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DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
Christmas Eve Santa will visit the pavilion at 7:30 with gifts for all Sunsport's children
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Check out our website!
Get the latest on our commitment to Naturism, Permaculture, Health, Nutrition, Spirituality and Community.
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Please like and subscribe.
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We will be posting videos showcasing all the interesting sights and experiences of visiting Sunsport. And of the philosophy and history of Naturism.
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Our New Video is now LIVE!!
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We have beautiful Cabins and RVs to suit your desires.
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To see pictures and descriptions of all our rentals and a map of locations.....go here.
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Check out the slide show on our homepage of all the best photos of the Sunsport Experience by our talented photographers.
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December is always a busy, fun month at Sunsport with more activities than ever.
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Community Happenings
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Events in December
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Of course, December features a number of wonderful holiday events. Lighting of beautiful luminaries followed by caroling will be on Friday, the 22nd, beginning at 5:30 pm. Christmas Eve, Sunday, the 24th, brings the traditional Yankee Gift Swap at 6 pm in the pavilion followed by a visit from Santa at 7:30 pm with gifts for all Sunsport's children. Please let the office know soon if your child will see Santa.
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Contributions for Secret Santa presents are much appreciated and may be made in the office.
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A Community Holiday Pot Luck Meal will take place on Monday, December 25th at 5:30 pm followed by a dance at 8 pm. Please indicate what you plan to bring to the Pot Luck on the list on the office counter.
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There will be a Gala New Year's Eve Party and DJ Dance in the pavilion starting at 9:00 pm with a sparkling cider toast at midnight. Please bring snacks to share.
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A number of ongoing activities are now underway. Water Aerobics are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10 am. Pickleball continues daily at 9 am and petanque in the afternoons at 2 pm. In the pavilion there are Beginning Line Dancing on Tuesdays at 9:30 am, Advanced Line Dancing Tuesdays at 10 am, Serenity Hour AA Meetings on Tuesdays at 6 pm, Movie Nights with Popcorn Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, and Football Watching Sundays at noon. Karaoke is Saturdays at 11 am in the gazebo.
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As usual, there will be a Community Drum Circle on Friday, December 1st. In the pavilion, Yoga with Chris will be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at noon and Yoga with Jasami Saturdays December 2nd, 16th, and 30th at 11 am, also Kids Game Nights Saturdays the 9th and 23rd at 6 pm and Dances with Gigi Saturdays the 2nd, 16th, and 30th at 8 pm.
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For more information on events or for suggestions on other activities, contact Activities Coordinator Amanda Henderson at 561-584-3644 or [email protected].
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Yoga - with Chris Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at noon and with Jasami Saturdays December 2nd, 16th, and 30th at 11 am.
Karaoke - Saturdays at 11 am.
Dancing - Beginning Line Dancing on Tuesdays at 9:30 am, Advanced Line Dancing Tuesdays at 10 am. Dances with Gigi Saturdays the 2nd, 16th, and 30th at 8 pm.
Daily Events - afternoon Pétanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Morning Pickleball at 9am
Monthly Drum Circle
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The December 1st First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
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Note: the special drum circle ground fees will be in effect only until 10 pm when the office closes. After 10 pm entry, regular ground fees will apply.
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Please arrive before 10pm to enjoy the $15 price.
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2024 Events at Sunsport
Mid-Winter Naturist Festival - February 15-20
Family Youth Gathering - July 6-14
Young Adult Weekends - January 12-14, May 10-12, September 13-15
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month.
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Healthy Choice
A "Healthy Choice" menu is now displayed on a white board at the snack bar. There are vegan, wheat free, and low sodium options.
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Please respect the 5 miles per hour speed limit on all Sunsport roads There are now 8 very young small children at Sunsport plus numerous pets. Take care in driving cars and golf carts.
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The community garden is being divided into 6-8 rectangular gardens giving gardeners more of a sense of community and allowing greater creativity. Hopefully this will increase the success rate and enthusiasm of gardeners. One garden will be used to grow food for the restaurant.
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Sunsport Board New Policies
The Sunsport Gardens Board of Directors has adopted new policies:
Policy adopted: "The clean-up deposit for permanent RV/trailer sites or seasonal sites occupied for six months or more is $600.
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"Policy adopted: "A residential vehicle and any attached structure must be inspected by maintenance to ascertain livability (e.g.: absence of mold or leaks, structural integrety, operational utilities) prior to being transferred by sale or gift. If such vehicle/structure is not livable, it must be removed from Sunsport property at the owner's expense. Abandoned vehicles and structures will be disposed of at the previous owner's expense."
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Policy adopted: Parents will sign this Supervision of Children statement, "Parents are solely responsible for the health, safety, and general welfare of their children under age 18 on Sunsport Gardens grounds."
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The first 2 policies are the result of the large costs of dealing with abandoned RVs and trailers. The third policy is not new except the required parental signatures for legal reasons.
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N Magazine
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The Fall issue (43.1) of N Magazine published by the Naturist Society Foundation includes 3 articles on events at Sunsport with beautiful photos and a special poem by Janee Powers. The cover photo is of 5 people climbing in a tree at Sunsport. Copies are for sale in the Sunsport office. The TNSF 2024 calendar is now out. It features large photos taken at Sunsport on the February and June pages.. You can order a copy at (920) 426-5009 or at naturistsociety.com/shop/ for $21.95. If you are not yet a member of TNSF and AANR, please consider joining. They do a lot for Sunsport and all of naturism. Both are included in full Sunsport memberships.
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Artist-in-Residence Program
Calling all Artists, Dancers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Writers etc
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Sunsport has created an Artist-in-Residence Program. Stay for a week or a month+.
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Free camping and day fees.
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Create art or relax and commune with nature.
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New Activities Coordinator 🎉
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Amanda Henderson is Sunsport's new Activities Coordinator. She is eager to receive ideas for activities. Contact her if you wish to use Sunsport facilities such as the pavilion. Amanda will be posting activity schedules.
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Mid-Winter Naturist Festival 2024
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If you haven't yet, please register for the Mid-Winter Naturist Festival soon. The registration form as well as the full schedule of activities is on Sunsport's website. If you are flying in, reserve airline tickets now to avoid very high ticket prices. The Festival is always our biggest event of the year.
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Many friends from the North have now arrived with more people arriving daily. Seasonal activities have resumed with many additions.
It's a wonderful happy time at Sunsport.
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Sunsport Tee Shirts.......
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The office now has a variety of Sunsport Gardens T-shirts available.
The shirts have attractive designs by Christopher Vuk.
Purchase them at the office or online on our website (coming soon)
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the Naturally Nude Cafe.......whats cookin.....
Sunsport grown Vegetables!
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Snack Bar Hours:
Thursdays- Tuesdays
Breakfast/Lunch - 10am-1pm
Dinner - 5:30pm-7:30pm
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Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 10 am - 6 pm
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Farm fresh eggs & home made Jams and Sauces are also available.
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NEW HEALTHY OPTIONS MENU!
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For those looking for low salt, vegan, KETO, paleo, gluten free, low sugar etc
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Don't see what you want? Just ask Tracy and she will use her culinary creativity to accommodate your desires.
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Please no longer place items in recycling bins at the end of driveways.
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Place large items in the dumpster in the recycling area. Place all other items in the trash collection stations or the recycling area.
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Remember, the large blue containers are for metal, glass, juice boxes, and plastic, but not styrofoam, plastic bags, straws, or plastic utensils. The yellow containers are for clean paper and cardboard. Aluminum soda, seltzer, and beer cans may also be placed in the specially marked containers. All other items should be bagged and placed in the large grey containers or in the dumpster.
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To help Sunsport and the environment, *please deposit aluminum cans in a special bin with a round hole in the top in the main recycling area.
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- The yellow containers are for paper and flattened cardboard
- The blue containers are for aluminum cans*, glass, juice boxes, and plastics except styrofoam, bags, and utensils.
- Deposit other trash in the large grey or black trash bins with tops.
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Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.
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the Gardens of Sunsport
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Some more beauty from Les and Peggy's Amazing Garden
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ArtBox & Serenity Garden
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Pond is looking serene after a fall cleanup.
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Birds Life with Theresa
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This is Jeff
He's a Chicken
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Permaculture Sunsport News
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New Additions!
We are introducing some Koi to several ponds to help control the over growth of floating plants and just because they are fun to watch.
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They started eating the duckweed immediately. Originally we had an overgrowth of Salvinia but that has recently disappeared and has been replaced by duckweed.
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The only bright spot is Salinas is not very palatable to fish where as duckweed is considered pretty tasty.
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Hopefully they will survive and become long term residents of Sunsport.
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Please don't feed the fish and other wildlife bread.....it is very unhealthy for them. Get some koi food if you wish to feed the koi.
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Lets hope in the next issue we will show a nice clear pond.
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Please make a small donation to help us continue to develop the Meditation and Permaculture Projects.
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Hey What is Permaculture?
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Permaculture is a philosophy of design for creating a sustainable human culture. That is, it's a way of thinking about how we set up the support systems around us: shelter, food, water, energy, society and business. Well designed permaculture systems allow us to live as a beneficial part of the ecosystems around us.
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Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
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Art & Naturism.......naturist spirited art
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How Spain’s Kings Hid Thousands of Nude Paintings from the Catholic Church
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By the mid-17th century, a clear religious and legal consensus had emerged in Spain. Nude paintings—particularly featuring women—were not only morally suspect, but dangerous.
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Jan Brueghel el Viejo and Hendrick de Clerck, Abundance and the Four Elements, 1606
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Earlier, in December 1563, the Catholic clergymen who had gathered for the Council of Trent decreed that “all lasciviousness [in church artwork] shall be avoided in such ways that figures shall not be painted or adorned with a beauty exciting lust.” Even Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco of the Last Judgment fell afoul of the church, prompting some contemporary Spaniards to declare that paintings of the nude were “inventions of the devil,” could make the onlooker a “slave to lust,” and that “the finest paintings are the greatest threat: burn the best of them.” In 1640, the Spanish court went so far as to declare the creation, importation, and possession of nude paintings illegal—thereby cementing the most repressive, anti-nude legal regime in all of Europe.
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And yet, collections of the nude not only continued in Spain, but flourished. Under the tutelage of Philip II and Philip IV, the Spanish Habsburgs would come to possess the largest collection of nude paintings in Western art. “This paradox,” said Miguel Falomir Faus, director of the Museo Nacional del Prado, “is that this impressive collection of erotic paintings was not in the very liberal Amsterdam, or in Florence, but in Madrid, and the owners of this collection were the most Catholic kings in the world.”
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Peter Paul Rubens, Ceres with two Nymphs,1615 - 1617l
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This seemingly contradictory state of affairs has its roots in the particular significance of nudity in European art. “In the late fifteenth century, the ability to draw the nude was becoming a prerequisite for the very definition of a successful artist,” writes art historian Jill Burke. Moreover, “successful paintings and sculptures of nudes were those that provoked physical desire on the part of the viewer (who was generally assumed to be male).” Thus, even as the political climate grew increasingly antagonistic, serious patrons of the arts like Philip II and Philip IV continued to collect the best—and, by extension, most alluring—works of art.
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Three Grace, 1635
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This stark contrast between moral and artistic standards could put painters in a bind when it came time to actually hire a nude model. “In the end the ones who are suitable don’t want to strip,” complained one bitter artist of the 1640s, “and those who will strip would make a good model for witches.”
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Francisco de Goya, The Nude Maja, ca. 1800
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Far and away the most important factor in the development of the Spanish Habsburgs’ illustrious collection, however, was the genesis of the salas reservadas—cloistered, exclusive spaces scattered across a handful of royal properties for the purpose of displaying certain works separately from the rest of the collection. Though references to sequestered holdings of nude paintings in the royal collections begin to crop up as early as 1621, the first documented sala reservada appears in a 1636 inventory of the Alcázar Palace under the reign of Philip IV. The room featured nine nude paintings by Titian, and was recorded as the place “where His majesty retires after lunch.”
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This months Friday evening,
December 1st monthly Community Drum Circle is ON!!!
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Please Support These Important Organizations
Fighting for Our Freedoms
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Vision: Creating a clothing-optional world where your body does not define who you are.Mission: Promoting a culture of body acceptance through clothing-optional recreation, education, and community outreach.Values: Naturism, Understanding, Diversity, Education
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The Naturist Action Committee is the political adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation. NAC exists to advance and protect the rights and interests of naturists throughout North America, and supports the responsible recreational nude use of public lands.
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The Naturist Education Foundation is the nonprofit informational and educational adjunct to The Naturist Society Foundation and is dedicated to improving the awareness of naturism and body acceptance among both naturists and non-naturists, including business leaders, legislators, and the college community. NEF seeks to achieve an understanding and acceptance of naturists and their activities throughout North America.
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NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
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Our Mission: Simply put, we exist “To advocate nudity and nude recreation in appropriate settings while educating and informing society of their value and enjoyment.”
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The American Association for Nude Recreation is the largest, most long-established organization of its kind in North America. With roots dating to 1931, we have grown from our humble beginnings to an organization that has served 213,000 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and beyond. These members enjoy their own backyards and pools with family and friends, as well as over 180 nudist resorts and affiliates.
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The Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) is Canada’s national nudist organization. Along with the Fédération québécoise de naturisme (FQN), the FCN represents and promotes the naturist lifestyle as wholesome, healthy, and enjoyable.
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Our Mission Statement
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The Federation of Canadian Naturists is a member-supported, not for profit organization dedicated to fostering a greater understanding, acceptance and appreciation of naturism as a way of life throughout Canada.
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Incorporated in 1980, SFFB has long worked tirelessly for the advancement of naturism in general, and clothing-optional beaches in particular, across the entire state of Florida.SFFB’s Legal Defense Fund has financially assisted countless naturists over it’s tenure.
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B.E.A.C.H.E.S. Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, former Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department Programming Partner for Haulover Beach and an adjunct of South Florida Free Beaches (SFFB), founders of Haulover Beach’s naturist section in 1991.
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Rate Sheet
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Reservation and Deposit Policy 2023-2024 Winter Season
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