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Greetings. The Performing Arts Readiness project offers free webinars, on-site training, and presentations at professional conferences on various topics related to emergency preparedness:

Risk Assessment for Performing Arts Organizations
Date & Time: January 18, 2023 at 2:00pm ET
Price: Free
Description: Natural disasters, local emergencies, and other disruptive events can have devastating effects on all sizes of performing arts organizations. This webinar will focus on mitigating risks at institutions, to prevent disasters from happening and to reduce the impact of unavoidable disasters. The session will clarify the need for risk assessment as a part of an organization’s disaster preparedness strategy, provide basic information on risk assessment tools and practices, and address how risk assessment can benefit performing arts organizations. The instructors will also present case studies as a part of the session, so participants can learn from actual disasters in performing arts organizations.
Instructor: Tom Clareson
Registration Link: https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=C846C037-DA77-ED11-80FE-00155D0A2732
A recording of the November 17, 2022 session of this webinar is available here.

Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for Performing Arts Organizations
Date & Time: January 19, 2023 at 2:00pm ET
Price: Free
Description: 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.
Instructor: Steve Eberhardt
Registration Link: https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=8F4062B2-F177-ED11-80FE-00155D0A2732
A recording of the September 8, 2022 session of this webinar is available here.