Brighton & Hove planning notes

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If you're interested in getting involved in organising or promoting this ride, please join the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo group.

Pre-ride events

Planning meetings

The first planning meeting to discuss this ride was held at the Druid's Arms pub in Brighton on Friday 27 January 2006, after the Critical Mass Brighton bike ride.

The next meeting will probably be on Friday 24 February at 8pm, at the same venue.

Solidarity ride on Sunday 12 March

If a sufficient number and gender mix of hardy cyclists can be found, a publicity stunt ride is being considered on Sunday 12 March. This is in solidarity with the Southern Hemisphere rides happening that day, as well as a means of publicising the June ride.

Naked protest and Critical Mass documentary screenings

Documentaries considered:

• Naked (Canadian naked protest documentary)
• Still We Ride
• We Are Traffic

Venues considered:

• The Cowley Club
• University of Brighton
• University of Sussex

Please get in touch if you can help organise these screenings: Do you have connections with he venues? Can you lend or borrow a video projector? Would you like to give a short talk to introduce each film?

Jobs

Volunteers wanted

To really make this ride happen, people are wanted to get involved in organising and promoting the ride. The following jobs need to be taken on by eager volunteers:

• Police liaison (1 volunteer)
• Body painters
• Media liaison
• Flyer and poster printing and distribution
• Publicity
• Press release writing
• Ride marshalls on the day
• Bike/skate mechanics on the ride

Interest group representatives

Representatives from the following related interest groups are also sought:

• Activists
• Body arts practitioners
• Cyclists
• Environmentalists
• The lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community (1 volunteer)
• Naturists
• Performance artists
• Skaters
• Sustainable transport advocates

Route (draft plan)

Start

The following locations are being considered as a starting point for the ride:

• The Peace Statue, Hove. (Advantages: traditional meeting point for protests, good for seafront ride. Disadvantages: very public.)
• The Floral Clock, Hove. (Advantages: in traffic island away from pedestrians. Disadvantages: not well-known?)
• Kemptown Nudist Beach, Brighton. (Advantages: nudist location. Disadvantages: out of town, not in traffic, intimidating for non-nudists.)
• The Level, Brighton. (Advantages: Critical Mass start point, central. Disadvantages: quite public.)

Route

It is proposed that the route should go past some or all of the following Brighton locations, giving the ride a "naked sideside" feel:

• The Seafront
• Brighton Pier
• The Peace Statue, Hove
• The North Laine, Brighton
• The Lanes, Brighton
• Churchill Square, Brighton
• The Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Finish

Brighton Train Station will probably be the finish point for the ride.

Publicity

Flyers, posters, stickers etc

Please print and distribute posters and flyers around Brighton & Hove, Sussex, London and the UK. Download PDF files from the Files section of the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo group site.

Web links

A list of links related to this ride is maintained at the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo group.

If you know of any related sites that can link to us, please ask the site administrators to do this. The link text should be "World Naked Bike Ride, Brighton & Hove, UK", and the link URL should be http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wnbr-brighton/.

Please also add related links to the Related Interest Groups section of the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group.