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Kentucky Storm Resilience: Documentaries & Discussion

image of woman and child viewing flooding

Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries. After the documentaries, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session about storm resilience, featuring professionals across disciplines. This event will provide an avenue for further collaboration and potential partnerships on this topic across institutions, organizations, and businesses. All Is Not Lost, by the non-profit, Letcher County-based media group Appalshop, underscores the unprecedented nature of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood and through in-depth community interviews, and showcases Letcher County's efforts to recover and rebuild. CLIMBS - Kentucky Climate Resilience - The Documentary highlights how CLIMBS, the collaborative research project from KY NSF EPSCoR, is seeking to build climate resilience through interdisciplinary research across the commonwealth.

The films will be followed by a panel discussion emceed by Shane Holinde of WKU and the KY Climate Center, a former TV meteorologist who covered the deadly tornadoes in 2021. Panelists include Rebekah Radtke (UK College of Design), Ryan Thigpen (UK EES & CLIMBS), Aaron Asbury (Film Director at Appalshop), and Trinity Adams (Graduate student at UK Appalachian Center). The free event is July 18, 9:15-noon, at UK’s Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.

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Worsham Cinema

Water Week and Kentucky River Clean-up Final Event

Join us for a week of River & Creek Cleaning Events. Team up, join neighbors or clean-up on your own throughout the week! Don't forget to post what you find.

Water Week Kick-off and Final Events

Kick-off event: August 9, 2025, Hyden (Leslie County). Contact (606) 275-0522 for additional information.

Final event: August 16, 2025, Beattyville (Lee County). Contact (606) 560-9059 for additional information.

Kick-off and Final events will include:

Time: 1-6 PM
Clean-up: 1-4 PM
Wrap-up: 4-6 PM
Food, music, t-shirts and a creek debris scavenger hunt!

Click here for additional information and to register!

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Hyden - Leslie County

Kentucky River Clean-Up Kickoff Event

Join us for a week of River & Creek Cleaning Events. Team up, join neighbors or clean-up on your own throughout the week! Don't forget to post what you find.

Water Week Kick-off and Final Events

Kick-off event: August 9, 2025, Hyden (Leslie County). Contact (606) 275-0522 for additional information.

Final event: August 16, 2025, Beattyville (Lee County). Contact (606) 560-9059 for additional information.

Kick-off and Final events will include:

Time: 1-6 PM
Clean-up: 1-4 PM
Wrap-up: 4-6 PM
Food, music, t-shirts and a creek debris scavenger hunt!

Click here for additional information and to register!

 

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Location:
Beattyville - Lee County

Water Week and Kentucky River Clean-up

Join us for a week of River & Creek Cleaning Events. Team up, join neighbors or clean-up on your own throughout the week! Don't forget to post what you find.

Water Week Kick-off and Final Events

Kick-off event: August 9, 2025, Hyden (Leslie County). Contact (606) 275-0522 for additional information.

Final event: August 16, 2025, Beattyville (Lee County). Contact (606) 560-9059 for additional information.

Kick-off and Final events will include:

Time: 1-6 PM
Clean-up: 1-4 PM
Wrap-up: 4-6 PM
Food, music, t-shirts and a creek debris scavenger hunt!

Click here for additional information and to register!

image of kayakers on the Kentucky River as part of flyer with information about 2025 water week

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various
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