Screening: The Revolutionary Optimists
Tuesday, May 21st 2013  5:45pm
San Francisco, CA

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Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children in Calcutta's slums have cut their neighborhoods' malaria and diarrhea rates in half, and turned former garbage dumps into playing fields. Now, pushing at the limits of optimism, Amlan is attempting to take his work into the brickfields outside Calcutta, where spend their days making and carrying bricks using methods unchanged by centuries. THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS proposes a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, including preventable diseases and ineffectual governance. Ganguly's story suggests that education and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting entire societies out of hopelessness.

Location:
SF Main Library
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA

Sponsored By:
ITVS Community Cinema