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If art is your passion and you are good at it, why can't you
make a living from it?
For a long time artists were considered eccentric and
egotistical, creating pieces that were more to their own liking and needs than
for anyone else. The attitude was "take
it or leave it, that is my creation".
At that time they were considered the "starving artists". Things have changed since then and in
today's world, the artist brings beauty and creativity into our lives and our
homes, many are also making significant profits from their creative pieces and
generating wealth for themselves and their families.
The main reason for this change is because many modern day
artists have learned and are still learning to combine entrepreneurship with art. They are learning how to concentrate on the
needs of the customer rather than their own, how to market their creativity and
how to use networking as a business tool.
Many of them are providing a benefit and satisfying a very real need.
BYBT in its 5th biennial Arts & Craft
exhibition is helping the young artist entrepreneurs they support to continue
this trend. This exhibition is only one
of the ways through which we help our artist entrepreneurs to grow and develop
as individuals, professionals and progressive business people. The
exhibition runs from November 01 -30th, with a launch at the Satjay,
Bridgetown Mall.
We welcome the consistent support of our local partners and
are very pleased that on a regular basis we continue to attract strong and
credible partners. The Chamber of
Commerce and the Community Department are very aware of the work that is needed
and the necessity to help the young people we are mandated to serve to create
decent, sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families.
Youth unemployment is an acute problem in Barbados. Every day BYBT receives at least 7 new calls
requesting assistance from unemployed entrepreneurial youth, to start a
business, the funding is not available to do this. However we never turn away a young
entrepreneur, referrals or other kinds of help in very tangible ways are
offered. It is truly amazing how much
can be done with a little. Can you
imagine if we were to get a lot?
As BYBT celebrates 13 years in the business of youth
entrepreneurship, we pledge to continue to support the young entrepreneurial
people, whom no one else will support to continue to help source networking
contacts, supply and value chains, markets and technological opportunity
directly or indirectly through credible partnerships to enable our nation's
youth to successfully transition from childhood to adulthood and ultimately
provide them with decent work.
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