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The guests were supposed to bring their own food but in reality only couple one had done so – but they had brought so much, that all could be full!

During the dinner, the lucky draw was held to determine which resort should host AsiaNAT in October this year – winner was Barefeet Heaven Hill in Trang. See separate article.

A Pub Quiz with 25 fast questions was held and Gregers Moller held a camp fire speech when the fire was burning brightly.

In the Nordic countries we light fires on this day because tonight it is the shortest night of the year – and today has been the longest day.

From tomorrow, the days will be shorter and the nights longer until we get to Christmas and it turns around again.

Do you know how important fire is?

Fire is the fourth element. The four elements are earth, water, air and fire defined by a Greek philosopher Empedocles who lived around the same time as Lord Buddha.

But a thousand years before him, in the Veda scripts of Hinduism in India, fire was not just an element – it was a God with the name Agni.

Agni has this unique ability that he can consume an offering or a sacrifice and transport it via smoke and gasses up or over to the world of the gods.

By the end of life, we also use fire when we burn our dead – we use fire for the transportation of our deceased from this world.

In Thailand, we meet the fire god in the old Ramayana as Phra Ploeng.

But fire is more than this physical fire – in hinduism, fire is also inside every human being. The three kinds of fire are the krodha-agni or “fire of anger”, the kama-agni or “fire of passion and desire”, and the udara-agni or “fire of digestion”.

If we go back further, our relationship with fire is much older than hinduism.

Deep in our genetic material, we know fire. We have lived with fire long before we became primates and eventually humans. We are fascinated by fire, we fear fire, we worship fire.

So tonight, I would like to make an offering to the God of Fire.

I thought about it for many days. In the Nordic countries, we often burn a puppet that we pretend is a which. It used to be a live one, actually! Something bad, we want to clean out of our lives.

And then I thought, what bad is there in our naturist lives, that we would like to get rid of? The belief that nudity is a sin – how can we burn that? That nudity is obscene and must be covered – how can we burn that?

Well, if we cannot burn beliefs or perceptions, maybe we can burn the symbol of this? Right? So here you go, I am going to burn my underwear! And to prove my point, I have also taken one of Dao’s bras and will burn that too!

Go to hell!

Cheers!

Naturist Association Thailand held its first Nude Art Day on Saturday 14 March 2020 at Barefeet Naturist Resort in Bangkok.

The event brought two Thai artists and four international artists doing nude drawings together with members of Naturist Association Thailand to allow the naturists to appreciate nude art while being nude themselves, thereby disrupting the typical situation where nude drawings are appreciated by a dressed audience. And at the same time, the event allowed for the artists to draw the naturists as models either individually or in groups, which is a special challenge for the drawing artists.

When the event started at noon, only around 10 naturists had joined, but during the day a similar number dropped by for the afternoon or early evening.

Naturist Association Thailand was hosting the event at Barefeet Naturist Resort in Bangkok and offered both artists and naturists a snack buffet with crackers, cheese, fruit and free wine and beer. The resort contributed by offered no day-fee charge from 12 to 16.00 when the event was scheduled to end. After a brief welcome by Gregers Moller, Kristin Plumlee explained about how she became first a naturist and today also a model for the artists to draw.

A presentation of slides on the TV showed some of the artists work, and after that, some of the artists showed additional pieces which they had brought with them to show on the day.

Modeling stages where then set up several places: in the garden under the fruit tree, in the corner with the backdrop of a large fern and in the restaurant in front of the TV. While some members were modeling, others were watching the artists working.

Eventually, the day ended as a regular Saturday afternoon at the resort with day fees being charged again and the paid-for bar opened up. The artists and Naturist Association Thailand agreed to repeat the event again in April either Saturday 18 or Sunday 19 April.

Below you may enjoy some of the creations of the day.