March 18 – May 16, 2026
Tours and conversations organized ON DEMAND
Call 843-607-5811 or 843-209-7902
POP-UPS by TINY Businesses anytime. All welcome.
COLLABORATION DAYS Public – Art – Space
THURSDAY, MARCH 26 at 2:00 p.m. EST – “I Like My Tea Sweet” on WOHM Charleston 96.3 FM (www.ohm radio963.org)
Poetry Sanctuary with New Danger Poets
Link to archive: https://www.mixcloud.com/ohmradio/i-like-my-tea-sweet-6-26-2026/
A public radio broadcast/podcast for collective dreaming and porch-like conversations about art & culture
THURSDAY APRIL 2 Good Trouble Workshop: Making Monsters out of recycled materials
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. EST
“If Racism was a Monster” workshop led by Kit Loney — making monsters out of recycled materials.
You are invited to join Kit Loney and TINYisPOWERFUL for a two-hour recycle monster-making experience.
We will look at examples of monsters in art, then, after brief instructions, dive into the making. Participants are invited to collaborate, or work individually. It is an opportunity to work with our hands, become inventive with the trash we possess in abundance. The workshop will wrap up with some reflection about our monsters, and suggestions for further exploration.
There will be lots of materials onsite, but feel free to bring favorite saved stuff you may enjoy putting to use!
Art and Monsters: https://tinyispowerful.com/engage-deeper-reservoir/3766/
Learn more here: https://tinyispowerful.com/?s=good+trouble
THURSDAY, APRIL 2 Adrian Rivera Lopez Critical Exchange*
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. EST
“My work is mainly focused on themes of the ‘Other’. Exploring the themes of exclusion, isolation, and relationships through historical events and through the lens of being a first generation immigrant from a town named Magdalena, found in the state of Jalisco in Mexico.
The themes I explore are inspired by the self-reflective art of Frida Kahlo, the politically-charged murals of Diago Rivera, and the compositions of Max Beckmann. I would also mention as a major influence the Baroque style Catholic religious artworks as a former Catholic who grew up going to a church full of sculptures and paintings depicting different religious scenes and people.”
*Learn more about Liz Lerman Critical Response Process: https://lizlerman.com/critical-response-process/
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8 ZINE JAM #2
Bring Your Lunch virtual & in-person
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST
theme: Physical Media & Third Spaces
A zine jam is like the twin of a game jam and can be broken down into four major components:
a. There is a central theme. The THEME for THIS ZINE JAM is the Importance of Physical Media
b. Each individual and/or group produces their own zine
c. There is a (relatively) small timeframe in which the zine is to be produced. This ZINE JAM concludes on May 7, 2026
d. All of the submitted works are to be published and are distributed in/at the same platform/place — www.TINYisPOWERFUL.org
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 and MONDAY, APRIL 13
Good Trouble Workshop: Making Monsters out of recycled materials
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
“If Racism was a Monster” workshop led by Kit Loney — making monsters out of recycled materials.
You are invited to join Kit Loney and TINYisPOWERFUL for a two-hour recycle monster-making experience.
We will look at examples of monsters in art, then, after brief instructions, dive into the making. Participants are invited to collaborate, or work individually. It is an opportunity to work with our hands, become inventive with the trash we possess in abundance. The workshop will wrap up with some reflection about our monsters, and suggestions for further exploration.
There will be lots of materials onsite, but feel free to bring favorite saved stuff you may enjoy putting to use!
Art and Monsters: https://tinyispowerful.com/engage-deeper-reservoir/3766/
Learn more here: https://tinyispowerful.com/?s=good+trouble
TUESDAY, APRIL 14 Strategies for Sustainability #1
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
A question/relay – What does sustainability mean to you? To a small organization?
Create a multiple questions and answers survey together of how we can advance toward those needs
Gathering responses to the multiple answers survey
THURSDAY, APRIL 16 Live Podcast Recording – I Like My Tea Sweet with Jean-Marie and KELA
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EST
Join KELA, Jean-Marie and Rayn as they explore the craft of woodworking and how that has looked in their respective art practices.
Opening Question: Are you living life intentionally or just reacting to life?
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Silence is Not an Option: IMAGINE IT BETTER FOR ALL
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST
Location: Circular Congregational Church (150 Meeting Street)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 What is Collaboratorship? #1
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 LIVE Podcast Recording
2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
opening question: How do build genuine connections?
multi-media textile artist and indigo advocate Arianne King Comer with blacksmith and community leader Julian D. Williams Sr.
culture keeping through arts and trades stewardship
linking community through embodied memory, mentorship, apprenticeship, and collaboration
TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Strategies for Sustainability #2
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
A critical response — assess the multiple questions and answers survey responses from Strategies for Sustainability #1 with the Liz Lerman Critical Response process and from that choose 2-3 elements to go further evaluating shared responsibilities, risks taken, vulnerabilities, TINYisPOWERFUL capabilities, whom, what, where, why, timing, how?
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 What is Collaboratorship #2
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
What is leadership? What is collaboratorship?
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Jazz History and Listening Room
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Presented by Marcus McDonald: Jazz music and musicians who have utilized their art as forms of expression and activism
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 What is Collaboratorship? #3
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
What is leadership? What is collaboratorship?
WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 A Tale of Charleston/A Tale for REPARATIONS
LAND & MORE
a TINYisPOWERFUL question/relay
Where Marcus cannot envision a process of reparation without a return of land and capital to African Americans robbed of their property, Jean-Marie adds that the returned land itself needs much reparations. Charleston could draw an Agenda of conciliation around the restitution of land, general care for land and enviornment, history, culture, equity and access.
A question and answer session.
Not a TedTalk.
An exercise in listening with NO CROSS TALKING or INTERRUPTING.
Click here to register: https://libcal.charleston.edu/event/16852929
FRIDAY, MAY 15 – SATURDAY, MAY 16 Alternate ROOTS Rhizome Weekend
FRIDAY, MAY 15 Open Stations
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
indigo work, monster-making, table talks, recordings/documentations, tours of sculptural installations, showcases of zines and we encourage any writers to bring your work in progress with you!
FRIDAY, MAY 15
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
projecting a film performance on Richard Wright by writer Darryl Lorenzo Wellington with live Q&A via zoom
click here for full description and to register: https://libcal.charleston.edu/event/16853291
FRIDAY, MAY 15
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
late night open mic, food, and fellowship with New Danger Poetry Team
location available upon request
SATURDAY, MAY 16
9:00 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Casual arrivals, self-guided tours, and coffee
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Land acknowledgement and grounding led by Elder Carlie Towne of the Gullah Geechee Angel Network
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Indigo education and process with Arianne King Comer creating custom pieces to keep and/or to share
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
FOOD TOGETHER (we will have some options and you are welcome to bring your own)
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Health Concerns, Realities, and Medical Experiences as Monsters
making monsters out of recycled materials with Kit Loney, Shannon Ivey (ROOTer and author of Welcome to the Sh*t Show), and Bee Collective
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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