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New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response, P. O. Box 520, Trenton, NJ (2025)

02/16/2024

Health and Safety for Performing Arts Organizations

Free webinar

3/14/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Safety in the theatre extends to crews, casts, and audience members as well as the venue. This includes performance and rehearsal spaces, shops, and other work spaces. It requires awareness, common sense, and perseverance to eliminate hazards and guard against carelessness. The goal of this webinar is to ensure that a safe, healthy environment is maintained at all times. This includes the control and minimization of all known and potential hazards associated within creative, artistic, and performance development. These risks can be minimized and controlled through proper training, equipment, and use of appropriate precautions, restrictions, and established safe-work practices. This class will also address:

- The health and safety of staff and volunteers working in an environment after a disaster occurs.
- The precautions that should be taken before people can enter a dangerous environment.
- How to identify health and stress issues in workers.
- Resources to assist workers suffering from health issues.

Safety in the theatre extends to crews, casts, and audience members as well as the venue. This includes performance and rehearsal spaces, shops, and other work spaces. It requires awareness, common sense, and perseverance to eliminate hazards and guard against carelessness. The goal of this webinar....

02/13/2024

Collections Care Intensive

Cost: $200 - Standard online and in-person
$100 - Student online and in-person
$80 - Standard online only
$50 - Student online only

March 11, 2024 - 9:30am to March 22, 2024 - 5:00pm
ET

The Collections Care Intensive will bring you together with a cohort of cultural heritage professionals for a truly immersive experience. Through this series of virtual and in-person workshops featuring some of the CCAHA’s most-requested content, you will:

- Be prepared to advocate for collections care at your own institution.
- Develop preservation skills that will serve you at any stage of your career.
- Develop both short-term and long-term preservation goals and tools to implement change at your institution.
- Gain knowledge of where to look for trusted information and resources and how to ask the right questions about your collections.
- Connect to a peer group of like-minded individuals around collections care and management.

This course, with options for online-only participation as well as in-person, is structured to help you address the ten agents of deterioration. We will examine ways to combat these threats to heritage objects and improve preservation using the following tools: policies and procedures; environmental management; housing, storage, and space; housekeeping; pest management; and emergency preparedness. While this may seem like a lot to undertake at first, we will give you strategies for how to prioritize this work, breaking it down into manageable sections, emphasizing the importance of “good” and “better” approaches, as opposed to “best practices.”

The in-person component will include experiential learning opportunities that will reinforce concepts explored through the online lectures with time included for individual problem-solving. In addition to CCAHA’s conservation lab, you will get to tour and learn from two other fabulous Philadelphia institutions: the Science History Institute and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the William Penn Foundation and Independence Foundation.

02/09/2024

Networking for Disaster Management in the Performing Arts

Free webinar

3/7/2024
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET

Emergency response and preparedness for performing arts organizations can be a difficult task for individual organizations. This free 2 hour webinar will demonstrate how working with multiple organizations in a network for disaster management can be accomplished. The history of networking for improved emergency preparedness in the cultural heritage, arts, and government sectors will be examined, with an exploration of existing networks. Case studies of the Pennsylvania Cultural Resilience Network and CultureAID in New York City will be presented to help guide you on how to start your own, or join an existing, cooperative disaster network. You will learn how to use the Cultural Placekeeping Guide to direct your networking efforts.

Tom Clareson ([email protected]) is Project Director of the Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) project. He serves as Senior Consultant for Digital & Preservation Services at LYRASIS, consulting and teaching nationally and internationally on preservation, disaster preparedness, digitization, digi...

02/06/2024

Working with Facilities to Create a Fuller Picture of Your Collection Environment

Free webinar

February 29, 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm ET

Does the building that houses your collections have temperature and humidity sensors that are read and maintained by facilities or HVAC professionals? Do you have a separate environmental monitoring system and have you ever had to seek agreement on sensors with vastly different readings? This presentation will go into some reasons why it is important to set up a parallel monitoring system even if you have BAS (building automated system) sensors, and how you can work with facilities to create a better understanding of your building. Some of the topics we will cover:

- Different reasons why we might see a microclimate and why it’s important to have sensors installed closer to your collection items.
- Ways to work with your facilities team to understand any reading differences you might see between the “their” sensors and “ours.”
- How to understand the specifications of different sensors in a way that makes sense to do a sensor comparison (standard of error, sensor drift, calibration).

The presentation is aimed to equip collections professionals with the information to discuss with our facilities colleagues why sensors may differ in readings. We will also provide some case studies of museums that have successfully built a team of collections professionals and facilities managers who work together for the most effective outcome for preservation of the collections they care for.

Working with Facilities to Create a Fuller Picture of Your Collection Environment Does the building that houses your collections have temperature and humidity sensors that are read and maintained by facilities or HVAC professionals? Do you have a separate environmental monitoring system and have you...

02/02/2024

Fire and Emergency Protection Plan Development

Free webinar

2/27/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Participants in this webinar will be presented with the components of a Protection Plan and the process to follow for the development of a plan following guidelines provided by the National Fire Protection Association’s Code for Protection of Cultural Resource Properties. Grounded in a vulnerability assessment, the planning process covers fire safety, security, construction considerations, prevention, special events, and recovery strategies. At the completion of this webinar, participants will have the tools needed to begin developing a comprehensive Protection Plan that is compliant with industry safety standards and best practices. In conjunction with emergency management plans, this Plan is a significant step towards a resilient organization.

Chris Soliz is a Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) project consultant. After a successful 27-year career as a firefighter and emergency management professional, he has formed Bridgeway Consulting to help non-profit organizations protect what they care about: patrons, staff, facilities, and property. C...

01/31/2024

Understanding Public Assistance: FEMA’s Program for Non-profit Organizations.

February 7, 2024, at 1:00 PM ET

The New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response (NJCAR) is pleased to host this free webinar open to all libraries, museums, archives, and all historical and cultural institutions.

Jennifer DiLorenzo, Branch Chief, Recovery Division of FEMA Region II, will explain FEMA’s Public Assistance Program which provides supplemental grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and certain types of private non-profits so communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies.

After an event like a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or wildfire, communities need help to cover their costs for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and restoring public infrastructure. FEMA also encourages protecting these damaged facilities from future events by providing assistance for hazard mitigation measures during the recovery process.

REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_QFfb0pBWTfGkyrMq1eWymw

Speaker Bio:
Jennifer DiLorenzo began her work with FEMA post-Hurricane Sandy as a local hire in February 2013, working on Coastal Resiliency Projects and Long-Term Community Recovery Plans for the Federal Disaster Recovery Coordination (FDRC). With her environmental background, she moved to Region II’s EHP, working as Lead Environmental Protection Specialist (2014-2016) and deploying to Hurricane Matthew in FLA. Combining her community work and environmental expertise, she moved to Public Assistance as Section Chief (2016-2020) and later as Acting Deputy Branch Chief for DR4086NJ. Jennifer has also deployed to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and USVI; most recently in USVI as Deputy Infrastructure Branch Chief. Jennifer is now Public Assistance Branch Chief for the Regional Operations Branch in Region 2 (2020-present). Her teaching skills for FEMA enabled many Region II staff to become Certified Floodplain Managers and DSA-qualified. Jennifer also served on the President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Prior to FEMA, Jennifer worked for several engineering firms on coastal restoration projects and taught science classes at Monmouth University and Stevens Institute of Technology. She served the State of New Jersey as Bureau Chief for the NJ Department of Environmental Protection. She holds a M.S. degree in Marine Environmental Science (SUNY@Stony Brook) and is a Certified Floodplain Manager (C.F.M.).

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01/30/2024

Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer: Virtual Photo Enclosure Workshop

$130 - Standard
$110 - Student

February 26, 2024 - 9:30am to March 1, 2024 - 4:00pm
ET

In this course, you will learn to make three types of photo enclosures: phase boxes, vapor-proof packing for cold-storage, and enclosures for broken glass plate negatives. Each of these workshops will take place online, and we will send you the materials to make the enclosures with real-time assistance from our instructors. We will also share a list of resources on each of these three enclosures.

Course content will be released on Monday, February 26th at 9:30am ET. Workshops will take place in Zoom Meetings from 2-4pm ET on Wednesday, February 28, Thursday, February 29, and Friday, March 1. All sessions will be recorded and will be available for six weeks following the conclusion of the course.

* Please note that these costs include materials and shipping fees for the supplies. We will mail them directly to the address you list when you register for the course.

01/29/2024

Vertical Preparedness: Additional Preparedness Considerations for Multi-level Living

Free webinar

Thursday, February 1, 2024
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Please join the Region 2 National Preparedness Division for a webinar on what additional steps you can take to be better prepared when living or working in multi-level buildings.

This webinar will review some of the key components to consider when planning how you can best protect yourself during a building emergency. Living and working in buildings with multiple floors with staircases and elevators adds additional complexities on how individuals plan for and respond to a multitude of emergencies. Being able to recognize the characteristics and protocols of the buildings that you live and work are critical to making your own plans whether you are a resident, staff or leadership of the building. Part of this planning should also consider those in your family or building that may find themselves needing additional support.

FEMA works to ensure equitable access for all to any services and programs that are provided by the agency. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please make your request in an email to [email protected]. Last minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fulfill.

01/26/2024

Fire Safety and Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations

Free webinar

2/20/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Fire Safety is an essential element in the day to day preparedness of any organization, especially in the unique environment of the performing arts. In addition to sound emergency management principles, the application of National Fire Protection Association Standards (NFPA) will ensure that a comprehensive protection plan is developed in cooperation with appropriate emergency response partners. This free webinar will provide fire safety considerations and introduce best practices from the fire protection industry, which offers a road map to achieve fire safety benchmarks. Participants will learn how the Life Safety Code and the Code for Protection of Cultural Resource Properties can help you protect your patrons, staff, and facility.

Chris Soliz is a Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) project consultant. After a successful 26 year career as a firefighter and emergency management professional, he has formed Bridgeway Consulting to help non-profit organizations protect what they care about: patrons, staff, facilities, and property. S...

01/23/2024

Safety and Security for the Performing Arts

Free webinar

2/15/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

With the ever-changing nature of events, are you prepared for the unexpected? With audiences and Local Government agencies expecting more from you as an organizer, do you have plans in place to not only try and prevent, but also respond should any incident happen? Safety and Security are more important now than ever and more questions will be asked of you and what plans you have in place.

This class will help event organizers and venues establish the key elements for prevention and responding to incidents of any shape or size. This class will provide a background of what happens when things don’t go as planned, and show that it doesn’t matter what size or type of event you have, the basic principles are the same. We will look at what you would do in certain scenarios, and how even small adjustments to your venue can keep your event safer.

This class will help event organizers and venues establish the key elements for prevention and responding to incidents of any shape or size. This class will provide a background of what happens when things don’t go as planned, and show that it doesn’t matter what size or type of event you have, ...

01/19/2024

Event Preparedness: Active Shooters and Hostile Activity at Your Venues

Free webinar

2/13/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

In recent years we have seen an increase in hostile attacks across all sectors, including events. These attacks have come in a variety of methods. Performing Arts and Cultural Heritage organizations must be prepared for all scenarios and need to be able to react to all emergencies. This webinar will cover the types of attacks to prepare for, as well as the training you should consider for your venues and staff. Our instructor, Emma Stuart, also presents the “Safety and Security for Performing Arts,” “Road to Recovery: Performing Arts During COVID,” and the “Pandemic Response for Performing Arts Organizations” webinars for the PAR project.

Emma Stuart is a highly experienced Event and Operations Manager working for over 9 years in both Europe and North America.

01/16/2024

Strategies for Born-Digital Collections

$95

February 8, 2024
2:00pm to 4:00pm ET

This webinar is for anyone interested in developing or refining their organization’s collecting and preservation practices for content originating in a digital form. Emails, websites, and files stored on computers and removable media all require unique approaches for their acquisition and care. The instructor will guide participants through software, hardware, and practices designed to meet the challenges of various types of born-digital content. Participants will gain an understanding of the technical requirements to care for born-digital collections and how to prioritize born-digital content for preservation. The instructor will share examples of workflows for born-digital content to help participants develop practical solutions for the collections in their own institutions.

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01/12/2024

How to Build Resilience: Climate Impacts and Cultural Heritage

February 8, 2024 - 12:00pm ET

Free webinar

Co-founders of Environment & Culture Partners, Stephanie Shapiro and Sarah Sutton present on the importance of building climate resilience capacity for cultural heritage sites facing impacts from a changing climate. They will discuss the role of the cultural sector in climate resilience as individual institutions and with their communities, examples of existing resilience work (and gaps), and provide an overview of the new Climate Resilience Resources for Cultural Heritage (CRR). CRR was developed as part of Held in Trust, a cooperative agreement between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation (FAIC). CRR will be freely available for users to assess a site's climate risk and then use comprehensive learning modules to build a resilience strategy. This will give you the framework and tools you need to get started on your own climate resilience strategy.

This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the William Penn Foundation and Independence Foundation.

01/09/2024

Creative Solutions for Accessibility

Free webinar

February 15, 2024
12:00pm ET

Katie Samson (she/her) is the Director of Education at Art-Reach, an organization that advocates for, and expands accessible opportunities for the greater Philadelphia region. In this program, she presents case studies demonstrating how organizations can find unique approaches to advancing access for people with disabilities. From touch tours at archives, to apps that help visitors deeply engage with historic sites regardless of ability, and more, we invite you to find inspiration for your own work in these stories. Following the presentation, you will have a chance to do your own creative brainstorming as a group on how you might deepen accessibility at your institution.

This program of the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is provided with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the William Penn Foundation and Independence Foundation.

01/08/2024

Understanding Public Assistance: FEMA’s Program for Non-profit Organizations.

February 7, 2024, at 1:00 PM ET

The New Jersey Cultural Alliance for Response (NJCAR) is pleased to host this free webinar open to all libraries, museums, archives, and all historical and cultural institutions.

Jennifer DiLorenzo, Branch Chief, Recovery Division of FEMA Region II, will explain FEMA’s Public Assistance Program which provides supplemental grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and certain types of private non-profits so communities can quickly respond to and recover from major disasters or emergencies.

After an event like a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or wildfire, communities need help to cover their costs for debris removal, life-saving emergency protective measures, and restoring public infrastructure. FEMA also encourages protecting these damaged facilities from future events by providing assistance for hazard mitigation measures during the recovery process.

REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QFfb0pBWTfGkyrMq1eWymw

Speaker Bio:
Jennifer DiLorenzo began her work with FEMA post-Hurricane Sandy as a local hire in February 2013, working on Coastal Resiliency Projects and Long-Term Community Recovery Plans for the Federal Disaster Recovery Coordination (FDRC). With her environmental background, she moved to Region II’s EHP, working as Lead Environmental Protection Specialist (2014-2016) and deploying to Hurricane Matthew in FLA. Combining her community work and environmental expertise, she moved to Public Assistance as Section Chief (2016-2020) and later as Acting Deputy Branch Chief for DR4086NJ. Jennifer has also deployed to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico and USVI; most recently in USVI as Deputy Infrastructure Branch Chief. Jennifer is now Public Assistance Branch Chief for the Regional Operations Branch in Region 2 (2020-present). Her teaching skills for FEMA enabled many Region II staff to become Certified Floodplain Managers and DSA-qualified. Jennifer also served on the President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Prior to FEMA, Jennifer worked for several engineering firms on coastal restoration projects and taught science classes at Monmouth University and Stevens Institute of Technology. She served the State of New Jersey as Bureau Chief for the NJ Department of Environmental Protection. She holds a M.S. degree in Marine Environmental Science (SUNY@Stony Brook) and is a Certified Floodplain Manager (C.F.M.).

Jennifer DiLorenzo, Branch Chief, Recovery Division of FEMA Region II, will explain FEMA’s Public Assistance Program which provides supplemental grants to state, tribal, territorial, and local governments, and certain types of private non-profits so communities can quickly respond to and recover f...

01/05/2024

Crisis Communication and Reputation Management for Performing Arts Organizations

Free webinar

2/6/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

You serve on the staff of a local performing arts organization. A press release was tweeted from a local environmental group stating that your theatre’s plumbing system is leaching untreated waste into the community’s waterway. While the press release is inaccurate, season ticket holders and donors are demanding answers. And, the organization’s Twitter handle is blowing up. You have an interview with the editor of the state newspaper in five minutes. What do you say? What do you do?

As professionals rise through the ranks, they will face issues that thrust them into the spotlight and threaten organizational reputation. A recent study found that 9 in 10 business leaders (94%) admit that the executives in their organizations need more training in core communication disciplines, such as reputation management and strategic communication. Are you prepared? This class reviews elements of strategic communication that are essential before, during and after crisis events. It examines how your organization can best prepare to respond to crisis and restore organizational reputation.

As professionals rise through the ranks, they will face issues that thrust them into the spotlight and threaten organizational reputation. A recent study found that 9 in 10 business leaders (94%) admit that the executives in their organizations need more training in core communication disciplines, s...

01/02/2024

Disaster Response for Performing Arts Organizations

Free webinar

1/30/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Emergency response can be a daunting prospect for performing arts organizations. This webinar will lay out the basic tenets of responding to an emergency including support organizations, working with vendors, and helpful resources for organization and planning. There will also be a brief introduction to the Incident Command System so that performing arts centers can work more seamlessly with their local first responders.

Donia Conn is an independent preservation and collection care consultant for small and mid-sized cultural heritage institutions with over 20 years of experience. She is adjunct faculty for the Simmons College School of Library and Information Science. Donia is also a private book and paper conservat...

12/29/2023

Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations

Free webinar

1/16/2024
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Localized emergencies, regional disasters, and catastrophic events can have a devastating impact on performing arts organizations where even a brief loss of business can threaten sustainability. This free 90 minute webinar will provide an introduction to why emergency preparedness is critical to protect your organization from external risks and internal vulnerabilities. These include human caused and natural crises. You will learn the typical process and contents of a plan, and receive information about resources to help with planning.

This webinar is appropriate for attendees representing large and small performing arts organizations as well as those with and without their own performance facilities. Executive and management staff will find this webinar useful, as well as H.R., finance, communications, marketing, technical, and front-of-house staff.

This session is part of a series presented by the Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) project. Other topics in this series will include Risk Assessment, Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Networks, and Venue Safety.

This webinar is appropriate for attendees representing large and small performing arts organizations as well as those with and without their own performance facilities. Executive and management staff will find this webinar useful, as well as H.R., finance, communications, marketing, technical, and f...