District Guide: District Library Guide: Arts

General Resources

Access Learning
Username: Free
Password: 2020
From Site: Access to over 4,500 full length and 20,000 clip level educational video programs.-The platform seems a bit older, but it has a lot of resources for Careers, English, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Math, and Science.
Audible
Audible has made a selection of it's audio books available as well. Some of the novels we teach can be found here.

BC Digital Classroom
BC Digital Classroom provides students with access to academic search engines.

CBC Curio
CBC has made CBC Curio free for people to use. This is a great resource with a lot of streaming resources for classes. It includes archival content, documentaries, and audio content. There is also access to Shakespearean plays from Stratford Festival.
CBC Curio Curriculum
Within the CBC Curio program there are also resources organized by BC course. For all subject areas of our curriculum!
Criterion on Demand
Criterion on Demand is a streaming service that provides access to movies the users (students and teachers) can view from home until June 30th. The User name is: 91018 Password: Nvan 44. There are a lot of the novels/plays we teach available here.

COD- movie list
This is a list of all of the movies available for teachers to use on Criterion on Demand with their students.

National Film Board of Canada
From here students and teachers can stream a lot of Canadian-made content on all sorts of topics.
Reel Films
This website is providing access to Canadian-made films in English and French while schools are closed.
TEDTalks
Wide Open School
This online learning platform includes American resources for almost every subject area. It also includes access (via clicking on a subject tile) to PBS, National Geographic, PBS Learning, and Newsela.

'Golconda' After Magritte. Using window frame as art/canvas by Greta -Argyle Senior Art Student.

Thank you J.Warland and UBC Student teacher C Yee.

Found Art Colour Wheel by Clara. Argyle Junior Art Student. Thank you J. Warland and UBC Student Teacher C. Yee

Check out these Mini Art Lessons by Ms. Parker, an Art Teacher at Carson Graham Secondary

AFK at Home: Art Exploration Videos
Artists for Kids is providing virtual resources for students and teachers. This site offers experiences that challenge students to learn through the lens of Inquiry and the Fine Arts.

#CanadaPerforms
This link takes you to performances by Canadian musicians, singers, authors, actors, and comedians in English and French.
Concerts from the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Music Division has presented one of the world's most distinguished concert series for nearly ninety years. The concert webcasts featured on this site provide an introduction to the extraordinary history of more than 3,000 events presented since the founding of the series by philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in 1925.
The Met Opera
The Met is streaming Operas nightly.
NAC Orchestra
The NAC Orchestra will be sharing music every Wednesday at 8pm.
National Theatre
The National Theatre is posting a play every 7 days for people to watch
NPR Music
Live streaming and virtual concerts- 24 hour programming
The Shows must go on- Andrew LLoyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber's site. He is streaming one of his productions every few days from his youtube channel.

12 more museums and American National Parks offering Virtual Tours
This site provides more virtual tours of museums and galleries like MOMA, Guggenheim, and the Smithsonian.It also provides tours of American National Parks like Yellowstone National Park for example.
12 Museums providing virtual tours
This article provides information and access to 12 different museums providing virtual tours.
The Louvre-Virtual Tour
The MET 360 Project
This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.
National Museum of Music-Virtual Tour
This simple website provides a lot of information and images about different musical instruments.

Montreal Museum of Fine Art
Daily cultural offerings during COVID19
Museum of Modern Art Courses
Specialized art courses from one of the premier museums available for free during school closures