“Numberless birds sing among its branches, and numberless angels rest beneath its shade.”

This Manifesto Was Written by Mark Pomerantz.  The values and ideas contained within are fully supported and endorsed by Sedrat Arts

THE NEW POWER ARTS MANIFESTO

Artists of the 21st century we commit ourselves to work together to meet the shared challenge of recreating our society so that the freedom and dignity of every human being is central to political life.  We acknowledge our responsibility for our own actions, both individual and collective, and their impact on all the people of the world and the natural environment.

Artists must join together to manipulate the worlds of business and politics into a world of business and political ethics. In effect to create a new art form, that of values based business and values based government.

The artist must recreate himself as an aggressive force for social good in the new age of hyper-accelerated change. This new dynamic and robust persona for the artist is the artist-social entrepreneur.

The artist-social entrepreneur recognizes the need for social change and helps implement that change by developing his personal and organizational power to change the political process, fight injustice, poverty and homelessness, and promote and strengthen the arts community.

The artist-social entrepreneur takes the forces of change in his own hands using the technologies of the scientist and the business entrepreneur, and the power of the communications media, to promote a love of equity, and joy in compassion, openness, and sharing.

The artist-social entrepreneur develops and shares a new freedom with humanity based on the shedding of guilt based behaviors, dishonesty, greed, and the multiple addictions of a society that promote love of things over love of people.

The artist-social entrepreneur acknowledges that we are part of a living spiritual universe, not a dead universe abandoned by God, and that we are the responsible stewards of that universe.

The artist-social entrepreneur in his role of synthesizer takes the multiple world-views of our time and reconciles them into an approach based on love, creativity, tolerance, and efficiency.

THE GOALS OF THE NEW POWER ARTS CAMPAIGN (What We Promote!)

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Equity

§   Development of Successful Mission-Based Businesses that Provide Poor, Disabled, and/or Homeless People (And Artists!) With The Means To Lift Themselves Out Of Poverty

§   Teaching Our Youth Individual Responsibility And Flexibility in Responding To Changing Individual Circumstances.

§   Development of Effective Life-Enhancing Public-Private Partnerships

§   Development of Entrepreneurial Programs Stressing Hard Work, Individual Responsibility, Cost-Effectiveness, and Effective Outcomes that Have Wide Appeal to the Cultural Creatives, Liberals, Old Conservatives, Libertarians, and Anarchists

§   Supporting, Strengthening, and Reforming the Nonprofit Service Sector as a More Effective, More Collaborative, and More Entrepreneurial Force

Government

§   Supporting Lean and Efficient Government

§   Making Government a Compassionate Force

§   Development of Government Based on Public-Private Partnerships

§   Supporting More Decentralized and Representative Government Bodies

§   Making Government a Supportive Partner with Arts Organizations Organizations

§   Supporting and Creating New Organizations Based on Collaboration as Much as Command

§   Creating Organizations That Are Non-Rankist, Non-Sexist, Non-Racist, Have Free Flow of Information, Interactive, and Equitable

§   Organizations Should Be Run On Sapiential Authority, Based on Responsibility for Those Who Know, Rather Than On Hierarchical Authority Based On Reaching The Limit of Incompetence

The Economy and the Environment

§   Putting Technology in the Service of Humanity Not to Control Humanity

§   Promoting the Triple Bottom Line--- Organizations that Fulfill the Mission and/or Make Money, Help the Community, and Preserve the Environment

§   Promoting Support for the Local Economy—Preserve Local Businesses and Create Living Wage Jobs ( for artists, artisans et al ) in Our Communities

§   Providing Incentives and Penalties to Foster Corporate Responsibility

§   Creating A Contract between Generations—Preserve Nature For Our Grandkids

§   Keeping Consumption Within Regenerative Capacities Of The Ecosystems

§   Instituting Taxation Of Energy And Raw Material Consumption

Education

§   Making Public Education Entrepreneurial and Outcome Based

§   Promoting Youth Entrepreneurship—Teaching Youth How to Recognize Opportunity, Responsibility, Self-Sufficiency, and Flexibility

§   Promoting the Arts—Instituting a Love of Nature, Humanity, and Beauty In Our Youth

§   Promoting Technology as a Force for Social Change Not As An Escape From Reality

§   Promoting Diversity and Tolerance as A Learning Experience

Arts

§   Promoting Social Entrepreneurship as An Approach to Make Arts Organizations Stronger and More Self-Sufficient

§   Teaching Artists How To Market Themselves and Their Businesses

§   Helping Artists Develop New Businesses that Merge New Ways of Seeing and Social Equity

§   Promoting Arts Education

Mark Pomerantz

for more on Mark Pomerantz, please visit his website:

http://www.socialprofits.com/