Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: CLICK HERE TO READ A CONVERSATION BETWEEN VICTORIA AND JEAN-MARIE READ MORE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS HERE
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JEAN-MARIE AND VICTORIA
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Tiny Is Powerful
2022 Charleston Zine Fest Reflection
Summary: Last year TINYisPOWERFUL participated in the 5th annual Charleston Zine Fest (2022) – an initiative started by Leigh Sabish of Sarden Press that was primarily organized by Sage Graham this year. During this event artists, zine makers and a diverse set of TINY...
🌼 My Way of Being a THEY/THEM 🌼
It was in 2016 when I subconsciously realized I was non-binary. That was the first time I hopped on Spotify. Even at that time "them" gave the option of picking non-binary as one’s gender. I felt (at the time) strangely affirmed but because of the ridicule I had...
WE MUST VOTE: TINY IS POWERFUL
WE MUST VOTE It has been months in the making. That is what gives this essay its value... Value, you said? Which value? exchange value usage value market value abstract value? added value surplus value resale value or symbolic value hidden value personal value...
A Conversation Between Rayn and JEMAGWGA
Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: Click here to read A Conversation RAYN with JEMAGWGA For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
843? Zine Program Development | 2022
“Art is everything” is about seeing all of life and beyond as an art. While “a zine can be anything,” engulfs the concept that any topic and set of materials can be used to share our perceptions of the world with others. Both of these statements carry with them the...
The INTERGENERATIONAL
by Jean-Marie Mauclet Something monstrously tragic happened in Uvalde Texas on May 24th, 2022. The latest school mass shooting (at the time), which claimed the death of yet an other 21 Americans: two adults and 19 children. Ten days earlier, 10 daily shoppers were...
ROE and GUNS
This vote against WOMEN and its very timing, right when we are reaching to the heart of the January 6th total moral corruption, is an insult to the people of Charleston, America and the world. Along with the vote on gun violence, this attempt to consolidate MALE...
Pilgrimages of a Santa Fe Poet Laureate Visiting Schoolchildren during National Poetry Month
as published in the Santa Fe Reporter By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington April 27, 2022 April is National Poetry Month. Of course, to my mind, National Poetry Month, like Black History Month, is a bit of a redundancy, since every month is an occasion to revisit art and...
Arts and Culture from the Inside, Not Just on the Outside
November 13, 2019 essay published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Development Innovation Review documenting some of the lessons learned during the Strategic Planning art work performed by Significant Developments for the Jackson Medical Mall as...
Good Trouble: Resources and Research
Learning for Justice: https://www.learningforjustice.org/ Social Justice Standards Facilitator Guide PDF: https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/TT-Social-Justice-Standards-Facilitator-Guide-WEB_0.pdf CCSD Cultural Competency Policy -...
Art and Monsters
"Property matters. It's more than just a parcel of land. It's also window to the past that tells the story of a family, a community, a way of life. Knowing your family's history and culture creates a sense of place and belonging. The loss of heirs' property has impact...
My I Story
l would just like to uplift the name of Reverend Clementa Pinckney I heard him give a speech about the first Memorial Day in Charleston for the first time in May of that year but by June he was dead. We also lift up the names of Cynthia Hurd, Reverend Sharonda Coleman...
EXTENDED WORKSHOP and Installation – Saturday, April 9
In-person space is limited so please RSVP to TINYisPOWERFUL@gmail.com TINYisPOWERFUL at its core is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. Thus we are edge dwellers who utilize and...
Gwylene Gallimard with: IN PROGRESS….. ALBUM of DRAWINGS and RECYCLED COLLECTIVE ARTIFACTS dedicated to / perpetuating / honoring / memorizing collaborative ventures and explorations of Art in/with Community.
Who are YOU ALL named or not?... Guess!!! YOU, my co-workers, my mentors, my friends, elders, fellow travelers and family; YOU, who influenced me and whom I may have influenced; YOU in pain, or who have passed away too early or at least before we could converse...
THE LATEST 37 PAGES from the 900 PAGE DIARY of Jean-Marie Mauclet
The diary of TINYisPOWERFUL was started on 10-19-2017. Not a chronological history of the Charleston Rhizome Collective's work. More like a personal view of what it brought to me and what I contributed to it: thoughts, references, background, sometimes the experiences...
ART IN/WITH COMMUNITY THE CHARLESTON RHIZOME COLLECTIVE … … TINYisPOWERFUL
1984: originally, it was an art project conceived by Gwylene Gallimard and Jean-Marie Mauclet, a “conceptual and information art" project. When it became a real business , downtown Charleston, an eatery with healthy, basic, affordable French food, they called...
A conversation between Jean-Marie Mauclet and Kit Loney
Jean-Marie Mauclet: Art and Making as Tools for a Visionary See PDF file: KIT LONEY on Jean-Marie Mauclet For the TINYisPOWERFUL collective to be viable, it needs to keep in close contact with its outside partners and supporters. This is the purpose of our NEWSLETTER...
CIRCLE OF ADVISORS
Last line of conNECKtedTOO's mission (2018-2019), which anchored the present active transformation of conNECKtedTOO into TINYisPOWERFUL. TINYisPOWERFUL inherited the legacy of conNECKtedTOO, including its assets from cash to art tools, archives of events and...
Season 2 – Ep. 1 – TINY TALKS: Collective Identity
Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn LISTEN BELOW Charleston Rhizome Collective · Season 2 - Ep. 1 - Collective Identity w/ Victoria and Rayn FULL EPISODE Episode 1 | A Reflection on Collective Identity w/ Victoria & Rayn Thought Question:...
Principled approach to design
https://www.archdaily.com/968538/los-angeles-wildfires-and-adaptive-design-greg-kochanowski-on-creating-new-futures?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ArchDaily%20List&kth=5,861,455 [the use of WE below refers to the members of TiP and their close relations] Here we...
If Racism Was a Monster
It might look like me It might look like my father it might look like my daughter it might look like diabetics it might look like paramedics it might look like the systems like invisible systems it might loom like me it might move in the night but it moves in the...
Aysha Bowens – 843? zine – The Garden
"The Garden" By: Aysha Bowens while tending my garden, i see its potential where the soil dried up, even though there was no sun in the shadows of working through my past i envision others finding solace in my garden one day i hope they find peace as they walk...
Aysha Bowens for 843? – zine – A Heartful History
"A Heartful History" By: Aysha Bowens It was acknowledged that I was creative, but instilled in me that I must take the more stable and safer route. That it was great that I could put things together on a computer screen to make them look good, but how would I make it...
QUESTION / RELAY
There is no pre-existing agenda. This format transforms participants in leaders of the conversation. Each of them has a chance to ask a question and to answer another one. Here is a description of our process: conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL RELAY QUESTION Process...
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
When in Charleston, pre-covid, Sarah Turquety, with a simple exercise in social awareness, transformed a disparate group of individualists into a cluster of community strong neighbors. Her poetry speaks of solidarity, militancy, family, nature. Her voice is spiced with a ray of sun. She is young and French, an artist living in a region of villages with 200 to 2000 inhabitants, in SW France
What can you imagine?
What can you imagine? For your future? For your community/communities? For your neighborhood? Your business? For the next generation and their education? For the future of food and food ecosystems?
Pause for a minute and try. Pick one.
Independence
The following is an excerpt written by Bernie Mazyck, Present & CEO of the South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development (SCACED) which was as the fiscal sponsor for 3 years of conNECKtedTOO as a predecessor to TINYisPOWERFUL. A Clearer and Truer...
TINYisPOWERFUL – TINY Dialogue Booklets
Click here for the 2021 TINY Dialogue Booklet The work of TINYisPOWERFUL is process-oriented and prioritizes a journey toward an unknown destination or series of destinations we can create together. At its core, TINY is about the power of human connection -- the...
How to approach Shared Ownership policies, one project at a time
This document is based on TINYisPOWERFUL (TiP) values as outlined in its mission & vision (www.tinyispowerful.com/about-us/), as well as four conversations by the TiP Circle of Advisors (Summer and fall 2020). We believe that ART & TINY BUSINESS are nimble,...
SOCAP 2020 Notes & Reflections
With great thanks to Alternate ROOTS and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, TINYisPOWERFUL was invited to attend/participate/present during SOCAP 2020 -- a global summit centering impact economy. There were corporations, banks, foundations, high wealth individuals and...
About G&M French Café’s outdoor permit from Charleston County
Letter about G&M French Café’s outdoor permit from Charleston County from Jean-Marie Mauclet & Gwylene Gallimard, founders of Fast & French / G & M French Café Read about the history of Fast & French and the ongoing call for maintaining their...
THE CHARLESTON RHIZOME COLLECTIVE and US Department of Arts & Culture
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TINY
by JEAN-MARIE MAUCLET This Lexicon has a reason to be: building a community of words which cover one of knowledge, which translates into one of purpose. TINY is one of those words. Our collective attaches it to POWERFUL and affirms: TINYisPOWERFUL. Why? Today, we...
Taking the Grand Tour
by DARRYL LORENZO WELLINGTON Click here for the original formatting When I think of the Future is on the Table/conNECKtedTOO project, I tend to think of artisan crafts, hands-on work, and trades utilizing skills that have been passed down through generations. I think...
“I Like My Tea Sweet” – Episode 5 – Mental Health with Brae Richardson
What does mental health mean to you? Welcome to the start of the “Five Healths” Series. During this five episode installment we will be touching on five healths: Mental, Emotional, Physical, Social & Spiritual. In this episode Brae Richardson owner of Brae...
Partners for Change
conNECKtedTOO —> TINYisPOWERFUL.com is a Partner for Change with Alternate ROOTS and The Surdna Foundation NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - America without racism, can you imagine? Partners for Change launches with ROOTS’ first 3-year initiative and a strategic...
TINY Systems with Fresh Future Farm – COMING SOON
Join Fresh Future Farm and conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL for a conversation about food access, food apartheid, and local systems. This event is Free and Open to the Public. email TINYisPOWERFUL@gmail.com to register for the new date (coming soon) ### Consider...
PODCAST – I Like My Tea Sweet – Episode 3 – Independence with Victoria Moore
Charleston Rhizome Collective · Reflections on Independence In this episode Victoria Moore of conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL reflects the Fourth of July, drawing on stories, histories and personal discoveries. -- Frederick Douglass' Descendants Deliver His...
A quick SC history fact
as shared by SABRINA HYMAN On July 4, 1965 my uncle was arrested amongst what is known as the “Edisto 13” for “trespassing” which really meant being black and having the audacity to come on our pure white beach. This case was later part of the catalyst that lead Judge...
Independent
Here's an audio I recorded last night. Talking starts at minute 00:45. note: There is a point around minute 4:40 where I misspoke, slightly, saying "slavery was ratified" but meaning to say "the abolition of slavery was ratified." Self-governed. Autonomous. Free. Did...
A TALE OF CHARLESTON
(click here for original formatting) conNECKtedTOO—>TINYisPOWERFUL is launching an other Art and Culture, in/with community experiment in defense of TINY BUSINESS as a sustainable form of commerce. After ‘the Charleston Cut’, dedicated to barbering, we are...
How-To Add to TINYisPOWERFUL.com
Send “Specials” information about your events, activities, offerings, announcements, accomplishments or updates to this online community-info board. You can also submit a piece for the "Reservoir" like responses to current events, stories, brainstormings or...
letter to Mayor John Tecklenburg of Charleston SC
feature image credit: Brad Nettles / bnettles@postandcourier.com Dear Mayor Tecklenburg, On behalf of conNECKtedTOO—> TINYisPOWERFUL, I need to congratulate you and your administration for choosing to remove the monument to JC Calhoun on Marion Square. I also would...
Letter to Mayor Summey of North Charleston in support of Fresh Future Farm
feature image credit: Fresh Future Farm April Newsletter Dear Sir, This letter is in support of FRESH FUTURE FARM, as it is attempting to purchase - directly from your city, without an intermediary and at a fair price - the land it has been farming for many years, to...
FROM THE CREATORS of I LIKE MY TEA SWEET Podcast
Question: What have you learned from the episodes you have done / What has working on ILMTS" taught you? Rain - It has made me more open to what a podcast can be. For instance the editing style I used for episode 1 is completely different from episodes 2 and 3....
When The Torch is Passed: The Bowens’ Legacy and Future
by AYSHA BOWENS Burke High School Class of 2020 Valedictorian The legacy that I would like to leave behind is not only for my family but for those who travel the same path as mine. While my path was full of support from family members and friends, opportunities that...
What do I wish to See?
for conNECKtedTOO --> TINYisPOWERFUL (as published in Newsletter #12) CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL TEXT WITH FORMATTING WHAT DO I WISH TO SEE? A Tiny Business conNECKtedTOO… becoming …TINYisPOWERFUL: with a strong young leadership of mainly people of...
What Has Been Done? What Will Continue? A Few Examples…
Response to the Murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Too Many Others
by KIT LONEY As published in Newsletter #12 1. I want to find the way to say the too many names that will echo, and keep echoing. I want the too many names to ride on the voices of children. I want the too many names to spell themselves out in the murmurations of...
