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.
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.
Community Happenings
Events in January
The first Community Drum Circle of the year will be Friday, January 3, at 9 pm.
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 pétanque in the afternoons at 2 pm.
Volleyball daily at 1:30 pm.
There will be Yoga in the pavilion Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon. New activities are Art at 2 pm in the pavilion. Karaoke w/Lizard Saturday at 11:30am.
Saturday Night Dance Class at 7 pm, Dance at 8:30 pm in the Pavilion.
Daily Events - afternoon Pétanque at 2, Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Morning Pickleball at 9am Volleyball 1:30 pm.
Yoga - Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon.
Karaoke-Saturdays at 11:30 am.
Dancing - Dance Class Saturday at 7 am. Saturday Night Dances at 8:30 pm
Monthly Drum Circle
The January 3rd First Friday Community Drum Circle is ON!
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.
Mid-Winter Naturist Memorial - February 13-18 2025
Community Drum Circles - The first Friday of each month
Various Women Events presented by Katie and Kindred Sistars
The Young Adult Naturist Weekend
The Young Adult Naturist Weekend We are working on dates and Program. Stay tuned for updates.
The Goddess Gathering
When was the last time you felt fully free?
At The Goddess Gathering, we shed not just clothes but the weight of expectations, shame, and pretense. This isn’t your ordinary women’s circle. It’s a portal to self-exploration, freedom, and connection.
Picture this:
Tea grown on the land.
A healing sound bath to move your energy.
A guided meditation to connect with your divinity.
Raw, authentic sharing in sisterhood.
An optional goddess photoshoot to capture your beauty in its truest form.
When I say “Goddess,” I mean it. This is a call to honor your connection to the earth and remember your power.
This gathering is more than an event; it’s a transformative experience.
On Wednesday, the 15th, 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 7pm at Theresa's house.
December Wrap Up
Special joyous holiday events in December included luminaries, a gift swap, a community pot luck, and a New Year's Eve party.
Relax and have fun. Don't forget to explore the trails.
Artist-in-Residence Program
Calling all Artists, Dancers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians, Writers etc
Sunsport has created an Artist-in-Residence Program. Stay for a week or a month+.
Healthy food will be available daily in the office which is open 9 am - 5 pm
Farm fresh eggs & home made Jams and Sauces are also available.
Sample of some of this months offerings!:
Sandwich- tuna salad, egg salad, or starfruit & cranberry chicken salad - served on toasted bread or onion roll or bed of greens
Sausage & cheese strata muffins
Ham & cheese pastry pinwheels
Soup - Kielbasa corn chowder
Side salad- green salad, potato salad, coleslaw
Pastry - Satsuma chocolate chip scones-
Raspberry lemonquat muffins
NEW HEALTHY OPTIONS MENU!
For those looking for low salt, vegan, KETO, paleo, gluten free, low sugar etc
we got you covered.
Don't see what you want? Just ask Tracy and she will use her culinary creativity to accommodate your desires.
Reminder:
In the recycling area, please put only aluminum containers, juice boxes, and plastic items (except styrofoam, bags,and utensils) in the blue bins; clean paper and cardboard in the yellow bins. All other small items should be bagged and placed in the dumpster. The maintenance staff should not have to sort our garbage. If the garbage is not sorted properly, it can not be recycled. Thank you.
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.
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.
Please secure all trash cans tightly since raccoons are skilled at opening containers and making large messes. Thanks.
the Gardens of Sunsport
Hibiscus ❤️ Sunsport.
ArtBox & Serenity Garden
The sacred circles of a mandala have a magical healing ability that can be rejuvenating.
Birds Life with Theresa
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Permaculture Sunsport News
Something exciting on the way:
the Bamboo Garden:
While still a work in progress Sunsport's magical Bamboo Garden is officially open.
Bear with us as the paths are being built but in the mean time enjoy the beauty and magic of over 70 rare and beautiful bamboo species.
More info to come....
Double Rainbow celebrates the Bamboo Forest!
Emerging shoots are especially beautiful.
Many bamboo have beautiful and interesting sheaths that will fall off as the culms grow.
All the bamboo is labeled for entertainment and education.
From pink to blue to black all colors.
Some of our bamboo will be 120' tall giants with 12" diameter culms.
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.
Join our FaceBook page for more details and meetings of the Sunsport Permaculture & Community Garden Group .
When you see a woman’s naked body, what assumptions come to mind?
Do you see a muse, a victim, a sexual object?
Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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.
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.
Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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.”
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.”
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.
Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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.
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.”
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.”
Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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.
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.
“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.”
Phoebe Boswell courtesy Tiwani Contemporary
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.”
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.”
The artist hopes her imagery, like Lorde’s writings, inspire women “to resist the limitations placed on us in society and to speak.”
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
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.
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.
NAC and NEF are 501(c) nonprofit corporations.
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.”
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.
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.
Our Mission Statement
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.
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.
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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