Local virtual events & classes

Cummer Museum Offers Virtual Summer Camp
Do you know a child who loves to paint, draw, and sculpt? Help them cultivate their artistic talents this summer through the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens's Virtual Summer Camp. Young artists will observe and explore artwork in the galleries as staff engage them in live, online sessions throughout the Museum, experiment with different art media and techniques, as well as create and display their art in a virtual showcase held every week. Scholarships are available.

Theatre Jacksonville Summer Camp for kids
A unique summer experience called Creative Connectivity for Kids that allows students to explore various aspects of theatre and entertainment through virtual learning.

Downtown Jacksonville's June's Art Walk has gone digital!
Bold City Pride Art Scroll Every Wednesday in June. Downtown Vision, Downtown Jacksonville’s Business Improvement District is curating an interactive “Art Scroll” experience for June in lieu of the traditional First Wednesday Art Walk to bring live performances, artist interviews, art contests, art giveaways and more to everyone at home. Check out the drawing contest for a chance to win a family membership to one of Jacksonville's museums!

Players by the Sea
Students are raving about our virtual classes! This time we are offering 4 weeks of instruction with special guest instructors such as Grammy Award winning artist, Ulysses Owens Jr., and Paul Oakley Stovall, who currently stars as George Washington in the touring company of Hamilton, and others TBD! Help keep our theater going and your kids inspired by signing up today!

The Garden Club of Jacksonville Virtual Workshops
The Garden Club received a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to provide a series of virtual programs on topics such as growing vegetables, providing natural pest control, caring for houseplants, attracting pollinators and birds, and many more. Beginning May 7, 2020

The Cummer Museum
The Cummer Museum is offering engaging virtual, interactive classes, projects, tours and more. 

MOCA JAX SmART Online
https://mocajacksonville.unf.edu/MOCA-JAX-smART/MOCA-JAX-smART/
A free virtual museum experience designed to bring MOCA Jacksonville to you at home.

The Ritz Chamber Players
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt07kuHhJ8ScfbjKT0z1SSw
YouTube “Channel” featuring some of their most memorable performances.

The Jacksonville Historical Society
Suggested readings: Are we reliving history?Read about the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History,” by John M. Barry (Penguin Books, 2005). Barry reflected on that event, and its most important lesson: “Tell the truth.” (1) Confidence in the fabric of any society stems from trust, which faltered badly in 1918, owing in part to incoherent responses to the flu pandemic. 

The Ritz Chamber Players 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt07kuHhJ8ScfbjKT0z1SSw
YouTube “Channel” featuring some of their most memorable performances. 

Beaches Museum
education@beachesmuseum.org
The museum will be posting some great pictures from their archives, pre-recorded Boardwalk Talks, current art and so much more! 

www.HopeAtHand.org
Jaxpoetryfest.org
Poetry for at-risk youth in North Florida. Online weekly videos to inspire and teach.

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
https://www.jaxsymphony.org
Streaming some of their greatest performances. 

The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus
https://www.jaxchildrenschorus.org/about/listen-to-us/
Offers a stream for listening to local children performing their favorite pieces. 

The Cathedral Arts Project
www.capkids.org
Transitioned to digital platforms and is providing multidisciplinary virtual learning for both students AND their families. 
  
Florida Theatre
Watch for marquee messages with encouraging song lyrics.

WJCT AT HOME LEARNING
WJCT will air at home learning television programming for middle and high school students.
Each weekday on WJCT 7.1 (Comcast 8 & 440), from 11AM – 6PM,
teachers, parents, and students will find standards-based educa-
tional programming to enhance their at home learning experi-
ence. High school content will run from 11AM – 3PM, followed by
middle school content from 3PM to 6PM. The program schedule
will be shared with DCPS and distributed to their teachers.

Other Online events and classes

Academy of American Poets
The academy has created a new engaging initiative, Shelter in Poems, where the public can select a poem from their collection and post on social media a sentence or two about why the poem is inspiring.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Ailey dancers are off tour but will not stop dancing! Take a look at their rendition of "I’ve Been Buked" from Alvin Ailey’s dance masterpiece, Revelations.

Folger Shakespeare Library
Enjoy reading all of Shakespeare’s plays for free and listen to audio recordings of seven complete productions, as well as watch a video production from 2009 of Macbeth, for free through July 1, 2020.

Houston Chamber Choir
At noon each day for the next several weeks, the Houston Chamber Choir will present favorite moments from past performances to offer a moment of peace and comfort during these anxious days.

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
Kennedy Center education artist-in-residence Mo Willems invites viewers into his studio every weekday at 1:00 p.m. ET for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle, and explore new ways of writing.
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s digital digest offers a selection of the museum’s many videos, articles, and online resources, including past exhibitions and a kid’s section.

WJCT Online Learning Initiatives