December is always a busy, fun month at Sunsport with more activities than ever.
Community Happenings
Events in December
Daily Events - afternoon Pétanque at 2, Morning Pickleball at 8:30am Water Aerobics Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 10, Volleyball 1:30 pm.
Yoga - with Jassany Tuesdays at 3pm
Movie-Thursday at 7:30 pm.
Potluck-Wednesday 6:30
Karaoke-Saturday 11:30am
Dance-Saturday at 8pm
CHRISTMAS DINNER-Thursday 25th - 4PM
Monthly Drum Circle
The December 5th 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.
Please arrive before 10pm to enjoy the $15 price.
COMMUNITY POTLUCK DINNER
DECEMBER 25TH AT 4:00 PM IN THE SUNSPORT PAVILION
PLEASE RSVP ON THE OFFICE SIGN UP SHEET OR CONTACT TRACY
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.
Mid-Winter Naturist Festival 2026
The Mid-Winter Naturist Festival will take place at Sunsport February 12-17, over Presidents' Day long weekend. The Festival schedule is coming along nicely. The Festival is Sunsport's largest event of the year with over 100 workshops and activities. Contact Theresa if you want to lead a workshop(s). If you are flying in, book your flight early.
Always a plethora of informative, unusual, conscience raising workshops!
The Goddess Gathering
When we say the word Goddess We are not using it lightly. We are here to honor and remember our divinity. We are the bringers of life.
When women gather, MAGIC happens. When women gather and allow themselves to shed all their shame, conditioning, limitations and share authentically, heart to heart, HEALING happens. This is a ONE OF A KIND event and we would love to have you join us.
Please follow @katieospina ✨ @kindredsistars ✨ @iam.inneralchemy ✨ @natalieundefinable@francesca.bliss✨to learn more about the gifts each one brings to the GODDESS GATHERING CEREMONY. It is the ultimate gift you can give to yourself. 🎁Here’s to stepping into 2025 with more FREEDOM to be you, JOY of expressing yourself authentically and POWER to create the life of your dreams.
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
Shout Out to the Community Garden.
If you want to garden see Arlene.
ArtBox & Serenity Garden
We now have the best signs in Florida!
Birds Life with Theresa
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Pocket Alligator
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Permaculture Sunsport News
Meditation Field Update
There's new stonework to the Bamboo Forest entrance.
The path has been raised to allow passage during rainy season flooding.
The path transects the drainage channel for rainy season flooding that passes into the Lotus Pond.
This allows mosquito fish access upstream to control the mosquito population.
As the Sacred Lotus sleeps for the winter "Shirley Byrne" water lily will take over the entertaining duties.
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 .
Painter, son of the Welsh painter Christopher Williams. Born in London, studied art at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and the Slade School of Fine Art.
Jan Brueghel el Viejo and Hendrick de Clerck, Abundance and the Four Elements, 1606
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.
Titian, Venus and Adonis
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.”
Peter Paul Rubens, Ceres with two Nymphs,1615 - 1617l
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.
Peter Paul Rubens, The Three Grace, 1635
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.”
Francisco de Goya, The Nude Maja, ca. 1800
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.”
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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Reservation and Deposit Policy 2024-2025 Winter Season
