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🎁 Volunteer & Donate:

👋 Opportunities to volunteer:

Local:
Share encouraging notes .
Other ways to foster .
Global:
Try to solve for science with .

💸 Ways to donate:

Financially:
More ways to help:
Contribute camping gear to
Drop off bottled water to
Global considerations:

🎉 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:

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🌮 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 .
Delivery apps: , , ,
(coming soon)

📚 Buy books, music, movies, and more:

📖 Support local bookstores:
(pick-up window & shipping)
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(pick-up & delivery)
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(pick-up & delivery)
(pick-up window)
(shipping)
🎻 Buy albums from local musicians:
On or (and )
🍿 Order movies and more:
Order books, records, and movies from .
Keep reels rolling.

🌱 Grow your own plants and veggies:

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(pick-up)
(pick-up & shipping)
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 .
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(by appointment, pick-up)

🎨 Peruse local art virtually:

Such as at , , or .
Check out issue 1 of

🎪 Keep an eye out for virtual markets & festivals:

Such as and .
Apply to or attend

🐾 Want company? Adopt or foster a pet:

Or sponsor a wild animal remotely .

📡 Tune In To Local Broadcasts:

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🖼 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, .

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💡 Have an event, activity, or host to add? .


🖇 Connect, Create, Play, & Learn:

❓ Not sure where to start? Try these .

🛠 Conferencing & Livestreaming:

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(audio conferencing)
(low data usage)
For performers:

🖌 Visual Art & Crafts:

Got crayons? Print out a or .
Submit your COVID-19 art to or .
Join a local virtual or .
or read zines to join .
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.
Start a community or .
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 .
Embark on a to inspire .
Design and build 3D games for free with (
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Make collaborative live-coded music with .
Play board games together via
, , or (
).
with your friends.
Become for two weeks.

🌳 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:

Stuck inside? You can still .
Learn how to .
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 .

📚 Reading and language:
Take learning offline with & .
(picture books)
(read-along, learning for kids)
(playful language learning for kids)

🏘 Local engagement:
Engage with the from home.
And other institutions .
Enroll your kids in local virtual painting classes at .
Or an e-reading book club with .
Join or organize .

🌱 Nature awareness:
Teach kids about the birds in their backyard with .
Or learn about nature and make art with .
Explore 's digital programs, activities, and resources.

💻 Computers & STEM:
Create stories, animation, & games together with .
Teach kids computing offline with .
Try these from NASA.
Have big questions? Why not ?

And

🛋 But Be Mindful of Your Wellness:

🏋 Physically:

Try from home.
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 .
Be wary of (
) and .
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.

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