Newcastle (Australia)

WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE - NEWCASTLE Last updated 19.02.2006 For immediate release:

Ride in conjunction with Atlanta, Auckland, Golden Bay, Lake Tekapo, Melbourne, Saint Petersburg and Tampa in the WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE - NUDECASTLE 2006

PROTEST AGAINST OIL DEPENDENCY, CARS & WAR! PROTEST FOR PEACE, LOVE, FREEDOM, THE ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT & BIKES.on Sunday the 12th of March 2006. Assemble 7:00AM at the Merewether Surf Life Saving Club.

Ride as Bare As You Dare. Nudity is not compulsory so you can wear as little or as much clothing as you feel comfortable with. Try to challenge yourself but don't frighten yourself to bits.

Body Paint Yourself with Peace Signs, Hearts, and Environmental Slogans.

There will be a Post Ride Party in a great location with plenty of drinks and food at cheap prices. The venue for the Post Ride Party has been booked. The Post Ride Party is intended for all the riders who complete the WNBR Nudecastle 2006.

The venue for body painting and the ride route will be kept secret (as last year) and will be revealed as the ride is in progress. Likewise for the post ride party.

A prize will be given to the rider who recruits the most number of participants who complete the ride. The prize is a bike in excellent condition donated by Critical Mass. The competition is not open to established WNBR Nudecastle organisers.

Whether you want to win the prize for recruiting or not, all potential participants are encouraged to download the flyer and poster and help promote participation in WNBR Nudecastle 2006. A link will be placed here soon. The more the merrier and everyone is welcome. Numbers amplify our protest message.

An Orientation BBQ and Body Painting Party will be held on Saturday the 4th of March 2006, 12 noon at the Lass O'Gowrie, 14 Railway St Wickham 2293. This is a pub with a good sized outdoor beer garden that offers privacy from the street and BBQ facilities. Drinking, team building exercises and mandatory introductions will be included as well as a practice body painting session (in your swimmers). Ian the publican does not want us to strip off completely because of licensing requirements. For a map on how to get to the Lass O'Gowrie, please visit their website. [[1]].

Feeling at Ease. This icebreaker social event is intended to help inform potential participants of what they can expect during the WNBR Nudecastle 2006 and to make friends with everyone who intends to ride. Riding in any WNBR is daunting for the first time and worse if you turn up alone and don't know anyone. Participants should offer each other support and female participants should make an extra effort to bond with their sisters. Any woman that wants to volunteer for the role of Women’s Support Woman is welcome. All participants are encouraged to welcome and engage with everyone who turns up at the beginning of the ride whether they have attended the Orientation BBQ or not. Introduce yourself by your given name or nickname and make others feel welcome and comfortable. Body painting in preparation for the ride can be done in segregated groups and without any media present.

Media. Media enquiries for Australia: please contact Marte Kinder [email protected] Several freelance professional media people will attend the WNBR Nudecastle 2006. At the moment, 2 photographers and a video producer have shown some interest or decided to attend. One of the photographers and the video producer attended the 2005 event and have been vetted by the organisers. The manner in which these people conducted themselves in 2005 was impeccable and they portrayed the participants respectfully. The second photographer has approached the organisers and is expected to attend the Orientation BBQ along with the other media people. The Orientation BBQ is not a media event. The actual WNBR Nudecastle 2006 will be photographed and filmed by our vetted media (apart from the undressing and painting) so take warning beforehand. If it makes you feel more at ease, consider that you may be able to heavily disguise yourself with body paint and sunglasses etc. The organisers do not anticipate uninvited photographers and video operators will be able to find us so will not shoot us either. The still photographs taken by the photographers are generally available to be viewed in low definition format within a couple of weeks on the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WNBR_Newcastle/ and ready for distribution to the press in print quality format within hours of the ride completion. The photos are copyright so permission of the photo artist must be sought before they can be reproduced or otherwise used.

Video Night. A video of cycling activists in Newcastle featuring Critical Mass and the WNBR Nudecastle 2005 will be shown by the video producer who shot the WNBR Nudecastle 2005. He supplied the following invitation:

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A broadcast of a special edition of the Novocast program Lou's World* on Newcastle Community Television will take place at the Royal Exchange Bolton St. Newcastle (Next to Herald building) Monday 20th, February 2006 at 9:30pm.

The doco on Cycle Activists will feature Critical Mass, The White Bicycle Project, (some body painting) and The World Naked Bike.

Also on the Optus 3b Satellite at the same time if you happen to have the $850 aerial otherwise a Gold coin donation.

(Jeees $850 for an aerial!! In the black and white days we just used a coat hanger!!)

RSVP [email protected]

(Program contains nudity) This is a media event and you will be photographed. (* Lou's World is not connected with this episode)

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University. A stall was set up at The University of Newcastle during orientation week (13th to 17th of February) promoting Critical Mass and the World Naked Bike Ride. Many students took an interest in WNBR and the theme of promoting peace and protecting the environment. The organisers were helped during O Week by the Newcastle University Students Association (NUSA), the NUSA Environment Collective, Rising Tide and the University Union. Big thanks to everyone at Uni from WNBR.

You can find our Yahoo! Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WNBR_Newcastle/

You can find the Australian WNBR Website here: http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/australia/

A picture of the WNBR Nudecastle 2005:[[2]] A promotional poster for WNBR Nudecastle [[3]]