conNECKted TOO
As soon as artists choose to seek funding to pursue their work, they are faced with strange processes: they are required to assign a cost to each of their creative steps. cTOO is an experiment.
Read MoreThe conNECKtedTOO project is an outgrowth of the Charleston Rhizome Collective, an organization of local collaborators who employ the arts as a means to examine, explore and cohere varying aspects of the area community, intending to combine artistic expression, social activism, and economic opportunity for both creative artists and for small businesses.
Read MoreI once had a friend who objected to Black Americans calling themselves “a minority” because he believed the words played on our minds in a way that led us to believe Blacks were statistically outnumbered the whole world over. “People of color are the majority of the global population,” he used to say. He was correct.
Read MoreART & CULTURE IN/WITH COMMUNITY is an outgrowth of the place where it exists.
The conNECKtedTOO team of artists, activists, youth and educators looks like the communities it works with: inter-generational, inter-disciplinary and interracial. The “Collective” model, where members are autonomous, reflects both the identity of causes and the free choice of the means to attain them, as found in any livable social group.
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The expression “Think globally, Act locally” pairs naturally with “Support local business” or the moral truism “Less is more.” All three reject the idea that bigger necessarily means better.
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conNECKtedTOO, the Charleston Rhizome Collective’s TINY Business initiative continues
the social activists/artists/educators group’s visionary expedition into using art as a medium
to facilitate social change. The TINY Business initiative employs artists and apprentices in a
unique approach to presenting how small businesses impact the communities in which they
exist.
HOW DO YOU DEFINE A TINY BUSINESS? Unedited responses from conversations with TINY Business Owners
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TINY businesses must be respected and encouraged. Established businesses have not existed in our neighborhoods for decades just to fall in oblivion. New TINY businesses need our support as well. Each of us is responsible for their well-being.
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A light-hearted lyricist wrote that “Love and marriage/Go together like a horse and carriage.” So (too) do songs, jingles and social activism. Protest songs can inspire commitment with a powerful line, or a clever turn-of-phrase. The transformational message is accompanied by the melodic music.
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