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Mar 16, 2008

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." --Erma Bombeck

Dream: Children of Calcutta

"In my next life, I would like to be a butterfly." A simple video montage begins, depicting the paintings and dreams of young students at an informal school in India run by the non-governmental organization Calcutta Rescue. Calcutta Rescue provides free education to nearly 300 slum children in that city, and here, the impetus behind the lush series of water-color paintings on display is voiced by the artists themselves. "I imagined standing by a river like this. I have never seen a river, but I have seen pictures," says one. And another: "I live on the street with my parents, brother and one sister. I would like to have a big house so that we can all live there."