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BNC Newsletter
Vol. 13, No. 3 – June/July 2008 SUMMER HEAT
A CHANGE AT TOUCHÉ
WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN
RSVP’S ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED TO ATTEND ANY BNC EVENT
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Volunteering
Schedule of Cumming Events
Call the HotLine (312) 409-0269 by 6 pm the day before an event to get information or directions.
Sunday, June 1st - BNC Bar Afternoon Play Party @ Jackhammer. 6406 N. Clark. Door 2:00-3:00pm, $10 for members, and $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used. Friday – Sunday, June 6th – 8th – Camping Weekend @ Camp Buckwood. For reservations: www.campbuckwood.com or call 812-597-2450. Sunday, June 15th - BNC Bar Afternoon Play Party @ Jackhammer. 6406 N. Clark. Door 2:00-3:00pm, $10 for members, and $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used. Saturday, June 21st - Monthly Event @ Cullom House Door 9:00-10:00pm, $20 for members, $25 for guests. Saturday, June 28th - Bar Night Play Party @ Touché, 6412 N. Clark. Door 6:00-7:00pm. Free for members, $15 for guests. Entry includes 2 free Well Liquor or Domestic Beer drink tickets. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used or for Call Liquor and Imported Beer. Saturday, July 12th - Bar Night Play Party @ Touché, 6412 N. Clark. Door 6:00-7:00pm. $10 for members, $15 for guests. Entry includes 2 free Well Liquor or Domestic Beer drink tickets. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used or for Call Liquor and Imported Beer. Saturday, July 19th - Monthly Event @ Cullom House Door 9:00-10:00pm, $20 for members, $25 for guests. Saturday, July 26th - Bar Night Play Party @ Touché, 6412 N. Clark. Door 6:00-7:00pm. $10 for members, $15 for guests. Entry includes 2 free Well Liquor or Domestic Beer drink tickets. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used or for Call Liquor and Imported Beer. Friday – Sunday, August 1st – 3rd – Camping Weekend @ Camp Buckwood. For reservations: www.campbuckwood.com or call 812-597-2450. Sunday, August 10th - Jackhammer, 2:00 PM Saturday, August 16th - Cullom House, 9:00 PM Saturday, August 23rd - Touché, 6:00 PM Sunday, August 31st - Jackhammer, 2:00 PM Saturday, September 13th - Touché, 6:00 PM Saturday, September 20th - Cullom House, 9:00 PM Saturday, September 27th - Touché, 6:00 PM Sunday, October 12th - Jackhammer, 2:00 PM Saturday, October 18th – Cullom House, 9:00 PM Saturday, October 25th – Touché, 6:00 PM Saturday, November 8th – Touché, 6:00 PM Saturday, November 15th – Cullom House, 9:00 PM Saturday, November 22nd – Touché, 6:00 PM Personal Hygiene!
2008 Schedule!
Mark your calendars and invite your friends!
Getting to the Cullom House
The Cullom House is located at 2561 W. Cullom, at the west end of the dead-end street’s south side. BY CTA: the #78 Montrose bus to Campbell (mid-way between the North Branch of the Chicago River and Western Avenue) (#78 buses last runs go through at 10:15 p.m.), south to Cullom and turn right; the #49 Western bus to Cullom (2 blocks south of Montrose) (#49N Night Owl buses run every 20 minutes), go west on Cullom to the end; Brown Line trains to Western Avenue stop, then walk 4½ blocks south to Cullom, 2½ blocks west to the end (trains run every 20 minutes, with the last leaving Western Avenue for Belmont at 2:07 a.m.). TAXIS: Easy to find on both Western Avenue and Montrose Avenue. DRIVING: Cullom is an EAST-bound one-way approaching Western Avenue. Either 1) turn south on Campbell from Montrose, 2 blocks west of Western, OR 2) turn west on Hutchinson from Western (3 blocks south of Montrose), then turn north on Campbell one block to Cullom. Park on any street, but do NOT park on the alley (it looks like a driveway) next to the house on Cullom–you could be ticketed/towed there.
The Cullom House is a private home, located at 2561 W. Cullom, two blocks south of Montrose and two blocks west of Western Avenue. Before you head over there for an event, you must put your $20 for the event into a SEALED envelope with your name on it, which you can place in the bin at the door. You will be asked to sign a liability release form, and then you can change out of and store your clothes in the dining room. The first floor, which is the designated smoking area, is a social area where sexual play is NOT allowed. The basement play area has a bar area with coolers for you to stow whatever you bring for your BYOB. No smoking is permitted in the basement. Getting to Touche & Jackhammer
Touche is located at 6412 N. Clark, Jackhammer is at 6406 N. Clark, just a couple doors north of Devon at the Clark/Ashland split. If the parking lot across the street (at the meters!) is full, there’s plenty of parking on the surrounding streets. CTA’s 22 Clark buses stop at the corner, as does the 155 Devon bus connecting to the Red Line Morse station. And 36 Broadway buses and SOME 151 Sheridan buses end at the corner. If you’re cabbing, you will find LOTS of cabs dropping and picking up at Touche and neighboring bars. The back bar, past the restrooms, is our event location—and remember that if you are NOT on the RSVP list, we CANNOT let you in…you can call in to the HotLine to RSVP as late as 5pm the night of the event. There is no RSVP requirement at Jackhammer. In case you have to use the men’s room while you’re at the event, we have bathrobes to provide the required degree of modesty! Check your coat at the bar’s front door, and check your clothes just inside the back bar…helpful hint: SOCKS are great places to store your clothing check ticket, drink tickets, spare bucks for drinks, and your poppers, lube, and rubbers!
Camping and Additional Play Locations
IF you are interested in naked camping, know of other play locations we can use, or have other ideas to keep BNC members entertained and new members coming in to join us, please let us know—contact us via the BNC website, leaving a message on the HotLine, or talking to the volunteers at check-in at any BNC event!
BNC Web Site
If you are on-line, visit our web site at http://www.bearnaked.org. org You can find the schedule, "frequently asked questions", membership and B.I.L. registration forms for download, and a whole lot more-even an e-mail link to get information. Check it out and tell us what you think.
Party Etiquette
BNC strongly encourages attendees to be naked during our events, but that doesn’t exclude wearing your favorite boots, bar vest, or leather jacket. We expect that if you are gonna see all our attendees’ cocks and asses and chests that they get to see yours, too. Bashful Bettys don’t exactly feel like one of the lockerroom boys if they’re covering up the naughty bits. But maybe you have a dildo you like used on your butt. Or have restraints that need to be used. Or have some alligator clips for your nips. Or have other toys that make you hot. By all means, BRING THEM! Have fun! You should bring your own poppers, and sometimes it’s advantageous to bring your own lube and rubbers. Don’t be bashful to use the slings and other equipment at the Cullom House. But please be respectful of other attendees. “NO” means “NO”, and if someone nicely pushes your hand or your mouth away, there are LOTS of other men available. And it isn’t nice to monopolize: let that hot man have the freedom to meat and greet the other men. Help the shy men get comfortable, too, OK?
Membership
As a member of BNC, you get a free (all expenses paid) New Year’s Party, you get the newsletter to keep you updated, and you get special “non-party” events that non-members don’t get, all at substantial savings if you attend more than two events in one year. And you can save yourself the $20 event fees by volunteering at BNC events... call the HotLine AT LEAST one month in advance of an event if you wish to be a BNC volunteer! We’re accepting “trainees” for event check-in, so call the HotLine and volunteer to help out.
Traveling?
We keep a handful of flyers from other gay men’s naturist and play groups across the continent. Paw through them on the check-in table to see if there’s something going on at your destination—and make sure you tell them you’re a member of BearNaked/Chicago!
Indiana Camping Trips
Camp BuckWOOD has scheduled the weekends of June 6-8-and August 1-3 for our “Bears NAKED in the Woods” camping. You can expect good crowds from across the lower Midwest and Kentucky there, enjoying the pool, hot tub, lake, play barns, and woods—NAKED. If camping isn’t your thing, consider their guest house. Make your reservations. http://www.campbuckwood.com .
Camp BUCKWood Details....
Camp BUCKWood is a men’s lodge and campground, with breakfast available, a pool, hot tub, and pond on the property located in the rolling wooded hills of south-central Indiana’s Brown County. The place is peaceful (no loud noise after 10PM, no loud dogs) and relaxing. The small town of Nashville with tourist-oriented shops and restaurants is close by, and the scenery and hiking trails of Brown County State Park is near Nashville. Lots of arts-and-crafts sorts of places go with the scenery, and the cities of Bloomington and Indianapolis aren’t far away. THIS IS NOT STEREOTYPICAL INDIANA CORNFIELDS…some of the most incredible natural areas and geological formations surround the area.
IF YOU CAMP, come prepared with your tent/camper, food, ice, drink, and gear to cook with—you CAN buy breakfasts when you check in for your stay, but the campground is not near an interstate highway, so off-site dining is more difficult to get to. If interest is there, BNC may check into doing a dinner or potluck on Saturday evening. Nudity is only permitted in the immediate vicinity of the pool, the tent sites (Meadow area) adjacent to the pool, RV sites adjacent to the pool, the hot tub, and the shower house. Nudity is NOT permitted on the trails, in the WOODED tent area, or past the hot tub area. Sex is NOT permitted in the open. We ask that you respect the proprietors’ rules and not offend the neighbors! But if your tent is not available, the small pool-side Red Barn (which has a sling!) and an enclosed rain shelter provided by BNC WILL be available for play! You can swim in the pool or in the lake, but no lifeguards are on duty; RESPONSIBLE imbibing of alcohol is permitted; and the LODGE is SMOKE-FREE. You must purchase a $10 annual membership from Camp BUCKWood. Tent rates are $20 per night, with $10 per night for each extra man. RV sites are $35 per night, with $10 per night for each extra man. Lodge rooms (including the bunkroom) vary, but include breakfast. Visit http://www.campbuckwood.com for more information, latest rates, and for directions—you can get door-to-door directions from your home via the website! (If you’re not on-line, please ask the campground for directions when you reserve.) And make sure you tell them you’re from BearNaked/Chicago! We’re looking forward to our weekends with the men at Camp BUCKWood—let your buddies know, too, and we will do all we can to get our friends from Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and the Ohio Valley to join us there! Camp BUCKWOOD DATES are Fri-Sun, June 6-8 · Fri-Sun, August 1-3 Make your reservations ASAP! |
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