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3/6/2018 Public Transformation The Art of Community: Rural S.C. New Tools for Community Development Main Street South Carolina Presentation in Manning, SC Feb. 22, 2018 1 3/6/2018 Welcome to South Carolina! Population > 5 million 46

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Public Transformation

The Art of Community: Rural S.C.

New Tools for Community Development

Main Street South Carolina Presentation in Manning, SC

  • Feb. 22, 2018
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Welcome to South Carolina!

Population > 5 million 46 counties From the mountains to the coast: the Upstate, Midlands, PeeDee &Lowcountry Traditions and practices: Gullah Geechee baskets, Catawba pottery, Music traditions of old time, gospel, Blues, Rock & Roll Industry: Manufacturing--Textile Capital of the World, BMW, Mercedes, Boeing Agriculture: Peaches—”the peach state, ” A legacy of rice and cotton, wealth, poverty, division Cities: Greenville, Spartanburg, Rock Hill, Columbia, Florence, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Hilton Head

Con Context: t: Rural Six Coun Six Counties, ties, Six M Six Mavens, , Six T Six Team ams A ne A new fr w fram amework

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A st A state ate ar arts commi commiss ssion

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Gary Evelyn Lottie Audrey Yvette

Johnny

May 2016 A Promise Zone INsIGHTs

Background

Funding by USDA-Rural Development

Vernita Dore

Advisory Co-Chairs

  • Dr. Ann Carmichael

Bob Reeder

Official Partnership A three-tiered design

Advisors Mavens Team Members

Leadership by South Carolina Arts Commission

Ken May

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Our stories

Considering these questions: What is our story of place? What is unique and distinctive? Who tells our story? What makes you proud of your community? What’s compelling and urgent? Who leads change?

Where we’ve been, where we’re headed: …… if you don’t know where you are you don’t know who you are. –Wallace Stegner regarding poet farmer Wendell Berry

The power of a field trip

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to Kentucky

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INsIGHTs

Seeing differently Experiencing together Laughing together Eating together New thinking

The power of discovering place together--

Our first community tour in Allendale

July 2016

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December 2016

The power of local meetings.

CRAWL is announced in Denmark

The power of shared learning & experience

February 2017

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The power of folk & traditional arts The power of local economic development

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The power of an example

The power of documentation

telling our stories & sharing our stories

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Practicing what we preach…

The power of learning through local Projects

County Issue_____________Maven_______ Hampton Health Audrey Hopkins-Williams Allendale Business Retention Lottie Lewis Bamberg Blight Yvette McDaniel Barnwell Youth/Education Evelyn Coker Colleton Health/Food Gary Brightwell Jasper Literacy Johnny Davis

Hampton County: Estill Nature Trail Health and wellbeing

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Allendale:

Business retention Bam Bamber erg Coun g County: ty: Denmark “blight”

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Food, Health,Education Barnwell County: Blackville—

Youth, education

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Jasper Coun Jasper County P ty Project

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The Art of Literacy The power

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community

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The power of

NEXT GEN:

Bobby Harley Michael Dantzler Ment Nelson Ashley Jordan

CREATE Rural SC Young Voices/Nex t Gen Updates

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Lessons learned

  • There are no prescriptions
  • Listen with love
  • Celebrate small changes
  • The timeline is long
  • Ask for:
  • New voices
  • Reflection
  • Documentation
  • Practice:
  • Telling our stories
  • Writing our stories
  • Sharing our stories in new settings
  • Mutuality
  • Discover, Understand and Value:
  • Multiple contexts and perspectives
  • Traditions of people in place
  • Everyone is learning
  • Ask what partners and community

members need

  • Connect people and ideas to one another

Forward focus 2017-2019

Di Divi ving deeper i ng deeper into Health and wellness Education Economic Development

In Intersections w with th Fa Faith Arts and Cul Arts and Culture Ma Makers Entr Entrepr epreneur neurshi ship

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Strategic Partners

Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English The South Carolina Arts Commission is pleased to work closely with these partners addressing issues related to health, education and economic development within rural South Carolina and beyond.

Thank you!

Susan DuPlessis Program Director South Carolina Arts Commission sduplessis@arts.sc.gov

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