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Collected Item: “Corona DJ”

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Corona DJ

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Aa picture of an Italian neighborhood playing music. I found an article written on it through NewsHub

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When faced with boredom, you either figure out a way to do something, or you rot away in peril. During the early stages of the pandemic, Italy was one of the hardest-hit countries in the world, the Italians would have to figure out how to do something when faced with the attached boredom. The residents in an unnamed neighborhood would innovate with this boredom in a fanatisic way. One of the residents happened to be a DJ and set up his rig to play to the whole block.

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DJ, Virus, COVID-19

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/03/coronavirus-italian-resident-djs-from-balcony-to-lift-neighbours-morale.html

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Lana Andelane

Give this story a date.

2020-03-17
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