From visiting artists in their studios, listening to Tate's podcast series or watching 'How To' videos to follow in the footsteps of some of the nation's favorite artists,Tate is offering a wealth of activities, games and resources both on and offline to help keep people feeling creative at home.

Dance Key West, Online Class

Dance Key West, Online Class

Monroe County Libraries offer a wealth of online activities from Mango Language Classes, eBooks, moves & TV shows, maps, K-12 skills building and age-appropriate newspaper, magazine & reference material

While schools are closed, Audible is making their incredible collection of kids’ stories available in six different languages free to stream

has videos of students performing.

Weekly Story Time for Toddlers and Educational Videos Available on Garden’s Facebook Page.

The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have launched Nature Lab, a new online learning platform designed to help students learn the science behind how nature works.

The College of the Florida Keys has moved its Summer Adventure Camps for children from 7- to 11-years-old to online sessions beginning Monday, June 8, and running weekly through Friday, July 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. The schedule includes Art Camp, June 8 and June 29; Code Breakers, June 15 and June 22; and Future Heroes, June 22.

Series presentations filmed over the last three years featuring speakers such as John Hemingway, Jeff Stotts, Seth Bramson, John Blades and Tom Hambright

An important part of Florida Keys history and the incredible engineering feat that joined mainland Florida to Key West

A virtual tour of Key West’s historic sites including Civil War forts, famous authors homes, military history, the wrecking/salvage industry, and more

an online gallery of 59 original Guy Harvey sketches which follow the narrative of Hemingway’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Old Man and the Sea”

A history of one of the nation’s greatest folk artists. Born in 1908 in Key West’s Gatoville cigar-making neighborhood, Sanchez created upwards of 600 paintings and woodcarvings in his lifetime to reveal an important and colorful doorway to the cultural history of the island and its people

One of the world’s most famous haunted dolls whose mesmerizing and eerie history began just after the turn of the 20th century when he was created by the Steiff Company and given to young Gene Otto, son of a prominent Key West doctor

A look at the life of the Nobel Prize-winning author who lived and wrote in Key West during the 1930s

The back-story of how the Federal Art Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration was the incubator for Key West’s emergence as the “Island of the Arts.”

More than 35,000 objects including postcards, photographs, paintings, artifacts, textiles, ordnance and archives that highlight the people, places and events which have shaped the Florida Keys.

Dance Key West, Online Class

Dance Key West, Online Class

Dance Key West, Online Class

While the coronavirus quarantine is keeping us all cooped up, it is providing a great opportunity to binge watch some classic films on your favorite streaming services.
Tropic Board Member and Academy Award winner Terry George has put together his recommendations for some film series you can view at home — and each series can cover a day – or weekend-long marathon!

The Mystery Fest Key West scheduled for June of 2020 has been postponed due to the COVID-19 virus.
We look forward to seeing our writers, readers, friends and fans again in 2021.
In the meantime – the 2020 Whodunit Writing Contest will go on. Here is how to enter:
Submit the first three pages (no more than 750 words) of a finished, unpublished manuscript no later than April 15, 2020, to whodunitaward@mysteryfestkeywest.com 
Attach your manuscript submission as a Word document and include the title, author name and email address in the header. Judging will be “blind.” Finalists will be notified by May 1 and have until May 10 to submit full never-before-published manuscripts. The winning entry:
• Will be published by Absolutely Amazing eBooks (a requirement).
• Will receive a Whodunit Award plaque.
• Will receive free registration for the next Mystery Fest Key West (date to be announced once health officials have deemed it safe to resume public gatherings).
• Will receive round-trip coach airfare to the next Mystery Fest Key West.
• Will receive reimbursement for two nights at a designated Key West hotel/resort/guesthouse.

The National Gallery is bringing its pictures to our homes in a major new digital program, “You bring the tea, we’ll bring the art”

Free Harvard Courses

This program offers downloadable eBooks and eAudios for Kindle devices and computers. Reviews of books are available

The Monroe County Public Library now offers the learning language resource Mango, an app and web-based program that includes 70 world languages, including English as a second language. Mango is free with an active library card.

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From Patagonia to South Africa to Yosemite, visit some of our favorite places on the planet in real time via these live webcams—and start dreaming of where you want to go when we can travel again

Kids & teens: have you submitted your poem for the Robert Frost Poetry Contest yet? Submit a poem for a chance to win a cash prize!
You can write about nature, time travel, opposites, or anything at all!
Need a little inspiration? Key West Poet Laureate (2017) Flower Conroy offers some creative prompts that will help get the ideas flowing

Through a free online course offered by the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary boaters can learn how to protect themselves, their vessels and the marine environment. The 30-to-45 minute course is available in English and Spanish with a completion certificate provided. The course complements existing safe boating courses.

Florida Keys virtual dives offered by the National Marine Sanctuary include Christ of the
Abyss, Cheeca Rocks Sanctuary Preservation Area, Coral Nursery, Aquarius Reef Base and the Benwood Wreck.

Florida Keys virtual dives offered by the National Marine Sanctuary include Christ of the
Abyss, Cheeca Rocks Sanctuary Preservation Area, Coral Nursery, Aquarius Reef Base and the Benwood Wreck.