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Dear friends and colleagues,
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary newsletters. Before reading anything else, please jump to the bottom of the page and consider making a donation to the emergency appeals listed there.
It should come as no surprise that several Knowledge Quarter organisations are occupied in the fight against the coronavirus, whether that is through solving the puzzle of its protein structure, making data freely available to researches, or providing essential support to local businesses.
As valuable as this information is to the experts among us, for the laity who have found themselves at the mercy of a lockdown, perhaps all of a sudden engulfed by indefatigable children, it may offer cold comfort. The purpose of this newsletter is to bring sweetness and light into your homes, which for many are now offices, schools and prisons. Thankfully, this is made easier by the glorious array of online content available in the Knowledge Quarter.
In the socially distant world in which we we find ourselves, I hope you'll join me in appreciating our museums, galleries and libraries for the lengths they have gone to digitise their collections, so that we can feel connected even when we cannot pass through their doors.
In one form or another, the show goes on. As it does for our private views, which you'll be pleased to hear, will be continuing online. We hope you'll sign up for the first of our planned series of curator talks, to enjoy live in the comfort of your home (office/school/prison), beginning with an intimate look at the House of Illustration's Tom of Finland exhibition.
We look forward to waving an emoji at many of you soon. In the meantime, we wish you good health.
With best wishes,
Knowledge Quarter Team
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News around the KQ
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Visit our KQ COVID-19 page for a selection of the latest developments and resources relating to COVID-19 from Knowledge Quarter partners, including information on local business support and the latest scientific and humanities research in the area. We will try to update it weekly.
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What's On lockdown
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Cultural venues across the Knowledge Quarter have temporarily shut their doors to help contain the spread of the coronavirus.
However, there are myriad ways for you to enjoy their collections online and stay connected with national and local treasures. Visit our Virtual What's On site for a selection of the digital resources, streamed performances and webinars that are still happening in the Knowledge Quarter.
Find out what's on.
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Virtual exhibitions
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British Library – Discovering Children's Books
Online resources
A wonderful resource for children and budding children's authors. There are interviews with beloved illustrators and writers, as well as creative activities to keep the whole house occupied.
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British Museum – Google Arts & Culture
Digital collections and exhibitions
Take a trip through history by browsing the British Museum's collections and numerous online exhibitions, thanks to the Museum's partnership with fellow KQ partner Google.
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Foundling Museum – Gerald Coke Handel Collection
Digitised collections
Idle hands can access microfilms of 600 manuscripts and sheet music from the Foundling Museum's Handel Collection. If you play an instrument, you really have no excuse but to become a baroque virtuoso with all this time at home.
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Institute of Physics – The Moon Adventure
Online resources
For those who want to combine home-schooling the kids with blasting them to the moon, peruse the illustrated educational articles brought together by the Institute of Physics. Answering those pesky questions you don't know the answers to, such as 'what's it like to be an astronaut?' and 'Where did the Moon come from?'
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Jewish Museum London – Jewish Britain: a History in 50 Objects
Online resources
One of north london's best kept secrets is the Jewish Museum's glorious permanent collection. You can view some of these artefacts from the collection online through an exhibition that tells the story of Jewish life in Britain, archived thematically from childhood, to military service, political and religious life.
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Senate House Library – Childhood in Dickensian London
Online exhibition
The online exhibition explores Victorian London from the 1830s until the turn of the 20th century, focusing on Dickens’s role in creating a better childhood for us all and marking the 150th anniversary of his death. Featuring the exhibits, curator blogs and video content with Lucinda Dickens-Hawksley, Dickens’s great-great-great granddaughter.
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Wiener Holocaust Library – The Holocaust Explained
Online resources
The Wiener Holocaust Library has recently relaunched The Holocaust Explained, an online educational resource that introduces learners to the essential facts of the Holocaust, its causes and its consequences. Detailed timelines, annotated archival material and survivor testimonies, make this one the most best online educational resources in the Knowledge Quarter.
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Online performances, events and an April Fools'
Baroque Spoons
OK, it's April 3rd now. But everyone needs a spoonful of this April Fools' medicine from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Bravo.
Subscribe to the Youtube channel – Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Free daily meditations for freelancers
Every morning at 9 am, motivational speaker Anis Qizilbash will stream a live meditational session, aimed at improving the mental wellbeing of freelancers.
Daily, until Saturday 11 April 9:00 – British Library Business & IP Centre
Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage
Sadler’s Wells presents a programme of full-length dance performances, premieres and workshops online to keep you entertained and connected through dance.
From Friday 27 March 19:00 – Sadler’s Wells
Theatre streaming: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True
New Diorama Theatre presents the gripping dramatisation of a 1612 rape trial brought by the gifted painter Artemisia Gentileschi that shocked Renaissance Rome. A film version was specially staged for TV and originally shown on BBC4, and is now available to stream online.
Available from 31 March-Thursday 30 April – New Diorama Theatre
Poetry Live: Fail Better
Join some of Britain’s leading poets live online every Tuesday evening, as they present their work and discuss the idea of failure as a catalyst for change. The six-week series of digital events will be broadcast on YouTube every Tuesday at 7pm.
From Tuesday 31 March 19:00 – Poet in the City
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Jobs and Opportunities in the KQ
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