Open Swim Night – February 26
Chip Kidd Lecture – March 3
Board of Ed Meeting – March 4
Thursday, Feb. 26
Open Swim Night
Farmingdale High School is hosting an open swim night for students from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Taste of Farmingdale
The Village of Farmingdale is set for its annual Farmingdale Village Winter Wonderland Expo, Taste of Farmingdale open house, to be held at Village Hall at 361 Main Street from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. A Taste of Farmingdale will feature village restaurants with tasting and mini massages along with a great variety of merchants. The Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce is joining in. They will have a shared table for Chamber members with samples and giveaways. Some participating restaurants include: Caracara Mexican Grill, Nutty Irishman, Hush Bistro, Frankie’s East Side, Croxley’s, Three Brothers Pizza, Library Café, Cascarino’s, Stuff-a-Bagel and Village Kitchen. Additionally, some participating businesses include The Chocolate Duck, A Taste of Long Island, The Divine Olive, Paint and Main, Farmingdale Music Center, Althea’s Boutique, Le Che Salon, Priestley Chiropractic, Farmingdale Wellness and more. The expo is free and open to everyone.
Jed Myers Poetry Reading
Seattle poet Jed Myers will read from his collected works at Farmingdale State College, 2350 Broadhollow Rd., Farmingdale, at 11 a.m. The reading—the kick-off event in the spring Visiting Writers Program—will be held in the Great Room in Ward Hall. Meyers, also a practicing psychiatrist, studied creative writing at Tufts University. He was a 2013 runner-up for Farmingdale’s Paumanok Award. He wrote poetry for years, but did not seek to publish his work until after the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. The reading is free and open to all.
Tuesday, March 3
Chip Kidd Lecture
Multi-award-winning graphic artist Chip Kidd will speak and show his work at Farmingdale State College on Tuesday. The lecture is being held in Gleeson Hall, Room 104, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Kidd is the associate art director at Knopf, where he designs book jackets. He is prolific, producing about 75 covers a year. Kidd supervises graphic novels at Pantheon books, and has freelanced for Amazon, Doubleday, HarperCollins, Penguin/Putnam, and Farrar Straus & Giroux. He has also written and designed book covers for DC Comics. In 2001 he published his first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, about his experiences as a design student at Penn State. The Learners was his follow-up book. The lecture is free and open to all.
Wednesday, March 4
Board of Education Meeting
The Farmingdale School district is hosting a Board of Education Meeting at Howitt E. Cafeteria at 8 p.m.
Cake Decorating
The Chocolate Duck, 310 Main St., Farmingdale, is hosting a cake decorating class from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Attendees will learn baking expertise and recipes, frosting, shell, fluted, rope and pearl borders, writing, star tipping, piping clowns and more. Flowers include drop flowers, small roses and buds and leaves. This class is part of a series, and it costs $95. The other classes are on March 11 and 18. To sign up, call 516-249-0887. For details, visit www.thechocolateduckstore.com.
Thursday, March 5
Sustainable Living
The Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, 7180 Republic Airport Farmingdale, is hosting a Sustainable Living Film Series from 6 to 9:30 p.m.
The documentary Greedy Lying Bastards will be played and a light vegan buffet will be served. The film investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior. Admission is $5. To RSVP, call 516-323-4510.
Beginning Friday, March 6
Really, Really
Really, Really, an Off-Broadway hit in 2013, will be presented by the Back Stage Theater Company at Farmingdale State College on the following dates in March: 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at 8 p.m. The show will be staged in the Little Theater in Roosevelt Hall. Twenty-eight-year-old playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo wrote the play and for his work he received the Helen Hayes New Playwright Award, and the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play. The play, which takes place in a college environment, focuses on the morning after a beer bash, and the aftermath of conflicting stories about who did what to whom. Colaizzo sets it up so that the fog of the event causes people to immediately take sides with either the guy, Davis, or the girl, Leigh. The Back Stage Theater Company is a student-run performing arts club on the Farmingdale campus. Tickets are priced at $10 for general admission, and $5 for senior citizens and non-Farmingdale State College students. Tickets are available a half-hour before the show begins.
