Dear Reader
Here we are, heading into Another Week of This. This past weekend I felt a tad envious of those who are quarantining together and so could still share the traditions of Greek traditions together. As much as I love staying in a space where there are lots of plants, none of those green babies is any good at cracking a red egg — a big Easter tradition. Still, I was fortunate enough to have some little treats and could eat my feelings away. Ha! In all seriousness, I am grateful for the moments of joy I managed to collect over the weekend — watching the Global Citizen home festival “with” my friends Stevie and Akemi, running in the sunshine (even while wearing a buff-mask), and laughing at the memes and jokes about the failed IG battle between Teddy Riley and Babyface. I hope you managed to collect some too.
Your choice of online entertainment events today:
1. Director Guillermo Del Toro is assembling some of his director friends to ask them what they’re doing, reading, listening to and watching during these times. From 9am PST/12pm EST. The only rule: keep talking about their own films to a minimum. So far, Jordan Peele, Edgar Wright, James Mangold, Rian Johnson and Ava DuVernay are confirmed to take part.
2. New Yorker contributor and fellow runner Liza Donnelly has been hosting live cartoon drawings every day at 5pm EST on her IG and then Twitter. She’s also part of the NYC Draws colouring book, created in aid of NY Community Trust, where you can download pages to colour and bring a little bit of New York back to life.
3. You can tour the Christian Dior exhibition, Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams, which was at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in 2017/2018 and also at the V&A Museum in London, virtually, looking around its many rooms and going into the house's archive with the exhibition curators.
4. Kino Marquee is an initiative that creates "virtual cinemas" for temporarily closed independent theaters. The films would’ve been playing at arthouse cinemas if these cinemas were open and we weren’t living through a pandemic. There are some gems waiting to be watched, from the Cannes Film Festival-jury prize-winning Bacurau and another Cannes fave, Sorry We Missed You from Ken Loach.
5. Today also happens to be 4/20 so Cypress Hill is celebrating with a livestream and meet-n-greet at 4:10pm EST (not sure why it’s not at 4:20pm, in keeping with the theme, but hey what do I know…) with a replay at 4:10pm PST. Also, Kaya Radio is streaming 24 hours of Bob Marley albums, music videos, the newly released Legacy docu-series, videos from the Marley family and more. Starts at 12am EST / 5am BST. One more: over on the Levis 5:01 Live page, Deertick is performing at 6pm PST / 9pm EST.
Thank you for reading. If you enjoyed this, please do share and subscribe. In case you missed it, I’ll leave you with the Stones performing You Can’t Always Get What You Want at the Global Citizen Stay Home fest #TogetherAtHome. Next to The Prayer with Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, it was my fave performance.
Stay safe, stay sane
Your neighbour
Nadia