Together @ TransitCare

TransitCare services are considered essential to our community and we will continue to take you where you need to go. Our dedicated drivers and their Community Flyers are here to drive you to your hospital and medical appointments, to collect your medications from the pharmacy and take you to the shops, the post office and to any of your essential appointments.

However, during these uncertain times, it is important now, more than ever that our TransitCare family remains connected. If you are feeling socially isolated, scared or vulnerable, our TransitCare team wants you to know that you can join us here 24 hours a day. We will continue to add new content to this page and our staff and volunteers will and all the people who are so familiar to you will add their messages and favourite things to do.

On this page, we have some songs to make you laugh, the Gallery of Stars featuring our wonderful staff and volunteers, our Social Support team, Abby and the 50 Plus Fitters, official information relating to COVID-19, armchair travel, craft and cooking, tours of zoos and aquariums and other wonderful places around the world. We have also included our Facebook feed for those people who do not have a Facebook profile of their own, and videos from TransitCare’s new YouTube channel.

Please visit this page regularly, as we will be adding new stories, videos and sections throughout the duration of your isolation. If there is anything you would like to see included in this page or you’d like to send us a message, please CONTACT US here. Then, continue to SCROLL down through the pages below to access the ever changing content.

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The Gallery of Stars

Our wonderful staff and volunteers would love to give a big SHOUT OUT to all of our clients out there. We miss you all and can’t wait until we can all be back on the road together.

Entertainment

CORONA PLAYLIST

Please take a moment for some light relief with our Corona Playlist (Don’t forget to hit “Skip Ad” (bottom right of screen) after the first three seconds).

Couch Choir – The Carpenters (They Long To Be) Close to You

The evolution of Pub Choir for the age of coronavirus, Couch Choir, has drawn more than 1,000 videos from across the world as they strive to bring people together during social isolation.The social organisation Pub Choir began in Brisbane in 2017 drawing hundreds of people together to learn harmonies and record popular songs.

For Couch Choir, singers were encouraged to visit the Pub Choir Facebook where three videos of different harmonies were published to encourage participants to record themselves singing at home.The videos received were mixed together into a music clip that has had more than 350,000 views since being released on Sunday 29 March.

Australia sings as one | ABC Yours

Australia sings as one | ABC Yours
“We are one, but we are many.” ❤ #ABCyours
Posted by ABC Brisbane on Monday, April 6, 2020

Sound of Music – The Corona Medleys

The Sound of a Pandemic! Don’t worry, Maria and the Von Trapplings know how to deal with it!

How do You Solve a Problem like Corona?

Hey There Corona Parody (Hey There Delilah)

Neil Diamond – Hands….. Washing Hands….

I Can’t Get No …. Sanitiser (Rolling Stones parody).

THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

Old-time radio mysteries and adventures

MUSICALS, OPERAS, CONCERTS

Love Never Dies – STREAMING FRIDAY 24 APRIL FOR 48 HOURS

The Shows Must Go On is a YouTube channel bringing you show tunes, backstage access and full performances from some of the best loved musicals in history! It features melodic moments, show-stopping solos and high notes for the history books. Each Friday, Andrew Lloyd Webber will be releasing a full-length, smash-hit musical once a week for you to watch for free!

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies – the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera will be streamed for free on YouTube, with the show available online from Friday 24 April 2020. Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joy rides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daae. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul and their young son Gustave from Manhatten, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island. They have not idea what lies in store for them. Starring Ben Lewis as The Phantom and Anna O’Byrne as Christine, this show will be available for 48 hours. Here is the link to The Shows Must Go On YouTube Channel, with other shows that have appeared.

GO TO 'THE SHOW MUST GO ON' YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE

Music from the Home Front – BROADCAST LIVE SUNDAY 25 APRIL AT 7.30 pm on Channel 9

Some of Australia and New Zealand’s biggest stars will come together on Anzac Day, Saturday April 25 at 7.30pm on Nine for a televised concert to thank essential workers on the COVID-19 frontline.

Music From The Home Front will feature Ben Lee, Birds Of Tokyo with West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Courtney Barnett, Delta Goodrem, Ian Moss, Jimmy Barnes, Kevin Parker (Tame Impala), Missy Higgins, Paul Kelly, The Rubens, The Wiggles, Vance Joy and Vika & Linda Bull. The concert’s hosts and additional artists will be announced in the coming days.

Andrea Bocelli Live from Dumo di Milano

Andrea Bocelli has staged an incredible solo concert at the historic Duomo cathedral in Milan. The Italian tenor was accompanied only by an organist at the empty church in the centre of a city under coronavirus lockdown.

SHOWS AND FILMS

The Shows Must Go On!

BOLD Short Films: These Walls
The streets are calling Valerie to come out and paint the town. It’s going to be a colourful night out with her grandson and their shared love for street art.‘These Walls’ aims to creatively show the capabilities of older people and to encourage a new way of looking at ageing. If you’re in Birdsville on January 26, the The The Touring Film Festival will be showing some of our #BoldShortFilms at the Birdsville Community Hall. www.qld.gov.au/BOLD2018 #BoldShortFilms series
Posted by Thriving Communities Qld on Tuesday, January 22, 2019

2020 Digital Season Overview
🎥 It's the moment we've all been waiting for ... we're thrilled to announce our 2020 Digital Season, At Home with Ballet TV. premieres this Sunday 5 April. We’ve hand-picked a selection of our most beloved and inspiring ballets and will be streaming them to Australians at home, for free. For more information and to see our April – May schedule: bit.ly/2020DigitalSeasonFB
Posted by The Australian Ballet on Thursday, April 2, 2020

COVID-19 Official Information

TransitCare and COVID-19

Here we keep you up to date with the fast changing government messages regarding COVID-19 and and TransitCare travel arrangements and other information. We will provide information from the World Health Organisation, Australian Government and Health Department , the ACCC for an update on coronavirus scams, and further information as it comes to hand.

Queensland Government – Latest Updates and Alerts

Find the latest updates on COVID-19 from the Queensland Government here. Changes include Term 2 school arrangements, changes to border and quarantine requirements and general health advice, government actions and essential information. https://www.covid19.qld.gov.au

Together @ TransitCare

CONTACT US FORM

The Gallery of Stars

Entertainment

CORONA PLAYLIST

Couch Choir – The Carpenters (They Long To Be) Close to You

Australia sings as one | ABC Yours

Sound of Music – The Corona Medleys

How do You Solve a Problem like Corona?

Hey There Corona Parody (Hey There Delilah)

Neil Diamond – Hands….. Washing Hands….

I Can’t Get No …. Sanitiser (Rolling Stones parody).

THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO

MUSICALS, OPERAS, CONCERTS

Love Never Dies – STREAMING FRIDAY 24 APRIL FOR 48 HOURS

Music from the Home Front – BROADCAST LIVE SUNDAY 25 APRIL AT 7.30 pm on Channel 9

Andrea Bocelli Live from Dumo di Milano

SHOWS AND FILMS

COVID-19 Official Information

Social Support Programme

Community Flyer Adventures

Men on the Move

Women who Wander

50 Plus Fitter with Abby

Armchair Travel

Places of Interest

Things to Keep You Busy!

News and Articles

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