With the coronavirus pandemic now keeping people at home, artists of all disciplines are finding ways to keep creative.
Already there’s the online Social Distancing Festival keeping track of live streams put on by arts organizations around the globe. The Fusebox Festival, Austin’s performance arts fest, has had to cancel its live gathering and is dreaming up a way to make it virtual.
The Austin art-rock band Invincible Czars saw its entire spring concert schedule cancelled. They had planned to tour with their latest silent movie score, new music for “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1920, dir. Robert Wiene).
But because they can’t sit still, the Czars created a challenge for themselves. With the “2020 Quarantine Video Challenge” the Czars will write an original score for your 60-second video, and do so within 48 hours. And it’s pay-what-you-want.
But wait, yes there’s more: You can opt to enter your video into a contest, with the three videos with the most likes on YouTube by 5 p.m. on April 1 will win prizes.
Find all the details about the “2020 Quarantine Video Challenge” at invincibleczars.com/2020-quarantine-video-challenge-do-it#!
