Canadian International Documentary Festival. Cancelled cultural events include such awards ceremonies as the Juno Awards of 2020, scheduled to have been in Saskatoon on 15 March, the 8th Canadian Screen Awards (Toronto, 29 March 2020), the 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards (Charlottetown, 3 and 4 April), the Artis Awards (Montreal, 10 May) and the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards (Montreal, 7 June). Festival cancellations or postponements include the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, originally planned in Toronto from 30 April to 10 May, the Inside Out Film and Video Festival, originally planned for late May but now rescheduled to October, and Montreal's , which will now be presented online. CBC Radio's Canada Reads book competition, scheduled for the week of 16 March, was also postponed. Canada's national museums in Ottawa cancelled all scheduled events and exhibits, and closed indefinitely on 14 March. Almost all local museums, art galleries, theatres, and other performance venues across the country have also closed indefinitely. The National Arts Centre launched #CanadaPerforms, a $100,000 fund that would pay Canadian musicians $1,000 to perform a livestreamed home concert on Facebook during the crisis. The initiative launched on 19 March with a concert by Jim Cuddy, with other artists already scheduled to perform including Serena Ryder, William Prince, Irish Mythen, Erin Costelo and Whitehorse. The eighth season of the Global series Big Brother Canada abruptly ended production on 24 March 2020 due to the Ontario government's mandatory 14-day closure of all non-essential workplaces. There was no winner, with the prize money subsequently donated to charities responding to COVID-19. On 26 April, nearly all Canadian television networks in both English and French collaborated on the multiplatform special Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble, which featured home-recorded messages and musical performances from Canadian celebrities, as a benefit for Food Banks Canada. The special attracted 11.5 million viewers, becoming the most-watched non-sports broadcast in the history of Canadian television, and concluded with the broadcast premiere of a cover of Bill Withers's song "Lean on Me", recorded by an ad hoc supergroup of Canadian musicians as a fundraiser for the Canadian Red Cross. Participating artists included Bryan Adams, Jann Arden, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Fefe Dobson, Scott Helman, Shawn Hook, Avril Lavigne, Geddy Lee, Marie-Mai, Sarah McLachlan, Johnny Orlando, Josh Ramsay, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Tyler Shaw, Walk off the Earth and Donovan Woods. During an interview on Breakfast Television, Simon Cowell announced a spin-off version