Program Schedule
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10:15 AM - 12:35 PM
Introductions and morning sessions (details below)
12:35 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Afternoon sessions (details below)
4:00 PM on
Join us at the Surfalorus Film Festival!
Introductions
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Land acknowledgement (Lakota John)
Welcome to Nags Head! (Dan Brawley and Lee Nettles)
Welcome and overview of the NC statewide program (Catherine Swain)
Wayfinding and situational awareness (Jenny Ash)
What is the Art of Mass Gatherings? (Matthew Ché Kowal)
Roses & Thorns Networking
10:45 am - 11:20 am (35 minutes)
Facilitated by Majestic Collaborations team and other presenters
Let's get to know each other and start talking about our experiences planning, working at, or attending festivals! We'll share strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and strategies related to the four pillars of the Art of Mass Gatherings: safety, sustainability, accessibility, and community engagement.
By the end, each person should have at least one idea to enhance safety, accessibility, sustainability, or community engagement that they plan to enact in their events/organization.
Participatory Documentation Project
Introduced by Jessica Wallach
The Four Pillars:
Sustainability & Community Engagement
11:20 am - 11:55 am. Participants are split into two groups; each attends one session.
Sustainability Learning Stations
Introduction to sustainable solutions for event design:
Mack Coyle, CEO of Coyle Solar, leads a demo and session on working with solar power at events
Matthew Kowal, Co-Founder of Majestic Collaborations, leads a session on waste reduction design including composting, water, and other sustainability considerations
Community-Engaged Processes
Jennifer Pickering, Executive Director of LEAF Global Arts, shares lessons and facilitates a conversation on cultivating partnerships, even in the most unexpected places.
11:55 - 12:00 pm regroup
The Four Pillars: Sustainability & Community Engagement
12:00 - 12:35 pm. Each group will attend the session they did not attend previously!
Sustainability Learning Stations
Introduction to sustainable solutions for event design:
Mack Coyle, CEO of Coyle Solar, leads a demo and session on working with solar power at events
Matthew Kowal, Co-Founder of Majestic Collaborations, leads a session on waste reduction design including composting, water, and other sustainability considerations
Community-Engaged Processes
Jennifer Pickering, Executive Director of LEAF Global Arts, shares lessons and facilitates a conversation on cultivating partnerships, even in the most unexpected places.
Lunch Break
12:35 pm - 1:00 pm (25 minutes)
The Art of Event & Emergency Preparedness
1:00 pm - 1:40 pm (40 minutes)
Featuring Lee Nettles (Outer Banks Visitors Bureau), Scott Babinowich (National Parks Service), and Tom Clareson (Performing Arts Readiness)
Several arts, culture, event, and emergency professionals provide their perspective and insight into preparedness and resilience, covering topics of interest to them ranging from:
Local and national preparedness initiatives and resources
Intersections between event production and broader community emergency preparedness
Specific challenges to event safety / situational awareness for event producers
How communities can protect their arts and cultural heritage
Things that arts, culture, and event organizations can or should do to prepare themselves or their audiences and communities to mitigate, respond to, or recover from potential hazards
How to shape one's event through a preparedness, rather than reactionary lens
A brief Q&A panel discussion follows exploring intersections across their work!
Demystifying Accessibility: Four Tales of Accessible Journeys
1:40 pm - 2:20 pm (40 minutes)
Facilitated by Jessica Wallach, Scott Babinowich, Cady Breslin, and Steven Hardy-Braz
Our speakers recount their personal and professional accessibility journeys. Following the presentations, choose a hands-on learning station to visit to continue the conversation with our presenters and deepen your knowledge in the area of most interest to you!
2:20 - 2:30 pm
Coffee, fruit, and snack break
Coffee, fruit, and snack break
Resilience Asset Mapping
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm (30 minutes)
The Majestic Collaborations approach, facilitated by Bertrand Evans-Taylor
An Arts & Cultural Resilience Asset (ACRA) Map documents the physical infrastructure, capacities, and knowledge stewarded by local arts, culture, and event industries. It helps identify tangible and intangible arts and cultural resources worth protecting and also maps how local people and organizations can contribute to community resilience, especially as places seek to fortify themselves against natural disaster.
The Four Pillars: Safety & Accessibility Site Tour
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm (50 minutes)
Facilitated by Richard Cadena, Leigh Maher (LEAF Festival), Otto Vasquez (LEAF Festival) and Daryl Law (Jennette's Pier / NC Aquarium).
Participants for this section are divided into groups of about 10 people as they rotate through four sets of tours and learning stations. This session looks at accessibility, safety, and factors at the intersection of the two when it comes to event planning and design.
Meet your learning leads!
Daryl Law
Tour of accessibility features at Jennette's Pier
Otto Vasquez
Safety and accessibility lessons from his career
Leigh Maher
Presents the LEAF Global Arts Lost Child Protocol
Richard Cadena
Electrical safety considerations
Group Selfie on the Beach
3:50 pm
Enjoy Surfalorus Film Festival!
4:00 pm onwards
Calling all surfers, filmmakers, nature lovers, water weirdos, cinephiles, and fans of everything aquatic to the 11th annual Surfalorus Film Festival! Presented by Cucalorus and the Dare County Arts Council, this three-day celebration of coastal North Carolina marine culture is coming to the Outer Banks on September 18-21, 2022!
Networking Reception
Continue the day's conversation at this festival reception featuring live music, beginning at 6:00 pm
