HANNIBAL SQUARE HERITAGE CENTER

PROGRAMMING OVERVIEW  

Hours of Operation: for viewing and docent tours of the Heritage Collection and traveling exhibitions, access to Family History Program.
The Heritage Center is staffed by a Docent Manager who is responsible for facilitating tours of the collection, the training of volunteer docents,
sales of artwork and other gift items, and security.

OPEN: Tuesday - Thursday 12:00–4:00 p.m., Friday 12:00–5:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00–2:00 p.m.

Directions: The Heritage Center is located at 642 W. New England Avenue in Winter Park, across from the Community Center.
From I-4, take the Fairbanks exit and go towards Winter Park; turn left at Park Avenue (by Rollins College) and left on New England.
From Semoran/436, go down Aloma towards Winter Park, turn right on Park Avenue and left on New England.

Programs:

• Tours of Heritage Collection provided by community docents trained by the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, Florida.
• Historic timelines of West side history as it parallels national African American events; researched by Fairolyn Livingston and Dr. Ron Habin,
  located in the front galleries of the Heritage Center.
• Featured Family Wall with photographs, text and artifacts, created by the Family History Program of the Unity Heritage Festival.
• The Heritage Collection/Oral History Program is open to copy historical photographs, conduct interviews, and take portraits of the contributors.
• Florida Humanities Council traveling exhibition panels Black Florida in Pictures and Overtown: Miami’s Little Broadway located in the upstairs classroom.
• A display of senior’s and children’s art work from our outreach classes.
• Winter Park’s West Side: A Living History of People and Places, selections of documentary photographs and oral histories by Peter Schreyer, recipient of the 1994/1995 Smith Research Grant from the Winter Park Public Library.
• Continuation of the free hands-on art sampler classes for children, teens, and seniors held since 1996.
• Visual art classes for adults and children from Crealdé’s curriculum in photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, and sculpture.
• A new Field Trip Program for middle school children entitled What Heritage Means to Me began in 2007.
  The program of 16 field trips to the Hannibal Square Heritage Center will be made available to middle school students from Central Florida Public Schools. Each group of 25 students will participate in a guided tour and discussion of the Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories from West Winter Park, facilitated by a senior citizen docent and resident of the community. Each child will verbalize thoughts about their favorite stories and photographs. This experience will be followed by a workshop facilitated by a member of Crealdé’s professional teaching staff. Students will create a piece of art reflecting What Heritage Means to Me, incorporating the experience of touring the Heritage Center, as well as their personal experience of family, home, community, country, and even native country.
• Mr. Imagination community Memory Wall.
  In March of 2008, Mr. Imagination, an internationally collected and exhibited Pennsylvania-based folk artist, worked with groups of children and seniors and Winter Park community members to create The Hannibal Square Memory Wall, a permanent outdoor sculpture located in front of the Heritage Center. The concrete wall contains Mr. Imagination’s characteristic hands, face, and angels, as well as mementos that reflect the participants’ cultural heritage, personal history and neighborhood pride.
• In partnership with the University of Central Florida’s Heritage Alliance program, the Heritage Center will be able to use technological resources and student interns for educational programs that involve folklore, heritage, and digital media.

Mission Statement for the Hannibal Square Heritage Center

In partnership with the community and the City of Winter Park, Crealdé School of Art operates the Heritage Center as a tribute to the past, present and future contributions of Winter Park’s African American community. Through innovative programming in the arts and humanities, The Heritage Center is a neighborhood focal point, archive, and home to the Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park. Through exhibitions and diverse educational programs it inspires all Central Floridians and visitors to our area to become more aware of, respect, explore, and participate in their own community’s history and heritage.