This week: Donate, then dine in the Meatpacking District; Shakespeare in the Park debuts; Fleet Week brings on the funny; flashback to the ’80s with Duran Duran; and 20-something shutterbugs shoot for a cause.

Appetite for Academia

333 W. 17th St.; (917) 499-6091, labtastes.org

Stuffing yourself full of fantastic food is always a good idea. Doing it in the name of charity? Well, that’s the icing on the cake. From 5 to 8 p.m., foodies get to eat for a cause by donating $35 ($45 at the door) to the NYC Lab School and, in return, sampling food from Meatpacking District eateries including Buddakan, Spice Market (below), Buddha Bar, Suenos, Florent and more.

Shakespeare alfresco

The Delacorte Theater in Central Park; (212) 539-8500, publictheater.org

The Bard is back at the Park, where the New York Shakespeare Festival opens Tuesday with Lauren Ambrose and Christopher Bonewitz in Oskar Eustis’ direction of “Hamlet.” Tickets for the show, which runs Tuesdays through Sundays until June 29, are free, distributed after 1 p.m. on performance days, but be prepared to wait in a line long enough for you to read the entire play yourself when attempting to pick them up.

A band so nice they named it twice

Central Park’s Rumsey Playfield; (212) 307-7171

Duran Duran, the Capezio wearing new-wave pop band whose name adorned jean jackets and Trapper Keepers everywhere in the early ’80s, plays 7:30 p.m. Central Park shows Friday and Saturday. Four out of D2’s five members are still with the band, and no one thought Andy was cute anyway. Tickets are $65 at ticketmaster.com.

Point and click

Dia Gallery, 548 W. 22nd St.; (212) 673-4951, tofingerpaintnyc.com

David Blaine’s stopping by and a whole lot of downtown scenesters will be milling about, but the focus of this fundraiser for Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation will be the photographs shot by shutterbugs 25-years and younger. (See: Emmett Shine’s “Untitled,” above). Proceeds go to getting New Orleans back to form, and the open bar from 7 to 11 p.m. should get everyone in a Big Easy state of mind.

Ha ha for heroes on shore leave

Comix 353 W. 14th St.; (212) 524-2500, comixny.com

Fleet Week is in town and comedians Joe DeVito, Michael Somerville and Michelle Buteau are saluting our men and women in uniform. This lineup should seem funny even to those who don’t spend all their waking hours at sea, but attendees not sporting a sailor suit should plan on shelling out $15.