Pride is online this year
The Pride festival this year will be totally online, with no parade.
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CE 12:47 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
Are many people “attending” these online events and concerts that have been happening since the beginning of the pandemic? Personally, watching a band play to an empty venue on my computer screen or attending a Zoom conference, even on a topic that interests me, does not sound appealing at all (especially in the middle of the summer).
Kate 13:18 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
CE, I haven’t seen anything reporting on participation, but it’s a good question.
I’m going to guess that any festival doing this is mostly keeping the seat warm for the future, possibly justifying any grants they got this year by producing something they can point to as an ongoing concern.
CE 14:17 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
I hadn’t really thought of the online events as being a seat warmer more than an actual thing to be consumed. There’s definitely a “use it or lose it” mentality around grants and funding. I’m just glad nobody I know has asked me to fill a virtual seat at one of their virtual events and that Zoom happy hours have all but disappeared.
Ian 15:28 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
I do a Zoom happy hour every Friday, it’s been fantastic. Mileage may vary.
Even Burning Man is going virtual this year.
CE 16:00 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
To each their own but for me, trying to do any socializing over Zoom has been miserable unless it’s one-on-one. I had to do a few classes to finish up a couple courses I was doing via Zoom and I don’t think I got anything from them. I can’t imagine doing an entire semester of it.
Ian 18:06 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
I’ve been teaching classes on MS Teams all summer, every day – it’s different than a classroom experience but I have a lot fo experience working remotely on a distributed team so I have a few tricks up my sleeve to make videoconferencing feel more like a forum for creative discourse. I know some teachers are just posting videos and assignments, not having real time classes at all. That seems weird to me.
CE 19:41 on 2020-08-10 Permalink
How have the students been feeling about it? I found that when I did the Zoom classes, I couldn’t keep my attention and by the end, had a bit of a headache. The few social things I participated in had the same affect but not as bad. I found that more than anything, the sound of people’s voices bothered me quite a bit.
Ian 06:49 on 2020-08-11 Permalink
Well it’s definitely an issue that not everyone has a fast internet connection or decent headphones. People with kids or only one computer shared across a household with no private area to work in suffer a lot, too.
Obviously getting back to classes in person will be better but for now it’s better than nothing. I have been doing this 5 days a week since April, maybe I’m just used to it now.