Live Five: Kids stuff!

Being home with the kids can be an opportunity to explore online, with events streaming soon featuring kid-centric music, art, theater, and education.

Little Fish Comic Book Studio Online Classes are available online right now, and extra classes are being added to meet to increased demand. Founded in 2012 by Alonso Nunez with Patrick Yurick, the educational nonprofit corporation is dedicated to developing the skills and empowering the minds of students interested in the comic artform, specifically through a wide range of classes and camps directed to all ages. Nunez also hosts workshops at area schools like Wilson Middle School, as well as heading student field trips to local comic conventions.

Children's Discovery Museum Live Storytime takes place live on Facebook daily shortly after noon, at 12:30. Enjoy daily family activities and storytelling you can enjoy in the comfort of your home. The live storytime features Ms. Whitney sharing popular children's books, fairy tales, and folk legends. Like and follow the Discovery Museum on Facebook to receive a notification for when they go live. You can also visit the "Videos" tab on the Facebook profile when it is time for a new session to begin.

The Fleet Science Center invites you to connect to the power of science through FLEETv, featuring three series: What the Fleet, so you can ask your puzzling homework questions; Fleet2Go, so you can have fun with hands-on activities at home and Fleet Fails with jokes and bloopers to keep you laughing. Get ready to see that science really is everywhere with FLEETV.

The National Youth Orchestra of Germany was founded by the German Music Council in 1969 to introduce highly gifted instrumentalists between the ages of 14 and 19 to professional orchestral playing. Only the best get the opportunity. As with professional orchestras, the applicants, many of who are prize winners of the German national “Jugend musiziert” competition, have to audition to qualify. For this livestream concert performance, the Orchestra will be accompanied by Christoph Altstaedt for a program that features music by Beethoven and Brett Dean.

Shut In & Sing, the live-streamed concert series launched by Hangin’ & Sangin’ podcast host Kelly McCartney and singer/songwriter Natalia Zukerman, has attracted over 100 artists to its lineup of live-streamed performances. Everyone from Keb' Mo', Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Gauthier, McCrary Sisters, to Jerry Douglas, the War & Treaty, Courtney Marie Andrews, and Steve Forbert has signed on to perform for fans, and more artists are joining every day. The performances are being aired via Stageit, with the profits split between the participants.