As the state continues to experience the impacts of climate change, Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas promoted an upcoming “Day of Learning” event, supported by her office, on Tuesday September 17 at the Elks Lodge in Barre.
This event will be hosted by the Vermont Arts & Culture Disaster and Resilience Network (VACDaRN), founded in 2019 as a partnership of the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA), which is a division of the Secretary of State’s office. VACDaRN provides resources and training in disaster preparedness for arts and cultural institutions.
“As the effects of climate change continue to impact our state, I’m very proud of the work that my office does through VACDaRN,” Copeland Hanzas said. “When disasters strike, we of course focus on safety and infrastructure. It’s also crucial that we work to protect the arts and cultural organizations that enable our communities to not just survive but thrive.”
The event will feature a keynote presentation: “Beautiful Uncertainty – How to Live (and Thrive) with Risk” by Anna Glover, Director of Theater Safety and Occupational Health at Yale’s Geffen School of Drama. There will be sessions on topics including emergency planning, event safety, and equity & access in emergency response. Behind-the-scenes tours of Barre cultural institutions will showcase their flood mitigation efforts.
“The VACDaRN partnership has been critical to helping protect cultural and artistic resources in Vermont,“ said Rachel Onuf, Director of VSARA’s Vermont Historical Records Program. “We really enjoy collaborating with our colleagues at the Vermont Arts Council as we do this important work.”
“While disaster planning can be an uncomfortable and difficult topic, this day is designed to empower and connect the arts and cultural sector – to take specific steps to prepare and to explore the ways that art and cultural activities help communities heal and recover,” said Amy Cunningham, deputy director of the Vermont Arts Council.
Secretary Copeland Hanzas encouraged artists and cultural workers, as well as staff and volunteers from arts and cultural organizations of all types (theaters, museums, archives, libraries, creative businesses, etc.) to attend. She also invited local and state emergency managers, municipal officials, and first responders interested in learning more about how to protect their records and work with cultural organizations in the community.
Learn more about the event and register here.
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Source VCA Budget Memo February 2024: “Thanks to collaborations with Vermont Humanities, the Vermont Community Foundation, the Agency of Commerce & Community Development, and the generosity of individual donors, we
have overseen delivery of $14,055,239 in urgently needed aid to artists and cultural
organizations since the pandemic hit in March 2020.”. “A total of $8,009,602 in Arts
Council funding was distributed in FY23, which included unprecedented support through the Vermont Creative Futures pandemic relief program (a part of Act 183.)”
It appears a number of State departments, NGOs, non-profiteers, Federal agencies, and local governments, are extending budget money, grants, and other resources under the guise of reimbursing artists and historical preservation? No insurance on said artifacts or artist products? Hogs at the trough and 24/7 laundry services. Interesting to note the number of historic statues vandalised and the defacing of historic federal buildings was encouraged and not prosecuted during the summers of love in 2020 and 2021. Yet, they cleaned up bigly with Federal COVID bucks and taxpayer money regardless. Shenanigans and charlatans prevail.
So, in Melissa’s perfect Republican world, they would be zero funding for the arts. Sounds very Trumpian.
Brian,
Government money doesn’t result in good art. It encourages bad ego projects by the politically connected. It is an efficient way to funnel taxpayer money to your friends, however. They can “challenge” the viewer to look at things the “correct” way.
It also keeps genuinely creative artists -who could actually challenge government messaging – safely away from public view. So it has that advantage.
Brian, I’m not a Republican or idol worshipper. My God given skill is recognizing patterns of fraud – eyes to see and ears to hear….try it some time, you may find it elightening if not stomach turning at the same time. To those who trained me how to read the law and contracts….I’m now supposed to forget what I was trained to do. Maybe others can look away and stick their head in the sand…free will to their own devices and peril.
Hogs at the trough. Will that create a high value porkchop? All scam demic crimes will be exposed in the near future.
Bla Bla Bla word salad,dredge, build berms, actions speak louder than words