Many first hear about NCAPER through a presentation or workshop at a conference or professional gathering. Content can be tailored to audiences ranging from artists and arts funders to elected officials, arts organizations, emergency managers, and first responders. Our goals are to encourage and assist the arts sector in developing readiness and mitigation plans; to help city, county, and state representatives retain creatives and engage them in response and recovery efforts; and to help the arts and emergency sectors better know and understand each other.
NCAPER welcomes invitations to present at conferences and convenings; contact jnewcomb@ncaper.org.

Recent and upcoming events include:

The Artists Thrive Summit 2024: Building a Thriving Network, August 13-16, 2024
​NCAPER Executive Director Jan Newcomb and Air Collaborative Executive Director Beth Flowers present two artist-focused sessions:

 

Creative Resilience: Supporting Artists and Organizations Through Disaster
In the face of growing threats like wildfires, floods, and social unrest, the arts community needs strong support. This session explores the resources and experience offered by organizations dedicated to helping artists and cultural institutions weather disasters. We'll delve into the disaster cycle, available
programs, and essential steps for building a personal or organizational preparedness plan.

Getting the Choir Back Onstage and In the Loft: How the arts sector engages vulnerable communities
There is growing interest in how the arts sector continues to successfully engage vulnerable communities in the face of our current permacrisis of disasters. The development of public-private partnerships and networks that focus on the mitigation of future natural and human-made disasters use
training and education to help communities create informed local responses that are both appropriate and impactful. This collaborative presentation will describe and demonstrate distinct training methods, community coaching techniques, and learning events which use “whole community” approaches to build mitigation and preparedness.

Arts Disaster & Crisis Preparedness Conference, University of Kentucky, September 6, 2024
NCAPER Staff and Performing Arts Readiness Director Tom Clareson present multiple sessions, including Community Recovery Through Arts and Culture, a Materials Salvage Demonstration, and Jumpstart Your Readiness Planning with ArtsReady.

Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, October 8, 2024
Mollie Quinlan-Hayes, NCAPER Fund Development and Programs Officer and Tom Clareson, Performing Arts Readiness Director, co-present Crisis Management in Real Time. It’s time to move Crisis Response from the theoretical to the actual. This tabletop-exercise workshop format will present you with actual
potential crises (not just natural disasters, but also human-caused events, accidents/intentional acts, ‘daily’ emergencies which nonetheless create significant disruption). You’ll receive a snap lesson on crisis management concepts and language, and then break into small groups. Will you be surprised by a sudden loss of a key leader? A communications crisis caused by a controversy or unexpected news? Will your constituency or service area be suddenly impacted by a disaster? You and your group colleagues
will have the chance – in a safe space – to brainstorm potential responses.

Neuroscience tells us that when we’re IN a crisis, we only operate at about 60% of our cognitive capacity. Figuring out what your best responses will be, and what you’ll need in place to respond effectively and immediately, BEFORE you need to step into action, is a best practice. Take this opportunity to begin to build your readiness muscles!

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Creative Placemaking Summit South & Appalachia
March 5-8, 2024 - Atlanta, GA
 

NCAPER presented the session “Past, Present, and Future: Disaster Management in the Arts.” Download the presentation and resources HERE.
 

Climate-related disasters are growing in frequency and magnitude. Hurricanes, tornados, severe weather and
wildfires have widespread effects whether occurring in heavily populated areas, rural, urban or suburban: no part of the community that experiences a disaster is untouched. Readiness, Response, Relief and Recovery is a vital lifecycle for communities, yet an under-valued practice in infrastructure
and administration. This session will establish a timeline of disasters and how awareness has shifted over time, explore the evolution of disaster management in the arts and culture sector, explore meaningful and equitable practices, and provide actionable takeaways for future community-wide disaster management situations.
Register: https://whova.com/portal/registration/ncpls_202307/xuutp9h0

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On November 5, 2023, NCAPER and CERF+ co-presented the full-day preconference Collaborative Solutions: Shaping Meaningful Disaster Response at the Grantmakers in the Arts Preconference, San Juan, PR; it was co-organized by the National Coalition for Arts Preparedness (NCAPER), and Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+). We offer two resources from that day:

Presentations – This PDF includes all presentations and images from the day’s agenda:

• Introduction: Ruby Lopez Harper and Mollie Quinlan-Hayes

• Artistic Responses to Disasters: Chemi Rosado-Seijo

• Working Within Permacrisis: Tom ClaresonLiving and

• Readiness and Mitigation: Beth Flowers and Gretchen Ruiz Ramos

• Relief and Response Systems: Jan Newcomb and Chemi Rosado-Seijo

• Structural Responses: Pamela Silva and Bao-Long Chu

• Phase I Findings of GIA/NCAPER Funders Disaster Response Survey: Mollie Quinlan-Hayes

• Reflections and Wrapup

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Resources – This PDF connects you to 14 readiness, response, and recovery resources through handy QR codes.

To be part of the continuing conversation, email Mollie Quinlan-Hayes [mquinlanhayes@ncaper.org]!

 

 

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