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The Thursday, June 29, public airing of the surf movie Time & Tide — one of six showings this summer from NYC to Montauk — has been moved from Babylon to Patchogue.
Swell Taco Babylon was set to play host to the screening while raising money for Save the Great South Bay, an environmental advocacy group.
But issues were raised in Bablyon Village Hall Tuesday evening, mostly having to do with liability concerns over use of public space behind the Mexican restaurant for the film.
Swell Taco management then decided Wednesday to move the special event to their Patchogue Village location at 30 East Main Street, which has its own outdoor patio area.
The night runs from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., with Time & Tide: New York Surf Fiction by filmmaker Drew Maloney (trailer above), airing at 9 p.m.
All the while, people are invited to drink tallboys of Blue Point Brewing Co.’s Drink the Bay Bay IPL, proceeds from which go to benefit the Save the Great South Bay.
There will be plenty of burritos and street tacos being slung as well.
“Here’s another event where a bar or restaurant has stepped up and said, ‘We want to support this organization,” Save the Great South Bay co-founder Marshall Brown told GreaterBabylon earlier this week.
The nonprofit group will also be presented with a check from last year’s Great South Bay Paddleboard Race, which is run and held at the Bay Shore Yacht Club with sponsorship from South Shore Paddleboards in Babylon Village.
The donation is from the Bay Shore Yacht Club.
“We’ll have shirts, raffles, as well as lawn signs from The I Love Long Island Campaign,” added Brown.
That campaign involves local people taking a pledge that they won’t use pesticides or fertilizers on their properties, each of which contribute to algal blooms in the waterways. In return they get a sign to post on their lawn, so their neighbors can know the deal.
Swell Taco co-owner Brooke Jankow called supporting Save the Great South Bay “common sense.”
“We all should be standing behind these guys as much as possible on Long Island,” she said.
“I want my kids to grow up with clean water.”
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