Brighton & Hove planning notes

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If you'd like to involved in organising or promoting this ride, please join the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo group.

Pre-ride events

Planning meetings

The fourth planning meeting to discuss this ride will be held on Friday 28 April 2006, after the Critical Mass Brighton bike ride, at around 8pm. Venue to be confirmed (probably ether the Leek & Winkle pub or the Salvation Army hall). Please come along if you'd like to get involved!

Three planning meetings have been held so far, on Fridays 27 Jan, 24 Feb and 31 Mar 2006, at the Druid's Arms and Leek & Winkle pubs in Brighton.

Naked protest and Critical Mass documentary screenings

Documentaries considered:

• World Naked Bike Ride, London, 11 June 2005, by Keith Roberson (5 mins)
• Other World Naked Bike Ride documentary (30-min London documentary available)
• Naked (Canadian naked protest documentary, 30 mins)
• Other naked protest documentary
• Still We Ride (Critical Mass documentary, 37 mins)
• We Are Traffic (Critical Mass documentary, 50 mins)

Venues considered:

• Cowley Club, Brighton – possible link-up with their weekly film screenings (Tuesdays, 8.30pm)
• Duke of York's Cinema, Brighton
• Sanctuary Café, Hove
• University of Brighton
• University of Sussex, Falmer – possible link-up with University of Sussex Environmental Society

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:

• Pre-ride event organisers (1 volunteer)
• Police liaison (1 volunteer)
• Body painters
• Media liaison (2 volunteers)
• 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

The route may need to be checked and cleared with the Brighton & Hove Council Events Office and Sussex Police. We may be able to get free public liability insurance through Bike Week.

Pre-ride body-painting workshop

To be held in a building or covered enclosure close to the start location, at around 9am.

Volunteers wanted: Body Painters

Start

The following locations, in order of popularity, are being considered as a starting point for the ride:

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

Route

It is proposed that the route should go past some or all of the following Brighton & Hove landmarks and tourist attractions, giving the ride a "naked sight-seeing" feel:

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

Draft route map: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=37724

Please take a look at this map and post your comments to the WNBR Brighton & Hove Yahoo! group.

The route starts at the Level and ends at the Kemptown Nudist Beach. It passes the following landmarks (in route order): Royal Pavilion, Old Steine, Brighton Pier, Brighton & Hove seafront, West Pier, Peace Statue, King Alfred Leisure Centre, George Street, Hove Town Hall, Floral Clock, Western Road, Churchill Square, Clock Tower, the (south) Lanes, North Laine, Jubilee Library, Kemptown. The route is 7.2 miles long (Critical Mass Brighton this winter has usually been between 6 and 7 miles).

Thoughts:

• Is this route too long?
• Would it be better to avoid the Western Road bus lane?
• It misses West Street – is there a way to include this?

An alternative route also needs to be planned, in case of bad weather or small turn-out.

Eric's suggestions:

• "Riding anticlockwise reduces the number of times you cross the traffic."
• "Make sure that no other event/s are going to clash with your route on the same day."

Volunteers wanted: Ride Marshalls/Stewards, Bike Mechanics

Finish

Either the Kemptown Nudist Beach or Brighton Train Station will be the finish point for the ride.

Post-ride event

A post-ride party or gathering should be organised for riders to wind down after the World Naked Bike Ride.

If the ride finishes at the Kemptown Nudist Beach, the event could be clothing-optional and involve a swim!

Local companies could endorse the ride by providing prizes (eg: Best Slogan, Best Body-Painting, Strangest Bike etc).

Volunteers wanted: Post-Ride Event Organisers

Publicity

Flyers, posters, stickers etc

Printing

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.

WNBR London have had postcards, business cards and fridge magnets printed for free, or very cheaply, at VistaPrint.

The Brighton Resouce Centre has computers available for cheap printing and photocopying.

Can any printers offer to do a cheap/free print run? (Preferably using recycled paper and/or vegetable-based inks.)

Distribution

Suggested places to put flyers and posters:

• On bikes (trap under brake levers/cables etc)
• Bike racks at the train station, library, colleges and universities
• Infinity Foods noticeboard
• Brighton Fringe office window noticeboard
• Café noticeboards (eg: Dumb Waiter, Sanctuary Café)
• Shops (Brighton shops often accept A3 posters)

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/. To link to the global site, please use the link text "World Naked Bike Ride", and the URL http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/. Blurb:

On Sunday 12 March and Saturday 10 June 2006, in locations around the world, people will be riding naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency. Be there, as bare as you dare!

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