Program Resources
The Art of Mass Gatherings at Surfalorus
View or download slides, links, and resources from today's program, organized in order of the program schedule!
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The Recipe for Resilient Gatherings
The Art of Mass Gatherings is an experiential learning event that uses festivals as classrooms to activate an arts-focused approach to community resilience and emergency preparedness. It invites artists, event producers, and emergency professionals to come together to share knowledge and practices for enhancing the safety, accessibility, and sustainability of large gatherings. By bringing together a variety of professionals involved in producing mass gatherings, event producers and emergency responders alike will become more fluent in each other’s craft. The idea is that arts and events workers can be some of a community's most powerful first responders in times of disaster or emergency when suitably prepared, in ways that strengthen both their individual economic/professional resilience (enabling skill transfer and pivots across sectors during times of emergency) and the bottom-up resilience of the community itself to confront crisis.
In our experience, there are four key elements that, when integrated, lead to successful mass gatherings and expert event preparedness. These comprise the core framework of the Art of Mass Gatherings, and they are: Safety, Sustainability, Community Engagement, and Accessibility.
Community Engagement
View the slides presented by Jennifer Pickering, Founder and Executive Director of LEAF Global Arts
The Art of Event and Emergency Preparedness
Lee Nettles
Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
Tom Clareson
Performing Arts Readiness
View Tom's slides below and check out the schedule of free PAR webinars.
Scott Babinowich
National Parks Service
Demystifying Accessibility:
A Tale of Four Accessible Journeys
A Tale of Four Accessible Journeys
Setting a Bigger Table
Presented by Cady Breslin
Cady mentioned the Roanoke Island Aquarium homepage and accessibility page. View or download a PDF of their Sensory Story to help guide people's experience arriving to and enjoying the aquarium.
Inclusive Stories & Varied Techniques
Presented by Scott Babinowich
View or download Scott's slides below!
Access/VSA Network
The Access/VSA International Network's mission is to connect and lead a vibrant network of organizations and individuals working towards the full inclusion and participation of people with disabilities of all ages in artistic and cultural endeavors. Learn more about membership or join the network.
Designing Inclusive Virtual Events
The Designing Inclusive Virtual Events ebook provides a high-level view of considerations for designing and hosting inclusive virtual events, start to finish, including links to resources for creating inclusive communications materials, captioning or translating events, and more Created by Majestic Collaborations in partnership with the Folk Alliance International as part of the Changing the Tune project to build resilience in the folk community.
Festival accessibility program checklist
Developed by Laura Grunfeld of Everyone's Invited, first presented at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Northern Virginia
Tips for designing a multilingual in-person event
By Viviana Marsano, Ph.D, first presented at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Santa Barbara
Language justice tips for virtual events
Created by Catalina Nieto and presented by Viviana Marsano, Ph.D, at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Santa Barbara
Safety & Accessibility Site Tour
Flag Communications
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts
Missing Persons Procedures
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts
Lost Child Prevention Form
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts
Made possible thanks to our speakers,
event hosts, and these partners
event hosts, and these partners