This 2020 has been tough enough for anyone, the Covid-19 pandemic has hit countries from Asia to Europe, from Russia to America, from Australia to Africa. All the plans that hundreds of thousands of young people had made for their spring and summer holidays were blown up by the health emergency.
Quarantines, social distancing rules, all these safety measures have suddenly entered our lives and so concerts, theater performances, exhibitions, and festivals…started to be canceled all over Europe and the world.
The news that 2020 editions of Glastonbury Festival in UK and Roskilde Festival in Denmark faced cancellation it shocked many young people. It was a big blow for the European youth who had booked tickets for the two famous music festivals months and months in advance.
These are difficult times for everyone; it is hard because it is not possible to hug or reunite with loved ones, but we are all in this together, we all share each other's pain and precisely on these assumptions the “Social Distancing Festival” website was born“. It is a site born with the idea of collecting shows produced through different media to share a sense of love for art, creation and life. Even in these pandemic times.
You can find almost anything you want on this virtual hangout: virtual exhibits, sketches, audio books, virtual concerts and recorded dance sessions, stage musicals and orchestral symphonies; the site wishes to highlight the performances that have been canceled or postponed due to the global crisis.
Any artist can present and propose their work on the Social Distancing Festival website; priority is given to work that has been canceled or delayed due to containment measures. There's also a forum and old-fashioned chat room on the site for artists to chat and join forces to create something together.
It's definitely not the same, it's definitely not like jumping and hugging in an exuberant festival crowd, but right now there is certainly something to communicate to young people and to all those who are browsing the site: you are not alone.
Together: for Art, Nature and all the populations of our Planet.
Beauty and Art will save the world, even in these pandemic times.
