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The Week Ahead: Restaurant Week, Youth Showcase

Here's what's happening in and around Hauppauge this week.

Youth Art Showcase

The Smithtown Township Arts Council’s Annual Youth Art Showcase at the Mills Pond House Gallery. Highlighting the creativity of young people in Suffolk County, the exhibit includes artwork created by more than 250 students who have used art to express themselves in a wide variety of creative and exciting ways.

BURN: One Year on the Front Lines in the Battle to Save Detroit

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BURN,” a new film from producer/directors Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez, and executive producer Denis Leary (“Rescue Me”).

Filmmakers Putnam and Sanchez were given unprecedented access, and their documentary closely tracks the lives of the firefighters over the course of a full year.  The film was culled from over 1,000 hours of interviews and additional footage, much of it shot during actual fires, inside blazing, smoke-filled buildings. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Port Jefferson Cinema.

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Let's Discover Nature

The “Let’s Discover Nature” Hour is a special time for both parent and child to discover the wonders of their natural world together. Each program’s theme will use nature explorations and hands-on activities as a springboard for learning. Thursday's theme will be "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb", 10 a.m. Caleb Smith Park.

Restaurant Week

There are eight restaurants from Hauppauge and Nesconset participating in Smithtown Restaurant Week, which began Sunday.

During the week, presented by the Greater Smithtown Chamber of Commerce, locals could enjoy a three-course price fixed dinner at $25 per person at the participating restaurants. There are 29 restaurants total in the Town of Smithtown participating in the week. The event ends March 10.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated there was a board of education meeting on Tuesday. Patch regrets the error.


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