Nude 'X-plicit Players' Schedule Activities in SF on January 14

SAN FRANCISCO—The X-plicit Players performance troupe has released the following announcement: After a pleasant-enough visit to San Francisco's City Hall and Jane Warner Plaza on Sunday, January 6, the X-plicit Players will be returning to San Francisco to play in these same places on Monday, January 14, 2013. We hope you will come down and join us as we once again engage friends and passers-by in movement and stillness together. We may be touched, embraced, blindfolded, wrapped in fabric, lifted up, lowered down, led and followed. As ever, our goal is to create opportunities for unusual forms of fun with our bodies and minds. No doubt some of us will be naked, some "completely clothed" and others "partially undressed" as we each enjoy. We want to especially emphasize a harmony amongst dressed and undressed people. (Public nudity remains legal in San Francisco through January.) We'll be convening on the sidewalk in front of the City Hall steps (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister, near the Civic Center BART station) at 11:30am. We may later walk across the street into Civic Center Plaza. And we'll be at Jane Warner Plaza (at Castro & 17th Streets, right across from the Castro Street MUNI station) at 2pm. We may later walk along Castro Street. (If it looks like rain, bring an umbrella.) Soundscapes and direction will be provided by The X-plicit Players. For more information about the event, email here, call 510-848-1985, or visit the X-plicit Players website. X-plicit Players has also released a movie about their 9th Annual Nude and Breast Freedom Parade, titled Incarnating for an Afternoon. This surreal documentary conveys the tone and flavor of the Parade, features amusing, arty visual effects, and, in the time-honored tradition of the movies, provides an excuse to put your arm around your girlfriend. Attended by a diverse mix of nudists, freedom-lovers, wild-men and innocent bystanders, the Parade includes a series of rituals celebrating the beauty of the body and its liberation. Groups of people move "as one" through city streets, amongst police, street people, merchants, students and tourists who watch and join into an experience of "radical friendliness." For more information about the movie, to watch a trailer, or to purchase a DVD, click here. Pictured: A scene from Incarnating for an Afternoon