The Artist as Social Entrepeneur. Share Synopsis Social progress, like great art, dwells in a sweetspot between political extremes.
“Equality” – I spoke their word as if a wedding vow. But I was so much older then. I’m younger than that now. Bob Dylan, from ‘My Back Pages’ When a disgusted audience member yelled out ‘Judas!’ But by the mid-sixties Dylan himself had changed. Dylan was a social pioneer as well as a musical genius. As Dylan stood at the microphone, with his marketing men lurking in the wings, and a flock of frowning socialists arrayed in the stalls, perhaps he saw clearly how the mentalities of individualism and statism conspire, like two pendulums cajoling each other into motion.
In other words, Tony Blair’s ‘third way’ got it disastrously wrong. David Cameron calls it the ‘Big Society’; Neil Kinnock called it ‘neighbourhood’, ‘community’, ‘brotherhood’, or just plain old ‘society’. In contrast, the worst examples of art thrive when right and left ideologies predominate.
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In Beijing, the first Hold-ups have been organized for 2 local social entreprises: Healthy Baby SMS and 1KG More . It is now time to meet them! Healthy Baby SMS is a social enterprise working towards a safe and healthy motherhood for new and expectant mothers in China’s migrant communities, by providing free health guidance through weekly text-messages and a SMS hotline.
Currently in prototyping phase, HealthyBabySMS is run by medical students at Peking University and Harvard Medical School with a core passion for improving the health and lives of the most vulnerable migrant women and children in China. If this video doesn’t work, click here . About. The Team. MakeSense is an Open project that have been Kickstarted by Christian ( christian@makesense.org ) and Romain ( romain@makesense.org ) It develops itself thanks to a Gang of Social Business activists from all around the world who are joining us for two purposes : 1. source the challenges of Social Entrepreneurs and 2.Get people together worldwide so that they take up and solve those challenges.
The member of the MakeSense open project are called “the Gangsters” and when they are many in a city it starts a hotspot. There have been MakeSense events in 44 cities accross the globe. If you wanna jump into the project just send a mail to join@makesense.org, we have cool blue facebook avatars waiting for you On this page you’ll be able to discover some of the video portraits of the Gangsters, where they are in the world and their complete biographies and superpower. Join@makesense.org Who are the Gangsters ? The Co-backpackers.