Join us for our events coming up in March 2015!

MARCH 25 | WEDNESDAY Film Screening: Cant Stop the Water Discussion with director, Rebecca Ferris, and documentary participants from Isle de Jean Charles: Chief Albert Naquin and Brunet family

Location Indywood Cinema 628 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117

6pm Registration and Happy Hour

630pm Screening

730pm Introduction by LT. Gen Russel Honor

Q&A with Director Rebecca Ferris, Chief Albert Naquin and the Brunet family

MARCH 26 | THURSDAY Ten Years Strong Building Deeper Connections in the Community: Resilient Merchants Walk and Learn in Mid-City This evening discussion invites three prominent Mid-City business owners to discuss how they have made positive changes to their continuity planning and resilience collaborations. Attendees will meet at the Gulf Coast Bank for an introduction and happy hour to begin our talk. We will walk to Angelo Brocatos Italian Ice Cream and Pastry, where we will discuss how this staple of New Orleans weathered the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to reopen less than one month later, and helped Mid-City bounce back. Finally, we will complete our tour at Masseys and discuss the Lafitte Greenway and its anticipated positive effect on the business. We invite community members, organizers, business owners, and small business resilience experts to join us as we walk and talk.

This free event is coordinated in partnership with Mark Strella of StayLocal, and Deborah Mills of Dewberry. Walking Shoes recommended. Sponsored by Mid-City Business Association

Location Gulf Coast Bank 201 N Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119

6 8pm Happy Hour, Tour, and Discussion

MARCH 27 | FRIDAY Resilient Nonprofit Tour This tour will feature stops at local community organizations and engage leaders openly regarding their role in the community, their sustainable programming, and their impact on the Greater New Orleans area.

Location Meeting location will be communicated to participants

9am Shuttle pick up in downtown New Orleans

1 Lower 9th Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (www.sustainthenine.org)

2 Global Green Holy Cross Project (www.globalgreen.org/articles/global/68)

3 Common Ground Relief Wetlands Restoration (www.commongroundrelief.org/wetlands)

4 St. Bernard Project (www.stbernardproject.org)

230pm Drop off in Central Business District Please join us for a happy hour and discussion

immediately following the tour!

MARCH 28 | SATURDAY All Day Workshop

Location Arlene Meraux River Observation Center 5124 E St. Bernard Hwy, Violet, LA 70092

8am Registration Opens

Coffee and Breakfast Resilience Photo Gallery and Community Exhibitors

840am Introduction: Executive Committee | batteur room

Lauren Butner Kali Rapp Roy Jeana Wiser

850am Icebreaker Session: Defining Resilience | batteur room

930am Keynote Speakers | batteur room Jeff Hebert, Chief Resilience Officer, City of New Orleans

1015am How Will Our Plans Work Together? | batteur room

This panel will feature discussions about the key

environmental/development plans that are currently being implemented for the region. It will explore ways to create bridges among the plans and invites key responsible officials to discuss how to ensure an integrated and fluid system of resilience for our region. This panel will highlight important aspects of the plans including key players and communication of change to their constituents.

Keven Lovetro, Chief of Flood Risk Management Section, New Orleans Branch, US Army Corps of Engineers

Robert Rivers, Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning Commission

Dale Thayer, Director of Community Development, St. Bernard Parish

David Waggonner, Architect, Waggonner & Ball Architects: Urban Water Plan

Moderator: Grasshopper Mendoza, Co-Founder, Horizon

Initiative Water Committee

1115am Break

1130am Concurrent Sessions I Weather the Storm: Building Strong Networks through

Resource Collaboration | second flood classroom This panel invites players from networks of different

scales to share their lessons learned and best practices to build better communication and resistance to hazards.

Members of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association Resilient Neighbors Network from the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia) and Tulsa (Oklahoma) are collaborating within their communities to bridge gaps in service provision and prevent redundancy in programming to mitigate disasters. In the Gulf South, frontline communities are collaborating to seed a 2015 regional movement, #GulfSouthRising, toward equity through coordinated actions and events. In New Orleans, various water-focused organizations have joined the New Orleans Water Collaborative to discuss emerging water management opportunities and foster collaboration among their members.

Colette Pichon Battle, Director/Attorney, Gulf Coast

Center for Law & Policy; #GulfSouthRising Rebecca Joyce, Central Shenandoah Planning District

Commission Tim Lovell, Executive Director, Tulsa Partners Keith Twitchell, Committee for a Better New Orleans;

NOLA Water Collaborative Moderator: Alessandra Jerolleman, Executive Director,

Natural Hazard Mitigation Association --- Working Together: Government Resilience Among

Coastal Parishes | batteur room This panel features officials from Plaquemines, Orleans,

and Jefferson Parishes to discuss how they, ten years after Hurricane Katrina, have strengthened their resilience not only within their own emergency and disaster mitigation management plans, but also have provided partnership to each other.

Nick Cali, Executive Director, Lake Borgne Basin Levee

District Michelle Gonzales, Director, Jefferson Parish Department

of Floodplain Management and Hazard Mitigation Dev Jani, Planning Section Chief, New Orleans

Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness

Moderator: Dexter Accardo, Director, St. Tammany Parish

Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness

1230pm Lunch | barn Gary Granata, Chef, President of Slow Food New Orleans

130pm Keynote Speaker | batteur room Luisa Dantas, Land of Opportunity Multimedia Platform

210pm Concurrent Sessions II Resilience in the Community Showcase: Evolving Efforts

Since Hurricane Katrina | second floor classroom

Evolution is the process in which resilience blossoms

within a community. In the Greater New Orleans area, hundreds of organizations were created out of the great needs that engaged citizens sought to fill in the city and region after Hurricane Katrina. Today, several of these organizations have grown robustly, some beyond their initial mission, and have widely extended their services. This panel features representatives of a few of those organizations that stand out in their commitment to resilient communities and building back stronger.

Craig Colten, Director of Human Dimensions, The Water

Institute of the Gulf Arthur Johnson, Director, The Lower 9th Ward Center for

Sustainable Engagement and Development Karen KG Marshall, Executive Director, Kids Rethink New

Orleans Schools Liz McCartney, Co-Founder, St. Bernard Project David Morris, Executive Director, evacuteer.org Moderator: Charles Allen, Former Director, The Lower 9th

Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development

--- Through the Lens: Telling Important Stories, Inspiring

Conversations, Building Community Resilience | batteur room

Multimedia and other creative outlets serve as dynamic

platforms to tell important stories, reach new audiences, and inspire discourse. For the Gulf South region and other communities navigating water, land, and climate change issues, the ideas of community resilience are often best explored at a local level and through a creative lens. This panel features filmmakers, storytellers, and artists who use the creative lens to tell stories of resilience, recovery, and community determination.

Garrett Bradley, Filmmaker, Cover Me; Below Dreams Luisa Dantas, Filmmaker, Land of Opportunity Interactive

Media Platform Rebecca Ferris, Filmmaker, Cant Stop the Water; Cottage

Films Nailah Jefferson, Filmmaker, Vanishing Pearls Moderator: Rebecca Snedeker, Author, Unfathomable

City; Producer, Land of Opportunity Interactive Media Platform

315pm Break

330pm Concurrent Sessions III

Louisiana and Alaska: Turning Crisis into Resilience

through Intensive Community Collaboration | second floor classroom

As we approach the fifth anniversary of the BP Oil Spill,

members of oiled Louisiana communities who were mentored by Alaskan oiled communities assess how their association and visits that built close relationships helped Louisiana communities cope, recover, and commit to enhancing oil exploration safety.

Mayor Tim Kerner, Town of Jean Lafitte, Jefferson Parish May Nguyen, Community Outreach Director, Tulane

Environmental Law Clinic Evan Ponder, Board Member, Lowlander Center Linda Robinson (Ret.), Prince William Sound Citizens

Advisory Council (via Skype) Moderator: Rosina Philippe, Grand Bayou Atakapa-Ishak,

Plaquemines Parish --- How Are We Preparing Local Future Resilience

Professionals? | batteur room The regions educational programming in disaster and

opportunities that tackle resilience in the community are growing stronger. Both private and public institutions are lending resources to ensure a more resilient future through practical educational programs.

Jeff Carney, Director, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water

Challenge Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on Water Resources

Law & Policy Monica Farris, Director, University of New Orleans Center

for Hazards Assessment Response and Technology (UNO-CHART)

Moderator: Shirley Laska, Founder of UNO-CHART; Co-

Founder of the Lowlander Center

440pm Board of Advisors | barn The Building Resilience Workshop VI presents its Board of

Advisors to discuss the workshops highlights and action items based on the lessons we have learned from our participants and speakers. We will hear from the Board on their achievements and future goals, and explore the path of embedding solutions into our communities in order to continue building resilience in coastal Louisiana and around the world.

530pm Closing Notes | barn

545pm Reception | barn

MARCH 31 | TUESDAY BRW Presents: Water Competition Showcase Featuring panelists from: Changing Course Competition, Water Challenge, Tulane University Dead Zone Prize In New Orleans and the Louisiana Coast, we are seeing an increase in the challenges to antiquated processes of how we work with our greatest challenge: water. This panel brings together the representatives from the Changing Course design competition, the Water Challenge, and the upcoming Tulane University Dead Zone Prize competition, each in their various developing stages, to demonstrate the importance of entrepreneurship in addressing our regions water issues and the type of entrepreneurs they seek to encourage to develop sustainable solutions to their goals. The overarching goal of the panel is to educate potential entrepreneurs, stakeholders, and those generally interested in water solutions to understand better what goes into creating these prize contests, the organizations expectations, and their potential goals for each competition depending on the stage of development. Please register here: http://www.gopropeller.org/events/1011

Location Propeller 4035 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125

6pm Registration and Happy Hour

715pm Presentations

Richard Aubry, Professor of Practice of Business and

Sociology; Assistant Provost for Civic Engagement and Social Entrepreneurship, Tulane University

Andrea Chen, Executive Director, Propeller; The Water Challenge

Steve Cochran, Director, Mississippi River Delta Campaign; Environmental Defense Fund

Moderator: Mark Davis, Director, Tulane Institute on

Water Resources Law & Policy

8pm Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A