conNECKted TOO Part 2

conNECKted TOO Part 1

Empowering TINY Businesses with a Mobile App

Learn more about the ideas behind the Tiny Business app.

TINY IS SUSTAINABLE

There is more behind the word ‘economic’ than Economics! To isolate the study of HOW societies exchange goods and services from that of WHY,  WHERE or WHEN has brought us to the one-way / dead-end / no parking-no standing of consumerism.

Some thoughts on Creative Practice

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

conNECKtedTOO, an EXPERIMENT

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.

Yes – Whites are a MINORITY, TOO

I 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.

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

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.

Tiny is Powerful

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.

MEMORIES, QUESTIONS and THOUGHTS

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.