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Thursday
, September 24
231
9:00am •
Move to Connect: Creative Movement for Community Connection
1:30pm •
Building Social Connection Through Participatory Arts: A Train-the-Trainer Workshop to Strengthen Organizational Well-Being
330AB
9:00am •
Building and Sustaining Cultural Disaster Response Networks
1:30pm •
INVITE ONLY: Resource Mapping Forum for Arts and Cultural Disaster Response Networks
330C
9:00am •
Collective Stories: An experimental group creation lab for disaster contexts
12:30pm •
Roundtable Discussion: AFTA Incubator Three-Month Convening
3:30pm •
Many Hands: A tabletop practice session for arts and disaster response
330E
9:00am •
Gathering the Story: Story Circles as a Tool for Community Connection, Preparedness & Recovery
1:30pm •
Arts in Disaster: Shaping Tools to Support Community Connection and Wellbeing
375
12:30pm •
Roundtable Discussion: KHERN Planning Summit
Ballroom A
8:15am •
Registration & Breakfast
8:50am •
Welcome & Opening Remarks
12:30pm •
Lunch & Networking
3:15pm •
Networking & Refreshment Break
Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)
3:30pm •
Meaning through Making: Using Collage to Bring Order from Chaos After Disaster
Friday
, September 25
231
10:00am •
The Healing Power of Dance
11:15am •
Fire Behavior, Salvage, and Prevention for Arts and Cultural Organizations
11:45am •
Arts Emergency Management in Higher Education: A New Pedagogy for Resilience
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #1: Arts in Disaster: A Conversation Around Tools for Community Connection and Wellbeing
2:15pm •
Movement Choirs for Community Resilience
3:30pm •
Creative Disasters: Movement workshop for disaster storytelling
330AB
11:00am •
Networking & Refreshment Break
2:00pm •
Networking & Refreshment Break
3:15pm •
Networking & Refreshment Break
330C
10:00am •
Legacy Planning and Archiving for the Active Artist: What you’ve created merits preservation
11:15am •
Rampart: Readiness and Legacy Planning for Musicians
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #6: Connection as Prevention: Building Arts, Health, and Community Response Networks After Disaster
2:15pm •
Cultural Emergency Response Map: Safeguarding Puerto Rico’s Heritage
2:45pm •
Stronger Together: Forging a Rural Arts and Culture Disaster Resilience Network in Vermont
3:30pm •
From Fly Loft to Rescue Loft: Using Theatre Spaces for High Rescue Training
4:00pm •
The Alianza Cultural para Emergencias de Puerto Rico: Building Connections and Resilience through Educational Innitiatives
330D
10:00am •
UK Robinson Center: To Rebuild>To Refocus>To Recover
10:30am •
Interdisciplinary Links from Appalachian Water Humanities Cooperative
11:15am •
NCAPER Learning Sprint: Risk Assessment, Business Continuity, Navigating Crises and Legacy Planning
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #4: Local Arts Agencies: Essential Infrastructure for Disaster Readiness, Response, and Recovery
2:15pm •
After the Storm: Storybooks and other Arts-Based Practices for Children’s Disaster Readiness and Recovery
3:30pm •
Risk Assessment: Spot Vulnerabilities Before They Become Emergencies
330E
10:00am •
Safeguarding Community Celebrations: Lessons from Greenup County’s Between Two Rivers Arts & Preparedness Project
10:30am •
EmComm for All: Basic radio communication for resilient communities
11:15am •
Community Identity and the Perception of Post-Hurricane Arts Engagement: A Regional Case Study of Northwest Florida and Coastal Alabama
11:45am •
Creative Resilience: How Arts-Based Practices Support Community Healing
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #5: What Does Resilience Look Like To You? An Emergency Management Perspective, from Preparedness and Mitigation to Response and Recovery
2:15pm •
ArtShine: Illuminating the Healing Potential of the Arts
2:45pm •
From Comic Book Inker to Crisis Leader
3:30pm •
The Late Recovery Gap: Make-Break-Transform, an Arts-Based Framework for Community-Led Recovery
4:00pm •
Case Study: A Cultural Treasure Engulfed in Flames
375
10:00am •
A Guided Tour of Readiness, Response, and Recovery Resources: Navigate the landscape of support for artists and arts organizations
11:15am •
Disasters, Data, and Decision-Making: Finding and Understanding Local Disaster-Related Data
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #2: Retreating to Advance: CAReNet's artist-led approach to disaster relief and recovery
2:15pm •
Lost in Translation: When Arts Administrators and Emergency Managers Speak Different Languages
3:30pm •
In the Wake of Disasters: Defining and Mitigating Traumas
Ballroom A
8:15am •
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45am •
Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:00am •
Keynote: Designing for Hope: The Power of Art and Evaluation in Disaster Response
9:45am •
Networking & Refreshment Break
12:15pm •
Lunch & Networking
4:45pm •
Closing Plenary Performance: "Down by the River"
5:30pm •
Closing Reception
Brockman Senate Chamber (2nd floor)
10:00am •
The Art of Paying it Forward
11:15am •
Revealing Our Fragile Future: How Architecture Can Make Climate Vulnerability Visible
1:15pm •
Roundtable Discussion #3: The Arts and Post Disaster Recovery Resource
2:15pm •
National Efforts, Local Impact: Insights from the NEA and Creative Forces Arts in Disaster Programming
3:30pm •
From Forecast to First Response: An All‑Hazards Panel for Arts and Culture with a Meteorologist and an Emergency Manager
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