Cake Decorating – March 4
Chamber March Luncheon – March 5
Chip Kidd Lecture – March 10
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 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.
Chamber March Luncheon
The Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce is hosting a luncheon at Farmingdale Diner, 17 Hempstead Tpke., at noon. Bring your business cards. All members present will be entered into a drawing to win either “Featured Member of the Month” on the Chamber website, a Spotlight in the newsletter, or a banner on the chamber’s website for one month. Admission is $23 for members and $28 for nonmembers. Payment will be collected at the meeting. Cash, checks (made payable to Farmingdale Chamber of Commerce), or charge will be accepted. For planning purposes, RSVP at www.farmingdalenychamber.org.
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.
Monday, March 9
North Shore Elementary School is hosting a Family Math & Literacy Night at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 10
Chip Kidd Lecture
Multi-award-winning graphic artist Chip Kidd will speak at Farmingdale State College. The lecture is being held in Gleeson Hall, Room 104, from 3:05 to 4:20 p.m. A reception for the artist will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. in Hale Hall. 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. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Thursday, March 12
Poetry Reading
Poet and author Vince Gotera will read from his collected works at Farmingdale State College in the Great Room in Ward Hall at 11 a.m. Gotera, a professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and editor of the North American Review, has published poetry, fiction, non-fiction and literary criticism. His books include Dragon Fly, a poetry collection; Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans; Ghost Wars; and Fighting Kite, his third collection of poems. He was a 2013 runner-up for Farmingdale’s Paumanok Award. Farmingdale State College is located at 2350 Broad Hollow Rd. The activity is open to the public. For details, visit www.farmingdale.edu/calendars/events/.
