Calendar Girls: the Stage Play in New Zealand

Calendar Girls: Being naked on stage, but very tasteful | The National Business Review
It is a delightful and entertaining piece of theatre. It has heart, lots of genuine emotion and true sentimentality. The success of the show is due largely to the enthusiastic performances of the six female leads.
...The play manages to provide something between voyeurism and titillation, never giving offence, presenting the naked women in the best of all possible taste. This is a show for the prudish as well as the broadminded – maybe not too prudish, though.

Well, it is about women getting naked, after all. It's not like you didn't know what you were getting when you bought the ticket.

See another review in Auckland Now and the advance stories in the Star-Times and Auckland Now. And if you're in New Zealand, why not go?

Thoroughbred Racing Jockeys

A look at the beefcake aboard the horseflesh - Times Union"(Castellano) said, 'Look. My wife just got this for me,' " Livingston says. "And I said, 'That's really lovely. Just take it off.' "
...He's Mr. September in a "beefcake" calendar featuring 12 jockeys and being sold to benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

That's him in the picture. $13.99 plus shipping from Black Liner Productions.

Hot to Trot

Hot to Trot
Fifteen Hot To Trot Equestriennes are about to lay bare the real beauty behind horse riding. They are mounting up wearing nothing but their smiles for a 2012 calendar in aid of an amazing charity, the British Trust For The Myelin Project, which funds research into Multiple Sclerosis and Leukodystrophy. The riders, from around the UK, are being shot in twelve beautiful locations from Thirsk to Warwickshire, to the shore of the Menai Strait.

See also Coventry Telegraph. Calendars will be £12 in the UK, £15 in Europe, £20 for the rest of us (includes postage).

Female Firefighters (Queensland AU)

Firefighter sizzles for top cause | Sunshine Coast NewsVanessa [Madge} is one of 12 female firefighters from the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service who have teamed up for the 2012 Female Firefighters Calendar to raise funds for the Queensland Cancer Council for breast cancer research.
...For more information or to reserve a calendar visit Female Firefighters website.

AU$10. Yeah, I was noticing a trend this week.

St. Paul Firefighters

St. Paul firefighters flex their muscle for calendar | StarTribune.com
Six firefighters will each appear twice in a 2012 calendar that will benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. They're asking Facebook users to "like" their favorite firefighter on the Facebook page, St. Paul Firefighters Calendar (www.startribune.com/a569). The winner will grace the cover.

...It's available online [$15] at www.stpaulfirefighter.com. A promotional video can be seen at www.startribune.com/a570.

Aaah, social media!

The car wash that wasn't

Hunky calendar boys banned from Epsom insist they are real firemen (From Your Local Guardian)
First the Fire Brigade's poster boys were banned from doing a charity car wash, then questions were asked about whether they were even real firefighters.
To add insult to injury, the people appearing to question their bona-fides were fellow fire fighters from Epsom fire station.

There's no mention of the calendar itself, which I suppose is either too late (for 2011) or too early (for 2012). But I'm guessing that when it's available, it'll be mentioned at the Fire Fighters Charity page.

Saanich Firefighters

Victoria Times Colonist | Behind the scenes at the firefighters' calendarFunds from sales of the calendar will go toward the Saanich Fire Charitable Foundation, which raised more than $100,000 for local charities last year through various events. The events included community runs to help burn victims, building a Little League clubhouse and an NHL old-timers hockey game which raised one of the biggest single donations to the Mustard Seed food bank yet.

They've done calendars previously, in 2010, 2009 and 2006: The photo is from the 2009 calendar. When 2010 goes on sale, it should be available here.

It gives me a warm feeling to see any organization continue the tradition over multiple years. It means everyone involved is having fun.