COVID ina Chor sa Stair

Home haircut, April 2020

A three-year old boy, Oisin, has his haircut at home, Carryduff, Northern Ireland, April 2020. Due to the lockdown hairdressers were shut.

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council staff and councillor with NHS floral banner

This floral banner, dedicated to the National Health Service (NHS), was planted by Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council staff in Lisburn’s historic 17th-century Castle Gardens.   

Shuttered shop, Lisburn City Centre, March 2020

Due to a nationwide lockdown in March 2020, shops were ordered to close. Many people were very worried by the pandemic, and shop owners often left words of encouragement on their closed businesses, including this – ‘take care and stay safe’. Lisburn Turkish Barbers is located in Market Square, Lisburn.

Child’s linen face mask

Linen is strong, lightweight, easy to work with and helps wick moisture away. It is one of the best fabrics for facemasks or coverings. In Northern Ireland, the use of face coverings in enclosed public spaces was made mandatory to help stifle the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.   

Alcohol hand sanitiser, April 2020

Alcohol hand sanitiser was in huge demand in the early days of the pandemic. Many distilleries ceased producing spirits and started selling their own, branded, hand gels. Shortcross Gin is located outside Crossgar, Co. Down, and sold their products online.

Antwerp prison banners

The employees and inmates of the prison on Begijnenstraat made four banners. This way they sent out messages of solidarity and empathy - a wish for health for everybody.

15 March – 16th May 2020

Collection: MAS, inv. nr MAS.0328.002

Urban gym

'Beerschot Atletiek' and 'Buurtsport Kiel en Hoboken' developed a gym track across the Kiel neighbourhood. They suggest exercises everyone can do in different public places, making use of benches, stairs, etc.

20th April 2020

Walking the Meir

When the lockdown was over, the stores on the shopping street Meir reopened. Retailers took safety measures of all kinds. The municipality created road markings to enable crowd control and ensure physical distancing.

31st March 2020

Collection: FelixArchief, inv. nr 2876#82

Iftar ‘on wheels’

Celebrating ‘Iftar’ — breaking the fast together after sunset — was not possible during this Ramadan. Therefore some mosques, such as El Fath, delivered Iftar meals by cargo bike to people who were alone or in poverty.

12th April – 13th May 2020

Collection: FelixArchief, inv. nr 2920#6

’t Akkoord plays music for De Fontein

Since seniors turned out to be more vulnerable victims of the coronavirus, many inhabitants of care centres and service flats had to stay at home. The musical band ’t Akkoord gave a physical distance concert in front of residence De Fontein to provide some musical distraction.

10th May 2020

Collection: FelixArchief, inv. nr 2893#2

Composer Zita Bružaitė’s piece “Anxiety”

When the quarantine was announced on March 16, composer Zita Bružaitė started creating her new piece “Anxiety” (Lith. Nerimas). Every day, she devoted at least half an hour for this work. The manuscript of the composition donated by Bružaitė to the museum reflects various moods and conditions that the artist had undergone on each day of the quarantine.

T-shirt

Spending her time at home, Gintautė focused on her favourite hobby, embroidery. Having asked her friends on Instagram what represented the current situation to them, she embroidered thirty-three different quarantine stories on her old T-shirt. The stories depict different symbolic ideas, nostalgic things, and relevant issues such as toilet paper and respirators. When a follower asked her to embroider something magical, she decided to interpret this through an image of ‘a coronavirus in a glass jar’. The T-shirt was given to the museum by Gintautė Riabovaitė. 

Cherry blossom trees online

Spring is the time when all the people of Vilnius go to the ‘sakura orchard’ to admire the blooming trees. Yet this spring, in order to protect the people and limit inevitable gatherings, Vilnius City Municipality in cooperation with the telecommunication company Telia installed cameras in the orchard and organised live web-streaming of the blooming sakura cherry trees. Vilnius City Municipality donated the informative sign to the museum.

A ticket from Bali

In March 2020, when the borders of most of the countries were closed suddenly, travellers were faced with huge challenges. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania started arranging repatriation flights from the countries with the biggest numbers of held-up registered citizens. The last flight from Bali Island took place on March 28-29. Ugnė Karaliūnaitė, who returned home on that flight, gave her tickets to the museum.

A template for face shields

At the rapid onset and spread of this viral infection, Lithuanian health care institutions did not have enough protective equipment, whereas the acquisition of such protective gear became next to impossible. In response to the situation, the School of Robotics developed a 3D mask print template, which businesses and individuals used to print over fifty thousand face shields for health workers in a very short period of time. Paulius Briedis (VšĮ Robotikos mokykla) donated the template to the museum.

Hamster package

This 'hamster package' was sent during the Coronavirus pandemic as an alternative birthday present, when physical visit were not possible. It contained two rolls of toilet paper, a large pack of pasta and food cans - items that were especially useful at the beginning of the first measures against the Coronavirus in Germany. Many of the items were sold out in supermarkets. The sender was the “Hamster Company, from Hamster street in Hamstern”.

Amberg, April 18th, 2020

Thank-You letter on a postcard to postmen

Deutsche Post AG received this self-designed postcard as a 'thank you' to its mail deliverers, who were particularly stressed by the increased volume of letters and parcels during the coronavirus pandemic. Because of the measures taken to combat the coronavirus, many households were increasingly having goods delivered to their homes. Since then, consignments have frequently been delivered contactlessly. The card can be seen as a gesture and sign of solidarity to the postman, similar to the evening applause for healthcare professionals. The postcard is marked with Cologne Cathedral in a snow globe.

Cologne, March 30th, 2020

Diary of an extraordinary time

The book, published by the artist Hasso von Henninges, collects contributions from 20 authors who report on their daily experiences, routines and impressions from the Coronavirus period in the months of March and April. These weeks were shaped by measures to combat the coronavirus and self-isolation. They write down their thoughts partly handwritten, partly digitally. The 260-page work has a distribution run of 32 copies.

Nuremberg, March / April 2020

Postcards in times of Corona

The artist Susanne Schattmann launched an appeal by post, sending old postcards covered with acrylic paint to family and friends, with the request to design them and send them back. More than 50 people of all ages responded with their creations. The motifs and techniques of the postcard gallery show a complete range - from watercolors and photos, to expressions and iconic representations. A related “map tour” is also being developed, as well as a self-written song.

Nuremberg, March to June 2020

Individually created instructions for the use of Skype and IPad for seniors

The coronavirus pandemic has boosted digitization. A large part of personal exchange has increasingly shifted to digital channels due to contact restrictions. For this reason, Mr Rauch bought an iPad for his parents, who are over 80, so that he can still communicate face to face with them. Since the parents had no experience with computers, smartphones or the internet, their son created step-by-step instructions that he sent to his parents by post with the device. He explains how to use the device and instant messaging service Skype.

Dortmund, March 22nd, 2020

Tandle Hills

From busy parks, play centres and kids clubs, to open fields, long grass, sky and space. Tandle Hills has been and will continue to be our sanctuary. Children need free limitless space, time and play without the rules of the house, adults and world around them. When it was all too much this is what healed us.

Nurses on the Children’s ward with decorated visors

Oldham’s Lockdown Museum is a digital project to collect a snapshot of what life has been like in the local area during the Covid-19 pandemic. They asked the local community to help record and explore this time, so they can share a digital time capsule with future generations of Oldham residents.

Teddy in window

Oldham Gallery published nine digital exhibitions: Lockdown Life, Kindness, Objects, Making, Changes, Messages, Nature, Sport and Work. During August they also asked for pieces of writing — people's ‘Lockdown Letters’.

Socially distanced social occasion

So far 80 people have sent over 300 images and pieces of writing which are the beginnings of a brilliant archive which will help the Gallery tell future generations what life was like in the area during a global pandemic.

Jump and pose!

Child from key worker group staying active at school.

Corona Solidaritätsband

This bracelet was given by the Ministry of Society to the employees of the National Administration. It shows pictograms of hygiene measures, the observance of which should slow down the further spread of Covid 19.

Border crossing point

Photo taken in the Liechtensteinsten community of Ruggell, on the border with Austria during the time when the border was closed. Translation of the sign: Border crossing point closed for all traffic (including pedestrians).

Impressions from Vaduz - "Bus stop"

Bus stop in the municipality of Vaduz: public bus, poster with information on protective measures for guests and drivers.

Impressions from Ruggell - "Posters"

Post office of the municipality of Ruggell.

On the left: Information about the limited opening hours valid from 20.04.2020. The post office was closed before.

On the right: Notice and request to keep your distance and to make cashless payments if possible.

Gesperrt Poster Gemeinde Balzers

Between mid-March and mid-May 2020, all public playgrounds and playgrounds in the Liechtenstein municipality of Balzers were closed to the public. Posters of this kind were placed at all these places.

Jenny Mclean remembers Nidiya

Boundary Way Allotments are a couple of hundered yards from where I live. I went there yesterday and met a Jamaican man named Tony Mclean and we started a conversation about this project. He told me that his wife Jenny was at a funeral of her best friend Nidiya who had died of COVID-19 at that very time. I spoke with her this morning and she said she would be happy to have a chat at the allotments because she finds a lot of solace being there. She was almost physically sick when she was at her friends funeral remembering the 33 years, she was best friends with Nidiya. Black & Asian people seem to have been hardest hit with the disease in the city of Wolverhampton.

Clap for NHS

One of the project's 10 commissioned artists, Roy Mehta, picked this for including within the collection's 10 London Suburbs images. He said:  "The image that I have picked is: 'Shuvaseesh Das, Clap For NHS London’. I liked some of the other images but this one encapsulates the reality of the ‘Lockdown’ for so many people. The framing enables us to see the couple in context and the clapping on the balcony can only refer to the current support for the NHS. Matched with the sombre look on their faces makes this a powerful image.

Socially Distanced Soaking

Back lane fun on a hot spring day. Two friends ‘fight’ til they’re wet through and their buckets are empty. Their innocent giggles and indignant shrieks reminders of days past, and of those that will come again.

Juliette, Juliette (sounds of the street)

As spring welcomes us with sunnier, warmer days I’ve found some of my most welcomed relief resting in the garden. A combination of Lockdown married with a furious flare of symptoms meant that this small precious outdoor space had once again become the ultimate safe haven it always is for me; a place to be in the world again only in the form of wind blowing, glorious birdsong, the chitter-chatter of children playing or my closed eyes against spring sunshine. And yet it really is a wonder to participate in such a haven of rest given that we live amongst such close quarters.

Coincidental hair cutting

Coincidental hair cutting going on in adjacent gardens of two neighbouring families. The garden on the right belongs to staff photographer Alun Bull.

Protection mask

This mask was designed in the context of the Covid-19 health crisis, by Isabelle Mathieu, a hat maker based in Alleur. This creation was developed to allow communication with people who are deaf, hard of hearing or mute. "Relab de Liège" collaborated on the project by providing laser cutting of the materials, ensuring that the edges of the fabric do not fray at the visor.

No kiss, but the heart is there!

Badge encouraging respect for physical distancing, in the context of the coronavirus crisis.

Everything will be fine We promise!

Hand-crafted decorative panel conveying a message of hope, as part of the confinement imposed by the coronavirus crisis.

After the rain ... comes the sun, Let's stay at home!

This panel was produced during the period of confinement by a mother and her children. It was hung every day on the facade, in the windows on the ground floor of the house.

No More Skateboards

At the start of the UK lockdown at the end of March 2020, almost everything stopped. This included the usual forms of play. This is the empty skateboard park on the South Inch, Perth, Scotland.

Leprechauns and Rainbows

Very quickly after lockdown and the consequent home-schooling commenced, many families expressed their hopes and anxieties through playful artwork displayed in house windows.

Graffiti Rules OK?

From around two months into lockdown some playful protest began to emerge alongside the established empathetic response. This graffiti was created beneath the A9 bridge over the river Almond, at Inveralmond, Perth, Scotland.

Chalk-drawings in lockdown

During lockdown children rediscovered some traditional ways to play closer to home. These pavement chalk drawings and games cropped up in several places, in this instance the centre of Perth, Scotland.

Painted Pebbles

Towards the end-phase of lockdown, children began to leave painted pebbles outside of their schools as a show of solidarity and empathy.

This is part of the so-called “family lockdown caterpillar” outside Moncrieffe Primary School, Perth, Scotland.

"From Budapest"

When people started to buy all the stocks from the shops, I also wanted to provide myself proper protection, in my extraordinary way of course. I chose the medieval plague doctor mask as an example for myself. I was convinced that if that worked in the Medieval Ages, it must be useful now too. I received it just in time in April. I was doing the groceries, walking on the streets and used public transportation in this one for a week. Wherever I was, conversations froze, people were frightened around me. Professional photographers are still calling me over for having a picture on the streets. Whether there is a pandemic or not, people should never lose their senses of humour, even if it’s a bit morbid.

"From Mosonmagyarórvár"

It all started on the evening of 13th March, when it was announced that from next Monday we were not allowed to go to school. We all thought it will only take a week or two... we were wrong.

These masks were made of linen, we had colourful ones for the children and white ones with three layers for the others. I hope everything will be back to normal again soon. Now it is getting better, we can participate in summer camps where I can be surrounded by friends again!

"From Mezőkövesd"

A local dressmaker sewed my mask for my wedding. We were short on time therefore it’s not embroided. We are a family with Matyó routes, women of several generations embroided beautiful dresses and ornaments.

The wedding was on 21st March at Mezőkövesd, when my girlfriend, Beáta Görzsöny, became my wife, Beáta Kiss. :) Due to the safety measures we only had a few guests on that day, it was bizarre but also an amazing memory.

"From Debrecen"

We had read in local news and on the web that the government had asked help from citizens to sew masks at home. We sent an email with our registration, received the positive answer from one of the Community Centres of Debrecen, and they delivered all the material, rubber bands and the pattern of the mask. Everything was pretty easy afterwards. My husband drew the design, my son (with reduced capacity to work) cut them and I added the required stitches at the end. We produced more than 150 masks in a few days. It was not only fun but also really useful!

"From Herend"

I am from Herend. We worked together with several helpers, sewing shops and sponsors, and voluntarily produced around 50.000 masks in Veszprém county, and gave them out for free. Most of them went to hospitals and pharmacies.

Éagsúlacht nua

D’iarramar ar ár gcuairteoirí grianghraif a chur chugainn ina bhfuil a maisc á gcaitheamh acu. Tá na maisc sin éigeantach agus, dá bhrí sin, is léiriú iad ar dhealramh nua daoine i spásanna poiblí. Iúil 2020

Dlúthoidhreacht

Le linn na céime gaibhniúcháin, d’iarramar ar ár bpobal a dteach a thiontú ina músaem agus míniú a thabhairt ar an “bpíosa is fearr leo” i bhfíseán. D’inis Alfonso dúinn gur mhúscail a hata a lán cuimhní cinn ann ar a thír féin: Meicsiceo. Aibreán - Bealtaine 2020

Antraipeolaíocht le haghaidh géarchéime

Le linn an ghaibhnithe, d’oibrigh níos mó ná 20 antraipeolaí i gcomhar leis an músaem agus thug siad roinnt nod dúinn faoina raibh ag tarlú agus faoi cé na hathruithe i saol an duine a bhféadfaí a bheith ag dréim leo tar a éis sin. Tá a n-ailt foilsithe againn ar shuíomh gréasáin MNA. Tá an pictiúr seo i saothar Álvaro Alconada dar teideal “Ar eadarbhuas le linn babhta machnaimh”.

Teideal scríofa “Ná leag lámh orm! D’fhéadfadh an víreas a bheith orm!” Bealtaine - Meitheamh 2020

Fuinneoga ar fud an domhain

Le linn na seachtainí a raibh muintir na Spáinne sáinnithe ina gcuid tithe chun nach mbuailfí breoite de COVID iad, ba iad na fuinneoga an t-aon bhealach a bhí acu lena fheiceáil cad é a bhí ag tarlú lasmuigh, sa tsráid nó sa chomharsanacht. Mar sin de, d’iarramar orthu grianghraif díobh féin a chur chugainn. Sa ghrianghraf seo, ó fhuinneog Ana, nochtar dúinn an dóigh ar féidir fós, in ainneoin an ‘ghaibhnithe’, an bogha báistí a fheiceáil. Aibreán - Bealtaine 2020

Gnáthshaol nua

D’iarramar freisin ar ár bpobal grianghraif a chur chugainn ina léirítear an dóigh ar fhilleadar ar a gcomharsanachtaí tar éis roinnt míonna nárbh fhéidir leo cuairt a thabhairt orthu lena linn. Chuir Ángel grianghraf chugainn ina léirítear an chéad uair a thug sí cuairt ar an eaglais le tamall fada.  Meitheamh 2020

Rannpháirtithe in imeacht damhsa pobail Poikkeusliike (‘Gluaiseachtaí Eisceachtúla’) i gceantar Ruoholahti in Heilsincí, an 27 Márta 2020. Ghlac daoine páirt in imeacht damhsa ar líne ar fud na Fionlainne trí bheith ag damhsa ar feadh 20 nóiméad ag an am céanna in áit dá rogha féin.

Trí mhúrphictiúr Superhoitaja (“Altra ar dóigh”), gabhtar buíochas le haltraí as a gcuid oibre le linn phaindéim an choróinvíris. Is ionann an ealaín graifítí le Molotow Finland agus comhartha ómóis d’oibrithe cúraim sláinte agus tá sí i gceantar Konepaja de cheantar Vallila in Heilsincí, an 28 Aibreán 2020.

Rang staidéar comhshaoil i bPáirc Sinebrychoff do Rang 3B Scoil Ghearmánach Heilsincí (Deutsche Schule Heilsincí), an 26 Bealtaine 2020. Bhí roinnt de na ranganna ar siúl lasmuigh agus roinnt eile ar siúl laistigh nuair a d’oscail na scoileanna athuair i lár mhí na Bealtaine. Tá Anmol Dogar, múinteoir riachtanas speisialta oideachais, sa chúlra.

Rang staidéar comhshaoil i bPáirc Sinebrychoff do Rang 3B Scoil Ghearmánach Heilsincí (Deutsche Schule Heilsincí), an 26 Bealtaine 2020. Bhí roinnt de na ranganna ar siúl lasmuigh agus roinnt eile ar siúl laistigh nuair a d’oscail na scoileanna athuair i lár mhí na Bealtaine. Tá Anmol Dogar, múinteoir riachtanas speisialta oideachais, sa chúlra.

In ainneoin an choróinvíris, dháil an eagraíocht Hurstin apu (‘Cabhair Hursti’) bia ar dhaoine bochta agus ar dhaoine faoi mhíbhuntáiste i gceantar Kallio de Heilsincí, an 17 Aibreán 2020. Mar gheall ar an dianghlasáil, tugadh cúl le scuainí agus dháiltí bia aon uair a thagadh daoine chun é a iarraidh. Dáileann an carthanas bia agus beartáin éadaigh ó cheann ceann na bliana orthu siúd a bhfuil gá acu leo, agus eagraíonn sé imeachtaí éagsúla.

Le teacht chun cinn phaindéim an choróinvíris, sinne i Músaem Eitneagrafaíochta na Slóivéine, mar institiúid atá freagrach go sóisialta, d'fhiafraíomar dínn féin conas a d‘fhéadfaimis freagairt a thabhairt uirthi agus, thar aon ní eile, conas a d’fhéadfaimis cabhrú le daoine i gcás ar leith. Chinneamar go dtosóimis ar scéalta grinn a bhí ag scaipeadh inár measc a bhailiú. Bhí sé mar aidhm leis sin áthas a chur ar dhaoine agus faoiseamh a thabhairt dóibh ó imní, eagla agus buaireamh an ghnáthshaoil a bhaineann le breoiteacht, le leithlisiú agus le huaigneas.

Ar an láimh eile, theastaigh uainn freisin an staid sa tsochaí a thaifeadadh le scéalta grinn atá ina gcuid dár n-oidhreacht chultúrtha spioradálta. Deir ceann amháin de na scéalta grinn sin gurb amhlaidh, mar gheall ar an líon scéalta grinn atá ag scaipeadh, nach raibh riamh paindéim chomh sona léi ann. Nó go bhfuil na scéalta grinn faoin gcoróinvíreas ag scaipeadh níos tapúla ná an víreas féin.

Ceann amháin de na príomhghnéithe de scéalta grinn is ea an tarchur ó bhéal, ach i gcás ar leith, nuair a cuireadh iallach orainn fanacht sa bhaile, aistríodh gach rud chuig an Idirlíon agus chuig bealaí cumarsáide nua-aimseartha.

Laistigh de dhá mhí, tá níos mó ná 1,000 scéal grinn bailithe againn agus tá a roghnú ar taispeáint faoi láthair i dteilgean ríomhaire i bpríomh-halla an mhúsaeim agus ar an seastán lasmuigh os comhair an mhúsaeim, áit a scríobhaimid scéalta grinn nua gach seachtain. Le haghaidh Oíche Shamhraidh an Mhúsaeim an 20 Meitheamh 2020, tá taispeántas darb ainm "Koronski humor” á ullmhú againn.

A glimpse from the exhibition CORONA HUMOUR: Jokes in time of pandemic COVID-19 ("Homeschooling versus working from home-office" section).

Sami Nasr as Co. Mhuineacháin ag baint súp as an leoithne fhionnuar ó fhuinneog an ghluaisteáin agus é ar thuras sa charr tar éis maolú a theacht ar an dianghlasáil.

Pictiúr de Tara McCarron as Contae Mhuineacháin agus comhghleacaí di ag obair i mbarda COVID-19.

Pictiúr de bhóthar i dTuaisceart Chontae Mhuineacháin le linn dhianghlasáil COVID-19.

Pictiúr de Glenn Murphy agus a mhuintir as Muineachán, a rith maratón timpeall a thí le linn na dianghlasála agus a chruinnigh níos mó ná €13,500 le haghaidh oibrithe túslíne i Muineachán.

Masc ar a bhfuil sailchuach bróidnithe

‘Toisc gur geal liom go mór an bhróidnéireacht, is maith is eol dom méid na dúthrachta is gá a chaitheamh léi; Déanaim a lán bróidnéireachta le linn mo chuid ama shaoir freisin. Tá dhá shraith sa mhasc agus snoitear de láimh é. Roghnaigh mé an tsailchuach lena mhaisiú ar dhá chúis: tá sí ar cheann de na bláthanna a fhásann go maith san earrach, an tráth céanna go baileach a thosaigh an phaindéim san Ungáir; agus ar an láimh eile roinneann léi brí shamhaltach na hathbhreithe agus an dóchais - chun comhrac i gcoinne an víris.’

Teicneolaíocht agus Cruthaitheacht

‘Bhí mé féin agus m’fhear céile ag cianobair le linn an ghaibhnithe. Tá gnáthamh laethúil agam atá cothrom agus mós gnóthach. Tá a ualach oibre siúd randamach ach tá an mhaoirseacht dian; déantar a chuid gníomhaíochta ar an scáileán a sheiceáil ó am go chéile. Nuair nach mbíonn cúraimí ar bith le déanamh, áfach, —  ach go mbíonn a fhios agat go mbeadh a lán le déanamh sa bhaile — is féidir fearg a theacht ort. Thángthas ar réiteach i bhfoirm briogún. Agus mé ag obair, bíonn an scáileán eile ar siúl freisin.’

Gréagán

‘Is breá liom mo chuid ama a chaitheamh a bheith cruthaitheach, a mhéid a bhaineann le maisiúcháin. Cuireadh an gréagán sin i lár an bhoird mar mhaisiúchán don Cháisc. Tá seachtainí anois ann ó chonaiceamar daoine dár dteaghlach agus ba ghnáthamh laethúil é a bheith ag faire ar an teilifís gach aon lá chun an scéala is déanaí faoin víreas a fháil. Is é mo mhórthuairim go bhféadfadh an saol seo againn a bheith níos fearr ach iarracht den ghreann a bheith ionainn.’

Maisc fhónta

‘Chuaigh daoine thar fóir maidir le maisc a cheannach a luaithe a thosaigh an phaindéim san Ungáir. Dá bhrí sin, chinn mé ar mo chinn féin a dhéanamh - thaibhsigh sé dom gurbh é an t-aon réiteach é. Bhí mé sa tóir ar léine chadáis den chéad scoth a bhféadfainn leas a bhaint as a cúl chun sé cinn de mhaisc a dhéanamh.

Fágann sé faoi chumha mé óir is an Iodáil an tír is fearr liom agus ba í an chéad tír san Eoraip í a chuaigh i ngleic leis an víreas. Tá nath ann san Iodáilis, i.e. ‘dare una mano’, a chiallaíonn lámh chúnta a thabhairt do dhuine. Tá muinchille ar iarraidh ar an t-léine, rud atá ina léiriú ar an gcabhair nach bhfuair an Iodáil, ach ar cheart di í a fháil, ó na tíortha sin arb iad a dturasóirí siúd príomhthomhaltóirí na n-earraí sin.’

Clár smúdála

‘Tá an clár smúdála seo i bhfad níos lárnaí inár saol laethúil le seacht seachtainí anuas ná mar a bhí sé le deich mbliana anuas.

Tá a airde inathraithe. Dá bhrí sin, is diail an rud é an ríomhaire glúine a bheith ar an gclár smúdála le linn na ranganna pianó a dhéanann mo leanbh, ionas nach é amháin go mbíonn radharc iomlán ar an staidiúir ag an múinteoir, ach ar na méara freisin. B’fhiú é a cheannach ar an gcúis sin amháin.’

I bhfochair a chéile ach scartha ó chéile

Tá an iníon ag caint lena máthair ar an nguthán. Tá an mháthair ina cónaí i dteach altranais ach d’éirigh leo am a chaitheamh le chéile trí chloí leis na rialacha agus leis an scaradh sóisialta.

Téigh abhaile

Le linn na Cásca, i gceantar ina bhfuil cónaí ar líon beag daoine, chuaigh bualadh mór daoine ag siúlóireacht amuigh faoin tír siúd is gurbh í an chomhairle, de réir na dtreoirlínte sa Danmhairg, gur cheart fanacht sa bhaile. Cuireadh fearg ar dhuine de mhuintir na háite mar gheall ar an trangláil daoine agus rinne sí comhartha ar ar scríobh sí ‘Téigh abhaile’ agus chuir sí le hais an bhóthair é. Toisc go raibh an-fhearg ar a comharsana mar gheall air sin, bhain sí anuas an comhartha ar deireadh.

Breithlá

Breithlá gan aíonna! Dúnadh na tithe altranais agus ní raibh cead ag daoine cuairt a thabhairt orthu mar gheall ar an víreas. Sin é an fáth nach raibh an dara rogha ag muintir Grethe Gertsen ach teacht le chéile lasmuigh den teach altranais an 2 Aibreán chun a 91ú breithlá a cheiliúradh. Tá sí ina suí le hais na fuinneoige.

Altra

Gach lá, bailíonn an músaem tuairiscí ó dhaoine a d’airigh go tobann go raibh an saol ina chíor thuathail. Is altra máinliach ortaipéideach í Charlotte Høj Opheim-Winje, ach in imeacht cúpla lá, athoileadh í chun othair coróinvíris in Ospidéal Farsø a bhainistiú. Tá taifead ar a scéal do na glúine atá le teacht.

Netto

Sula dtéann siad isteach in ollmhargaí agus i siopaí grósaera moltar do chustaiméirí aire a thabhairt dá chéile agus do na fostaithe agus coinneáil amach ó chéile. Thairis sin, insíonn na siopaí do dhaoine nach bhfuil cúis ar bith ann le bheith ag cruinniú earraí, ós rud é go seachadtar earraí gach lá i gcónaí. Is cuid thábhachtach de thaifead ár músaeim ar an staid an-speisialta seo iad comharthaí agus rabhaidh. Tráth is faide anonn, beidh roinnt acu i mbailiúchán an mhúsaeim. Thairis sin, oibríonn an músaem i gcomhar le hoifig an Mhéara chun achoimrí ar chinntí agus doiciméid bhardasacha thábhachtacha eile a fháil.

Østerbrogade

Sráideanna agus bailte atá folamh ó dhaoine. Fanann daoine sa bhaile, ar cuid thábhachtach freisin é den cháipéisíocht atá á cruinniú ag an músaem faoi láthair.

Fíricí

Díghalrán lámh, miotóga plaisteacha agus fógraí a insíonn duit conas tú féin a iompar san ollmhargadh, lena n-áirítear acmhainn uasta an tsiopa. Go tobann, baineann go leor deacrachtaí leis an tsiopadóireacht agus ní hí an tsiopadóireacht chéanna in aon chor í. Tá taifead á choinneáil ar an méid sin ag an músaem faoi láthair ar dóigh léi gur deis uathúil atá i ngéarchéim COVID-19 chun an stair faoi mar atá sí ag titim amach san am i láthair a thaifeadadh. Is é is an-tábhachtach leis an músaem ná léargas a thabhairt ar na hathruithe atá ag tarlú.

Tralaí siopadóireachta

“San am a chuaigh thart”, bhí an tralaí seo ina léiriú ar an tsiopadóireacht ba ‘ghá a dhéanamh’ le linn an deireadh seachtaine, chun dochair do ghníomhaíochtaí eile a bhí i bhfad níos fiúntaí. Tharraingímis é faoi mar a bheadh liathróid ann, agus dar linn nach raibh ann ach réad feidhmiúil. Anois, tráth seo an ghaibhnithe, is léiriú é ar éalú agus eachtraíocht.

Triomadóir éadaí

Ó rud é go bhfuil mo bhean chéile (an bhean ag a raibh an tralaí siopadóireachta) ag cianobair inár seomra ar a dugtar an oifig, táimse sáinnithe inár seomra suite, inár bproinnseomra... Ach, san am a chuaigh thart, bhí ár n-oifig: ina seomra pianó, ina seomra amhránaíochta, ina seomra ríomhaireachta, ina seomra péinteála agus gach 2 go 3 lá, ina seomra triomúcháin.

Táim féin agus ‘Plume’ inár gcónaí anois inár bproinnseomra / inár seomra triomúcháin.  Is sólás dom é nach gá, tráth seo an ghaibhnithe, smúdáil a dhéanamh (...) mar sin de, nílimid inár gcónaí i seomra smúdála freisin!

Guthán póca

Bhí mo ghuthán póca an-tábhachtach ó thosach an ghaibhnithe toisc go raibh mé in ann scairt a chur ar mo mhuintir, ar mo chairde ... A bhuí leis an nguthán póca, bím i dteagmháil le mo mhúinteoir freisin.

Bhris mé mo sheanghuthán an deireadh seachtaine sular thosaigh an gaibhniú, agus bhí mé in ann ceann eile a cheannach ag an nóimeád deiridh, Dé Céadaoin tráth a bhí na siopaí uile le dúnadh ag meánlae. Tháinig mé chun an tsiopa ar 11am. Faoiseamh mór ab ea é!

Barróg tríd an bPost

“Mo bhreithlá atá ann. Ós rud é nach bhfuil cead ag mo leanbh baistí, Elisa, mé a fheiceáil ná barróg a thabhairt dom ar mo bhreithlá, chuir sí barróg chugam tríd an bpost. Thaitin sé sin go mór liom.”

Víreas na Cróise

“I mo theachsa, bítear ag cróiseáil.”

Agóid le Maisc

“Rinne mé féin agus mo chomrádaithe tí maisc a fhuáil agus bhaineamar leas as an haischlib #leavenoonebehind. Fiú agus cosc ar thionóil, theastaigh uainn aird a tharraingt ar chruachás na ndídeanaithe.”

Rialacha an Teaghlaigh

“Tá ‘Rialacha an Teaghlaigh’ in ainm is rudaí a choinneáil in ord. Is féidir an gá le cúlú nó urlabhra aonair a chur in iúl le cárta dearg nó ‘cloch cainte’.”

An Pas

“Eisíodh an pas seo dom tar éis seiceáil a dhéanamh orm ag an mbealach isteach chuig KH Nord (Ospidéal North). A bhuí leis an bpas, bhí mé in ann a bheith i láthair nuair a saolaíodh ár n-iníon.”

Cuir ort do mhasc!

Ní raibh aon duine in ann maisc aghaidhe a sheachaint. Chuir duine éigin masc ar an dealbh de Edvard Kocbek, scríbhneoir ón tSlóivéin, atá lonnaithe i bPáirc Tivolo in Ljubljana.

Srianta ar ghluaiseacht laistigh den Ionad Siopadóireachta

Mar gheall ar shrianta ar ghluaiseacht agus chun gurbh fhusaide smacht a choinneáil ar ghluaiseacht daoine timpeall an ionaid siopadóireachta, san ionad siopadóireachta is mó sa tSlóivéin úsáideadh tralaithe siopadóireachta agus téip bacainne chun conair a chruthú ar a bhféadfadh custaiméirí gluaiseacht agus a chéile a sheachaint. Rinneadh é sin chun féidearthacht na teagmhála fisiciúla a laghdú.

Áit Súgartha Iata i Lár na Páirce

Chun cosc a chur ar ionfhabhtuithe a bheith ag scaipeadh tuilleadh, cuireadh toirmeasc ar threalamh áineasa leanaí a úsáid. Mar sin de, dhaingnigh na húdaráis inniúla é le téip bacainne.

Cearnóg Prešeren in Ljubljana Iomlán Folamh ó Dhaoine

Mar gheall ar shrianta ar ghluaiseacht, agus toisc siopaí agus beáir a bheith iata, bhí lár Ljubljana, príomhchathair na Slóivéine, iomlán dealbh le linn an leithlisithe. Is ar éigean má bhí duine ar bith ar an gcearnóg, atá ina háit choinne do mhuintir na háite agus a mbíonn tarraingt mhór ag turasóirí uirthi.

Bíonn duine éigin i gcónaí ann, fiú mura mbíonn duine ar bith ann #1

D’fhág srianta ar ghluaiseacht agus gan aon seirbhísí iompair phoiblí a bheith ann go raibh na sráideanna sa lár cathrach in Ljubljana folamh ó dhaoine. Thapaigh roinnt daoine an deis chun cleachtadh clárscátála a dhéanamh. Is féidir fógra a fheiceáil ar an taobh clé den phictiúr, ar a luaitear an teachtaireacht “Tagaigí le chéile, trí choinneáil scartha ó chéile’, ar meabhrú é ar a thábhachtaí atá an scaradh sóisialta. 

Gaiste 2020 / Nílim i láthair 2020

“Cé go bhfuil teach mo thuismitheoirí i bhfad níos mó ná an stiúideo ina raibh cónaí orm i mBúcairist roimh an ngaibhniú, airím go bhfuilim i gceann de na cásanna móra sin i ngairdín na n-ainmhithe, mar a maireann an t-ainmhí i ndálaí atá ina samhail dá ngnáthóg nádúrtha, ach atá fós ar uireasa saoirse.”

An tionscadal ‘Tá an baile i ngach aon bhall’: Níl saol ann lasmuigh 2020 / Cuirfimid fios ort 2020

“Ar an drochuair, mar gheall ar an staid mar atá, níl an dara rogha agam ach m’árasán a choinneáil mar an t-aon «baile» atá agam. Trí bheith ag tarraingt, is féidir liom éalú tamall agus mé féin a thumadh i gcomhthéacsanna éagsúla is aithnid dom. Cé gur uaigneas agus leadrán atá á gcur in iúl agam, is dóigh liom gur tréimhse an-tairbheach gurb ea í don fhorbairt ealaíne agus do nithe eile nach í.’

Dialann faoin bhféinleithlisiú, blúire, 2020

‘Is éard atá sa tsraith «Cén lá atá ann» ná dialann ghairid faoin bhféinleithlisiú ina bhfuil cuntas ar an dóigh ar athraigh mo shaol ar feadh míosa, geall leis, le linn na paindéime. Tasc ollscoile a bhí ann ar dtús ach ráinigh go raibh sé ar cheann de na gníomhaíochtaí ba theiripí dá ndearna mé le linn na míonna úd.

Tá dhá chuid sa dialann: sa chéad chuid freagraítear an cheist «Cá bhfuil mé?» agus is léiriú go príomha í ar na hathruithe síceolaíocha a tharla mar gheall ar an réaltacht nua agus i bhfad ró-éagsúil idir na ceithre bhalla ina rabhamar sáinnithe thar oíche. Baineann an dara cuid leis an gceist «Cár mhaith liom a bheith?» agus tá cuntas cumhach inti ar na mianta beaga, a bhí ina mianta coitianta tráth, a mbímid ag smaoineamh fúthu Domhnach is dálach ar na saolta seo.’

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