iNews

The online paper iNews as published an article entitled “The 18 best free online arts activities for coronavirus lockdown, from Hepworth Wakefield to Tate and London Art Studies”.

Click here to find out more