I miss the arts

[chomalungma]

Live concerts. Gigs in pubs, drink in hand, people just out enjoying themselves.

Going to the theatre, seeing a show, sharing such events with other people.

I was just starting to get a good social life, based around this kind of stuff and it's been kicked away. I know it will come back.

TV is just not the same, I've just watched Les Miserables concert and it was fantastic. Hopefully, we will be able to enjoy such events again.

Anyone else missing the arts.

@MarshaBradyo

NQuartz School of Rock is great hope you get there

Galleries are open to pp who miss them. Most are free but if you have to pay I bet they’d like more visitors

Thank you, us too! 😃

Yep. Love going to the theatre. Managed to see an opera before lockdown at least. I usually only go twice a year as it can be expensive. But such a shame not to have a Christmas production to take the kids to this year.
I really hope all these venues and production companies can hang on a bit longer.

We saw Jesus Christ Superstar at Regents Park last month and I actually almost cried as the overture started. I don't think I'd realised how much of a part of our life it was until it was gone.

I'm considering getting tickets for SIX (I'm really enjoying it on Spotify at the moment), and we've got a few gigs lined up for next year - Alanis (the postponement from this October) and Download festival. I'm not holding my breath but remain vaguely hopeful.

We miss it too OP.

Me too. So badly. I miss London gigs and seaside festivals and plays and concerts and comedy nights in crowded upstairs bars and the local folk music club that's full of ancient hippies tapping their toes and supping local brew. I have been to two exhibitions since August though and they were both such a treat. Used to go all the time, never thought about it. Saw some NT plays and opera online. Good, but just not the same.

Creativity, music and enjoyment in crowds have been around for societies for so long. It is hard to repress and you can see little slivers of it in raves etc that weren’t allowed.

When we can we will embrace and relish it I’m sure.

Even listening to Glastonbury on R6 moved me. It sounded so good, so free and joyous.

We went to an open air songs from the musicals concert in August and it was wonderful.

I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed that everything will be fine for us to travel from the north midlands to London in 2 weeks time for Songs for a New world at the London Palladium.

We've also got The Last Five Years booked at Southwark Playhouse that we were supposed to have seen in March.

Then Six at Christmas in Manchester.

The earliest evidence of human society is through its art, back 40,000 years to using natural materials to make marks representing what those people values.

Every single society has its culture of art, music, dance binding society together through birth, coming of age, marriage, death rites, passing of the seasons, ancestors bringing people together. Even just sitting around a fire and singing or story telling is a primal instinct.

Arts and culture are what define us as human and distinct from other species.

The arts are essential and make living better.

When I get too sad about what's happening to the arts and particularly live music, I like to console myself that Oliver Cromwell closed theatres, banned Christmas and generally acted like the fun police for 18 long years - and he had the word of the Lord on his side, not just a pesky virus. He died and bam! The Restoration happened, ushering in a golden age of arts, theatre and all the rest of the good stuff. The point was well made above, that you can surpress the creative and communal spirit in humans, but you can't kill it. That's what keeps me going anyway

As I have sad before I am an ape.
I miss all community events: the parents choir at DD's school, their advent market (the money made helped fund a home for severely handicapped children in Russia), the live music at the pup downstairs, the community theatre my niece acted in, the literary workshops DH had scheduled for this year which all have been canceled. I miss everything that marks the passing of the year.
Watching stars online is not the same.

Apart from that, being part of a community reduces stress (for the NT) and thus boosts the immune system and MH.