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JANUARY NEWSLETTER
The Young Adult Naturist Weekend is January 12-14.
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HAPPY 123123!!!
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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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January is a wonderful month at Sunsport. We have a reunion with our many friends from the North. This year we have many new visitors as well.
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January is the month when members can sign up for seasonal sites, cabin rentals, and trailer rentals for next year with members getting choices based upon their length of stay. People committing to staying 6 months or longer may start reserving a site or rental unit beginning January 1st. Don't miss this opportunity to select the site or accommodation you want. A list of available sites is in the office.
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Community Happenings
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Events in January
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The first Community Drum Circle of the year will be Friday, January 5, at 9 pm.
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The seventh annual Camp Wide Yard Sale will be from 8 am to 1 pm on Saturday, January 20. Anyone wishing to sell items should see Corey on Weekend Row B by January 15.
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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, Movie Nights with Popcorn Wednesdays at 7:30 pm (except January 3), Children's Games Saturdays at 6 pm, Saturday night dances at 8 pm, and Football Watching Sundays at noon. Karaoke is Saturdays at 11 am in the gazebo. The Blue Crusaders Band will play for the dance on the 27th.
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There will be Yoga in the pavilion with Chris Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at noon and with Jassany Saturdays the 13th and 27th at 10 am.
New activities are Canasta on Mondays at 7 pm in the clubhouse and Belly Dancing on Thursdays at 10 am in the pavilion.
Square Dancing will be on Thursdays at 8 pm in the pavilion if there is enough interest. The first dance will be January 4. At least 8 people are needed.
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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 January 13th, and 27th at 10 am.
Karaoke - Saturdays at 11 am.
Dancing - Beginning Line Dancing on Tuesdays at 9:30 am, Advanced Line Dancing Tuesdays at 10 am. Belly Dancing on Thursdays at 10 am. Square Dancing will be on Thursdays at 8 pm. Saturday night dances 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 January 5th 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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The Young Adult Naturist Weekend
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is January 12-14. The theme is, "Naked, Natural, & Nurtured". It is being curated by Katie Ospina assisted by Dylan Tilley.
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Karl Harris had to step down from organizing these events for personal reasons, but we thank him for organizing these events for many years.
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The weekend is going to include yoga workshops on the 7 chakras with Jassany, an artistic nude photography workshop with Goddess Photographer Francesca Bliss called "I am art", a musical medicine concert by Brielle Águila and JamGuru, a red tent esque workshop for the women entitled "The Kitty Diaries", and anger embodiment dance, called "Swamping" where we can honor our sacred rage and honor the dark feminine, land connection plant walks, and a planting ceremony to be reciprocal with the land that is holding us and a authentic sharing circle by the fire, a drum circle and body painting and much more!
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Vendors and facilitators who are still interested are encouraged to reach out to Katie at [email protected].
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The cost is only $30 for the whole weekend including tent camping for people ages 18-30 and $40 for people ages 31-40. Anyone over age 40 may attend many of the activities, but will pay regular fees.
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Meet the Sunsport Board
On Wednesday, the 17th, individual members have an opportunity to Meet The Board to ask questions, make suggestions, or simply comment. Please sign up in the office for your 15 minute time period. Time periods start at 8pm in Morley's trailer.
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December Wrap Up
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Special joyous holiday events in December included luminaries, a gift swap, a visit from Santa with gifts for all 15 of Sunsport's children, a community pot luck, and a New Year's Eve party.
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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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Sunsport's largest event, the Mid-Winter Naturist Festival, is coming soon, February 15th-20th. Tent camping sites and dry RV camping are still available. Call Sunsport's office at 561-793-0423 to make a deposit for a reservation. The registration form and a full schedule of workshops and activities is on Sunsport's website. Please send in your registration form now. Special Festival ground fees for people outside the immediate area increase February 1st. Sunsport always shines for the Festival thanks to the efforts of our dedicated staff and the many volunteers from the Sunsport community.
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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 help recycle. Place clean paper and cardboard in the yellow bins and cans, plastics (except bags, styrofoam, and utensils), and bottles in the blue bins. Most important, place large items such as platforms and furniture near, but not in, the dumpster. Place only bagged garbage 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 colorful flowers on the fruit trees in the food forest.
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ArtBox & Serenity Garden
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Drum time in Serenity Garden
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Birds Life with Theresa
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Another visitor
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Permaculture Sunsport News
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Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
One of the most unusual edible plants in the Sunsport Food Forest.
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the Elephant Foot Yam or Whitespot Giant Arum, is a tropical plant native to Island Southeast Asia.
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First sign of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius in the spring is the flower emerging
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This tropical, forest margin-dwelling, winter herbaceous perennial root crop is native to India, SE Asia, New Guinea and Australia. Not content with being a curiously ornamental flower and a splendid houseplant, this is a pedigree native root crop – nutty-tasting and of high cultural significance. It is recorded as one of the earliest crops cultivated by indigenous Australians.
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Flower unfolds and smells like rotting meat
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Mature plants produce a single bloom in spring, which may soon be joined by a single leaf and later on, maybe some suckers. Immature plants just produce a single leaf. Leaves grow visibly after a good summer soaking,
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Solitary leaf follows the dead meat flower
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The crop is gaining popularity due to its shade tolerance, easiness in cultivation, high productivity, less incidence of pests and diseases, steady demand and reasonably good price. Tubers are mainly used as vegetable after thorough cooking. Chips are made of starch-rich tubers. Tender stem and leaves are also used for vegetable purpose. Tubers contain 18.0% starch, 1-5% protein and up to 2 % fat. Leaves contain 2-3 % protein, 3 % carbohydrates and 4-7 % crude fibre. Tubers and leaves are quite acrid due to high content of oxalates. Acridity is usually removed by boiling fairly for a long time. Cultivating of elephant foot yam is limited to India, Philippines, Sri Lanka and South East Asia.
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Striking mottled pattern on petiole
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Each tuber has just one leaf no stem
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Baby plants surrounding mother tuber
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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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Artist Proposes A New Way Of Seeing Nude Women At The Museum
With a little help from Audre Lorde.
When you see a woman’s naked body, what assumptions come to mind?
Do you see a muse, a victim, a sexual object?
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Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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This question was on Phoebe Boswell’s mind when she began her multimedia series “For Every Real Word Spoken,” now on view in London. From a distance, the installation resembles a lineup of straightforward, naturalistic pencil drawings of unclothed women, not entirely distinct from the nude images that have adorned gallery and museum walls for centuries. Look closer, however, and you’ll notice that each subject holds a cell phone against her chest, the screen facing outward.
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Drawn into each screen is a handmade QR code, which visitors are encouraged to scan with their cell phones, triggering a song, article, image or observation chosen by the real woman featured in the portrait. Scan the drawing above, for example, and Brenda Fassie’s “Good Black Woman” rings out, as if materializing from the heart of the naked figure.
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Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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The drawings, with their technological details, challenge the idea of the passive female nude. “They’re interactive drawings,” Boswell explained to BBC Africa. “They don’t just exist to please you. They exist to honor themselves.”
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In an interview with The Huffington Post, Boswell, who was born in Kenya and raised in the Middle East, expanded upon the motivation for the series. “I wanted to subvert what we have been conditioned to think of when we see the female body naked,” she said. “What we have been taught it means, why we are so cautious about protecting it, why it has this edge of vulnerability the male body doesn’t have.”
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In part, Boswell was inspired to pursue this topic after coming across a photograph of Ugandan women lying naked on a dirt road. When she first saw it, the image immediately filled her with visceral dread; without thinking, she surmised the women depicted had been the victims of violence.
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Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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She later learned that, far from being in danger, the photographic subjects had de-robed as an act of protest. “I thought they were victims and that was turned on its head,” Boswell said, disarmed by how deeply entrenched assumptions regarding women and their bodies are, even in the minds of self-professed feminists.
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Through her work, Boswell aims to rupture the associations between female nudity and passivity, weakness and empty allure. “I wanted to celebrate the power of the female body,” she said. “Women are not just sexual objects or victims; we have the power to speak.”
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For this series, Boswell took inspiration from conceptual artist Adrian Piper’s 1971 series“Food for the Spirit,” in which the artist photographed herself over the course of a month, both with clothes and without, as a ritual of self-love. “She seemed so in control of herself,” Boswell said, describing Piper’s photos as early selfies. “She was insisting, ‘This is how I want you to see me,’ taking complete control over this depiction of herself.”
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Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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Boswell reached out to potential “For Every Real Word Spoken” subjects on Facebook, inviting women to join her “army” and explore the ways bodies could be used as protest. Her subjects ― a range of writers, artists and activists in her community ― imitate Piper’s blunt and forward pose, staring at the viewer head-on.
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In lieu of a camera, however, Boswell’s subjects wield cell phones, the vessels that provide women easy means to portray and disseminate their images, tastes, accomplishments and opinions on their own terms. Incorporating modern tech into the art-viewing experience, Boswell thought, would perfectly summon the proper tension between the image and the person, the digital and the real.
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“The way we depict ourselves is very much through this space of the digital,” Boswell said. “We have these theoretical, curated versions of ourselves we portray online. And we have our real, vulnerable, fleshy selves that have flaws and suffer. Putting together the very fragile medium of drawing with this digital technology allows the subject to speak directly to the viewer without my input.”
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Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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Boswell is known for igniting traditional draftsmanship ― or draftswomanship as she calls it ― with the help of virtual technologies like animation, sound and digital manipulation. “I try and layer languages to tell stories,” Boswell said. “I think our identities are so complicated it’s possible to tell our stories in one singular, semantic language. I always use technology in my practice, and am constantly navigating how to do that in ways that honor the draftsmanship, that don’t take over but complement it.”
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For her exhibition title, Boswell lifted a quote from feminist writer Audre Lorde, which reads: “For every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
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The artist hopes her imagery, like Lorde’s writings, inspire women “to resist the limitations placed on us in society and to speak.”
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This months Friday evening,
January 5th 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 2024-2025 Winter Season
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