Festivals - Part 30

Zwarte Cross

Zwarte Cross is a festival in the Netherlands that started out in 1997 as a motocross race that concluded with a concert by a rock band.  Since then it has grown to be supposedly the largest motor event in the world, with 220,000 visitors in 2016, and it now includes motocross, music, theater, and stunt driving.

Zwarte Cross means "black cross" in Dutch, a reference to illegal motocross races in the 1960s, but this event is legal.

Above, the Dildozer, one of several "special class" vehicles driven around for spectator entertainment.

In 2013, Amnesty International organized a naked run at the Zwarte Cross festival to protest the lack of freedom of speech in Russia, in particular the arrest of members of the Russian rock group Pussy Riot.  The image above publicized the naked run.  I suspect the feature of interest may have been Photoshop-enhanced.

The naked run was held on July 26, 2013.  450 people were said to have participated.

All the runners wore helmets, echoing the festival's motocross theme, but nothing else except shoes and socks (and some even ran barefoot).

Some of the runners.

Is this runner's slogan criticizing Vladimir Putin, or is it an invitation (put in my ass)?

A video clip of part of the naked run.  There were some female runners, but as usual in such events, they were vastly outnumbered by males.  As far as I can see, there is not a single female among the runners in this clip.

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If you're an unashamed male and you have photos of yourself or your male buddies naked at a music festival (or anywhere else) that you would allow me to use in my blog, please email them to unashamedmale@gmail.com.  I'll keep you anonymous if you want.  Don't send photos that you found on the Internet.  It's you I'm interested in!  Thanks. -Larry