Covid-19. This too will pass;

we can beat this challenge,

with hints, tips, and humour.

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Come on!!! We need more smiles.

Please send your favourites to seniors101@shaw.ca

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Dear Members and Friends – hopefully you are all staying safe and well during this health crisis. These are very stressful times as we all do our best to follow the Public Health orders and “flatten the curve”!. We did have some encouraging news yesterday from Dr. Bonnie Henry’s update and it seems as if some restrictions in BC may gradually be lifted starting mid-May. That is very heartening for us all and shows the efforts we are making are working.

Our member and former President, Barbara Strachan, has sent along a link from the Stratford Festival to provide some wonderful entertainment. Thank you Barb.

https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WatchandExplore/OnDemand

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Liturgy of the Word: Palm Sunday / Sunday of the Passion, April 5, 2020 from Anglican Diocese of BC on Vimeo.

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FOR SALE.

One box of toilet rolls $225,000, mortgage in place ;
comes with a 1 bedroom apartment.

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You may find some of these other ideas of things to do while social distancing interesting:

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s ‘digital concert hall’ with over 600 concerts plus lots more at https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/titelgeschichten/20192020/digital-concert-hall/

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Download them or read them online https://www.gutenberg.org

Florence’s famous Uffizi Gallery has many of its treasures online https://www.uffizi.it/gli-uffizi

The Smithsonian Institution National museum of Natural History offers virtual tours of current, permanent and past exhibits https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour

The Metropolitan Opera is providing a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams/

The Museum of Modern Art enables access to its collection at https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/portrait-of-joseph-roulin-vincent-van-gogh/dgHM8pgTjWF6Cg?hl=en

And you can also access collections from the John Paul Getty Museum here https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en

Lots of free NPR podcasts at https://www.npr.org/podcasts/

The National Film Board of Canada has hundreds of free films here https://www.nfb.ca

A personal favourite, the Knowledge Network asks you to register but then shares so many excellent documentaries, nature films, etc. at https://www.knowledge.ca

Watch members of the Rotterdam symphony orchestra play the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, each from their own homes to maintain social distance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eXT60rbBVk&feature=emb_title

And a delightful bird chorus of Mozart’s Magic Flute Papageno/Papagena Duet‘ http://volkerpannes.de/portfolio/bird-song-opera/

Take care and keep well!
On behalf of your Canadian Club of Victoria Executive ,
Susan