Coronavirus collabs: the social media games entertaining the masses – and bringing us together

What quarantine without the fun way to pass the time? As the social alienation that caused the pandemic pushed more and more people to the solitude of the home, the isolated people began to find ways to entertain, neighbors and strangers around the world through the social media.

For movie enthusiasts who miss the collective experience on the silver screen - the phone appears in silent scenes, the guy behind you chews popcorn in his ear and, perhaps more specifically, the joy of being dissected Movie with friends later - British actor Brett Goldstein started a movie club on Twitter.

According to the hashtag #IsolationFilmClub, a movie chosen by a nominated user, anyone who wants to watch it is possible, and then talk about it using the hashtag, Goldstein said.

Brett Goldstein

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Since lots of people will be stuck at home, I’ve decided to start a film club. Every day we pick a film. Anyone who wants to watch it can, and then talk about it using the hashtag #isolationfilmclub

First film is Long Shot.

I nominate @MrNishKumar to choose tomorrow’s.

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For those who want something a little more active, there's the Big Kitchen Flood: a collaborative playlist combined with a solo family kitchen boogie at the same time, starting with - naturally - Dancing On Robyn's own My own.

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Big Kitchen Disco@BigKitchenDisco

OK so the idea is this. We can't go out, so let's all meet at 7pm in YOUR kitchen and have a dance. Send your suggestions and we'll pick one for each night, and add it to the Big Kitchen Disco playlist https://sptfy.com/93zS~s

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Or you could dance along to one of the many quarantine playlists being created. The actor Rita Wilson – who was diagnosed with coronavirus along with her husband Tom Hanks on Australia’s Gold Coast last week – collaborated with the public to produce Quarantunes, a 47-song set on Spotify including such classics as Locked Up by Akon, U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer and I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor.

And because you dance, why not combine it with a light show? After Sydney, Australia announced the cancellation of the annual Vivid audio and visual festival - known not only for its colorful lighting shows on landmarks across the CBD, but also in a series of live concerts. - a DIY version has appeared on Facebook.

Can take your own festive lights on your balcony, switch over your living room bulbs to COLOR. Get the LIT self-isolation copy for our personal page DIY Vivid Australia, the event page says.

Meanwhile, on Instagram, Australian musicians who are part of the emerging music program of the young radio group Triple J, Unearthed, presented each other with other songs.

Hauskey, the musician who started it, said he started doing it to prevent his feeling of being useless when stuck at home. With so many musicians having canceled their gigs in the near future, he revealed his small audience to others. Lightning is a small way for me to help out, he said. .

For those whose cathartic impulses tend towards the introspective, the Oregon illustrator Carson Ellis has started a Quarantine Art Club on Instagram, posting regular art prompts, challenges and tips in an attempt to help others entertain themselves or the other people in their household – particularly the youngsters.

“I’m thinking of ways that we can stay connected here through art,” she wrote in a post on Monday. “We’re all going to be more isolated than usual. Many of us just became unwitting homeschool teachers to our kids. Many of us will be home all alone for a while. Let’s keep busy. I’ll try to post assignments every day this week that you can do on your own or with your family. Let me know if you have drawing exercises you love and I’ll share them.”

More than 700 people responded to the first challenge: a self-portrait.

Ellis’s Quarantine Art Club is a more organised, visual art-focused version of the creative projects happening around the world under the hashtag #IsolationCreation, in which art-makers of all kinds are using the enforced downtime to make, bake, carve, collage and concoct their way through the crisis.