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Women's History Month Film: She's Beautiful When She's Angry

A provocative, rousing and often humorous account of the birth of the modern women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s through to its contemporary manifestations in the new millennium, direct from the women who lived it. Best Documentary winner at the Independent Film Festival Boston. Nominated for Best Documentary at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards. Directed by Mary Dore. No registration required.

Festival of the Arts Boca: Author Charles Fishman

Charles Fishman is an acclaimed author and three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, the most prestigious prize in business journalism. Tonight he will talk with us about his book, The Big Thirst – “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book” (Nature magazine). It is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives. The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water—liquid, ice, and vapor—there is a fourth, “molecular water,” fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that’s where most of the planet’s water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always be made clean enough again to drink—indeed, water can be made so clean that it’s toxic. Water is our most vital substance, but more amazing and mysterious than we appreciate.