“89% of countries have site closures. $7b film industry losses worldwide”
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Quoted on Twitter by UNESCO
“Everyone is talking about the economy.
​We - the artists - are part of the economy. Society needs culture, but culture also needs society”
Quoted by Angelique Kidjo – Singer and activist
Many initiatives like ours, festivals, promotions, events and such like, have either been postponed or cancelled. As an entrepreneur I have spent more than three years being inspired to design the first AFRICARIBE FESTIVAL, one that combines Africa with the Greater Caribbean, which we are hoping to reschedule to take place in 2021.
​Quoted by Joseau Dasuki – TSI Founder & Chairman

BUSINESS CONTINUITY – CHALLENGE

New and resilient business models
As part of the change that the world is facing, we are committed to support communities by making local cultures and economies visible to the larger world.
The outbreak of Covid-19 has given us the opportunity to stop and examine the way that we have done things up until now. After this event, our main goal is to start over, with different socio-economic perspectives of our behaviour.

We understand the efforts that governments are making to try to overcome the public health crisis and the consequent economic impact that has forced us to rethink our economic model of excessive consumption, global commercialization and industrialization, as well as making an immediate response in order to safeguard employment, support employers and employees and help those most in need.
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We believe that the impact of these efforts can be multiplied if we create a social contact network dedicated to sharing interests, promoting and making visible to all what would be the most difficult areas to reactivate, the entertainment and cultural sectors, because of the new 'normality' of social distancing that has made us change our social habits enterally.
The entertainment and cultural industries have been transformed and are adapting to future social interaction through virtual platforms and phenomena, such as YouTube, iTunes, Spotify, streaming, and social media. The way we have had to learn to live today with social distancing contact has anticipated the necessity of using Virtuality from now on.
We offer a creative virtual ecosystem where we can connect supply with demand and vice-versa. A new scenario for talented artists, designers, promoters, producers and suppliers who will be supported by our SAPIENSTERS - Masters of Sapientes – and make them visible to a worldwide audience.
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This crusade, Talent for Change, will be the vehicle to empower the entertainment, arts and creative industries on a global competitive scale, to create a direct relationship between the public-consumer and the creative talent in a healthy environment, ecologically sustainable, and all this without leaving home.

According to the UCLG, United Cities and Local Governments, we are aware that the only way forward is via co-creation, a collaboration with our communities and local actors including the private sector, these different spheres being fully supported by governments.
We envision, for example, a renowned international chef connecting his colleagues and customers with local producers of organic, handmade and farm fresh food, at the same time sharing the culture they originate from.
Or a famous musician introducing local bands and independent artists, hosting showcases, again without leaving home, opening the way for ‘the new tourism’, an interaction with audiences, to learn more about the cultural heritage of each locality and which will even allow access to products and experiences from regions that they previously knew nothing about.

​We are working to reinvent ourselves as a species in order to protect ourselves and safeguard this planet, our home, which has shown us how much we have abused its ecosystem. We are working to offer a new way of relating to each other, confident that, in this case, the only thing we want to catch is - hope itself.

Be a Sapiens

A Project like this is too ambitious to tackle alone. That’s why we need your help. Together we can transform our future as a species. So stand with us.
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By making your donation you will be able to access all our specialized content, Sapiensters workshops and online events. Your contribution will go to support the artists who are part of our ecosystem and to the development of new talent around the world.