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Your stories of surviving Covid-19 – from the frontlines to sheltering at home

KUOW's Ross Reynolds takes listener calls about getting creative during the crisis.
- John O'Brien
Seattle artist hopes expanded unemployment benefits will help her make ends meet.

Jenny May Peterson is a Seattle dancer, visual artist and a licensed massage therapist. In normal times, she cobbles together enough money from these different vocations to support herself. But when the pandemic hit, Peterson’s revenue streams disappeared. “I really have no income, at all,” Peterson says.
- Marcie Sillman
Looking for a diversion? Surf social media for a little classical music

We’re into our second month of Governor Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order. We’ve baked bread, cleaned cupboards, and binged on endless television shows. KUOW’s Arts and Culture reporter Marcie Sillman went online in search of some cultural respite. She found it in classical music; specifically short cello performances on social media.
- Marcie Sillman
These south Seattle music students moved online effortlessly – and they’re asking for more

Quinton Morris was at a national music educators’ conference a couple of months ago when he got a feeling he’d have to move his after-school classical music program online.
- Marcie Sillman
Ep. 1: Are We Going to Be OK? Rethinking art and education during Covid-19

"Art comes out of pain," says Seattle's Youth Corps director James Miles. What we do with that art once the pandemic passes is up to us.
- Kristin Leong
Seattle Symphony musicians will take temporary unemployment in an effort to stabilize the orchestra

The Seattle Symphony musicians have
- Marcie Sillman
Seattle Symphony orchestra musicians play on, even in a pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to learn new ways to work, educate our kids, socializing, even new ways to make and distribute art. Classical artists are diving right into new technologies.
- Marcie Sillman
Seattle dancer Liane Aung dreams of life---and art--after the pandemic

If we were living in normal times, Liane Aung would be in a dance studio right now.
- Marcie Sillman
The opera companies have closed their doors, but tenor Robert MacPherson is still singing.

Robert MacPherson has been singing since he was a very young boy. “I was a preacher’s kid, I grew up singing gospel,” he says.
- Marcie Sillman
"We've been through something major together. This virus doesn't discriminate based on race, class, creed," says Xavier Lopez Jr.

Xavier Lopez Jr. wears many hats. He writes a culture blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He holds down a day job to pay the bills. And “I’m a multi-media Latinx performance artist and conceptual sculptor.”
- Kim Malcolm

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