92nd Street Y Open House

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Date: Thursday, January 8th
Time: 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Avenue)
Cost: Free with RSVP

It's New Year's Resolution season, so ring in 2009 then with a renewed commitment to that temple known as your body. Start working off all those latkes and sugar cookies at the 92Y May Center's Free Open House. Sample a wide variety of fitness classes and sports including activities for water lovers, Yoga, the Masala Bhangra Workout, Intros to Pilates and Qigong, Spinning, and a balance challenge plus demos of Muscle Activation Therapy and Acupuncture. The first 50 people to sign up during the open house get an additional three months free.

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Words Without Borders Presents: First Thursday at Idlewild Books

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Date: Thursday, January 8th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Idlewild Books (12 W. 19th Street)
Cost: Free

"Words Without Borders proudly presents a discussion of The Diving Pool, an evocative and haunting trio of novellas by Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan's most celebrated and best-selling authors. This highly anticipated book is the first major English translation of her vast body of work. Discussion will be led by The Diving Pool-translator Stephen Snyder (also the translator of Ogawa's Housekeeper and the Professor, due out in February) and Allison Powell, guest editor of the forthcoming issue on Japanese literature on www.WordsWithoutBorders.org.

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DrinkPeeDrinkPeeDrinkPee: A Workshop and Discussion

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Date: Thursday, January 8th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Idlewild Books (12 W. 19th Street)
Cost: Free

"Bio-artists Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray create personal, super-local, at-home solutions to big environmental and health issues. Their urine to fertilizer kits let you recycle the excess nutrients your body creates when you eat and drink. You can pee in the kit and then perform a biochemical reaction that transforms the nutrients in your urine into an immediately usable fertilizer to feed your own plants. They invite you to join them for a special opportunity to turn your pee into fertilizer and take it home for your houseplants, and to join in a discussion with artists and friends interested in these same issues."

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