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Eleanor Billington
National Endowment for the Arts
Civic Partnerships Manager
https://www.arts.gov/impact/disaster-readiness-recovery-for-the-arts-and-culture-sector
About me
Eleanor Billington is the Civic Partnerships Manager at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). She manages the local arts agency grant portfolio as well as the NEA’s disaster recovery and emergency preparedness work.
Thursday
, September 24
8:50am
EDT
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ballroom A
9:00am
EDT
Building and Sustaining Cultural Disaster Response Networks
330AB
Christina Cain • Tom Clareson • Mollie Quinlan-Hayes • Annie Rubel
12:30pm
EDT
Roundtable Discussion: AFTA Incubator Three-Month Convening
330C
Mital Lyons-Warren • Mollie Quinlan-Hayes • Tom Clareson
1:30pm
EDT
Arts in Disaster: Shaping Tools to Support Community Connection and Wellbeing
330E
Sara Baicich • Heather Spooner
3:15pm
EDT
Networking & Refreshment Break
Ballroom A
Friday
, September 25
8:45am
EDT
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ballroom A
9:00am
EDT
Keynote: Designing for Hope: The Power of Art and Evaluation in Disaster Response
Ballroom A
Raquel Farrell-Kirk • Stacey Kesten
10:00am
EDT
Safeguarding Community Celebrations: Lessons from Greenup County’s Between Two Rivers Arts & Preparedness Project
330E
Melissa Bond • Anne Stephens
11:15am
EDT
Revealing Our Fragile Future: How Architecture Can Make Climate Vulnerability Visible
Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)
Morris (Marty) Hylton III • Jennifer Wellock
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