### Upcoming Barnraisings ##Save the Date for February 22-24, 2019 **Location:** East Texas, TBD Houston with possible field trips to Galveston **Theme:** We aim to bring 50-75 people together to build a community citizen science disaster response toolkit ### Background Watch this video about the 2017 Houston Flood Response and Dedicated & Committed Organization Founder Eduardo Luna: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10210138738653607&id=1492537450 ### Interested in helping to plan this event or attend? - Help us set the date! What weekend works for you by filling out this Doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/x5gcrtti45r46mzd - We'll be hosting planning calls soon! Check back in on this page for times and info. - Join the Barnraising google group to get updates and communications Barnraising! - for folks attending and collaborating in person at the Public Lab barnraising.

************* ###History of Barnraisings Every Fall since 2012, a Gulf Coast Barnraising has been held, also referred to as the Annual Barnraising. Additionally, since 2014, we host a Regional Barnraising every summer through partnerships with local groups working on place-specific issues such as restoring wetlands on depleted farmland, monitoring the largest landfill in LA County, assessing petcoke pollution in Southeast Chicago, and timelapse imaging mountain top removal explosions in West Virginia. **Browse more about Barnraisings here: https://publiclab.org/tag/barnraising** **** ## Host your own barnraising Thinking about hosting a Barnraising? Check out the [resources on this page](/wiki/barnraising-host) ********* ### Past Barnraisings: * [2018 Barnraising: Guangzhou, China](https://publiclab.org/wiki/barnraising-guangzhou-china) * [2018 Crisis Convening & Barnraising, Newark, New Jersey](/barnraising-newark-2018) * [2017 Barnraising: Cocodrie, Louisiana](https://publiclab.org/wiki/barnraising-2017) * [2017 Appalachia Barnraising](https://publiclab.org/wiki/appalachia-barnraising-2017) * [2016 Barnraising: Cocodrie, Louisiana](wiki/barnraising-2016) * [2016 Regional Barnraising, Val Verde, CA](https://publiclab.org/wiki/barnraising-val-verde-ca) * [2015 Barnraising: Cocodrie, Louisiana](/wiki/barnraising-2015) * [2015 Midwest Regional Barnraising: Chicago, Illinois](/wiki/2015-regional-barnraising) * [2014 Barnrasing: Cocodrie, Louisiana](/wiki/barnraising-2014) * [2014 Northeast Regional Barnraising: Plymouth, Massachusetts](/wiki/barnraising-northeast-2014) * [2013 Barnraising: New Orleans, Louisiana](/wiki/barnraising-2013) * [2012 Barnraising: Cocodrie, Louisiana](/wiki/barnraising-2012) * [2011 Barnraising: Asheville, North Carolina](/wiki/barnraising-2011) [![The_Barnraiser_--_Regional_Special_Issue_2016.jpg](//i.publiclab.org/system/images/photos/000/016/690/large/The_Barnraiser_--_Regional_Special_Issue_2016.jpg)](//i.publiclab.org/system/images/photos/000/016/690/original/The_Barnraiser_--_Regional_Special_Issue_2016.jpg)