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CARR’S - ELKTONIA BEACH HERITAGE PARK
EDUCATION STRATEGY
Mission
The target audience for park education includes everyone served by this new city park. With the MD 250 Commission and local governments with nonprofit partners gearing up to celebrate the state and nation’s 250thbirthday, visitors from near and far will make visits to the culturally-rich sites promoted by the MD 250 Commission and “Visit Anne Arundel County-Annapolis Visitors” bureau, along with the new Maritime Welcome Center, and long-standing local cultural destinations. The new Carr’s-Elktonia Beach Park experience is one of the highly touted and publicized “places to be.” We recognize that this audience will bring a wide range of visitation, expectations, experiences, and outlooks to the park, and one-size-fits-all programming will not be as equitable as education tailored to the visitor's age, interests, abilities, and cultural background. We also respect that people learn differently, and that educational programming should reflect this.
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and its education partners will help visitors put the historic significance of the beach experience into context. Interpretive features infused with technology, artefacts, art installations, and in-person education programs will explore themes identified through our stakeholder and public engagement process. The Draft Education Strategy presented on June 18 and 19 can be downloaded below. Please share your thoughts and ideas on the strategy in the comment form below. We are also continuing to collect stories through the Elevating Black Voices public engagement process. Check here for ways to contribute your memories of the beaches and of the Jim Crow era in the Annapolis area.
Elevating Black Voices
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation and its education partners will help visitors put the historic significance of the beach experience into context. Interpretive features infused with technology, artefacts, art installations, and in-person education programs will explore themes identified through our stakeholder and public engagement process. The Draft Education Strategy presented on June 18 and 19 can be downloaded below. Please share your thoughts and ideas on the strategy in the comment form below. We are also continuing to collect stories through the Elevating Black Voices public engagement process. Indicate in the form below if you want to contribute your memories of the beaches and the Jim Crow era in the Annapolis area.
The Elevating Black Voices Community Engagement project is supported by funding from the
