🥳️ Quarantine Together: social events + Zoom resources
Happy Monday! (or 4/20 if that’s significant to you 😉)
Here are this week’s events lineup. All are free unless noted otherwise.
Weekday Events
52 Living Ideas Meetup: A daily meetup to discuss ideas among a vibrant intellectual community. Every Weekday at 9pm EST & on Weekends at 2:30pm EST.
Short Story Club: Live Q&A with Ted Chiang on Two Stories from Exhalation: Like a book club, but for short stories. RSVP to receive a link to great stories you can read in a single sitting and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom. Tue, Apr 21, 8:30pm EST.
Courage Club Global: A gathering where you can connect with new friends and face your fear together. Wed, Apr 22, 8pm EST.
Cats Before the Internet: Animal Art in Archaeology: Take a break from watching cat videos to learn about cat art! Thu, Apr 23, 6:30PM EST.
Weekend Events
Playful Eye: Mindful Art Experience Around the World: Sat, Apr 25 1pm EST. An adventurous exploration of art and self, combining elements of play, mindfulness and embodied practice, where you will be:
interacting with strangers in randomly-matched conversations
being prompted to move like a sculpture dipped in honey
experiencing more about yourself than you learn about art
Improvised Tarot Readings: A Hilarious Evening: A virtual improv night which involves comedians who do BS tarot readings for audience members. Sat, Apr 25 8pm EST.
Coronas and Chill: Sat, Apr 25 9pm-11pm EST. A great way to meet new people! How it works:
Everybody dials in, we chat for a bit, and then break everyone into random groups of 5-6 people for 15 minutes.
After the 15 minutes are up, we regroup, and then do the same thing again, breaking everyone off into another set of random groups.
This goes on for 2 hours, and you can join in at any time before the event ends.
Resources
If you have been using Zoom a lot, here are some resources to have more fun virtually:
Facemoji: Don’t want to fix your hair or put on makeup for your call? Use Facemoji to replace your face with a digital avatar you design. Works on Mac.
Snap Camera: Bring Snapchat AR filters to your video calls and livestreams.
Avatarify: Have you ever wanted to pretend to be Elon Musk, Mona Lisa, or even someone you know? This will let you use any image to pretend you’re that person on a call. Works much better if you have a GPU, but I’ve had decent success with a normal Macbook Pro 2018. A little dystopian, use at your own risk.
Until next week,
Ada