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🎁
Volunteer & Donate:
👋
Opportunities to volunteer:
Local:
Food Delivery and Packaging Volunteer
Shelbourne Community Kitchen Delivery
Volunteer Victoria Recommendations
Purposely.ca (Offer & Request Support)
Coming Together App (Offer & Request Support)
Oak Bay Emergency Response Team
Oaklands Senior Phone Call Sign Up
Oaklands Community Support Sign-Up
Share encouraging notes
with seniors in need
.
YYJLocalsForLocals Business Assistance
Become a
Volunteer Crisis Responder
Build a
DIY Handwashing Station
Neighbours Helping Neighbours
Other ways to foster
neighbourhood resilience
.
Global:
Creative?
Design COVID-19 visuals for the UN
Try to solve
coronavirus puzzles
for science with
FoldIt
.
COVID Accelerator
Crowdfight COVID-19
Helpful Engineering
MakersAgainstCorona
HospitalHero
HOT COVID-19 Mapping
And many more
💸 Ways to donate:
Financially:
Rapid Relief Fund
Indigenous Harm Reduction
Boxes of Hope
COVID-19 Urgent Food Support Fund
The Mustard Seed
Our Place
Pacific Peoples' Partnership
Kids Help Phone
Unison Canadian Music Fund
And many more
More ways to help:
Contribute camping gear to
Our Place
📞
Drop off bottled water to
GVCEH
📞
Community Connects: Asks / Offers
Share the goods.
Register to Donate Blood
Global considerations:
The best places to donate for COVID-19
🎉 Cheer on our health-care workers:
Make noise
every night at 7pm from your window, balcony, or porch.
String up Christmas lights
to illuminate dark days ahead.
🌇 Support Local Orgs, Shops, & Makers:
✔️
Things That Are Open in Victoria ↗
🚚
What's open? Who is delivering? Map ↗
🌮 Order food & drinks online:
Try
V-Unit's
drive-thru or delivery for yourself or a nurse.
Order coffee from
The Mustard Seed
for a good cause.
Buy
Big Wheel
burgers and contribute to local relief efforts.
Get on-demand delivery with
Magic
.
Delivery apps:
Tutti
,
DoorDash
,
SkipTheDishes
,
Uber Eats
Tasting Victoria Operating Restaurants List
EAT Magazine's Takeout/Delivery List
The Capital: Businesses That Are Delivering
The Capital: What's Still Open?
Central Saanich Delivery Options
Local Urban Bites
BC Farmers' Market Online
(coming soon)
Moss Street Market Vendor Delivery Info
Esquimalt Farmer's Market Pick-Up/Delivery Info
Vancouver/Victoria Beer Delivery List
📚 Buy books, music, movies, and more:
📖
Support local bookstores:
Russell Books
(pick-up window & shipping)
Bolen Books
(pick-up & shipping)
Munros' Books
(pick up & shipping)
Bastion Books
(pick-up & delivery)
Camas Books
(delivery)
Ivy's Bookshop
(pick-up & delivery)
UVic Bookstore
(pick-up window)
Tanner's Books
(shipping)
🎻
Buy albums from local musicians:
On
Bandcamp
or
CD Baby
(and
reconsider
Spotify
)
Feed your
Victoria Spotify playlist
into
Merch Table
.
🍿
Order movies and more:
Order books, records, and movies from
Cavity
.
Keep
local independent cinema
reels rolling.
🌱 Grow your own plants and veggies:
West Coast Seeds
(shipping)
Saanich Organics
(shipping)
Mason Street Farms
(shipping)
Russell Nursery
(pick-up)
GardenWorks To Go
(pick-up & shipping)
Get local seedlings and gardening help with
Growing Together
.
Sponsor a food garden or start one of your own with
My FED Farm
.
Need a plot for your seedlings? Consider the
Grow Light Stand
.
Take a virtual gardening workshop with
The CEC
.
Or get 1-on-1 advice from
master gardeners at MGABC
.
And sharpen up your gardening skills with
Linda
.
Or strengthen community stewardship and food security by donating to
LifeCycles
,
Shelbourne Community Kitchen
,
Fernwood NRG
, or
HCP
.
🎲 Order games to play at/from home:
From
Interactivity
,
Oscar & Libby's
,
and
Gauntlet
(pick-up or delivery)
[Home alone? Play remotely with
BGA
or
Yucata
.]
👗 Shop for clothing:
Thrift for a good cause at
WIN Online
.
Adorn Clothing Boutique
(shipping)
Spank Clothing
(shipping)
Folk Apparel
(shipping)
Frances Grey
(shipping)
Four Horsemen
(shipping)
Outlooks
(by appointment, pick-up)
🎨 Peruse local art virtually:
Such as at
Madrona
,
Bateman
, or
Fortune Gallery
.
Portraits of Women Leaders in Our Community
Check out issue 1 of
Victoria Arts Council's UNTIL...
Attend
this local online art exhibition about mortality
🎪 Keep an eye out for virtual markets & festivals:
Such as
this one
and
UNO Fest Online
.
BC Farmers' Market Online
Apply to or attend
The Social Distancing Festival
🐾 Want company? Adopt or foster a pet:
BCSPCA
Victoria Humane Society
.
Broken Promises Rescue
Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders
RainCoast Dog Rescue
Or sponsor a
wild
animal remotely
through Wild ARC
.
📡
Tune In To Local Broadcasts:
📆
Remote Events & Activities Calendar ↗
UNO Fest
Performances by comedy, theatre, dance and spoken word companies from around the world.
intrepidtheatre.com
🖼 Arts & Culture:
Royal BC Museum Virtual Engagement
Maritime Museum of BC
The Craic with KWENCH
🛰 For arts & culture livestreams across BC,
click here
.
🏛 Civics:
City of Victoria
🌱 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:
Rocky Point Bird Observatory
(
+
Bird Babble
)
Compost Education Centre
Cowichan Bring Back The Bluebirds Project
🍲 Food & Drink:
The Craic with KWENCH
🏋 Health & Wellness:
Victoria Disability Resource Centre
Oaklands Online Programs
The Craic with KWENCH
The Existence Project Podcast
🎻 Music & Performance:
CFUV Remote Production
Intrepid Theatre
UVIC School of Music
Pacific Opera Online
(+
Listening Party
)
The Craic with KWENCH
🛐 Religion & Spirituality:
Congregation Emanu-El
First Met United Church
St. Luke's
🛰 For arts & culture livestreams across BC,
click here
.
🎙
Province-Wide Broadcasts ↗
💡 Have an event, activity, or host to add?
Email me here
.
🖇
Connect, Create, Play, & Learn:
❓ Not sure where to start? Try these
bored.solutions
.
🛠 Conferencing & Livestreaming:
Zoom
(
Tutorials
,
Abuse Info
,
🔒
,
💭
)
Jitsi Meet
(
Guide
,
🔒
)
Whereby
BigBlueButton
Jami
Nextcloud Talk
Discord
Mumble
(audio conferencing)
Zangi
(low data usage)
For performers:
Floatplane
Side Door
Stageit
StreamYard
🖌 Visual Art & Crafts:
Got crayons? Print out a
this Tah'lum coloring book
or
these pages
.
Submit your COVID-19 art to
a digital exhibit
or
magazine
.
Join a local virtual
Art Club
or
Sketch Club
.
Make
or read zines to join
Quarantine Zine Club
.
Draw together virtually with
AWW App
or
Scribble
.
And brush up on your sketching skills with
Bateman
.
Make your window a canvas to join the
Stay Art Home
project.
Send notes to neighbours
as paper airplanes
or
origami
.
Or, take an
art field trip
across Canada.
✏️
Writing & Brainstorming:
Brainstorm together visually with
Kinopio
or
Coggle
.
Organize your personal thoughts offline with
TiddlyWiki
.
Write together in real-time with
Etherpad
or
Riseup
.
Send a
Letter
-in-a-Bottle to someone locally or abroad.
Keep a private, offline digital diary with
JournalBook
.
Share ideas remotely as a team using
Coda
,
Miro
or
Notion
.
Or for a full package of collaboration tools, try
CHATONS
.
🎹 Music, Performance, & Video:
Play live music together with
JamKazam
or
JamTaba
.
Take online
locally-based African drumming lessons
.
Send musical notes/drawings with
Typatone
or
turtle
.
Use
audio
or
video
to share stories of your pandemic experiences.
Start a
read aloud
community or
listen in on one
.
GVPL
has numerous free movie and music streaming services.
Watch online videos & listen to music together with
Metastream
,
&chill
,
or
watch2gether
.
👾 Creative Coding & Games:
Code creative projects and games together with
Glitch
.
Try to solve
coronavirus puzzles
for science with
FoldIt
.
Make the web fun again by creating a
Neocities site
.
Or build and explore
the p2p web
with
Beaker
.
Embark on a
Super Pixel Quest
to inspire
your own pixel art
.
Design and build 3D games for free with
Godot
(
🎓
).
Make collaborative live-coded music with
Fragment
.
Play board games together via
BGA
,
Happy Meeple
, or
Tabletopia
(
+
).
And take a look at
this list of print-and-play options
.
Start your own small social network
with your friends.
Become
Ambassador of the Internet
for two weeks.
Or, try
Top 10 Games You Can Play in Your Head, By Yourself
🌳 Ecology, Farming, & Gardening:
Stuck inside? You can still
explore nature
.
Learn how to
become an indoor birder
.
And download
a free bird ID app
to help with identification.
Have a lonely plant? Find a companion for it with
PlantBuddies
.
Design your own dream garden virtually with
Gardena
.
Comfortable with coding? Explore
this global plants API
.
You may also find
drag-and-drop farming
interesting.
.
🍳 Cooking:
Inexperienced or intimidated by cooking? Learn
the basics
.
Not sure what to make with an ingredient? Try
these pairings
.
For more recipe ideas, take a look at this
Open Source Cookbook
(pdf).
Or, learn how to truly make food from scratch using
Recursive Recipes
.
.
🎓 Digital Learning:
Explore GVPL's incredible
Digital Collections
.
Engage with the
Royal BC Museum
from home.
Browse a huge list of remote learning solutions
here
.
By the way,
how are you reading this page
?
🎈 For Kids & Parents:
👣 Movement and offline learning:
Try these home activity ideas
from the YMCA
.
Or
Physical Literacy Games for Ages 5 & Under
(pdf).
200 learning@home Offline Activities
(pdf)
📚 Reading and language:
Take learning offline with
Kolibri
&
Worldreader
.
Global Digital Library
(picture books)
Storyweaver
(read-along, learning for kids)
Akelius
(playful language learning for kids)
Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere
🏘 Local engagement:
Engage with the
Royal BC Museum
from home.
And other institutions
across BC
.
Enroll your kids in local virtual painting classes at
Paint Box
.
Or an e-reading book club with
Victoria Literacy Connection
.
Join or organize
a driving parade
.
🌱 Nature awareness:
Teach kids about the birds in their backyard with
Audubon
.
Or learn about nature and make art with
Bateman
.
Explore
Power To Be
's digital programs, activities, and resources.
💻
Computers & STEM:
Create stories, animation, & games together with
Scratch
.
Teach kids computing offline with
CS Unplugged
.
Try these
space-themed STEM activities
from NASA.
Have big questions? Why not
Skype a Scientist
?
And
much more ↗
🛋
But Be Mindful of Your Wellness:
🏋 Physically:
Consider
these WHO recommendations
.
Try
free daily YMCA workouts
from home.
And
this yoga set
for tired computer bodies
.
Or this
Quarantine Routine
and
these workouts
.
Sign up for local virtual
fitness & dance lessons
.
Follow
Annex
and
Forge
for other home workouts.
Follow
Bloom
,
Thrive
,
and
Fernwood Yoga
for tips & videos.
💭 Mentally & Emotionally:
Overwhelmed by the news? Keep it
brief
,
legible
, or
positive
.
Or
filter out coronavirus topics on Tildes
to read about other things.
Follow the web on your own terms with
Feedbro
or
Fraidycat
.
Break unhealthy online cycles
cold turkey
with
SelfControl
.
Be wary of
Dark Patterns
(
↗
)
and
infinite scroll
.
Learn to strike a balance between
productivity & health
(pdf).
Try
Mindshift
,
Smiling Mind
, or
these wellness apps
.
Or print
these resources
for offline reference.
Struggling to keep track of time?
This essay
may help. (
⏳
)
Discuss mortality by hosting or attending a virtual
Death Cafe
.
🔌
And
Disconnect
When You Need To.
Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.
Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (
Ctrl
P
) instead.