Creative Social Distancing

We’ll update this page with virtual tours, children’s activities, and more, as we continue to develop content to provide inspiration, calm, comfort, and yes, even some fun during this unprecedented time.

BMCM+AC been working hard to digitize as much of this exhibition as possible so that you can enjoy from the safety of your homes. They even threw in some extras from our collections that you wouldn't have access to otherwise!⁠

Asheville Community Theatre is posting a daily challenge and asking viewers to post a video of themselves completing the challenge. Tag your video with #ACTHappyHour and they'll host a Watch Party from 5:00-6:00 with a line-up of videos from the afternoon!

In lieu of recent events and with slams and performances postponed for the foreseeable future Humans and Poetry is teaming up with Ashvegas.com to bring you an online poetry slam. The theme is community, and we want to challenge poets to write something new, rather than recycling an older poem. Let's all feel this moment and use our gifts to express how to move forward.

While we're all stuck at home, Blake Anthony Ellege and Iamavl are teaming up to bring the best of Asheville's music scene to you! They've got a whole month of amazing shows booked! This is a tremendous service to area musicians who have suddenly lost our income due to the rash of cancelled shows. So please consider making a donation! (link coming soon) Roll back your carpets and dance along!

Work for musicians has collapsed. People are isolated. Streamside Music, Dream Guitars, Fretboard Journal, Deb Cornish Audio, and Asheville Music School have partnered to bring online concerts to connect us all and support live music through the crisis.

WHAT IS SOFA CINEMA??SOFA CINEMA gives our loyal customers the opportunity to continue watching the best in arthouse films even while our theater doors are closed. You’ll not only have the ability to watch new releases from the comfort of your living room, you’ll also be supporting Grail Moviehouse…

Celebrating the diversity of music in Western North Carolina, The Asheville Symphony Sessions features songs that combine the unique styles of locally based musicians, with the Asheville Symphony. The album was produced by Michael Selverne of Welcome to Mars, at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Recording Studios.

Browse this creative collection of past talks from CreativeMornings AVL.

Looking to localize your reading list? Check out this roundup of 25 of our favorite historic + contemporary local authors writing in and about Asheville.

The Mural Trail interactive mural maps of Virginia and N.Carloina mural communities are for the art enthusiasts self guided tour of historic public mural art through out the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains.

The Asheville Urban Trail is a walking tour of the city’s history and Asheville’s

In the true spirit of Asheville, the people in our community have developed creative and inspiring ways to offer relaxation, support and services at this unprecedented time. Those efforts include everything from free online yoga/meditation videos to help you find your zen to a web site offering a wa…

Take a virtual tour of the some of the world’s greatest museums and heritage sites.

Imagine you’re in the middle of the Guggenheim Museum, and you’re invited by an educator to sit on the floor in a circle with other visitors.

Our virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop of mobile device.

I’m exploring the Museum of the World. See how our history is connected.

Check our list (updated daily) to access to endless open content, educational resources for e-learning, and virtual retreats to art, culture, and history.

#MuseumMomentofZen is the social hashtag we didn’t know we needed right now.

We're partnering with some incredible Broadway performers to launch a series of Living Room Concerts - performances direct to you from the living rooms of Broadway performers!

In an effort to continue providing opera to its audience members, the Met Opera will host “Nightly Met Opera Streams” on its official website to audiences worldwide.

Live from Here, the public radio show hosted by Chris Thile, has launched #LiveFromHome, a digital space for people to continue to make and experience art while social distancing due to COVID-19 keeps us apart physically.

A site the celebrates the work of artists who have had shows or presentations cancelled due to the need for social distancing caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19)

A look at the evolution of Chicago, Sweeney Todd, My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! and eight more.

NEW YORK — For actress Sharlene Cruz and the rest of the team birthing “Sanctuary City,” it was as if the whole run of the play occurred in the space of an hour and 45 minutes.

With venues & bars shut down from coast-to-coast, here’s your guide to the best live-streamed music content right now.

As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts is closed, but as it notes on its hompeage, it’s “digitally open.”

Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together. If you post your art to social media, be sure to hashtag it with #MoLunchDoodles!

Practicing social distancing during coronavirus doesn’t mean you have to give up TV watch parties with your friends thanks to Netflix Party. USA TODAY

Most are designed for kids—but all welcome the young at heart.

The South Bank's Globe Theatre has closed its doors for now, but it also has an online catalogue of filmed performances to feast on.

From Fred Astaire in Top Hot to Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain, from West Side Story to The Sound of Music to Fiddler on the Roof and more, here’s how to rent or buy dozens of movie musicals without leaving your home.