WHAT: A celebration of sun, summer and creativity on the longest day of the year, marking the start of summer.
WHEN: Thursday, June 21 and Sunday, June 24, 2007
WHERE: In Times Square, on the island at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, and throughout the Times Square neighborhood.
ADMISSION: Free.
DETAILS:
Schedule of Events
THURSDAY, JUNE 21
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Mind Over Madness Yoga A free yoga-fest in the heart of Times Square. Yoga enthusiasts, both experienced and beginners, gather to face the challenge of finding tranquility and transcendence in the midst of the urban energy of the world’s most commercial and frenetic place. WHEN: Sessions: 7am-8am 7:30pm-8:30pm 8am-9am (Feel free to sign up for multiple sessions!) CLICK HERE TO PRE-REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE in any of four yoga sessions right in the heart of Times Square. Sign up for as many sessions as you like. The first 600 participants will receive a free T-shirt provided by Transformation Tees™. |
The Summer Solstice - the longest day of the year - has not held quite so prominent a place, at least in Western consciousness. Some historians have argued that public recognition of the Summer Solstice has faded because some of the ideas with which the date was associated in early cultures - femininity, fertility and creativity - were deemed subversive by the then powers-that-be. 
Whatever the explanation, we at the Times Square Alliance, as custodians of the world’s best-known Winter Solstice celebration (a.k.a. New Year’s Eve), decided to do our part to revive the Summer Solstice. The underlying natural metaphor may be different: we are not turning from dark to light, from night to day, with all the implications for hope and renewal that those ideas encompass. But we are, on the longest day of the year, drawing on the full force and energy of the sun and are ideally at the height of our creative powers. We have more potential to draw strength from nature than on any other day and, perhaps, like the ancients thought, we are even more fertile (Times Square has always been about sex, right?)
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