Stay Safe, Remain Engaged
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🎁
Volunteer & Donate:
👋
Opportunities to volunteer:
Share encouraging notes
.
Try to solve
for science with
.
💸 Ways to donate:
Contribute camping gear to
Drop off bottled water to
🎉 Cheer on our health-care workers:
every night at 7pm from your window, balcony, or porch.
to illuminate dark days ahead.
🌇 Support Local Orgs, Shops, & Makers:
🌮 Order food & drinks online:
Try
drive-thru or delivery for yourself or a nurse.
Order coffee from
for a good cause.
Buy
burgers and contribute to local relief efforts.
Get on-demand delivery with
.
📚 Buy books, music, movies, and more:
📖
Support local bookstores:
(pick-up window & shipping)
🎻
Buy albums from local musicians:
Order books, records, and movies from
.
🌱 Grow your own plants and veggies:
Get local seedlings and gardening help with
.
Sponsor a food garden or start one of your own with
.
Need a plot for your seedlings? Consider the
.
Take a virtual gardening workshop with
.
Or get 1-on-1 advice from
.
And sharpen up your gardening skills with
.
Or strengthen community stewardship and food security by donating to
,
,
, or
.
🎲 Order games to play at/from home:
From
,
,
and
(pick-up or delivery)
[Home alone? Play remotely with
or
.]
👗 Shop for clothing:
Thrift for a good cause at
.
(by appointment, pick-up)
🎨 Peruse local art virtually:
🎪 Keep an eye out for virtual markets & festivals:
🐾 Want company? Adopt or foster a pet:
Or sponsor a
wild
animal remotely
.
📡
Tune In To Local Broadcasts:
🖼 Arts & Culture:
🛰 For arts & culture livestreams across BC,
.
🏛 Civics:
🌱 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:
🍲 Food & Drink:
🏋 Health & Wellness:
🎻 Music & Performance:
🛐 Religion & Spirituality:
🛰 For arts & culture livestreams across BC,
.
💡 Have an event, activity, or host to add?
.
🖇
Connect, Create, Play, & Learn:
❓ Not sure where to start? Try these
.
🛠 Conferencing & Livestreaming:
🖌 Visual Art & Crafts:
Got crayons? Print out a
or
.
Submit your COVID-19 art to
or
.
Join a local virtual
or
.
Draw together virtually with
or
.
And brush up on your sketching skills with
.
Make your window a canvas to join the
project.
Send notes to neighbours
or
.
Or, take an
across Canada.
✏️
Writing & Brainstorming:
Brainstorm together visually with
or
.
Organize your personal thoughts offline with
.
Write together in real-time with
or
.
Send a
-in-a-Bottle to someone locally or abroad.
Keep a private, offline digital diary with
.
Share ideas remotely as a team using
,
or
.
Or for a full package of collaboration tools, try
.
🎹 Music, Performance, & Video:
Play live music together with
or
.
Send musical notes/drawings with
or
.
Use
or
to share stories of your pandemic experiences.
has numerous free movie and music streaming services.
Watch online videos & listen to music together with
,
,
or
.
👾 Creative Coding & Games:
Code creative projects and games together with
.
Try to solve
for science with
.
Make the web fun again by creating a
.
Or build and explore
with
.
Design and build 3D games for free with
(
).
Make collaborative live-coded music with
.
Play board games together via
,
, or
(
).
🌳 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:
Stuck inside? You can still
.
And download
to help with identification.
Have a lonely plant? Find a companion for it with
.
Design your own dream garden virtually with
.
Comfortable with coding? Explore
.
You may also find
interesting.
🍳 Cooking:
Inexperienced or intimidated by cooking? Learn
.
Not sure what to make with an ingredient? Try
.
For more recipe ideas, take a look at this
(pdf).
Or, learn how to truly make food from scratch using
.
🎓 Digital Learning:
Explore GVPL's incredible
.
Engage with the
from home.
Browse a huge list of remote learning solutions
.
🎈 For Kids & Parents:
👣 Movement and offline learning:
Try these home activity ideas
.
Take learning offline with
&
.
(read-along, learning for kids)
(playful language learning for kids)
Engage with the
from home.
Enroll your kids in local virtual painting classes at
.
Or an e-reading book club with
.
Teach kids about the birds in their backyard with
.
Or learn about nature and make art with
.
Explore
's digital programs, activities, and resources.
Create stories, animation, & games together with
.
Teach kids computing offline with
.
Have big questions? Why not
?
🛋
But Be Mindful of Your Wellness:
🏋 Physically:
And
for tired computer bodies
.
Sign up for local virtual
.
Follow
and
for other home workouts.
Follow
,
,
and
for tips & videos.
💭 Mentally & Emotionally:
Overwhelmed by the news? Keep it
,
, or
.
Or
to read about other things.
Follow the web on your own terms with
or
.
Break unhealthy online cycles
with
.
Learn to strike a balance between
(pdf).
Or print
for offline reference.
Struggling to keep track of time?
may help. (
)
Discuss mortality by hosting or attending a virtual
.
🔌
And
When You Need To.
