Amid the growing spread of coronavirus in the region, DCist will suspend publication of our regular events guides. As we adjust to being more home-bound than usual, here are a few ways to keep yourself busy with local resources.

This post is being updated with more resources as they become available. It was last updated at 4:55 p.m. on March 27.

STREAM A MOVIE: If you have a DC Public Library Card, you have access to thousands of streaming movies. On the service Kanopy, once you make your own account, you get access to up to six films per month: Options include Oscar winners like Moonlight, The Hours, and Terms of Endearment, and Oscar-deserving movies like Midsommar, Her Smell and First Reformed. Over at Access Video On Demand, find a selection of documentaries, including Ken Burns’ Country Music series and plenty of HBO titles. —Lori McCue

GIVE THE KIDS SOMETHING FUN TO WATCH… Badlands, the kids playspace in Rockville, is temporarily opening a camp for children of parents who have to work. For kids who are staying at home, they’ve also launched a YouTube channel. “Tutorials on crafts and drawings that can be made in-home, drum circles and science shows will be some of the fun programming friends can find,” officials say in a statement. The first five-minute video, on doodling, is available now. —Lori McCue

… AND STORYTIME VIRTUALLY: Every Friday for the next three weeks, DC Public Library will host a series of special online programs on their Facebook page. On March 20th at 10:30 a.m., Librarian Theresa Wang will read “What’s Going on in There”, an interactive guessing game book for early readers. — Matt Blitz 

UNWIND WITH SOME YOGA: Bluebird Sky Yoga in Brookland will begin streaming its 12:30 p.m. yoga class via Facebook Live, according to Washingtonian. Classes will be available Monday-Friday, check the studio’s Facebook page for updates. Yoga Heights will be livestreaming its classes this week for free on its YouTube channel, where the studio also has pre-recorded classes you can enjoy from home. Flow Yoga Center will be moving some of its classes to Zoom, offering free streaming to members and providing some “pay-what-you-can” classes.

Also, anyone with a DC Public Library card can stream videos through Access Video, including its collection of workouts. Clips range from five minutes to more than an hour in length, and include pilates for beginners, weights workouts, yoga flows, and boxing routines.

Additionally, the American Pops Orchestra, regular performers at the Arena Stage, has put together a collection of online concerts, playlists, and instrumentals perfect for a peaceful backdrop to get a good stretch in.

—Lori McCue, Elliot Williams, Matt Blitz

READ WHAT LOCAL EXPERTS ARE READING: With the D.C. public library shut down to public visitors, local bookstores are upping their delivery options. Wondering what to order? WAMU asked local booksellers their recommendations, whether you want to read about D.C., take in a story from a local author, or curl up with a tale that might provide some comfort in a crisis like this. —Lori McCue

WATCH SOME ART… The Kennedy Center archives many of its performances in its online catalog: There you can find video of a demonstration and lesson from the dancers of this year’s Sleeping Beauty ballet, Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ acceptance speech from the 2018 Mark Twain Comedy Prize ceremony, selections from Lupe Fiasco’s Kennedy Center debut in November, and more.

… OR CREATE SOME ART: Arlington Arts Center has a collection of free, at-home projects for both young and old available on their website. You can create a flower collage card to send to loved ones, wacky abstract characters, or even put together your own scavenger hunt —Lori McCue & Matt Blitz 

TAKE A VIRTUAL ART TOUR: The Smithsonian National Gallery of Art is hosting daily tours, one gallery at a time on Twitter and, providing videos and photos of galleries on its website. — Elliot Williams

LEARN TO DRAW: Kennedy Center’s first-ever Education Artist-in-Residence Mo Willems is inviting viewers virtually into his illustration studio every day at 1 p.m. for a LUNCH DODDLE.  This online video series will walk fellow artists through Willems’ process as he draws, illustrates, and doddles. So, grab some paper and crayons and do some doodling! —Matt Blitz

LISTEN TO A BOOK IN D.C. …: The library’s catalog of audiobooks and ebooks is available through the Libby app. Download it to your phone or tablet, enter your library card information, and you can rent immediately. Note that like with physical items, there are only so many digital copies of things to go around, and wait lists can be lengthy for popular titles. —Lori McCue

… OR IN ARLINGTON: Arlington Public Library also has a collection of audiobooks, including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning 800 page biography on Ulysses S. Grant and the 2014 New York Times bestseller Big Little Lies, available and ready to be listened to. Just like D.C. Public Library, you can get an APL account even if you don’t live in Arlington. Library accounts are available for those who live in surrounding jurisdictions (including D.C., the City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church, and Prince George’s County). You don’t even have to go to the library to get it. Apply online here for a temporary account number that can be used for 30 days —Matt Blitz

BROWSE SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES: While all of the Smithsonian museums remain open as of this writing, it was just last month that the venerable institution released nearly 3 million images of their collections into the public domain and available for anybody to download, transform, and share without permission. This means you can create your very own meme or work of art using the 3D digitization of the Apollo 11’s Columbia crew hatch, any one of the 17 collection items related to baseball great Jackie Robinson, or an image of Susan B. Anthony’s inkstand —Matt Blitz

BROWSE SOME MAGAZINES: The library also has a digital news rack with stacks of the latest (e) magazines ready for you to peruse like Bon Appétit, the New Yorker, and Popular Mechanics. It’s just like going to Hudson News at the airport, except well … social distancing. —Matt Blitz

JAM TO SOME LOCAL MUSIC: Concerts continue to be cancelled or postponed across town, but you can still keep up with local artists. We’ve made a Spotify playlist of all the local artists nominated for a Wammie—a.k.a. a local Grammy—this year. Artists in the array of genres include Killa Cal, Oh He Dead, Seldom Scene, Rare Essence, and more. Go forth and shuffle!

Starting March 28, the non-profit performing arts organization DC Dogs will begin their 60-day live stream concert series — Musique Virtuelle: A Quarantine Concert Series — on their Facebook page. Featuring a new artist every day, it will host musicians that have lost jobs during this time —Lori McCue & Matt Blitz

LEARN SOMETHING NEW: While stuck at home, you might as well learn how to speak Arabic. Alexandria Library offers free online learning apps and tools for learning a new language, including American Sign Language. Alexandria Public Library also provides other apps, tools, and tutorials that gives access to a host of other online tools, like legal classes and crafting courses. Alexandra Public Library also provides account to those living in surrounding jurisdictions and one can apply for a card online. However, that account number expires in 14 days and won’t provide access to the online courses. In order to get that, one must go into a branch of the library —Matt Blitz

PLAY THE NEWSPAPER GAME: While sequestered home, you can look through DCPL’s archival newspapers to play my favorite game: Name that News Headline! Like, what was the Washington Post’s front-page headline two decades ago today? “Dot-Coms’ Changing Frontier”—I win! Or the Baltimore Sun’s on March 12th, 2010. If you had, “Talk of budget cut escalates,” then give yourself (and only yourself) a high-five —Matt Blitz

DO SOME VIRTUAL NATIONAL MALL AEROBICS…: You know how yoga videos are filmed on a balcony over the beach, with the gentle breeze in the background? This aerobics video is like that, but with the National Mall and the Washington Monument as your backdrop, and with no gentle breeze to be found. Fitness instructor Jenny Ford has dozens of videos on her YouTube channel, but this one was filmed on a partly cloudy day in the District. All you need is a shallow step, a spare 25 minutes, and an eagle eye for spotting the occasional tourist in the background. It’s like you’re really there!

… OR FREE PILATES: Sculp’d, a boutique fitness studio in Old Town Alexandria, is offering up a fitness session with pilates, barre, and yoga every day at 12 p.m. on Instagram for free —Lori McCue & Matt Blitz

IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS IN MUSIC TRIVIA: On Monday night at 7 p.m., Songbyrd Music House and Record Cafe is hosting an online music trivia night on Facebook Live. As the organizers say, expect a few curveballs, brush up on your music knowledge … “Wikipedia is a good resource.” — Elliot Williams

WATCH A MOVIE SET IN D.C.

Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment: This is your typical boy-meets-girl-at-the MOM’s Organic Market-in-Ivy City, girl-finds-out-boy-is-buying-her-apartment-building, gogo-soundtracked rom-com. Filmed in the District and directed by Charneice Fox, this movie, available on Netflix, is like a game of I Spy for D.C. locations. —Lori McCue

How Do You Know?:This romantic comedy sounds exactly like the kind of movie I’d love: Reese Witherspoon, playing a down-on-her-luck professional softball player, is romantically torn between Owen Wilson, a Nationals pitcher working his way through the idea of monogamy, and Paul Rudd, whose character is the subject of a federal investigation. A rom com set in D.C. with that killer cast—what could go wrong? A lot! The film bombed at the box office and, if you watch it, you’ll see why. One major recurring joke is that MetroBuses come so frequently that characters are constantly interrupted right before they’re about to speak their heart’s true desire. Which is hilarious, just not in the way filmmakers intended. Honestly, this movie is so much less than the sum of its parts, but it’s still fun to watch the characters in places like Adams Morgan (they filmed on location) and who among us doesn’t like a crappy rom com? To watch How Do You Know? you’ll have to make a $3-$4 commitment to rent on sites like Amazon Prime, Youtube, Vudu, or iTunes. —Rachel Kurzius

Lost Holiday: Feeling nostalgic for D.C. nightlife gone by? Stream this noir-ish comedy from directors Thomas and Michael Matthews, about a young woman home in the D.C. area for the holidays who gets caught up in the disappearance of a local socialite. Starring Kate Lyn Sheil and Thomas Matthews with a supporting performance from Chidi William Jackson Harper, see scenes set at Hank Dietle’s Tavern, The Pinch, and ZooLights. Lost Holiday is available to rent on Amazon Prime or YouTube. —Lori McCue

D.C. Cab: Our locally filmed movies don’t get much more campy than this Joel Schumacher-directed flick from 1983. In it, Adam Baldwin (no relation to Alec, et al) stars as a D.C. cabbie whose colleagues include Mr. T and Gary Busey. There’s a missing violin, a love story, and a kidnapping subplot involving a diplomat’s family. Like the others, D.C. Cab filmed all over town. This one’s available to rent on Amazon Prime. —Lori McCue