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End: 6:00 pm
 We live between fences. We may hardly notice them, but they are dominant features in our lives and in our history. Built of hedge, concrete, wood and metal, the fence skirts our properties and is central to the American landscape. We use them to enclose our houses and neighborhoods.Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
 Many notable figures throughout history have been vegetarians. From Plato and Benjamin Franklin to Mahatma Gandhi and Charlotte Bronte, veggie-love has a historical track record. Even civil rights icons Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King adhered to strict vegetarian diets and were also vegetarian activists.
Many continue to embrace vegetarianism, rejecting what they deem the horrific treatment of soon-to-be slaughtered animals. In the popular pamphlet 101 Reasons Why I'm Vegetarian, Pamela Rice writes: "Nearly all of the some 10 billion animals slaughtered for food in the U.S. every year are the end result of a behemoth-sized swift-moving assembly line system, incorporating dangerous, unprecedented, and unsustainable methods of production." As vegetarianism and veganism (a diet that contains no meat or diary) has grown in popularity many are beginning to marvel at the benefits a veggie diet has not only for animal rights, but the positive effects it has on the body. Start: 7:30 pm
Bahram Beyzaie's Four Boxes (Chahaar sanduq, 1979), directed by Farrokh Asadi is a play about how a society manufactures its own dictators. Art by painter, sculptor and actor, Ario Mashayekhi, will be displayed in the theatre lobby.
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