I’m often overwhelmed in the store trying to remember which ones were the soft nice ones and which ones were the gross ones. Amanda Jane Robinson has curated a beautiful Lockdown Film Festival for The Pantograph Punch, so I’m just letting you know there’s some really excellent shorts in the New Zealand section of Short of the Week that can be viewed for free. Safe to say there’s so many comedians, filmmakers and poets taking their work to Insta already. There’s now a growing amount of cool free art stuff online, from national theatre institutions streaming live recordings to authors doing readings on Instagram. Keep a look out an upcoming self-isolation reading list from Verb Festival’s Claire Mabey and some fun plans we’ve got for our own Pantograph Punch Instagram account as well. They’ll live on his Instagram Stories for 24 hours then be posted to his website. The world's coolest theatre, the Schaubühne in Berlin, is streaming a play every night (our morning) that will then be up for 24 hours. It was laying on the carpet this morning when I got up, and I saw that it expired today,'' Edward explained, looking up from the dowel game.
The super popular Scottish theatre show for kids (around 6 and under) which has travelled all around the world, The Polar Bears Go Up, is now free to watch online! Heart eyes: The Wooster Group's Hamlet is now free to view online. fringe purse Knitting Pattern Feeling a little retro today? I suppose we'll never know, but I will admit that I cringed noticeably upon seeing the scarf tied around Sarah Jane's head. The BBC have announced Culture in Quarantine, which will include filmed recordings of productions such as Emma Rice’s Wise Children. A transatlantic conversation between Financial Times editors Lilah Raptopoulos in New York and Griselda Murray Brown in London, Culture Call captures and investigates cultural trends of today. If you’re into opera and ballet, both the Royal Opera House in London and The Met in New York are streaming select productions for free. Still Processing is a podcast from Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham, two culture writers at the New York Times, which traverses film, comedy, music and more. He touches on the vital issue of story sovereignty for Indigenous filmmakers and incisively names the tensions within a capitalist-colonial film culture. The recent ep, Culture in the time of coronavirus is good listening.
Modern Love - really good for right now. Puffy, shiny and quilted aren't really a good mix. If you are planning on dressing like Judy Jetson for Halloween, this may be the right bag. Otherwise, you may want to pass. Thank God we also have a comfy bed in which you can pass out. Brush On Block contains naturally occurring minerals Titanium Oxide and Zinc Oxide, which work together to block out harmful rays. Wakako Zake - a Japanese anime of a 26-year-old woman who goes out and eats alone. Despite being a person who composts, and recycles, and tries to minimize waste, I have to admit that I had mixed feelings about the ban at first. And, of course, there were those who simply added another few lines to the story of retribution. The Catch and Kill podcast - Ronan Farrow unpacks breaking the Weinstein story. Speaking of Funny As: The Story of NZ Comedy, this hasn’t been publicised much, but the ENTIRE COLLECTION of interviews we did with New Zealand comedians for the show are now sitting in their almost-uncut state on the site. This collection is brought to you by the Pantograph Punch team and a select Snort comedy roundtable, and like our Pānui page, we’ll probably keep adding any notable extra links to it.
This list contains affiliate links. This collection of online material on The Guardian is excellent, and The Stage's list of livestreaming and online theatre is updated daily and is outside the paywall. The collection spans everything from geology to stagecoaches; one exhibit focuses on Wally Byram, Baker City native and inventor of the Airstream trailer. So we thought we'd collect up all the free online ephemera we’re most interested in - podcasts, online theatre recordings, Youtube wormholes - and put them in one place. It’s available on Youtube and definitely deserves more views. This is pretty cool - National Theatre have announced they'll be broadcasting shows online for free on Thursdays and they'll be up on Youtube for a week. HEAPS of UK independent companies and artists, like YESYESNONO for example, have started to put their work up online for free. Circuit is a treasure trove of film and video art from Aotearoa, including the above excerpt from If I die, please delete dy Soundcloud by Natasha Matila-Smith (Huni Mancini has written more about Matila-Smith's work for The Pantograph Punch here). NZ on Screen is an absolute treasure trove and we are so lucky to have it.