Art in/with Community

PODCAST – I Like My Tea Sweet Episode 1 part 1

By conNECKted TOO / April 3, 2020

LISTEN TO EPISODE 1 ON SOUNDCLOUD BY CLICKING HERE: https://soundcloud.com/user-327792440/i-like-my-tea-sweet-theron-snype Hello everyone, this is a part of the conversation with Theron Synpe. Please stop by, stay and enjoy the honesTEA. Episode 1 – Part 1 of Art & Culture with Theron Synpe. – – – Meet the Creators – – – “I Like My Tea […]

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conNECKtedTOO Story Circle

By conNECKted TOO / March 11, 2020

Due to measures taken to prevent COVID19 from spreading, the conNECKtedTOO Story Circle event has been modified into a virtual gathering that emphasizes solidarity and community over panic and isolation. Share stories, laugh, recite a poem or just let us know how you are doing at this Community Check-In via Zoom. Click here to join […]

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The arts and the spirit of the arts

By conNECKted TOO / February 25, 2020

Connection. Conversation. Community. Communicate. A string of words. A single word to acknowledge. Something. Since we’ve been here I’ve grown attached. Faces and people have become familiar. Now, when I smell fresh linen I think of this street. The block is starting to wake up by the time I get here in the mornings — […]

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TINYisPOWERFUL POP-UP COMMUNITY LAB – FULL SCHEDULE

By conNECKted TOO / January 21, 2020

MARCH 26, 4:00 P.M. A TINYisPOWERFUL COMMUNITY LAB STORY CIRCLE in conjunction with the USDAC STATE OF THE UNION MARCH 1st – MARCH 24 OPEN ON DEMAND. Call 843-607-5811 or 843-209-7902 JANUARY 23 – FEBRUARY 23 WEEKLY HOURS: TUESDAY thru SATURDAY 9:30 A.M. – 6:30 P.M. and SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 (12:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.) […]

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JANUARY-FEBRUARY AT 2023 REYNOLDS, NORTH CHARLESTON

By conNECKted TOO / January 16, 2020

conNECKtedTOO is transitioning. For the purpose of supporting TINY BUSINESS as an essential form of commerce in Charleston, the Collective is morphing from the hard media of sculpture, poster, performance and diagram making, to the virtuality of a Mobile App to be found at TINYisPOWERFUL.com. conNECKtedTOO is dedicated to very small enterprises. They are powerful […]

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Some thoughts on Creative Practice

By conNECKted TOO / November 19, 2019

Gwylene Gallimard shares thoughts on creative practice through a look at a local Charleston mural.

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conNECKtedTOO, an EXPERIMENT

By conNECKted TOO / November 19, 2019

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.

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Art and Community Working to Make the Invisible Visible

By conNECKted TOO / November 19, 2019

The 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.

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The Arts in “Art and Culture in/with Community”

By conNECKted TOO / November 19, 2019

ART & 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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