MEXICO CITY - A nudist group based in Mexico City claims to have organized a nude visit to the city’s University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUCA), in conjunction with a Spencer Tunick exhibit taking place there. Saturday, November 27, from 7:30 pm through 9 pm, anyone visiting the display of photos Tunick took earlier this year in the city’s renown Zocalo square, will be required to remove all items of clothing except for footwear. One might suspect that this would be used as a publicity stunt, but organizers insist that no media will be present, even though visitors will be allowed to take photos, as long as anyone included in a shot gives his or her consent.

Since Woodstock, nudity seems to be part and parcel of just about any big rock music and/or alternative arts festivals. Most of you have surely heard of The Burning Man festival which takes place every year in the scorching Nevada desert, but few of you are likely to have heard of the Roskilde festival. The hugely popular annual music event is held the first week of July in the town of Roskilde, just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Since it started in 1971, Roskilde has seen music fans set-up a camp city on the festival grounds. Spontaneous nudity in the camp is quite the norm, and one of the most anticipated events is the naked race, which gets ample coverage by the press.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Tree Spirit Project will hold its next art/eco-activist event November 10, 2007, according to founder and photographer Jack Gescheidt. This time, they will go back to the Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, and will count on the participation of SaveOak, another activist group aiming to protect trees from destruction. The poignant nude photography event is meant to coincide with an important University of California Bears football game taking place that day at nearby Memorial stadium, thus maximizing the media attention to the plight of the ancient oak trees found at that location, which are slated to be cut down. Nude model volunteers are asked to register their interest in participating at the Tree Spirit web site.

TANTI, ARGENTINA - From November 30 through December 2, representatives from nudist associations from across Latin America as well as Spain will reunite for the second edition of their yearly convention, known as ELAN2. This time, it will be held in Yatan Rumi, an enormous nudist club and nature preserve located in the mountains near Tanti, Cordoba province, in Argentina. Sunday, December 2nd, the closing day of the gathering, they will also be celebrating “Argentinean National Nudism Day”, as proclaimed by naturist groups in that country. Anyone can attend this conference as long as they be nude, and a local hotel, “Estancia Cerro Blanco” in Tanti will be turning nudist for the duration of the event in order to accommodate participants. Transportation will be available between aforementioned hotel and Yatan Rumi.

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - October 8th, 2007, Spencer Tunick, celebrated photographer of mass nude installations, will produce his next installment in Miami Beach’s South Beach area. The event is funded and will be hosted by the Sagamore Hotel, a chic boutique hotel that has frequently sponsored avant-garde artists such as Yoko Ono. Organizers hope to have 800 nude volunteer models for the photo shoot, which should be easy since Tunick installations have managed to attract as many as 18,000, such as was the case for the Mexico City shoot earlier this year. If you’re interested in participating in the event as a nude model, you can sign-up online at the web site listed below.