Chalk It Up to Civility – a Choose Civility: Allegany County community collaboration

Choose Civility: Allegany County and its partners will celebrate the annual “Day of Civility” with events all April long.  Many events are centered around the theme,“Chalk it Up to Civility,” an idea that stemmed from the Choose Civility steering committee during the COVID-19 pandemic as a safe way to share and celebrate civility as a community.  Choose Civility: Allegany County is encouraging adults and children to participate in using chalk drawings with inspiring messages and words of encouragement to spread kindness to others in our community.  The goal is to provide opportunity for collaborative conversation in spite of difference, develop consensus in the place of division, and create connectedness in our community.

“Chalk it Up to Civility” at these community events throughout April:

April 3, 11:30 AM – Christ Lutheran Church of LaVale

April 7, 11 AM to 5 PM – Chalk it Up stations at Allegany County Libraries

April 16, 11 AM to 1 PM– Chalk it Up with the Easter Bunny in Downtown Cumberland and Canal Place

April 28, 6:45 PM to 7:30 PM – Westernport of the Lawn at Westernport Elementary

April 30, 11 AM to 5 PM – View Chalk Mural Entries at Frostburg Arts Walk

Various locations and events with Archway Station

You can also participate by picking up chalk kits at ACLS during the month of April to create your own chalk drawings at home and share them with us on social media using the hashtag, #ChalkItUpToCivility.  While supplies last.

Thank you to the Choose Civility: Allegany County partners in “Chalk It Up”: Ali Ghan Shriners of Cumberland, MD, Allegany Arts Council, Allegany College of Maryland’s College to Community’s Partnership Center, Allegany County Commission for Women, Allegany County Library System, Archway Station, Canal Place Preservation & Development Authority, the City of Cumberland, Christ Lutheran Church of LaVale, Cumberland Downtown Development Commission, Downtown Cumberland Business Association, Frostburg First, Frostburg State University’s Communication Leadership Lab, Maryland Business Roundtable for Education, Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County, Western Maryland Watercolor Society, Westernport Elementary, Women’s Civic Association.