If emotional narratives aren’t enough to encourage arts managers to prioritise preparedness for a crisis, then the rising costs of crises should be." Leah Hamilton reflects on the sector's lack of enthusiasm for emergency planning.
Floods and storms, pandemics, destruction of environment, terrorism and so on. The number of risks and crises for the arts and cultural heritage is steadily increasing. Emergency management therefore should be a fix part of the process management of every arts institution.
Sunday, April 13, 2014, started out as a normal day for my dear friend and former fellow arts manager, Krista Blackwood. She and her theatre staff at the White Theatre inside of the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City (U.S.) were preparing for a matinee performance of "To Kill a Mockingbird” and children and their parents were arriving for the annual "KC Superstar” auditions - a youth talent contest. A man, now identified as Klu Klux Klan leader Frazier Glenn Cross, pulled in to the theater’s parking lot and opened fire, killing a young 14-year-old boy on his way to the audition and his grandfather. '... Keep reading on Arts Management Network
Floods and storms, pandemics, destruction of environment, terrorism and so on. The number of risks and crises for the arts and cultural heritage is steadily increasing. Emergency management therefore should be a fix part of the process management of every arts institution.
Sunday, April 13, 2014, started out as a normal day for my dear friend and former fellow arts manager, Krista Blackwood. She and her theatre staff at the White Theatre inside of the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City (U.S.) were preparing for a matinee performance of "To Kill a Mockingbird” and children and their parents were arriving for the annual "KC Superstar” auditions - a youth talent contest. A man, now identified as Klu Klux Klan leader Frazier Glenn Cross, pulled in to the theater’s parking lot and opened fire, killing a young 14-year-old boy on his way to the audition and his grandfather. '... Keep reading on Arts Management Network