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Culture in Quarantine

Bringing arts and culture into your home

African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

Exploring the histories of Ethiopia, Senegal and Kenya through their extraordinary art, music and culture

BBC Four

Sign Night

Two deaf women separated by lockdown unite through sign language in poetic projection

Culture In Quarantine

The sun will shine again

How music is helping BBC presenter Clemency Burton-Hill's recovery from a brain haemorrhage

BBC Arts

BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals

Edinburgh 2020: My Light Shines On

New performances celebrating the enduring festival spirit

BBC SCOTLAND

Queen's Hall Series

Archive performances recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival

BBC RADIO 3

The Social: Virtual Fringe

Including rappers battling poets, drag cabaret, comedy and much more

BBC The Social

Filmed in Lockdown

Reconnect: Digital Raving

A theatrical mix of storytelling and live-looped beatboxing from SK Shlomo

Culture in Quarantine

Her & Her

The story of a relationship told using poetry and beatboxing

Culture in Quarantine

Say Your Peace: Three Recipes for Self-Care

Three young poets celebrate what brings them solace during the coronavirus pandemic

Culture in Quarantine

Inside Cinema

Inside Cinemas

What happens when filmmakers turn the camera around, and show audiences in cinemas?

BBC Iplayer

Beauty Queen Dreams

In movies, is the beauty pageant stage a stealthy platform for subversion?

BBC Iplayer

Summer Holidays

From makeovers to murder, a trip to sunnier climes is always eventful in the movies

BBC Iplayer

Performance: Culture in Quarantine

Albion

Mike Bartlett's tragicomic drama about family, passion and national identity

BBC FOUR

Seacole + Nightingale

A documentary to celebrate front-line medical staff through dance, poetry and music

Eliot Smith Dance

10 Soldiers

Exploring the training, friendships, loves and the teamwork of an army unit

Rosie Kay Dance Company

Get Creative at Home

Antony Gormley

An exclusive lockdown session led by the world-renowned artist from his home

BBC IPLAYER

Life Drawing Live!

Watch our special class and take part at home

BBC ARTS

Spring into origami

Learn how to make an origami jumping frog with our step-by-step tutorial

BBC Taster

Galleries, museums & archives: Culture in Quarantine

Wampum: Stories From The Shells Of Native America

Explore the history, art and culture of the Native Americans who met the passengers of the Mayflower

Mayflower 400

Lockdown letters

Creating an archive of items sent during the Covid-19 pandemic

The Postal Museum

Breathworks

A digital storytelling project exploring individual experiences of breathing

Modern Art Oxford

Shakespeare: Culture in Quarantine

A Box Set Of The Bard

Nine celebrated productions to watch from your sofa

BBC Iplayer

The Tempest

A story of forgiveness, generosity and enlightenment set on a remote and mysterious desert island

BBC IPLAYER

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Bollywood-infused comedy which wowed critics and audiences

BBC IPLAYER

More Arts on BBC iPlayer

Handmade in Africa: Dorze House

Dorze builders create unique houses woven from strips of bamboo

BBC Four

Gospel According To Mica - The Story of Gospel Music in Six Songs

Mica Paris explores the faith, history and emotional resonance of gospel music

BBC Four

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth's coming of age novel, adapted by Andrew Davies

BBC One

More Arts on BBC Sounds

Sketches: Stories of Art and People

Tales of legacy, and of living on through art

BBC Radio 4

Ray Bradbury, A Master Of Science Fiction

Navigating the life of the author on the centenary of his birth

BBC World Service

Outlook

The Nollywood love story filmed in lockdown

BBC World Service

BBC Arts on social media

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

More arts across the BBC

Arena

The BBC's multi award-winning arts strand

Free Thinking

The ideas shaping our lives today - with artists and thinkers in debates and interviews

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

imagine...

The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob

BBC Books

All of the BBC's coverage of the written word in one place

Get Creative

The UK's biggest celebration of creative participation

Inside Cinema

Short films taking you to the heart of the movies

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