View or download slides, links, and resources from today's program, organized in order of the program schedule!
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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.
View the slides presented by Jennifer Pickering, Founder and Executive Director of LEAF Global Arts
Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
Performing Arts Readiness
View Tom's slides below and check out the schedule of free PAR webinars.
National Parks Service
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.
Presented by Scott Babinowich
View or download Scott's slides below!
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.
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.
Developed by Laura Grunfeld of Everyone's Invited, first presented at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Northern Virginia
By Viviana Marsano, Ph.D, first presented at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Santa Barbara
Created by Catalina Nieto and presented by Viviana Marsano, Ph.D, at the Art of Mass Gatherings in Santa Barbara
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts
Shared by Leigh Maher, LEAF Global Arts