Global Change to Become “Unreasonable” at the Boulder Theater

On Friday, July 22, the Boulder Theater will host an event that very well may rock the globe. For nearly 5 hours  (breaks included) audience members will get a chance to hear about some of the most visionary and extreme projects being developed by young entrepreneurs from around the world.

The event, dramatically titled the Unreasonable Climax, is hosted by the Unreasonable Institute, a Boulder-based organization that is in its second year mentoring, training, and equipping young entrepreneurs with the resources and skills they need to create large-scale social change through business. Unreasonable Fellows speaking at the Climax have gone through a 6-week intensive program at the Institute in Boulder to learn how to make their dreams a reality.

Twenty-five Fellows will speak for 6 minutes each about their projects, adressing such issues as better ways to screen for disease, provide clean water, ease food shortages, and provide education to women in impoverished and struggling countries.

While their projects may seem ideal and perhaps far-fetched, these Fellows have been selected by the Unreasonable Institute precisely because they can succeed. The Institute only trains entrepreneurs who have a strong business idea involving a sustainability or social problem. The Fellow must be able to make their idea must be profitable and, (here’s the kicker) be able to impact more than a million people in 5 years with their vision.

The goal of the Unreasonable Climax is to gain public support and awareness of these revolutionary businesses and to, according to the Institute’s website, “define progress in our time.”

Following the event, audience members are invited to join the Unreasonable Fellows, Mentors, and Partners at the St. Julien Hotel in downtown Boulder for food, music, drinks, and inspiring company. For those who can’t get enough, there will be additional events on Thursday the 21^st and Saturday the 23^rd.

With so many wild ideas, energized people, and radical business plans swirling around, there may be no more unreasonable place to be on July 22 than Boulder, Colorado.