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This page revised 2006 to 2019 May 27. 5. INTRODUCTION 5.1. Event changes The latest cancellations, irregularities, big changes, strikes, lock-outs, late notices, schedule changes, warnings, etc. All the variations (below) of future events are also in the main calendar in Sections 3 & 4, above. Some information is not confirmed, as noted. For new groups & sites, see in red letters in the Table of Contents (above). Lower Mainland changes ---NIFTY indoor swims are now back to the last Saturdays of most months Sep-Jun, and, starting 2016 Jan., the 1st Saturdays, too; Sect. 6.5. ---Sunny Trails closed to nudism until ?2015; Sect. 8. ---Captain Under Pants radio is no longer broadcast; Sect. 9.2, next page. ---Skinnydippers RC indoor swims changed back to the 2nd Saturday of most months, year round; Sect. 6.3. ---Van Tan Swim Club indoor swims cancelled until ~ the year 2016, or never; Sect. 6.2. ---Wreck Beach Preservation Society & Metro Vancouver (the regional government, formerly GVRD) joint meetings, as in above calendar, 6-7 pm, but times might vary with the seasons. Usually monthly on the 3rd Thursdays. Metro Vancouver office, Airport Square building (low building to west of high-rise) #130 -1200 West 73rd Avenue (near south foot of Hudson Street), Vancouver, BC. That is west of the north foot of the Oak Street Bridge (connects Vancouver & Richmond). Heavy traffic in area. We recommend you consult a map, such as the cycling map in Sect. 6.1 (next page); 1 block north of Marpole bus loop (south end of 20 Granville route); Sect. 10.* —INFORMATION NEEDED Watermelon (nudist comedian) at Kabaret Wednesdays at the Biltmore; if you notice that she will perform anywhere else, or will be broadcast, please tell us! www.melongirl.com (*?). Changes outside the Lower Mainland, BC Thetis Island: Cufra Clifts B&B. ---Captain Under Pants radio is no longer broadcast; Sect. 9.2, next page. —SUSPENDED Sun's, noon. Skyclad Yoga, women & men, Metchosin, s.e. Vancouver Island, BC; Sect. 9.2, next page. ---Clothing Optional Courtenay seems inactive; Courtenay, east-central Vancouver Island, BC; Sect. 9.2, next page. —If you want more swim-spas in Kamloops, BC, contact CNS, Sect. 7 & 9.2, next page. —If you want more swim-spas in Gibsons, BC, contact Skinnydipper RC, Sect. 6.3, next page. —If you want more golf tournaments, contact Sol Sante; southern Vancouver Island, BC; Sect. 8, next page. Check this calendar as often as you like for new developments. Nevertheless, to avoid disappointment, we recommend that you also get on the notification e-lists (etc.) of the sponsoring groups themselves. You also can check their Web publications and telephone them. Especially before you travel far to attend an event, we recommend that you first confirm each separate event with the presenters. Sometimes, though, this calendar is more accurate than the Web pages of the sponsoring groups. We at NFIRC check for new developments, usually daily. Usually within minutes of getting them, we include them here. We are overall the most up-to-date, most accurate, most comprehensive, and most dependable publisher of nude events in BC. (Sorry for bragging!) 5.1.5. Nude-friendly & related terms "Nude-friendly" means that something is both friendly to nudists (naturists) and pleased to include them. That term was coined by your editor around 1990. It is also spelled "nwd-friendly" to elude spam filtres. It is a broad term that includes events and sites which are nude-required, nude-optional, and/or "bare as you dare"! It does not usually include people nude for sexual purposes. On the other hand, the term "clothing-optional" is a term preferred by governments which are trying to appease nudists, yet not upset the prudes so much. Unfortunately, "clothing-optional" is a term which psychologically erodes the nudist movement. It insinuates that to say the word "nude" is too embarrassing. The term "clothing-optional" also makes clothing compulsions sound less compulsive. (Who could complain about options? They sound so innocuous!) A better, synonymous term which makes the concept of nudity sound better is "nude-optional". In fact, however, clothing harms the addicts and everyone else exposed to it. Nudity harms no one (barring cold or other physical and legal risks, etc.). "Bare as you dare" (BAYD) means that nudity is welcomed, but the hosts or organisers of the events can not guarantee that you are safe from arrest and charges by the bullying public authorities. BAYD usually refers to events in public areas where public nudity is uncommon and more-or-less illegal, but we think that we can get away with it there, and usually do. See also Sections 5.3.a. and 5.4.5 below, and topfree (bare chest) in Section 11, below. Similarly, "topfree-friendly" includes topfree-required, topfree-optional, and/or topfree-as-you-dare (all coined by your editor 2010 April 8). Also, "top-slave" means either some authority, organisation, or person opposed to topfreedom or a place or situation lacking topfreedom (this meaning coined by your editor 2011 August 20). It also means a person unable or unwilling or afraid to practice topfreedom (meaning added 2012 August 8). (This article revised 2014 May 27.) 5.2. E-mailing Once a month, on request and without charge, we e-mail a link to this calendar to everyone interested. It's a helpful reminder. Sometimes the link in the e-announcement doesn't work (as sometimes with Hotmail, we heard once; Yahoo has other problems). If clicking on the e-mailed link fails, please "paste" (or type) our Web address into your on-screen address box: www.korky.ca or http://nfirc.weebly.com . To submit, inform, advise, enquire, comment, subscribe, refer, cancel an e-subscription, etc., please e-write to korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . (More in Sect. 20.) Please e-forward our link to your friends and groups. If they don't object, please send us their e-addresses and we'll send them a sample subscription. To elude e-mail spam filtres, spell "nude" as "nwd", etc. in the Subject box & in the body of your message. We don't use words like "nude" or "nwd" in the subject line in order that you are not risking negative response if others see it. 5.3. Before you attend: important! Please honour all the following traditions and advice in (a.) and (b.) (below), including in public, such as at a nude beach or a nude bike ride. 5.3.a. BEHAVIOUR The local-government lifeguards say that our indoor pool event attenders are some of the best behaved whom they guard. We intend to keep up our reputation. Generally unwelcome at these pool events, other events, and nude sites are photography not approved in advance, uninvited staring, uninvited following, uninvited hovering, uninvited touching, premature advances, prying or excessive questions, offencive talk, overly sexual talk, men's erections (see explanation 5 paragraphs below), overt sex, etc. To get an exception made for you, please ask the organisers in advance. Photography. If allowed at all, cameras, photography, and sound recording must be pre-authorised by the club or presenters, by all the subjects, and by the parents of minors. Please always ask politely first. That includes in public, too, such as at nude beaches, bike rides, and topfree events. Just because someone appears nude or topfree in public does not give you the right to photograph them, nor give you permission. Many people argue opposite, but they are wrong. Besides, if photographers were not restricted, many fewer people would go nude. You wouldn't want that, would you? Don't be selfish. Don't hurt the nudist movement. Don't frighten others. Be careful making comments. This might sound uptight, but nevertheless, please avoid mentioning body appearance or attractiveness, even positive comments, including about persons not present or about people in general. Show that you can think of other things. Even if your comment is absolutely non-discriminatory and non-erotic, when others hear you, they might feel self-conscious, anyway. In other words, until you hear otherwise from them, assume that a person has just barely enough nerve to go nude. Assume that any little comment from you about anyone's appearance might scare them back to shame, fear, and textilism. You might think that someone with a tattoo is inviting comment, but consider that they might regret getting a tattoo or might be very tired of comments. Adult and teen male erections are rare in mixed-sex nudism, contrary to some rumours, myths, fantasies, and expectations. Even if not a crime, and rightly or wrongly, such erections might frighten, annoy, or disgust some attenders. Therefore, we discourage such erections, even though some people are not offended. If such a thing occurs, most clubs will advise the male how to diminish them easily, such as by jumping into the water or by lying front down. Although nudism, sex, and erections are inherently good, we in the main nudist movement keep them separate so that we can attract the most people to nudism. Please report all violators to group leaders. That is not because we like to be punitive or authoritarian, but that it helps us to maintain an environment which is inviting and comfortable for all. When sitting on a bench, chair, chesterfield, log, etc., please sit on a towel, serviette, shirt, or similar barrier--for hygiene. Such a barrier is not necessary on a tile or concrete pool deck or on the bare ground. Do not urinate into any water (other than a toilet) or near the edge, nor add anything to the water which you would not put onto your skin. It is hypocritical to let a child see a woman's breast and then to offer the child a sucking bottle or dummy. (The latter also is called, misleadingly, a "pacifier" or "soother".) Such an offer would be cruel even if the child has never seen a breast. Instead, always let the child have a real breast. The artificial substitutes are always unhealthy and unnecessary. (See LLL in Section 11-end below.) Smoking, even outdoors, harms and offends many. Where smoking is allowed, we recommend that you refrain anyway, or at least move away from others while you smoke. If there is any wind, moving down-wind of others is more important than how far away you are. If the air is still, please move even farther from others. If being nude socially doesn't make you happy enough, without you wanting to drink or toke (etc.) also, then maybe you have treatable emotional and social problems. However, prescription psycho-active drugs are some of the worst drugs, though they have an official seal of approval! They are not good or humane treatment. Any resort, club, group, etc., may refuse you admission, membership, association, etc., without explanation. Be very nice or risk being banned by all the groups. They communicate with each other about problem people. We publish in the group descriptions, their restrictions (if any and when known). Nudism is good for all ages, but for a club's legal protection, they generally require a parent or legal guardian to accompany a minor. One club in BC is for adults only. A few groups have quotas to keep a good balance of men and women. An imbalance could lead to lower attendance and dissatisfaction. If you notice an annoying male-female imbalance, please help recruit attenders to fix it. Rest assured that these groups will not bar anyone because of alleged attractiveness or lack thereof, or because of size, race, nationality, sexual preference, sexual identity, religion, social class, occupation, etc. The rare restrictions on disabled people are only because of physical barriers. Before entering a pool, hot tub, sauna, etc., please rinse your whole body, including your head. It's true that many lifeguards nowadays are slack on enforcing that common courtesy and health practice, but that doesn't mean that you should be inconsiderate. (Revised 2014 3 31.) 5.3.b. PERSONAL NAMES & ANONYMITY. Traditionally, in the nudist movement, attenders and members refer to each other by first name only, except for membership records. That is to keep membership more private--for the protection of participants. While it might be declining now, discrimination against nudists still continues in society at large. The trend could get worse or better, we don't know. Therefore, with private nudist groups, and even at public nude beaches and nude bike rides, etc., please follow that privacy tradition, except concerning someone who tells you that they don't mind otherwise. If you want more privacy than usual about your surname, please ask the organisers of an event. When communicating with non-attenders, please reveal even less: not even first names, without permission. Please do not reveal to non-attenders who attends or who does not attend; who is a nudist or not; etc. You can answer such questions something like this: "The nudist movement honours privacy. That's for our protection against discrimination. If you want to know people's personal information, ask them yourself." 5.3.c. CONFIRM BEFORE ATTENDING Because of possible errors, unavoidable cancellations, etc., please confirm an event before attending, especially if you would be travelling far. This publication is as accurate as possible, but we must rely on club officials who are not always so careful. Admittance and eligibility vary. Reservations and permission occasionally are required. An event might sell out. Memberships are sold at most events, though they might take several days to process your application. Joining by Internet or mail, when available, is appreciated. 5.3.d. FINDING EVENT DETAILS For each event in the calendar listings, see also further details and the group's general description on page 2 of Nude events, Sections 6-20. The index of the groups' initials is in the blue section (near bottom of this page). 5.3.e. WE COUNT ON YOU TO BRING OTHERS! We encourage you to bring friends, relatives, acquaintances, a date, etc. to nude-friendly events and sites. You will enjoy it more. You will share an uplifting experience—and you will help our movement! Do not think that you should remain clothed with people you bring to a nude event in order to ease them into nudity gradually. That simply will make you look ashamed, uncertain, hypocritical, and overly cautious. It will also make the nude people feel uncomfortable because you seem to be betraying them and your principles. For comparison, when accompanying an alcoholic friend to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting for their first time, would you carry a beer in your hand in order to make your friend feel more "comfortable"? Please bring the kinds of people you like into our movement. Don't gripe or whine--and expect others to recruit them for you, or expect them to appear by magic! (However, you could contribute money to pay for recruiting! As far as we know, no groups in BC have paid recruiters now.) So we are counting on you to help recruit new people. If you don't help recruit, event costs might have to rise. Recruiting and publicity on the Internet are now easier than ever. Do your part if you are on the Internet! Also, you could phone your friends. As it is now, in most groups, I estimate about 1 to 4 volunteers recruit and attract about 75 to 95% of the new people. About 90% of attenders never bring anyone new. They don't see it as their job. However, these nude events are generally put on by volunteers, not professional crowd-gatherers. If you want other people to attend, you'll have to help. Use e-media, if you like. [Revised 2014 June 16.] 5.4. Everyone can participate! Welcome to these events, you practicing or potential nudists, naturists (not to be confused with naturalists), nudes, bares, nakeds, nakedists, skinny-dippers, free beachers, nude sunbathers, nude sun-tanners, nude sun-worshipers, nude-optionists, clothing-optionists, clothes-free people, clothesfreers, clothes-freeists, nudies, jaybirds, starkers, streakers, mooners, nude protesters, naked savages, half-naked savages, sweat-lodgers, naked pagans, naked animists, naked witches, naked wiccans, gymnosophists, nude cyclists, nude artists, Burning Man nudes, nude art models, nude body painters, nude artists, nude art appreciators, cottontails (once misstated as "bucktails"), home nudists, solo outdoor nudists, recovering textiles, recovering clothists, nude curiousers, sky-clads, nude Digambara Jains, other nude Jains, nude Freedomite Doukhobors, other nude Doukhobors, Leapists, agnostic nudists, inoffencive flashers, nude-peacers, topfrees, bra-burners, bra-recyclers, bold breastfeeders, shy breastfeeders, and even all of you sympathetic people who avoid or dislike such "labels", "boxes", and "pigeon-holes"! Remain naked, forgo dressing, get naked, be bare, eschew clothes, disrobe, undress, undrape, uncover, doff your clothes, strip, streak, go topfree, be shirtless, go bare-chested, bare your chest, and breastfeed. Never condone or actively sexually mutilate (circumcision, etc.) anyone except adults who have given their free, informed permission! Never use corporate poison substitutes for breastfeeding: baby bottles or dummies (pacifiers). Support nude rights by being nude—and by your other actions, attendance, speech, writing, votes, purchases, and donations. Defend nudes against our detractors. Your rights—use them or lose them! Most nude-friendly events are for all sexes and ages, conditionally. (See Section 5.4.3 below.) Most event hosts and some site hosts admit you without prior arrangement. If you lack money, transportation, supplies, etc., ask the organisers (or ask us at NFIR) for options or assistance. Events and sites which require nudity sometimes grant exceptions to that standard, but don't count on it, especially not without prior permission. See below in Section 17, "Exceptions in nudism". Genuine nudists accept, welcome, and appreciate everyone, regardless of ability, health, fitness, genetics, attractiveness, etc. Social nudity (nudism) should not be a "beauty contest", formally or informally, although such contests were common decades ago at less-enlightened nudist clubs. Our tolerance and acceptance does not mean that we want you to become less fit or less healthy, but that nevertheless we welcome you into our movement, whatever your condition. About refused admission, see Section 5.3.a, Behaviour, above. 5.4.3. Sex-segregated groups & topfree groups With references to sections below (on the next e-page). Male-only groups: Deer Leep Retreat (Section 8). P-CAN (Section 9). Skyclad Yoga (men-only classes in Vancouver; some men-only and sometimes some mixed classes in Victoria; Section 9). Gay Naturists International (Section 14). Club Desnudo (Section 14). Female-only groups: Dykes on Bikes (Section 11). Take Back the Night (inactive, Section 11). La Leche League (in Section 11, end). Nude-friendly female federation (Section 9.1). Females (sometimes with males) working for female topfreedom (topfree equal rights): 3BT (Section 10). TERA (Section 11). Ts (Section 11). NIFTY (Section 6.5). 5.4.5. Are you proud of tolerating nudes while hiding in your swim-suit or shorts? Perhaps you think you are quite enlightened to be so tolerant like that headline above. However, please consider the possibility that you are being anti-social by wearing clothes where others are trying to establish a liberated nude zone. Public nude beaches are an example. Consider Wreck Beach in Vancouver, BC; in Coast Salish territory. There, the invader government is Metro Vancouver, BC (formerly the GVRD) in Coast Salish territory, part of the Musqueam community. Metro Vancouver refuses to agree that Wreck Beach is a "nude beach" because it is not to their political advantage, even though it would be better for everyone if they did. Instead, they call it "clothing-optional". That is a term preferred by governments which are trying to appease nudists, yet not upset the prudes so much. Unfortunately, "clothing-optional" is a term which psychologically erodes the nudist movement. It insinuates that to say the word "nude" is too embarrassing. The term "clothing-optional" also makes clothing compulsions sound less compulsive. (Who could complain about options? They sound so innocuous!) A better, synonymous term which makes the concept of nudity sound better is "nude-optional", but that's still not as good as "nude". At such a beach it is not good enough for you merely to tolerate nudes around you while you wear a swimsuit. Even though the beach was declared "clothing-optional" by the invader government, it really should be called a nude beach, one of the few places where nudists are welcomed and can go nude safely and comfortably, relatively. Please don't spoil it by unnecessarily wearing clothes there. That's like eating at a potluck dinner--but bringing no food. Or wearing plain clothes to a costume ball. Do you see how you would spoil it for others? That's really inconsiderate and selfish! Wearing clothes unnecessarily is the shame, not being nude. You'll get no respect that way, especially you men! You make others naturally suspect that you are a gawker, the same as going to a potluck dinner empty-handed makes others suspect you are a moocher. Just what do you want others to conclude about you when they see you always covering up, especially you men? You seem to have some emotional or social problem! Why not get help for it? Try asking us. If you really believe that the people at a nude beach would be too unpleasant to you if you were nude, then why do you want to be with such people as us, anyway? To sneer at us? If you can't build up your courage to go nude, (or at least topfree if you are a woman), please just go to one of the many, many textile beaches. Leave our few nude havens for those of us who are not so uptight as you. Of course, if you are a newcomer to nudism and you go to a nude beach, we'll forgive you if you are a little slow to try it. Many of us were, too. However, too many oblivious, inconsiderate people attend time after time, enjoy the "good vibes" we create with our nudity, but then partially spoil the mood with their selfish clothed presence. It should not take you men more than 3 visits to overcome your pathetic little phobias. Women in our sexist society have more justification for feeling vulnerable, though hundreds of thousands of women have found the courage to go nude at Wreck Beach. To that idea, many of you ask, "But what about freedom? Can't you nudists tolerate textiles like I tolerate you nudists?" Sounds like you don't understand human nature. Humans are social animals. If I am among many people who are wearing clothes, those people automatically (based in our genetics) put a natural, social peer-pressure on me to get dressed, too. If nudes are not in the great majority of a crowd, they usually feel vulnerable and isolated. That's natural because, biologically, humans are not a solitary or selfish species. We are a social species. Human see; human do! We like to do things together, as a group. Even when wearing clothes, we like them to be similarly formal or casual, etc. Wearing a team uniform, for instance, builds team spirit. Like that, the nudist "uniform" of nudity builds solidarity. Why spoil it? Of course, some people are brave or bold or oblivious enough to undress with no regard to how many others are dressed around them. Or to dress very differently from others around them. Those people are in the minority, though. Most of us, even hard-core nudists and hard-core anti-nudists, even I, feel some social pressure in the other direction in "hostile" territory. The peer-pressure situation is good indoors at the NIFTY nude-optional swim-spas (see the calendar above [except summer] and Section 6, near the end of that section). Few people wear swimsuits at them: usually 0 to 4%. Therefore, peer pressure at NIFTY swims favours nudity, not swimsuits. The occasional person there in a swimsuit usually will either (a) not care, (b) learn to screw up their courage to go nude after attending once or twice, or (c) not return. However, no one is pressured to dress, other than by silent, subtle, unavoidable peer pressure. For a potential nudist, then, attending a NIFTY swim-spa can be empowering, joyful, and therapeutic. The smaller, closer-knit crowd at the pool (compared to Wreck Beach) also makes it easier for some newcomers to feel comfortable nude. So, if you're not brave enough to go nude at a public beach, please try a NIFTY swim instead, or other private nude-optional events. (2009~ essay, revised 2014 June 16.) 5.4.6. Cowardly, sexist men keep their pants on! Hey, man! Yes, you with your pants on at the nude beach! This is for you and all the similar men diluting our nude beach! Do you know that there is a difference between men and women at a nude beach? I mean more than you can see! More than body shape. In the essay above ("Are you proud . . .?") I describe how dressed people spoil others' attempts at liberation. Now I'll explain more about how that works differently for men than for women in a sexist, patriarchal society, such as almost all of Western Culture, of Islamic culture, and of most other cultures in the world today. In a patriarchy, compared to an egalitarian society or a matriarchy, the main difference in the role of women is that they are expected to be powerless, submissive sex toys, baby-makers, house-maids, victims, slaves, and/or scapegoats for men, much more than the other way around. The average man has more worldly power--including politics, wealth, weapons, connections, and body strength than the average woman. So he has more power to choose desirable spouses or sex partners. Many of them also choose a woman mate in order to show off to other men what a prestigious woman (or harem) they have. Women, on the other hand, are confronted with the reality of being coerced, much more than men are, into using their bodies' attraction to 'get by' in the world and to be happy. So you dudes come to a nude beach like Wreck Beach and what do you see? Many nudists and many prudists and rudists (I just made those up!). Everyone likes to see nude people. That's natural. No harm there. By the way, I'm analysing here the situation for heterosexuals, but similar dynamics apply to gays, lesbians, etc. Even if you are poor and not consciously feeling sexist, you men still have a socially-privileged sex role which gives you the advantage over women generally. Men who, consciously or not, are exercising their sexist, superior role, might see no obligation or need to expose their own bodies. If they don't feel like it, why should they? Their job is to judge the beauty of the women, right? They don't see their role as being judged themselves! After all, if those men were nude, they might be mistaken for men who believe in equality and who respect women! Or who are brave enough to make themselves as vulnerable as nudist women are. In non-nudist places, such as while watching a commercial strip show, are men nude? No, because they are the judges, not the judged! Women wouldn't be performing there, but for the pay, and most men wouldn't like to pay if they, too, had to be nude. Unfortunately, some men think they can come to a nude beach and treat it like a free strip show just for them. No, the world does not revolve around just you, buddy! Women count, too. For a man to exercise his power over women is cowardly and bullying. The more cowardly and sexist they are, the more likely they are to wear pants. Bullies are, underneath, very insecure. Unfortunately, they seldom think that through, so they don't understand all this. Now when I tell that to men, they usually act all innocent and full of excuses: "Oh, no! You don't know me! I'm not like that! I'm just an innocent bloke who's not rich or powerful or bullying. I don't gawk or judge. I'm just a nice guy sitting here in my shorts minding my own business--where there just happen to be nude and topfree women. Why do I have to drop my drawers just because some old hippie man like you tells me that I should? You could be gay!" All right, it's true: you don't HAVE to strip. However, you don't fool me or the women or many other people. Anyway, I have no power over you because I'm just a relatively-weak man, too. I'm appealing to your logic. The patriarchy hurts us men, too. If you could see that, you, too, would want to replace the patriarchy, as we are trying to do. If you don't feel the 'need' to go nude, do you feel the 'need' to stay dressed? Why? I'm suggesting you look deeply into your psyche. What you're doing is not helping anybody. It's hurting. You're part of the problem, not part of the solution. Look at the results. You sit there clothed and what does a woman think? Do you suppose she's thinking, "Oh, goodie! There's a man with his pants on. He doesn't look too much like a woman-beater. His timidity and insecurity are real turn-offs, but maybe he's a rich guy who I can marry--or get money from for sex! I think I'll prance around nude in front of him and catch his eye!"? Do you think or hope that's what she's thinking? Does that sound good to you? Maybe if a woman is feeling desperate, she might think that. Is that how you want women to relate to you? Out of desperation? If so, keep your pants on--at some other beach, please, not one with nudity. Most women at a nude beach, though, think more like this when they notice you: "Damn! There's another perv with his trousers on, ashamed of his prick, but enjoying looking at my bod. How can I feel fully free and safe and joyous with all of them lurking around, gawking at us women, especially the nude women--or trying to sneak a peek? Maybe I should just quit coming to this beach." So you see, you men hiding behind your pants are deterring many women from coming to the beach or going nude. That includes all kinds of women, even the more liberated ones, unfortunately, the ones more likely to go nude. If all the men at the beach were nude, many more women would be encouraged to attend and go nude, too, feeling that you men have more respect and consideration for them as equals. So, fella--take responsibility for your actions! Screw up your courage. Try showing us that you're a man: nude and natural. Nudity symbolises being unarmed and less threatening and vulnerable to each other as equals, as in any good relationship. Or would you rather appear more threatening? What are you so afraid of? You will enjoy it much more than you think! It's much easier than you probably think. Sure, there are sometimes good reasons to cover up, such as a sunburn, but they don't apply to many men all the time. Find shade. Your first time at a nude beach? All right, maybe you need a few minutes to get used to the idea. Don't want to fall on your delicate bare bum while skim-boarding? All right, but what's stopping you from disrobing after your athletics? (Aren't you like someone wearing your bicycle helmet to bed?) Many guys tell me they don't want to strip unless their accompanying friends do, too. Pathetic excuse. If you want to quit smoking, do you wait for your friends to do so along with you? All right, make it a game! Do it together. Who's brave enough to go first? If none of you, then ask some nudists for advice and encouragement. Don't say, "Oh, I wouldn't mind going nude, honest! I will--if I ever feel like it!" Nobody buys that pitiful line. You can see how much fun it is to go nude. You can imagine how good it feels. You want to try, but you're scared. Admit it. So just try it for 5 minutes! Nudity is not like a drug (such as alcohol) which can give you horrible side effects, like death. What bad could happen to a man from nudity? If you are too timid for that, why don't you just go home and stew in your own pathetic weakness, and be lonely? You can get good and tired of that. Then come back when you have some balls—visible! — by Korky Day, 2011 August 5 to 2014 June 16 (but Weebly lost some of my revisions). 5.5. Nude-friendly and affiliated events Events for pro-nude activists to attend clothed are shown in this fuchsia colour and with this asterisk: *. Such clothed events support nude sites or groups or the movement, but, for one reason or another, those particular events are not nude or topfree. Events in black or red type are usually nude optional or nude only, sometimes topfree, instead, as noted. Occasionally, they are instead bare-as-you-dare, as noted. Throughout your daily lives, if and when you do dress, please consider wearing a garment or badge promoting nudity, topfree, breastfeeding, body pride, unmutilated genitals, health, peace, love, etc. You can buy such items from some of these groups. Or you can make them. 5.8 Geographic index (red) Groups active now (or in the past or future) in 27 municipalities, etc. Location, sections: Area A--see Barnston Is. (next below); and, in Vancouver, Acadia Beach & Wreck Beach (farther below). Barnston Island (northeast of Surrey): Barnston Bare Beach 10. BC & "outside BC"--at bottom of this index. Clear Creek Hot Springs (near Harrison Hot Spr.): NudeState 9.1. Cobble Hill (Vanc. Is.): Sol Sante Club 8. Courtenay (Vanc. Is.): Clothing Optional Courtenay 9.2. Crescent Beach--see Surrey. Fraser Valley: Sunny Trails 8; Fraser Valley Naturist Club 9.1; NudeState 9.1. Gibsons (Sunshine Coast): Skinnydipper Nude Recreation 9.2. Harrison Hot Springs--see Clear Creek. Hornby Is.: Little Tribune Bay 10. Kamloops (Interior): Cariboo Naturist Society 7 & 9.2. Kelowna (Interior): Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society 7 & 9.2. Lake Errock (eastern Lower Mainland): Sunny Trails Club 8. Metchosin (Vanc. Is.): Deer Leap Yoga Retreat 8. Mission: Happy Campers Hideaway 8. Nanaimo: WildPlay (annual nude event) 11; Nanaimo nudes 9.2; in 9.1 & 9.2: Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudists; Kokoro Dance; NudeState. Nelson (Interior): Red Sands Beach 10. New Westminster: "Gallery 14" 9.1; Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke 6.5 & 13; Take Back the Night 11. North Vancouver: NudeState 9.1; Van Tan Nudist Club 6.2, 8; Van Tan Swim Club 6.2. Pacific Rim National Park (Tofino-Ucluelet, Vanc. Is.): Chesterman Beach 10. Pacific Spirit Park-- see Acadia Beach & Wreck Beach in Vancouver. Penticton (Interior): 3 Mile Beach 10. Powell River (Vanc. Is.): Captain Under Pants 9.1 & 9.2. Qualicum Beach (Vanc. Is.): Nudism in performance 9.1 & 9.2; Saanich (Vanc. Is.): Arbutus Park Club 7 & 9.2; Salmon Arm (Interior): Nipple Point Beach 10; Surrey: Bare Creek Bed & Breakfast 8; Crescent Rock Beach 10; Skinnydipper Nude Recreation 6.3, 9.1; Surrey's United Naturists 9.1; see also Barnston Island. Thetis Island: Cufra Clifts Bed & Breakfast. Tower Beach --see Wreck Beach in Vancouver. "Trail" beaches--see Wreck Beach in Vancouver. University of BC & UEL--see Acadia Beach & Wreck Beach in Vancouver. Wells Gray Provincial Park: Clearwater River Chalet. Vancouver: Acadia Beach 10; Art of Loving 8; WBPS 10; Burning Man Vancouver 13; CFOX-FM Radio 11; Critical Mass 11; De-Growth Party 12; Dykes on Bikes 11; Exposure Gallery 9.1; Espirito Santo Dance 9.1; Kokoro Dance 9.1, 9.2; Look Nude Film Festival 9.1; Metro Vancouver 10; NudeState 9.1; Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke 6.5 & 13; Pacific Bliss Yoga 9.1; Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudists 9.1; People's Co-op Books 9.1; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 11; Raelian Movement 9.1; Spartacus Books 9.1; Skyclad Yoga 9.1; Skinnydipper Nude Recreation 6.3, 9.1; Take Back the Night 11; Third Beach Topfree 10; Trans Pride Vancouver 11; Vancouver Folk Music Festival 11; Vancouver International Fringe Festival 9.1; Vancouver Nudists 13; Vancouver Pride Society 11; Vancouver Queer Film Festival 9.1; Work Less Party 12; Wreck Beach 10; Wreck Beach Memories 13; Wreck Beach Preservation Society 10; Wreck Beach Swim Club 6.4; World Naked Bike Ride 11. Vancouver suburbs: see Barnston Is; Lake Errock; New Westminster; North Vancouver; Surrey; Victoria: Naked Poetry Slam 9.2; Skyclad Yoga 9.2; Victoria suburbs: Prior Lake Club 10; see suburbs Cobble Hill; Metchosin; Saanich. BC many nude locations throughout: Clothing Optional BC 10; North-West Hot Springs 10; Occupy Movement __. BC many non-nude locations throughout: Alcoholics Anonymous 11-end; La Leche League 11-end; Narcotics Anonymous 11-end; Overeaters Anonymous 11-end; Rational Recovery 11-end; Secular Organization for Sobriety 11-end; BC no regular nude venues but on-line: American Ass. for Nude Recreation 14; AANR-WC 14; Association du droit égal aux seins nus 11; Back to Nurture 11-end; Burn BC 13; Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project 11-end; Canadian Nudist Group 13; Captain Under Pants 9.1 & 9.2.; Federation of Canadian Naturists 14; La Fédération Naturiste Internationale 14; Gay Naturists International 14; The Green Party (generally not nude) 12; Harbour Publishing ?9.1; International Coalition for Genital Integrity 11-end; International Naturist Federation 14; LifeRing 11-end; Nudist Clubhouse 13; Nudist Boat-Pool & Car-Pool 10; Nude-friendly female federation 9.1 & 9.2; Nude-Friendly Information & Referral 1 & 20; Nude Garden Party 12; Nudism in performance 9.1 & 9.2; National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers 11-end; The Naturist Society 14; New Star Books 11; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 11; Raelian Movement 9.1; Surfrider Foundation 9.1, 10; The Sex Party 12; Single Nudist 14; Topfree Equal Rights Association 11; Topfree swims 11; Vegan Voices 11; Young adult faction 9.1 & 9.2. Outside BC: NudeState trips 9.1; Burning Man Festival (NV) 14; Club Desnudo (WA) 14; Helios Edmonton (AB) 14; Sunny Chinooks Club (AB) 14; Sun Lovers Under Gray Skies (WA) 14-Outside. 5.9. Index of activities (in brown) All scheduled qualifying activities (of which we know) are in the calendar above (Sections 3 & 4). This index (below) does not list the dates. Rather, this index connects the activity to the groups (and places) which offer it, have offered it, will offer it, or might offer it. That way, you can contact them even if they do not have it scheduled now. If you don't see it on our calendar, it would help if you ask the groups to offer the activity. With your encouragement, the groups are likely to offer the activities you like sooner. Or you can organize them yourself. (Ask us for advice how.) Index by group name and abbreviation is below in blue Section 5.9.5. Table of contents is above in green Section 2. Sections 6-20 are on the next page. List order: Activity or place: abbreviation, section number accommodation-- see bed & breakfast, camp, rooms, RV, trailer. art (including body painting): SS 8, G14 9.1, WNBR 11, EG 9.1, VLDS & BI 8. badminton: VTNC 6.2, SD 6.3, and in "beach". badminton, balloon: NIFTY 6.5. basketball: SD 6.3. beach: WBPS, AB, MV, NBB, CRB, PL, LTB, BBB, CB, 3BT, COBC (all of those are in 10); SF 9.1. bed & breakfast: BCBB 8, STC 8; see also rooms, camp. bicycle--see cycle. bike--see cycle & (for women) motorcycle. boat: SS 8; (see also cruise). body paint--see art. book club: SS 8. bowl: SD 6.3 (5-pin, maybe 10-pin). breastfeed: all these nude-friendly places & events, with extra encouragement at BN 11-end, LLL 11-end. bungy jump: WP 11., NdS 9.1 & 9.2. camp: VTNC 9.2, SS 8, HCH 8, DL 8, STC 8, FVNC 9.1, STC 8. canoe: SS 8. climb--see wall-climb; hike. clubhouse: SS 8, STC 8, FVNC 9.1, DL 8; see also computer. computer Web sites: 13. cruise: SD 6.3, FVNC 9.1 (see also raft). cycle: WNBR 11. dance (participatory)--see music. dance (performance): KD 9.1 & 9.2, CD 14. diving--see also bungy jump. diving board: most groups in 6 & some in 7. draw--see art. drink alcohol--NFIR discourages it; see therapy groups 11-end, and articles on page 2. eat--see food. festivals--see music, film; & non-nude festivals where nudists are recruited: VFMF 11, VTNC 6.2, SD 6.3. film: SS 8, NIFTY 6.5, SD 6.3, FVNC 9.1, festivals: VIFF 9.1, VQFF 9.1, LNFF 9.1. food: most groups & places sometimes serve food or host pot-lucks; see also restaurant; picnic, breastfeed. games: VTNC 6.2, SS 8, NIFTY 6.5. gifts--see merchandise. golf: SS 8. heal: AL 8; also see therapy. hike: WB 10, CRB 10, (see also run). hot springs: NdS 9.1, NWHS 10, COBC 10. hot tub: VTNC 6.2, HCH 8, SS 8, STC 8, BCBB? 8; all indoor pools in 6 & 7. Jacuzzi--see hot tub. jump--see bungy jump. karaoke--see music. kayak: SS 8. life drawing--see art. meal--see food. meet for self-help (besides nudism): several in 11-end. meet to organise for nudism: most groups herein. meet with officials: WBPS & MV 10. merchandise: many of the groups sell goods, many related to nudism, such as literature, comics, magazines, garments (sorry!), stickers, DVDs, etc. motorcycle (women topfree): DB 11. movie--see film. music (for group dancing & parties): SS 8, HCH 8, P-CAN (men) 9.1, FVNC 9.1, WBPS 10, VFMF 11. See also "dance (performance)". music (sing): FVNC 9.1 (karaoke); VTNC 6.2; SS 8; all beaches 10. music (radio broadcasts): CU 9.1 & 9.2. parade: VPS 11, DB 11, RM 9.1, P-CAN 9.1, WNBR 11, NIFTY 6.5. party--see social; music. performance: Nip 9.1 & 9.2 (end). (see also art, dance, film, karaoke, music, parade). picnic--see camping, food. playground: SS 8, STC 8; see also wave pool. poetry: CU 9.2 & 9.2; NPS 9.2. politics & protest: 12; Occupy Movement __. pool (water)--see swim. pot-luck--see food. raft: P-CAN 9.2 (see also cruise). restaurant social (before or after swim-spa, bowling, etc.): all groups in 6 & some groups in 7; see also food. rooms: ?DL 8. rowboat: SS 8. run (& walk): WBPS 10; see also hike, streak. RV hook-ups: SS? 8, STC 8. sauna: SS 8, STC 8; all groups in 6 & most groups in 7. self-help (besides nudism): 11-end; see also therapy. shuffleboard: VTNC 6.2. sing--see music. skim-board--see beach. sleep--see bed & breakfast, camp, rooms, RV, trailer. slides--see wave pool, etc. social & party: almost all groups offer these; & socializing is part of almost all activities (see especially "restaurant" & "music-dance"). spa (such as sauna, hot tub, steam room, etc.): all groups in 6 & 7; or see under those specific facilities. sport--see specific sport in this index: badminton, basketball, beach, boat, bowl, bungy jump, cycle, dance, dive, golf, hike, raft, run-walk, shuffleboard, skim-board, swim, streak, surf, volleyball,wall-climb, yacht (model), yoga. steam room: VTSC 6.2, SD 6.3, maybe groups in 7. streak: CU 9.1 & 9.2; see also cycle, parade, run, and sport. surf: SF 10, beaches 10. sunbathe: VT 6.2, SS 8, HCH 8, SCY 9.2, beaches 10, & most outdoor activities & places. swim (indoor): all groups in 6 & 7. swim (outdoor pools, heated or not): VT 6.2, SS 8; see also beach. tan--see sunbathe. tent--see camp. therapy for physical health--see most activities in this index, especially sport & sunbathe, or below. therapy for shyness, clothes compulsiveness, sexism: read articles herein & contact NFIR 1 & 20; at WB 10. therapy (self-help groups for other problems): 11-end. topfree: 3BT 10, TERA 11, Ts 11, Occupy Movement; see also breastfeed. trailer spaces with hook-ups: SS? 8, HCH 8, STC 8. trailer spaces without hook-ups: VTNC 6.2. transport nude or topfree--see cruise; cycle; raft; motorcycle. transport to & from nude events & places: NBC 10. triathalon: SS 8. tube--see raft. volleyball, dry, indoor: SD 6.3. volleyball, dry, outdoor: VTNC 6.2, WB 10, SS? 8, HCH 8, beaches 10. volleyball, pool, indoor: VTSC 6.1, WBSC 6.4, NIFTY 6.5, & maybe in 7. walk--see run. wall-climb, indoor: NdS 9.1. water slides--big at wave pool, small at most pools. wave pool, water slides, & water playground: SD 6.3. whirlpool--see hot tub. yacht (model): SS 8; see also raft & cruise (full-size). yoga: DL 8, SD 6.3, SCY (men) 9.1, 9.2, NdS 9.1, PBY 9.1, VNYC 9.1, WB 10, WBPS 10. Section 5.9.5. (formerly Section 2.5). Index of groups & abbreviations (in blue) As used in our calendar listings, etc. Red type in this otherwise blue index is for parts that are new or recently heavily revised. The abbreviations are below, alphabetically, followed by the numerals of their sections (where a full description of each group is). Almost all the references in this index are to Sections 6 to 20, which are now on the 2nd page, for which click on horizontal bar at the top of this page. (We will add more links later.) Group _____ Section Acadia Beach 10. (in WBPS entry). Alcoholics Anonymous 11-end. American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR; now including Single Nudist on-line dating) 14. American Association for Nude Recreation--Western Canada (AANR-WC) 14. American Sunbathing Association (ASA): now named AANR (above) 14. Arbutus Park Club (& Friends of Arbutus Park) (non-landed) 7 & 9.2. The Art of Loving 8. Association du droit égal aux seins nus 11. Back to Nurture 11-end. Bare Creek Bed & Breakfast 8. Barnston Bare Beach 10. Basic Inquiry 8. Burn BC (associated with Burning Man Festival) 10. Burning Man Festival 14-Outside. Burning Man Vancouver 10. Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project 11-end. Canadian Nudist Group 13. Captain Under Pants radio CJMP-FM radio 9.2. Cariboo Naturist Society in Kamloops 7 & 9.2. CFOX-FM radio 11. Chesterman Beach (nude) 10. CJMP-FM radio see Captain U. below. Clearwater River Chalet 8. Clothing Optional BC (COBC) 10. Clothing Optional Courtenay 9.2. Club Desnudo (nude men) was 9.1, moved to 14. Co-ed Naked Yoga see NudeState 9.1 & 9.2. Crescent Rock Beach (nudist) 10. (see also SUN in 9.1). Critical Mass 11. Cufra Clifts B&B 8. De-Growth Party see Work-Less. Deer Leap yoga retreat 8. Dykes on Bikes (women) 11. Espirito Santo Dance 9.1. Exposure Gallery 9.1. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) 14. Fraser Valley Naturist Club 9.1. Gallery 14 Section 9.1. Gay Naturists International (men) 14. The Green Party 12. GVRD re-named Metro Vancouver: in WBPS listing in 10. Happy Campers Hideaway (nudist) 8. Harbour Publishing (books) 9.1. Helios Edmonton (nudist) 14. Outside BC. Human Body Project (yet to be listed). International Coalition for Genital Integrity 11-end. International Naturist Federation 14. Kokoro Dance 9.1, 9.2. La Fédération Naturiste Internationale 14. La Leche League (women) 11-end. LifeRing, Canada 11-end. Little Tribune Bay (nude beach) 10. Look Nude Film Festival 9.1. Metro Vancouver: in WBPS listing in 10. Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY) 6.5 & 13. Naked Poetry Slam 9.2. Nanaimo nudes 9.2. Narcotics Anonymous 11, end. National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NO-CIRC) 11-end. The Naturist Society 14. (or NudeState instead). New Star Books (publisher) 11. Nipple Point Beach (nudist; near Salmon Arm) 10. North-West Hot Springs (nude) 10. Nude Garden Party (political) 12. Nude-friendly female federation 9.1 & 9.2. Nude-Friendly Information & Referral (also spelled Nwd-Friendly), publisher of this calendar 1., 20. Nude-Friendly Information & Referral Calendar (this calendar) 1., 20. NudeState (formerly Threadbare Adventures & Co-ed Naked Yoga) 9.1 & 9.2. Nudism in performance 9.1 & 9.2 (end). Nudist Boat-Pool & Car-Pool 10. Nudist Clubhouse 13. (or also FVNC clubhouse 9.1). Occupy Movement will be in Sect. 9. Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society (OSNS) 7 & 9.2. Overeaters Anonymous 11, end. Pacific Bliss Yoga (nude) 9.1. Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudists (P-CAN, for men) 9.1 & 9.2. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) 11. People's Co-op Books (bookstore) 9.1. Prior Lake Club (nudist) 10. Raelian Movement (religion) 9.1. Rational Recovery 11, end. Red Sands Beach (nudist; near Nelson) 10. Secular Organization for Sobriety (SOS) 11, end. The Sex Party (political party) 12. Single Nudist (on-line) -- see AANR in 14. Skinnydipper Nude Recreation 6.3, (9.1, & 9.2). Skyclad Yoga (men) 9.2. SLUGS Sun Lovers Under Gray Skies (nudist) 14-Outside. Sol Sante Club (nudist) 8. Spartacus Books (bookstore) 9.1. Sunny Chinooks Club (nudist) 14-Outside. Sunny Trails Club (nudist) 8. Surfrider Foundation 9.1 (see also 10). Surrey's United Naturists (SUN) 9.1, (see also Crescent Rock Beach in 10). Take Back the Night (women) 11. Third Beach Topfree 10. Threadbare Adventures see NudeState 9.1 & 9.2. or 14. 3 Mile Beach (nudist; near Penticton) 10. Topfree Equal Rights Association (TERA) 11. Topfree swims 11. Trans Pride Vancouver. 11. Van Tan Swim Club 6.2. Van Tan Nudist Club 6.2 (& 8). Vancouver Folk Music Festival 11. Vancouver International Fringe Festival 9.1. Vancouver Life Drawing Society 8. Vancouver Naked Yoga Club (men) 9.1. Vancouver Nudists 13. Vancouver Pride Society 11. Vancouver Queer Film Festival 9.1. Vegan Voices 11. Western Canadian . . . (now AANR-WC) 14. WildPlay Element Parks 11. Work Less Party 12. World Naked Bike Ride 11. Wreck Beach (nude): see Wreck Beach PS 10. Wreck Beach Memories (defunct) 13. Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS, includes AB) 10. Wreck Beach Swim Club 6.4. Young adult faction (nudist) 9.1 & 9.2. End of 5.9.5. Index. NFIR Calendar, Sections 6-20. For Sections 1 to 5, please click on that title in the horizontal black bar above. This page revised 2006 to 2016 May 27. Section 6. INDOOR SWIM-SPA DETAILS — VANCOUVER AREA (For swim-spas in British Columbia OUTSIDE the Lower Mainland, see Section 7 below. For temperature and price comparison charts, see below.) There are 3 groups which offer "swims" at (usually) 3 indoor pools (with spas) in the Lower Mainland, most months from September to June. SD (#2 below) offers them usually monthly year-round. The 3 groups and their own Web pages for their swim-spas are: Most 1st Sat's. Skinnydipper Recreation Club (SD) http://club.skinnydipper.ca/swims/wave_pool_swim.php . Most 2nd Sat's. Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY), www.niftynude.org/index2.htm . Most 3rd Sat's. Wreck Beach Swim Club (WBSC). See "Swims" in their top left menu at www.wreckbeach.org . Most last Sat's. Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY), www.niftynude.org/index2.htm . Many more details are below, including, in some cases, many details that are not in their own Web publications. We have more details about the swims here in NFIR Calendar than anywhere else. Here they are usually updated quicker and more accurately! Another source is www.nudeswims.bc.ca . Section 6.1. Conditions for all 3 swim-spa series (these are in the Vancouver area; for elsewhere--see Section 7 below) Generally the same behaviour rules apply for nude-friendly swims as at public (textile) sessions at pools, or stricter. See Section 5.3.1, previous page, before you attend. Each of the 3 groups usually rents a different public indoor pool for several Saturday nights a year, to which it invites you. The prices, rules, facilities, and activities are similar at all 3. Many people go to all 3. NIFTY's is nude optional (it is mostly nudes). The other 2 are, instead, for nudes only. Some groups will switch pools, such as when their usual pool is unavailable, or for a 5-Saturday month. See how else they differ in Sections 6.2 to 6.5 below. Schedules: Most of the swims are September (after Labour Day Monday) through June, with minor variations around holidays, pool cleaning closures, etc. See Sections 3 and 5.1, above. Only the SD swims in Surrey are year-round, except when Newton Wave Pool is unavailable. Arrive early to get into the pool on time after queuing. Facilities: All these events are indoors. Each venue has a pool and a hot tub with jets. Each has a sauna and/or steam bath. All have diving board(s) except Newton Wave Pool (SD), which has huge slides instead. Each is wheelchair accessible. Usually they play water volleyball, for which it helps if you are 122 cm tall or taller (except SD at Newton Wave Pool, where it is played on a dry floor). All these pool events are guarded by the regular uniformed city lifeguards. Joining: Skinnydipper RC and NIFTY require membership for adults. With Wreck Beach SC, membership is optional. At all of them, you may join at the door. Other than a membership fee, joining does not oblige you more than a non-member. Everyone must follow the regular pool rules, plus the club rules, especially safe and respectful behaviour. Your information is not given out without your permission. Tickets and passes: These swims are private events at rented public facilities. To attend these private events you may not use tickets, discounts, cards, passes, etc. which are for public sessions. However, some documents will get you a discount at NIFTY swims: see Section 6.5, last sub-section, below. Minors: At all these swims (and most other nude-friendly events) parents and legal guardians are welcome to bring their minor offspring at no extra charge and without enroling them. No other minors may attend (for the legal protection of all). A breastfeeding professional (IBCLC) often attends these events. Lockers: Clothes lockers at some pools can be secured with a lock you bring. Others lock only with their own mechanism. Some cost 25¢ or 50¢. Some accept a token (sold at the desk; no refund). Some return your coins after use. Items are left at your own risk. Which places have which kinds of lockers, when known, is noted below. Some pools have small "wallet lockers"—to hold wallet, keys, eyeglasses, jewelry, etc. At some pools, 25¢. Restaurants: Right after or right before most swims, some of the attenders meet clothed at a restaurant to socialise, and (if you choose) to buy and eat food. No cover charge. Check the events in Section 3, above, in the club info, below, or ask the organisers. (They are in this fuchsia colour with an asterisk * to show that they are clothed events.) Cycling to the events: For bicycle routes, see as described for each swim, below, and see: www.translink.ca/en/Cycling/Cycling-Routes.aspx Public motor transport to the pools, etc.: www.translink.bc.ca . More: For more information about a nude-friendly event, please don't contact the pool staff. Instead, contact the hosting groups (below) or the NFIRC editor (end, below). Temperature comparison chart Indoor pools, etc.; in °Celsius. Freezing = 0; room temperature = 20; body temperature = 37; boiling = 100. indoor main small steam Club: pool air pool pools hot tub room sauna SD: Newton 22~ 30 ? 40 ? -- NIFTY: Templeton 24 28 / 30 32 / 33 40 / 42 -- 65 / 74 WBSC: L. Byng 26 28 -- 40 -- 85 NIFTY, SD: Renfrew 24 28 / 29 -- 40 / 41 -- 90 SD: Gibsons ? 29 35 & 37 39 / 40 -- -- CNS (Kamloops) OSNS (Kelowna) APC (Saanich) Fee comparison chart Adult rates (minors usually free) Non- Member Affiliated member Annual When Club: pool admit $ admit $ admit $ dues $ confirmed SD: Newton 10*** -- -- 25 2016 2 NIFTY: Templeton 9* -- -- donate 2016 3 WBSC: L. Byng 10** -- 12** 6 2014 1 OSNS (Kelowna) 10 -- -- 10 2013 APC (Saanich) 10 -- 15 20 2010 CNS (Kamloops) 8 9 12 ? 2010 Newton (above) is in Surrey, BC. Templeton, Byng, and Renfrew pools are in Vancouver, BC. Memberships are good for all of a club's events & venues. *NIFTY regular price. Also, they offer half-price discounts for students, disabled, and low-income: please show evidence. Membership dues are by donation (any amount you want to give). Arrange to volunteer and thus get in free. Probably same fees at whichever pool NIFTY uses. Newcomers get in for 1$ with coupon. **First time 5$. ***Annual membership (25$) or one-time membership (5$) required. Section 6.2. Van Tan Swim Club has suspended swims until ~2015 or later. They are an auxiliary of Van Tan Nudist Club (VT) Van Tan Nudist Club maintains their rustic, private resort on a mountain-side in the District of North Vancouver, BC. It is the oldest nudist club in Canada: since 1939. Co-operatively owned. Affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and with the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (both in Section 14, below). On their 3-hectare grounds are a wood-burning outdoor hot tub (since 2011) and an old wood-burning sauna in a shed. You can make them hotter by adding wood. Outdoors are a shower, camping, tenting, camper & RV parking, picnicking, barbecue, reservoir, grass volleyball, grass badminton, shuffleboard, horseshoes, and distant view. (No electricity, cabins, RV hook-ups, or clubhouse.) Indoor composting toilets (new ~2011). Their grounds are at ~424 m elevation, ~2 km uphill from a city bus route, a 30- to 45-minute walk, mostly on a gravel road. Get permission before attending almost all events, except an "open house". Many events are only for members or with invited guests. ---June to August. About 2 Van Tan open houses per year; at the club grounds. For more about the club's events (Section 3, above): Telephone 604-980-2400; fax 604-881-1407. info [a with a circle round it] vantan [dot] ca www.vantan.ca (has e-links to other groups). (VT, SD, and NIFTY, as far as we know, link to NFIRC.) Mail: VTNC, PO Box 37120, RPO Lonsdale, North Vancouver, BC, Canada V7N 4M4. www.wcanr.ca/bc_clubs.htm Section 6.3 Skinnydipper Recreation Club (SD) A project of Skinnydipper Services Inc. and Skinnydipper Nude Recreation. www.skinnydipper.ca http://club.skinnydipper.ca . The various activities are for nudes only, except restaurant socials, or unless otherwise stated. Skinnydipper hosts indoor swims at Newton Wave Pool (monthly and year-round). Also, it might present more nude-optional indoor swims elsewhere. See Sections 3 & 4, on the previous page. MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED FOR ALMOST ALL S.D. EVENTS For adults, a membership is required for all events, except for beach events, festival tabling, restaurant socials, or unless otherwise stated. Costs 15$ for the calendar year. 20% discount on dues to anyone with an AANR card. You can get one through SD, as below. Also available is an annual membership which includes affiliation with the continent-wide American Association for Nude Recreation, at 51$, which is highly recommended (see AANR in Section 14, below). Join on-line or at SD events, etc. No membership is required for minors, who must be with a parent or legal guardian to attend. SD at Newton Wave Pool, Surrey, BC. (Or is it Nude-on?!) Starting 2014 January, nude indoor swims are on the first Saturday of every month, year-round, except when the pool is closed for cleaning. Members only. Join ahead, preferably, or at the door. For first hour use the dry gym for yoga, basketball, volleyball, badminton, etc. A yoga instructor usually teaches then for an extra 2$, with your first time free. Dates in calendar above in Sections 3 and 4 above. Other information as at all Vancouver swims: see above Section 6.1. Annual SD dues 15$ (or 51$ with AANR privileges). Pool admission is an additional 10$ each time. Children (18 and younger) are admitted free: must be accompanied by their parent(s). In the pool from 9:30-11 pm, preceded by a clothed restaurant social at 7 pm (see below). That period in the pool might be lengthened to 2 hours if attendance increases. They prefer that you join or renew before you get there. Download an application form from http://club.skinnydipper.ca/membership.php and complete it. Mail it with your annual dues for the current calendar year. They are boycotting Pay-Pal because of discrimination against nudists. For 2012 rates and discounts, see near top of SD entry above. E-address: swims [insert a with a circle round it] skinnydipper [dot] ca Telephone 604-484-7957. Notifying the club and/or joining ahead of time allows the club to arrange enough lifeguards ahead of time and allows you to spend less time checking in at the front desk. http://club.skinnydipper.ca/swims/wave_pool_swim.php . Skinnydipper won a suit (pardon the expression), with court costs, against the City of Surrey, BC, on 2007 November 8. So the Skinnydippers have resumed swims at Newton Wave Pool. Unfortunately, the city (the losing side in the legal case) does not have to pay for Skinnydipper's lawyers. So please donate to "Save the Wave": http://stw.skinnydipper.ca . Details are there, too. Newton Wave Pool has big artificial waves: "the biggest waves in the West". Those waves measure, at their tallest, about 1 metre from trough to crest. The wave pool is 37.5 m long and 12 m wide, but not rectangular. The wave pool facility was rebuilt in 2008. The 2 giant water slides are now steeper & faster: the newly pitch-dark Black Mamba (63 m long) & the super-slick Whirlwind (67 m long). To slide on either, you must be 7 years old or older, 122 cm tall or taller, no more massive than 135 kg, and not physically fragile or vulnerable. The slides are ~3 storeys tall: ~11 m tall. Kahuna's Lagoona (the shallow end of the main pool) has water blasters, hoses, jets, smaller slides, shallow bays, etc. and a small, separate pool ~30 cm deep. Toys; deck games: ping pong, giant chess, giant checkers, etc. Indoor air ~22°Celsius; pool water 30°C; hot tub 40°C (3 more than body temperature); steam room __°C; small pool __°C. Prices: 10$ admission for adults on top of the required annual membership (as of 2012 6). Free admission for minors. Minors must be with one or 2 of their parents or legal guardians, and do not require membership. Clothes lockers can be locked or not. They cost 25¢ to lock a small locker (barely holds shoes and folded clothes) and 50¢ for large. Bring quarters, please. The club has rental padlocks: 50¢ and 2$ deposit. Some lockers are in the change rooms and some are on the pool decks. SD's Newton Wave Pool location 13730 - 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC, (at 137th Street). That is 1 block east of King George Boulevard (formerly King George Highway). The location also might use the address 7190 - 137th Street (at 72nd Avenue). Map: http://club.skinnydipper.ca/swims/wave_pool_location.php . By public transit: Newton Wave Pool is adjacent to, and south of, Newton Exchange (a bus loop). Take SkyTrain or a bus to one of these stations, then board one of these buses: —From Surrey Central Station (usually your best option from Vancouver): bus 321, 323, 324, 325, 393, or 505, whichever comes first; at bus bays 4, 5, 6, and 10 (as of 2009~). Probably the best bus is the new B-Line (express) bus from Bay 12 (as of 2014 Jan. 4), northeast of the bus loop. To go to the pre-swim social, alight from the bus at the last stop before Newton Exchange, and then walk a bit south on the east side of KGB to ABC Restaurant in the mall near KGB. —From King George Station: bus 321 or B-Line, but getting from the station to the bus stop is arduous because of the stupid design of the SkyTrain station, walking to the traffic light and back on the other side. So it is easier to change at Surrey Central Station, other factors being equal. After the swim, going away from Newton Wave Pool, the opposite is true: this station is the easier connexion. —From other places: bus 301, 340, 341, or C75. —Bus from 22nd Street Station: ?__ (one of those in line above) leaving at 7:07, 7:37, and 8:37 pm (as of 2008 summer). Cycling: www.translink.ca/en/Cycling/Cycling-Routes.aspx Bus and train: http://tripplanning.translink.bc.ca/ . Parking: Plenty of parking stalls are adjacent to the pool. From 72 Avenue, turn south onto 136-B Street, then east into the lot. —First Saturday of almost every month (starting 2014 January), 9:30-11 pm. Newton Wave Pool event. ---~7 pm (before Newton Wave Pool events). Restaurant social (clothed) at the nearby ABC Country Restaurant, #600-7380 King George Boulevard, Surrey, BC (~2 long blocks north of the pool). No cover charge. A paucity of whole food.* SD nude bowling parties Lucky Strike Lanes, 1205-6th Avenue (at 12th Street), New Westminster, BC. Nude only. Telephone SD: 604-484-7957. For information about the facility generally, including in order to bowl at other times, clothed, telephone 604-526-6622. www.bowlluckystrike.com . As of 2013, admission is: 20$ adult; minors free with one or both of their parents (no other minors). Bowling shoe rental (required) is no extra charge. During the event, you can bowl as much as you want. Less-skilled bowlers might want to use the lanes with the "bumpers". Those are metal guards which prevent the balls from going into the gutters. Room temperature has been 20° C. Some snacks are provided. The bowling alley sells food, too. Advance tickets sold at most nude-friendly swim nights in the Lower Mainland. Attendance is limited to 100 people, with 72 people bowling at once. 5-pin lanes only unless enough people buy advance tickets to enable booking the 10-pin lanes, too (on the floor below). For other details, telephone 604-484-7957 or http://club.skinnydipper.ca/bowling/skinnydipper_bowling.php and a map at: http://club.skinnydipper.ca/bowling/skinnydipper_bowling.php#map . —[See calendar]. Skinnydipper RC bowling, Lucky Strike Lanes, 1205-6th Avenue (at 12th Street), New Westminster, BC. —[See calendar] (after bowling). Skinnydipper RC restaurant social (clothed), possibly at Boston Pizza, to the southeast, 1045 Columbia Street, New Westminster.* ---Skinnydipper Recreation Club might present another nude-optional indoor swim and spa if enough of you ask; at Gibsons & District Aquatic Facility, 953 Gibsons Way, Gibsons, Sunshine Coast, BC. —TENTATIVE before or after the above events, ~4:15 pm or ~6:30 pm or 8 pm, etc. Skinnydipper Recreation Club social at Benjamin's International Cafe, Sunnycrest Mall, 900 Gibsons Way, Gibsons, BC. There is no cover charge at the restaurant. Pay only for the food you order, if any. For more about the restaurant, telephone them at 604-886-1646 or http://benjaminscafe.ca .* Water volleyball is enjoyed. The main pool is 20 x ~8 metres with 4 lanes, from 90 cm to 2.7 m deep. Small square pool 60 cm deep. Small round pool 30 cm deep. They might have a big water spray. Indoor air __°Celsius; main pool water 29°C; small square pool 35°C; small round pool 37°C (body temperature); hot tub 39 or 40°C (very nice). No sauna. Only members are admitted to the indoor pool party. Applications are on-line and at the door. Apply on-line or arrive early to avoid using up your pool time. (That membership policy applies to all SD events, Vancouver, BC; North Vancouver, BC; New Westminster, BC; Surrey, BC; cruising on the ocean, etc.) Dues are with the Skinnydipper Recreation Club. Admission to this event in Gibsons is 7$. Children (18 and younger) are admitted free: must be accompanied by one or 2 of their parents. SD will rent you a lock for a locker for 50 cents and 2$ deposit. Or bring your own lock. Contact Ray at: suncoast [insert a with a circle round it] skinnydipper [dot] ca (Gibsons area events only) Travel to Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast, BC. The Gibsons pool is 6 km southwest of the Langdale ferry terminal, which receives ferries from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver in the Lower Mainland. That's a 40-minutes voyage, which costs 12.60$ (regular) for a 2-way trip (or more $ with a motor vehicle). You can leave Horseshoe Bay by ferry at 7:20 am, 9:20 am, 11:20 am, 3:30 pm, and 5:30 pm (depending on the event starting time and how long you want to visit the charming community). The quick local bus from the ferry to the pool costs 2.25$. Ferries leave Langdale back to the Lower Mainland at 6:30 and 8:20 pm (last ferry of the night), unless those times have been revised. (Ferry schedule valid until 2011 March 31.) From Madeira Park, Halfmoon Bay, Sechelt, and other places west and north (on the Sunshine Coast), you can go southeast by land on the Sunshine Coast Highway, which, in Gibsons itself, is also called "Gibsons Way". SD temporarily at Renfrew Pool, Vancouver, BC. That sometimes happens when Newton Wave Pool is closed for cleaning, etc. Same prices. See the main calendar on the previous page: Section 3, near the top of that page. For more about Renfrew Pool, see NIFTY, which also sometimes uses that pool (below, in Section 6.5, this section). SD nude boat cruises. Some are on Stave Lake. Nude only. Up to 14 passengers. On a large pontoon boat. Boat launch off Burma Street, Stave Lake, ?Mission, BC. Lunch: noon (included in fare). Adults 40$; children 12 & younger 24$. Cruise up the lake (north?) with stops for skinnydipping and sunbathing. The scenery is spectacular in this remote area with mountains rising almost directly out of the water & glacier-fed streams splashing down to the beaches. Limited cancellation and refund details on their membership page. Route: Indian Arm. Nude only. On the 20-metre motor yacht, the "MV Someday". Skinnydipper has many interesting items for sale with nudist or joke printing, including mugs, cups, carrying bags, signs, comics, magazines, notebooks. See a sample selection at most SD events or look on their Web pages ( www.skinnydipper.ca ). Many can be made to order, possibly with a 10-day wait. Their Web publication ( www.skinnydipper.ca ) has excellent international nude news from www.clothesfree.com/Nudes_in_News.html Skinnydipper membership details: http://club.skinnydipper.ca/membership.php Skinnydipper Recreation Club also publishes a free paper periodical brochure "Vancouver Area Nude Swims". Telephone 604-484-7957. www.skinnydipper.ca (SD links to NFIRC.) info [insert a with a circle round it] skinnydipper [dot] ca . swims [insert a with a circle round it] skinnydipper [dot] ca . suncoast [insert a with a circle round it] skinnydipper [dot] ca (Gibsons). Section 6.4 Wreck Beach Swim Club (WBSC) This swim club is an auxilliary of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS). The latter is a non-profit group which works mainly to preserve Wreck Beach. (For that beach, see Section 10, below. See also Nude Beach Boat-Pool (or new name) in that same section.) WBSC indoor "swims" are at Lord Byng Pool, 3990 West 14th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Usually the third Saturday of month, usually October to May. Nude only. On first visit, bring photo identification. PRICES: Admission 10$ members and 12$ non-members; minors free (as in first paragraph above in Section 6.1). Annual dues 6$ (calendar year: January to December), available at the door. (As of 2014 1). Locker 25¢, refunded afterward. (As of 2014 1.) Pool 25 m long, 13 m wide, diving board (1 metre high), slide (~165 cm high). Maybe rope swing: ask a lifeguard. Indoor air 26°Celsius; pool water 28°C; hot tub 40°C; sauna 85°C. The pool entrance is on the west side of the pool. The pool building is on the north side of the school, which is just south of 14th Avenue, between Wallace Street and Crown Street, which both run north and south. Cycling: The closest bicycle route goes to West 15th Avenue and Camosun Street, which is one block west of the pool. Approach from the east on a bike route on West 8th Avenue or on West 18th Avenue. More: www.translink.ca/en/Cycling/Cycling-Routes.aspx . Public transit: —From the east, #99 Broadway BeeLine bus to 10th Avenue and Alma Street; then transfer to #9 Broadway or #17 UBC bus and go farther west to 4000-block West 10th Avenue, then get off the bus and go south on Crown Street to West 14th Avenue. Or don't transfer and instead walk from Alma Street uphill west 3 blocks on 10th Avenude to Wallace Street and then south 4 blocks. —From the east, #9 Broadway bus or #17 UBC to 4000-block West 10th Avenue, then get off the bus and go south on Crown Street to West 14th Avenue. —From the east, #25 UBC bus to 3900-block West 16th Avenue, then go right (north) through or around the school on the east or west of the school buildings. —From the west, #99 Broadway BeeLine bus to 10th Avenue and Sasamat Street; then walk the rest of the way (east and south) or transfer to #9 Broadway or #17 and continue to 3900 block West 10th Avenue. Then get off the bus and go south on Crown Street to West 14th Avenue; or go on #99 one stop farther to Alma Street, then transfer to #9 Broadway or #17 or walk, as in first option above. —From the west, #9 Broadway bus or #17 to 3900-block West 10th Avenue, then get off the bus and go south to West 14th Avenue. —From the west, #25 Brentwood Station bus to ~3900-block West 16th Avenue, then get off the bus and go left (north) around the school. —#7 Dunbar bus north or south to West 16th Avenue. Get off the bus and go west 3 long blocks uphill to 3900 block. Walk north around the school to West 14th Avenue. Driving: —From the east, take West 16th Avenue past Dunbar Street 4 blocks to Crown Street. Turn right (north) and then right again on West 14th Avenue, and right again immediately into the parking lot. —Or from the east, take West Broadway, turn left (south) on Alma, go one block to West 10th Avenue. Turn right (west) and go 3 blocks to Crown Street. Turn left (south) and go 5 blocks to West 14th Avenue. Turn left (east) and then right away turn right into the parking lot. —From the south, go on Dunbar Street north to West 16th Avenue. Turn left (west) and go 3 blocks to Crown Street. Turn right (north) and go 2 blocks to West 14th Avenue. Turn right (east) and then (right away) turn right into the parking lot. —From the north, go on Dunbar Street south to West 16th Avenue. Turn right (west) and go 3 blocks to Crown Street. Turn right (north) and go 2 blocks to West 14th Avenue. Turn right (east) and then right away turn right into the parking lot. —From the west, UBC, go on West 16th Avenue or University Boulevard (which changes into West 10th Avenue) 7 blocks past Blanca Street to Crown Street. Turn toward West 14th Avenue. There turn east 1/2 block, then turn right into the parking lot. Parking: enter the free lot from West 14th Avenue (south side) between Wallace Street and Crown Street. —Dates in calendar above. Usually third Saturdays, October to May. Other information as at all Vancouver swims: see above. —10~ pm, after each Wreck Beach Swim Club indoor swim, a restaurant social (clothed) at the nearby White Spot Restaurant, 2518 West Broadway (at Larch Street, southwest corner), Vancouver, BC (14 blocks east of the pool and 5 blocks north). No cover charge. A paucity of whole food.* Ask about other events, nude and clothed, including restaurant parties and important meetings to preserve the beach. Telephone 604-856-9598, www.wreckbeach.org ("Swims", etc., in top left menu.) judyw [insert a with a circle round it] wreckbeach [dot] org . See also WBPS in Section 10, below. 6.5. Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY) The NIFTY Web publication is back after it was hacked around 2012! www.niftynude.org . See article below at the beginning of Section 15, added 2012 September 30. Non-profit group. Presents protests, picnics, dances, movies, indoor swims, meetings, talent shows, as below. Since 1993 (January~). NIFTY indoor swims at Templeton Pool (for Renfrew Pool, see following sub-section) 700 Templeton Drive, Vancouver, BC. Starting 2014 January, regular NIFTY "swims" are twice a month in most months. Usually on the second and last Saturday of month, usually September to June, sometimes skipping December. Unlike the other swims in the Lower Mainland, this one is nude optional (a.k.a. swimsuit optional); most people go nude, though. It has a separate teaching-wading pool; and has discount and free options. Dates in calendar above. Since 1998 (around January). Other information as at all Vancouver swims: see above. Sometimes other events follow or precede the spa nights (swims) in the room adjacent to the pool (8.2 x 14 metres; capacity 80). Admission: Regular 9$. Half price for students and low-income. Please show evidence. Also required for adults is a membership, which can be bought for any amount of money for the calendar year (January to December). Admission is free for volunteer workers: please pre-arrange. Minors free (as in first paragraph above in Section 6.1). Locker 25¢, refunded; big lockers in change rooms, wallet lockers in lobby. The main pool is 25 m long, 12 m wide (6 lanes), 1.1 to 3.3 m deep. Slide (~165 cm high), diving board (1 m), and rope swing. Teaching-wading pool ~6 m square, 60 to 75 cm deep. Indoor air 24°Celcius; main pool 28 or 29°C; wading pool 32°C; hot tub 40.5°C; sauna 65 to 74°C (they are trying for hotter). Handicapped accessible: no stairs in, pool stair-case, hoist/lift, shower wheelchair, hand-held showers, 2 handicapped car-parking stalls. The pool is in the park at 700 Templeton Drive, just east of Templeton Secondary School. Restaurant socials after Templeton Pool swims: —TENTATIVE 10~ pm. If people want to after a NIFTY swim (see calendar above, in Section 3 on previous page), they are encouraged to get a group together for a social at Deserts, the Falafel Oasis (eatery). Ask the NIFTY regulars. It's at 905 Commercial Drive (just south of Venables Street), Vancouver, BC. They have a nice outdoor deck, too. Several whole-food dishes, including brown rice; medium-large portions; all vegetarian. Try to arrive before 10 pm. If Deserts has closed for the night, you could go to Falafel Paradise (Taste of Paradise) 5 blocks south in the small food fair at 1399 Commercial Drive, Vancouver. See news article in Section 15, below. Another option is Knight and Day Restaurant, 3684 Lougheed Highway (east extension of East Broadway, at Boundary Road, southwest corner, Vancouver, BC (open all night).* Cycling to Templeton Pool: —Adanac Street is an adjacent bicycle route east-west, just south of the pool. —From the north or south, take Lakewood Drive Bike-way to the 700-block Lakewood Drive, at Templeton Secondary School, then 1 block east, around the school. www.translink.ca/en/Cycling/Cycling-Routes.aspx . Public transit options to go to the pool: —From downtown Vancouver, BC, or from Dunbar Street, take #7 "Nanaimo Station" bus. It goes east from downtown, then turns south onto Nanaimo Street for a short distance. Get off on Nanaimo Street at Turner or Adanac Streets, then go right (west) 2 blocks. —From downtown Vancouver, or Granville Street or Arbutus Street, take #10 Hastings bus or #16 "29th Avenue Station" bus east on Hastings Street. Go 3 blocks past Victoria Drive to Templeton Drive. Get off the bus and go right (south) 4 short, level blocks. —From North Burnaby, PNE area, Ironworkers' Second Narrows Bridge, or south-east Vancouver, take #10 Downtown or Granville, #16 Arbutus, or #130 bus going west on East Hastings Street in Vancouver or Burnaby. Get off at Templeton Drive (just west of Nanaimo Street) and go left (south) 4 short, level blocks. —From Nanaimo Station take #7 Dunbar bus (on Nanaimo Street) north to Adanac Street, then go left (west) 2 level blocks. —Other options from the west side of Vancouver are to go east on #9 Broadway bus or #25 Brentwood Station bus (on King Edward Avenue) to Nanaimo Street. Then take #7 Dunbar bus north, as above. —SkyTrain (Expo Line) to Nanaimo Station, then #7 Dunbar bus (on Nanaimo Street) north to Adanac Street. Get off the bus and go left (west) 2 level blocks. —SkyTrain (Millennium Line) from the east to Renfrew Station. Take #16 Arbutus bus north to East Hastings Street. There it turns left (west). Continue a very short while on East Hastings Street just past Nanaimo Street to Templeton Drive. Get off the bus and go south (left) for 4 short, level blocks. 2 other bus options, which include a walk 5 long blocks uphill: —#20 Victoria bus south (on Commercial Dr.) to Frances Street. To the right (east) go 5 blocks (Frances Street becomes Turner Street) to Templeton Drive, then south 1 block. —#20 Downtown bus north (on Commercial Dr.) to Venables Street. To the right (east) go 5 blocks to Templeton Drive, then north 2 blocks. Driving via the confusing 1-way and blocked streets around the pool: —From downtown Vancouver via East Hastings Street. Go past Victoria Drive to Templeton Drive. Turn right (south) and go 3 blocks to Turner Street. Turn left (east) and go one block to Garden Drive. Turn right (south) and go one block to the parking lot at the east end of the park (if it is still open). Or skip that parking lot, continue another block south to Adanac Street and turn right (west). Go one block to the other parking lot, which is to the south-west of the pool. —From downtown via the Georgia Viaduct. The viaduct empties onto Venables Street. Continue east to Templeton Drive. Turn left and go north 2 blocks, which is into the south parking lot. —From the east, go west on East Hastings Street to Nanaimo Street. Turn left (south) and go 3 to 5 blocks to Turner Street (3 blocks), East Georgia Street (4 blocks), or Adanac Street (5 blocks). Turn right (west) and go one block to Garden Drive. At East Georgia and Garden is the parking lot at the east end of the park (if it is still open). Or skip that parking lot and go west from Garden Drive on Adanac Street one more block west to Templeton Drive. Turn right (north), into the other parking lot, which is to the south-west of the pool. Parking: free parking just east of the pool (if it is still open) and south-west of the pool, or in the surrounding residential area. NIFTY indoor swims at Renfrew Pool. (Other clubs use it sometimes, too.) (For Templeton Pool instead, see above.) 2929 East 22nd Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Nude-optional. Small "wallet lockers" for valuables are in the hall near the cashier. They are big enough for wallets, keys, watches, jewelry, eyeglasses, etc.; ~ 7 x 8 x 14 cm (the size of each of those little lockers). Insert 25¢. Perhaps all the new clothes lockers, on the other hand, do not lock except with a padlock you bring. They might have some lockers left which require 50¢, which is not refunded; or other lockers which require 25¢, which is refunded. Pool 25 m long, 68 cm to 3.4 m deep; slide (~165 cm high); diving board (~1 m high). The "bubble pit" corner of the pool has water jets and is 68 cm deep (same temperature as rest of pool). Indoor air 24°Celsius; pool 28 / 29°C; hot tub with jets 40 / 41°C; sauna 90°C. Maps: www.club.skinnydipper.ca has links to maps and TransLink route planner. Cycling: —From the Slocan Street bicycle route (north-south), turn east at East 22nd Street and go 2 blocks to Renfrew Street. —From the Earles Street and East 29th Avenue bike route (east-west mostly), turn north at Nootka Street or Renfrew Street and go north 7 blocks to East 22nd Avenue. Public transit options: —From the north, #16 "29th Avenue Station" bus southbound to East 22nd Avenue. On that avenue, go 1/2 block east to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —From the south, #16 Arbutus bus northbound to East 22nd Avenue. On that avenue, go 1/2 block east to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —From the west, #25 Brentwood Station (eastbound) to Renfrew Street and East 22nd Avenue. On that avenue, go 1/2 block east to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —From the east, #25 UBC (westbound) to Renfrew Street and East 22nd Avenue. On that avenue, go 1/2 block east to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —SkyTrain (Expo Line) to Nanaimo Station, then #25 Brentwood Station bus north, then east, to Renfrew Street. Then go 1/2 block east on East 22nd Avenue to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —SkyTrain (Expo Line) to 29th Avenue Station, then #16 Arbutus bus north to East 22nd Avenue. Then go 1/2 block east on East 22nd Avenue to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). —SkyTrain (Millennium Line) to Renfrew Station, then #16 29th Avenue Station bus 8 blocks south to East 22nd Avenue. Then go 1/2 block east on East 22nd Avenue to the address, 2929, which is on your left (north side of the street). Driving: —From the west (and north) on the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), exit this freeway onto Boundary Road, the north-south boundary between Vancouver and Burnaby. Continue south on Boundary 10 blocks to East 22nd Avenue. Turn right (west) and go 7 blocks to Nootka Street. Turn right (north), go one block and then turn left (west) into the parking lot. —From the east on the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), exit this freeway in west-central Burnaby onto Grandview Highway. Continue on Grandview about 11 blocks west (crossing into Vancouver) to Rupert Street. Turn left (south) and go 9 blocks to East 22nd Avenue. Turn right and go 3 blocks to Nootka Street. Turn right (north), go one block and then turn left (west) into the parking lot. —From downtown Vancouver, go east on Cordova Street (which becomes Dundas Street), on Hastings Street, or on Georgia Street (which feeds onto Venables Street). Continue to Renfrew Street. Turn right (south) and go to East 22nd Avenue. Turn left (east) and go one block to Nootka Street. Turn left (north), go one block and then turn left (west) into the parking lot. (Or via Kingsway, as below.) —From Kingsway, turn north on Earles Street. Go 7 blocks to East 29th Avenue, where Earles goes a bit left and feeds into Nootka Street. Continue north on Nootka another 7 blocks to East 22nd Avenue. Cross 22nd, go one more block north, and then turn left (west) into the parking lot. Parking: free parking, some of it under cover, is just east of the pool. Enter parking from Nootka Street (the north-south street just east of the pool) one block north of East 22nd Avenue and to the west. Dates in calendar above. Other information as at all Vancouver swims: see above in Section 6.1. NIFTY promotes the nude and topfree options everywhere. The letters in NIFTY stand for Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke. An iconoclast is one who smashes inanimate icons or idols—especially those which mislead the people. An iconoclast might also be a person who discredits people who are idolised or obeyed undeservedly. Icons and idols include cherished lies and selfish leaders and celebrities. The yoke, a work collar for oxen, is a symbol of enslavement. At events are usually a wide selection of goods (promoting nudity) for sale at low prices, including shirts promoting nudity (irony!) for 15$ each, stickers, books, DVDs, etc. Telephone not in service. E-mail to arrange a telephone conversation. mail [insert a with a circle round it] niftynude [dot] org amoropako [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] ca www.niftynude.org . See note at the top of this entry--and news article in Section 15 below. Contact c/o NFIRC (your editor). 6.6 Giving All Ladies Sanctuary (GALS) Women-only clothing-optional swim-spa events. Planning for 2016 May, Sunday, 7:15-9:30 pm. 9$ for entry or discount. We think you’re beautiful, inside and out, and would love to see you join other women in celebration and appreciation of yourself! A non-sexual and safe event! Join us in a relaxing and accepting retreat from everyday life and enjoy a hot-tub, swimming pool, and sauna! At a public pool in Vancouver, with only female lifeguards. In Facebook G.A.L.S. www.facebook.com/groups/791846320960071/?fref=ts. Section 7. INDOOR SWIM-SPA DETAILS British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland (including Vancouver Island, the BC Interior, etc. For IN the Lower Mainland, see Section 6 above) As listed in the calendar in Section 4 on the previous page, the following 4 periodic "swims" (with spas) are presented by 4 nudist groups at usually 4 indoor pools per month, mostly in the cooler months: — Gibsons, Sunshine Coast, BC: see Skinnydipper in Section 6.3, above. (Started 2010 April 24, now suspended.) — Saanich (suburb of Victoria), southern Vancouver Island, BC: see Arbutus Park Club in Section 9.2, below. — Kelowna, in BC Interior: see Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society in Section 9.2, below. — Kamloops, in BC Interior: see Cariboo Nudist Society in Section 9.2, below. Those 4 above are probably similar to the ones in the Vancouver area, described in Section 6.1, above, except as noted. (Tell us if you know otherwise.) Our exclusive temperature comparison chart and fee comparison chart are both at the end of Section 6.1 above. Section 8. LANDED GROUPS "Landed" means that the group has land (that is, grounds and/or building premises) for their exclusive use. See also non-landed groups in Section 9, below. Van Tan Nudist Club (VT) See this club and Van Tan Swim Club in Section 6.2, above. Happy Campers Hideaway (HCH) A new rural resort on an old country farm. RV hook-ups, camping, converted barns, roofed kitchen, swimming pond, paddle boat, water volleyball, grass volleyball, badminton, horseshoes, bocce ball, snooker. Showers. Hot tub 38 or 37°C (body temperature) or as management alters. For events here sponsored by FVNC, see calendar (above, near top) and details about FVNC in Section 9.1, below. By motor vehicle, ~30 minutes from the Trans-Canada Highway; ~1 hour east of Vancouver, BC. 12738 Ainsworth Street, Mission, BC. Telephone 604-826-8891, hchwwolf [insert a with a circle round it] telus [dot] net [does not work?] hchwwolf [insert a with a circle round it] pocketmail [dot] com www.fvnc.ca/Happy%20Campers%20Page.html . Sunny Trails Club (STC) Closed temporarily. Affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (both in Section 14, below). In the area called Lake Errock, east of the town of Mission, BC. Formerly in Surrey, BC. Clubhouse, bed and breakfast rooms, trailer and tent spaces, RV hook-ups. Ask about nude opportunities. Mail: Box 18, 43955 Lougheed Highway, #7, Lake Errock, BC, Canada V0M 1N0. Telephone and fax 604-826-3419. Summer office hours 9:30 am-6 pm, Wednesday-Sunday. www.sunnytrails.uniserve.com www.wcanr.ca/bc_clubs.htm . sunnytrails [insert a with a circle round it] uniserve [dot] com [does not work?] Bare Creek Bed and Breakfast (BCBB) In Surrey, BC, since 2009. The only nude-optional "B&B" in Surrey, BC. Maybe the only one in BC or western Canada. 2 guest rooms, hot tub, games room, etc. Telephone 778-565-7637. www.barecreek.ca . stay [insert a with circle round it] barecreek [dot] ca Sol Sante Nudist Club (SS) The phrase "sol santé" en français means approximately "sun health". Open May to October. Also, special events throughout the year. Sol Sante is affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (both in Section 14, below). Lots of activities and facilities in this relaxed, old, rustic, 70-hectare resort in Cobble Hill, just north of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC. Heated outdoor pool, hot tub. (Temperatures?) SSNC, 3120 Cameron Taggart Road, RR 1, Cobble Hill, BC, Canada V0R 1L0. Telephone 250-743-2400. www.solsante.com . www.solsante.com/Club_Contacts.html www.solsante.com/events (for events). www.solsante.com/Social.html (for events; still working?). www.wcanr.ca/bc_clubs.htm . membership [insert a with circle round it] solsante [dot] com information [insert a with circle round it] solsante [dot] com social [insert a with circle round it] solsante [dot] com solsantesocial [insert a with circle round it] gmail [dot] com . Events are generally for members, affiliated groups, & other authorised people. RSVP is often required. Enquire for confirmation. Below are some of their events, with more on their Web pages and in the calendar in Section 4, previous page. Deer Leap Yoga Spa Retreat (DL) Men only; associated with Skyclad Yoga (see Section 9 below). Body work, yoga, accommodation; individual or group rates. In Metchosin (west of Victoria), southern Vancouver Island, BC. Telephone 250-813-2939. ron (at sign) skycladyoga (dot) com www.deerleapyoga.com . The Art of Loving (AL) A sex store and seminar presenter. They also support non-sexual nudism and nude rights, which is why we mention them here. When this group puts on non-sexual events, we list them in our calendar, on the previous page. Those seminars might refer to sex, but they are not mainly for sexual purposes (unlike their seminars which we do not include, which are overtly sexual). (NFIR certainly is not opposed to sex, but sex is not part of our practice of nudism or of NFIR.) Most events are open to anybody to attend. Some are by donation; others cost money. Many classes fill quickly, so reserve a place soon to avoid disappointment. NEW ADDRESS: 369 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1P8. Telephone 604-742-9988; toll free 1-888-294-1821; fax 604-742-9989. info [at] artofloving [dot] ca . www.artofloving.ca . Register for seminars:www.artofloving.ca/seminars/upcoming-seminars . Affiliated with the Sex Party (below in Section 12). The Vancouver Life Drawing Society at Basic Inquiry Daily sessions for drawing from live nude models. Everyone is welcome, from beginners on. View finished works in the gallery for free. Drop in or become a member. Show your work in our member's gallery. Become a model. Membership 20 to 80$ per year. Month pass $110. Non-member daily fee $15. Member daily fee 8$50 to 12$. (as of 2011). By transit, Skytrain to "Main Street Science World Station"; then north ~2 blocks on Main. The closest north-south bike route is Quebec Street. The closest east-west bike route is Adanac-Union Street. By car from Downtown, take Georgia Street east to Main Street exit, turn right (south) on Main Street; to 1011 Main Street (on the right or west side). Parking is on Main Street after 7 pm; pay parking at various lots around the block. Telephone 604-681-2855, 1011 Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6A 4L4. [email protected] www.lifedrawing.org Wreck Beach: see WBPS, the first entry in Section 10, below. 9. NON-LANDED GROUPS 9.1. In the Lower Mainland of BC "Non-landed" means that these groups have no grounds on private property. In the past, called "travel clubs". Skinnydipper Recreation Club (SD) See above, in Section 6.3. Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY) See above, in Section 6.5, last sub-section. Surfrider Foundation (SF) They hold beach clean-ups at beaches, including Wreck Beach. They launched their Blue Water Task Force in 2011 September. The Vancouver Chapter is tracking Enteroccocus pollution at Wreck Beach and 2 non-nude beaches: Kits Beach and English Bay. Mentioned on CBC 2011 March 26. They seem to be mostly surfers who promote the environmental protection of various beaches, coasts, and oceans. Chapters around the world. www.surfridervancouver.org Fraser Valley Naturist Club (FVNC) Closed permanently. Surrey's United Naturists (SUN) Mainly concerned with Crescent Rock Beach (CRB) in south-west Surrey, BC. Also Barnston Island's beach. For more about CRB, including directions, see Section 10, Nude beaches, etc. (below). Telephone 604-328-7433, 535-3529. sun [insert a with a circle round it] crescentrockbeach [dot] org sun-assn [insert a with a circle round it] hotmail [dot] com www.crescentrockbeach.org . Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudists (P-CAN) "For gay and bi-sexual men. . . . All male nudists are welcome." Largest nudist club in BC. Since the 1970s. Parties in Vancouver-area nightclubs, homes, bowling alleys, camping, river floating, etc. Nude only, unless otherwise publicised—see their Web publication. Sometimes underwear, etc. is allowed, if so stated. Some events are for members only; some require reservations. P-CAN walked nude in the 2008 Pride Parade (VPS, Sect. 11, below). Membership 30$, for next 365 days after payment. (As of 2010.) Formerly "Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudes". See their calendar (which might include some other clubs' events): http://p-can.org/site/index.php/pcan-event www.p-can.org/events/events.php www.p-can.org . contact [insert a with a circle round it] p-can [dot] org . See also Shadow Falls Camp and WISE Hall: www.shadowfalls.com www.wisehall.ca Club Desnudo (CD) Men only. Moved to Seattle, WA, USA, in 2011. See Sect. 14. Kokoro Dance (KD) —2-week class for those who will dance in the annual nude Butoh Performance at Wreck Beach (below); 5 hours / day; class at Western Front; 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver, BC; each year we create a new butoh; open to all, regardless of experience; in the butoh approach, movement is informed by poetic imagery. 1st year $452; succeeding years $32. —July or August. (If like last year:) Kokoro Dance's Wreck Beach Butoh performance; free; foot of trail 4, below Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, BC. Annual since 1996, fusing Japanese butoh choreography with the majestic landscape of Wreck Beach; all nude dancers (with white make-up) exploring the sand & water. By donation. Rain or shine. No unauthorised photography. This professional dance troupe often performs artistic (as opposed to erotic) dance on indoor stages while nude or near nude. They also perform an annual nude dance outdoors at Wreck Beach. That is usually in July or August during a very low tide on a week-end, rain or shine. Contact them to be one of the performing dancers. (The class costs money.) In 2008, they performed also at Mystic Beach, near Sooke, Vancouver Island, BC. Telephone 604-662-7441. www.kokoro.ca . www.dancevictoria.com/community/index.htm . Espirito Santo Dance (ESD) Dance workshops. Also performances, such as: —TO BE ANNOUNCED. Espirito Santo Dance performances "Magic Carpet Ride" and "Stilling Time" at Towers Beach (Trail 3 of Greater Wreck Beach), 6393 NW Marine Drive, UBC. Workshop tuition 60$. Telephone 778-855-7337. esmauricio [a with a circle round it] hotmail [dot] com . Naked Yoga in the Dark (NYD) Most Saturdays & Sundays, 9 am doors, 9:15-10:15 am ladies class; 10:30 doors for 2nd class; 10:45-11:45 am: open class. Vancouver, BC. Please bring water, towel, yoga mat, and optional blanket. Some parts of the room are darker, as there is natural light that comes in from one side. It’s pretty dark, we should all feel comfortable. The door is locked during the class. Female-identified students may wear panties. Ladies class open to anyone who identifies as female; trans women welcome as well as non-binary. $15 donation; student discount—please enquire. No one turned away for lack of $. E-mail: [email protected] Pacific Bliss Yoga (PBY) Nude-optional yoga classes, open to all, during warm season. Some at Wreck Beach (general beach information in the first entry in Section 10, below.). Started 2010. 15$ or less; possible discount for nudity. --?2013 spring? Re-starting at Wreck Beach, daily 11:30 am - 12:45 pm, plus Hatha Yoga Thursdays 6:30 pm; Yin Yoga Fridays 6:30 pm; except when heavily raining; at Wreck Beach, Vancouver, BC. Directions on the beach: From the bottom of Trail 6, go left (south-east) to the breakwater, by the rose bush. Schedules, class passes, and information at Pacific Bliss Massage & Cafe table. Classes are either right there or at the shore, depending on the tide. www.pacificblissyoga.com NudeState (NdS) Formerly Threadbare Adventures (TA) and incorporating Co-ed Naked Yoga (formerly CNY) Since 2010. Presents nude-only and nude-optional activities in the Vancouver area and Nanaimo for everyone. Yoga classes for all (male and female—teachers and students). Healing, fun, and community. Includes some laughter yoga. (No sex.) Bring mat, towel, and drinking water. Nude-optional. Cost (cash only): 72 or ?75$ in advance for any 6 sessions ( = 12 or 12.50$ each). Or 15$ for an individual session ("drop-in"). —POSTPONED. NudeState's weekly yoga. —NudeState's monthly yoga at Skinnydipper RC's swim at Newton Wave Pool; see Sect. 3, above. -- More information, such as possible cancellations: www.nudestateofmind.com info [insert a with a circle round it] nudestateofmind [dot] com iam_horus [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] ca (still works?) (For male-only yoga, see instead SCY below.) NudeState includesCo-ed Naked Yoga (CNY). Skyclad Yoga (SCY) The Vancouver branch is mostly inactive. (for the Vancouver Island branch, see below in Section 9.2.) Some classes for men only and some co-ed (=male & female). The word "skyclad" is English for "digambara", a Bharati (India) term. It means clad (clothed) with the sky (the air), in other words: "nude". Beginners are welcome who are moderately fit, or better. Bring drinking water, plus mat, towel, or light blanket. Telephone in Vancouver area 604-988-1422. Ron Stewart, Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor, Vancouver Island. Telephone 778-265-2939, 250-813-2939. E-mail (new as of 2014 1 22): ron [insert a with a circle round it] skyclad [dot] ca . www.skyclad.ca www.skycladyoga.com www.deerleapyoga.com Vancouver Naked Yoga Club (VNYC) a.k.a. Nude Dude Yoga Men only, for now. Started because SCY (above group) now is active only near Victoria, BC, and now are inactive in Vancouver. 1st session was 2012 October 6. Men can share their yoga practice, as well as maintain the community ties that we made while Skyclad was offered here in Vancouver. Some sessions will be led by yoga instructors. 10 $ drop-in price for regular sharing sessions; 15 $ for sessions led by an instructor. Discount: 100 $ in advance will buy 120 $ worth of sessions. Bring drinking water, mat, towel, blocks, etc. Someone will greet you at the door 10-10:15 am. Please don't be late, as there won't be anyone to admit you! http://nudedudeyoga.com People's Co-op Bookstore (PCB) —Occasional public readings and launches related to nudity.*? Also, books related to nudity, including Yamauchi's and Grant Lawrence's. Staff are nude-friendly. Co-op owned, long-established. If they have not what you want, ask them to order it. 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC. Telephone and fax 604-253-6442; toll-free telephone 1-888-511-5556. www.peoplescoopbookstore.com . Spartacus Books (SB), bookstore —Occasional public readings related to nudity.*? Progressive; volunteer staff, long-established. If they have not what you want, ask them to order it. 684 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. Telephone 604-688-6138. Monday-Friday 10 am-8:30 pm; Saturday 11 am-7 pm; Sunday noon-7 pm; holidays the same hours. Harbour Publishing (HP), book publisher They have published a humour book (2010 September) which has at least one story about nudism. It is by Grant Lawrence, Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound; paperback; 288 pages; 27$; Harbour Publishing Co.; 978-1550175141. http://grantlawrence.ca/writing . Telephone 604-883-2730; toll-free order line 1-800-667-2988. Fax 604-883-9451; toll-free fax 1-877-604-9449. 4437 Rondeview Road P.O. Box 219 Madeira Park, BC, Canada V0N 2H0. info [at] harbourpublishing [dot] com . www.harbourpublishing.com . Exposure Gallery (EG) Closed for now; future uncertain. Formerly at ~754 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC. Telephone 604-688-9501. exposuregallery [insert a with a circle round it] shaw [dot] ca www.exposure-gallery.com (seems not working). www.exposuregallery.ca (seems not working). Gallery Fourteen (G14) This art gallery had a big show of nude art 2008 February. 614 Columbia Street (near 6th Street?), New Westminster, BC. Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm; Sunday noon - 5 pm. Telephone 604-519-1815. www.galleryfourteen.com . melissa [insert a with a circle round it] galleryfourteen [dot] com . Raelian Movement (RM) A world-wide UFO religion. Supports topfreedom with annual "Topless Day" activities in Vancouver and outside BC. Men can wear red bikini tops to show that if women have to hide themselves, men should have to, also. Monthly gatherings, video showings. Telephones 604-721-2516, toll-free 1- 866-302-3131. www.gotopless.org/gotopless-day www.raelcanada.org canada [insert a with a circle round it] rael [dot] org infofollowup [insert a with a circle round it] rael [dot] org Burning Man Vancouver (BMV) and Burn BC (BBC) A group of BC people who attend or promote Burning Man Festival, an annual radical art and nude-optional festival in Nevada, USA, and create local BC events. Advance tickets. Your NFIR editor has heard of dangers at the Nevada event related to psycho-active substances. (See also below, Section 14, sub-section "Outside of BC", #4.) -- —TENTATIVE 2013 Labour Day week, Monday-Monday. Burning Man Festival, Nevada, USA. See also news article, below, in Section 15. (near the end of the section). http://burnintheforest.com/ (BC) bmvan [insert a with a circle round it] yahoogroups [dot] com (BC) www.burningman.com (Nevada, USA). Captain Under Pants on CJMP (CU) A weekly radio programme. Listen on the Internet or Shaw cable, etc., from the Lower Mainland or elsewhere. From Powell River, BC. See more: Section 9.2 below. Vancouver International Fringe Festival (VIFF) An annual festival of live plays. In past years, there were often several plays with nudity, sometimes of the nudist variety. Some audiences are restricted by age. In 2010, a computer search found the word "nudity" on their e-programme only once. It is maybe in a sexual context rather than a nudist context. The play with nudity is Capital, Alice!, for adults only. Please tell us know any more you know about the nudity in that play—or of nudity or topfree (or discussion thereof) in any other VIFF play. —TENTATIVE 2014 September. VIFF, Vancouver, BC.*? Most VIFF events are on or near Granville Island, which is under the Granville Bridge, on the south shore of False Creek, and adjacent to southern downtown Vancouver. Office: 1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8. Telephone 604-257-0350, f604-253-1924. www.vancouverfringe.com Required membership 5$. Tickets: https://tickets.vancouverfringe.com/TheatreManager/1/online Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) Had a nudist film in 2010 summer. Any nudism (?) in: —TENTATIVE 2014 August. VQFF.* www.queerfilmfestival.cawww.queerfilmfestival.ca/ viewshowtime.php?stid=428 * Look Nude Film Festival International of Vancouver (LNFF) A Royal Canadian Bare Farce! Get in on the "ground floor"! We need organisers to plan our first festival. The festival name has a triple meaning: encouraging you to live less vicariously by (1) looking at nude people. (2) while actually nude yourself (optional). (3) The phrase "look nude" also slyly hints at looking as if you are nude when you are not. We'll have a discussion after each work screened. We could show film, videos, DVDs, television shows, etc.; mainstream and alternative; comedy, drama, and documentaries; new and old; long and short. However, we will not show erotic or violent material. Please e-write to korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Nude-friendly female federation (Nfff) Group inactive and unnamed as of yet. Events could be held for females and possibly their young children. If you want such events, NFIR will help you get started. Contact editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Young adult faction (Yaf) A new faction might form within the nude-friendly movement in BC. They could hold events. Maybe they'll use social media, such as Nudist Clubhouse: www.nudistclubhouse.com . (For which, see Section 13, below.) You young adults had better quit slacking off and do it! So far, none of you are willing to do a bit of work. If you are 18 to 39 years old, please sign up c/o your editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Nudism in performance (Nip) Erotic and supposedly erotic nudity is common in performances, but it's usually brief, often a matter of 2 or 3 seconds at a time, in many movies. This page is not about that. Liberating, non-erotic nudity is very occasional in movies and in any other kind of performance or show. When we know of it, we'll include it in this calendar. That can include live plays, art showings, movies, stand-up comedy, concerts, circus acts, sport, performance art, etc. We need the help of you readers to learn of those presentations. Desert Flower. See the movie review in Section 15 below, added 2011 March 19. No known BC showings. If you know of any, please tell us. http://vancouver.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Desert-Flower-Wustenblume.html Puppetry of the Penis tours Canada in 2011. (I'm waiting also for Puppetry of the Vulva.) Babies. See the movie review in Section 15 below. No more known showings in BC. Hair: the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. For instance, somewhere in BC will be a little-advertised performance of Hair that we will miss if you don't inform us of it. We will announce performances of both live productions and movie showings. However, they should not chicken out and censor or fake the nude scene, as they sometimes do. Your editor has seen 2 different stage productions of it in BC. Don't Dress for Dinner. Presented 2011 October in Nanaimo, BC. This is another such popular play to watch out for (and to tell us at NFIRC) when it plays elsewhere. It is a 1992 farce. (French title: Pyjamas Pour Six). Here again, the amount of nudity and near-nudity varies with the particular production. However, even without any total nudity on view, that particular play is worthwhile because it is largely about hilariously skewering society's nudity phobias and prudish customs, and not just in one scene. While adultery is a major theme, too, the erotic aspect of the play is quite minor: it could be made into a movie which would rate a G, even in the Demented States of America, in part because it is such a fluffy farce. (It should be made into a movie, but hasn't been.) Your editor has seen 2 different stage productions of it in BC, one much more visually suggestive of nudity than the other. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Dress_for_Dinner . Adult Child of Hippies. The book signing in Vancouver for the humorous book by that title was not in the nude, unfortunately, but it was fun anyway. It included discussion of nudity, and a few slides of nudity and topfree, but not genital. The author is Willow Yamauchi and the publisher, Insomniac Press of Ontario. The book's number is 978-1-897415-24-5; it has 298 pages and many black-and-white photos. www.insomniacpress.com/title.php?id=978-1-897415-24-5 . Her blog is http://adultchildofhippies.blogspot.com . Naked Girls Reading Sci Fi (and similar events at Beaumont Studios). Women perform in front of (presumably clothed?) audiences. We haven't seen this, which seems to be neo-burlesque, so it's probably sexual. Nevertheless, please inform us how nudist (or not) or enlightened (or not) it is. Admission 15 to 20$. Beaumont Studios, 316 West 5th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Telephone 604-733-3683; http://nakedgirlsreadingscifi.eventbrite.com . Other shows which seem to be nudism-related: Not Now Darling, a play by Ray Cooney and John Chapman. Shirley Valentine, a movie and a play by Willy Russell. Susannah, an opera by Carlisle Floyd. 9.2. In BC outside the Lower Mainland (more non-landed groups) Arbutus Park Club (APC) and Friends of Arbutus Park This club is in the area of Victoria, BC, on the south-eastern tip of Vancouver Island. They are affiliated with the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) and with AANR-WC (both in Section 14, below). Indoor swims The APC indoor nude "swim" season is usually September through April. Swim-spas are usually the third Saturday of the month, as in the calendar (Section 4, on previous page), at Gordon Head Recreation Centre, a rented public pool in Saanich. Admission. By pre-arrangement and registration only. A Friends of Arbutus Park swim membership is 20$ for the swim season, which qualifies you for the 10$ rate at each swim. Non-member invitees admitted for 15$ each event. Minors must be with a parent or legal guardian and are admitted free. New attenders either must be members of one of these: AANR, AANR-WC, NS, FCN, FQN, INF (Section 14, below), or similar recognized nudist organisations, or must be introduced by an Arbutus Park Club or Sol Sante Club member, or must have arranged ahead for an invitation: arbutusparkswim [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] ca or telephone 250-472-1805. From 9:30 pm to 11 pm. Arrive between 9:15 and 9:35 pm. —2014 Feb 15, Mar 15, Apr 19, Saturdays, 7:30-9 pm. Arbutus Park Club social at private home in Saanich, BC (resident dogs) bring a dessert of your choice. —2014 Feb. 15, Mar 15, Apr 19, Saturdays, 9:30-11 pm. APC indoor swim-spa, Gordon Head Recreation Centre, 4100 Lambrick Way (off Feltham Road), Saanich, southern Vancouver Island, BC. Gordon Head RC has: --Main pool (25 metres long), rope swing, climbing wall, slide, stairs, lane swimming. --Leisure-river pool (up to 1 metre deep), bubblers, sprayers, waterfalls. --Wading pool, shallow water. --Hot tub. --Steam room. --Sauna. --Temperatures ________. The club sometimes presents other events, too. When known, they are in the calendar in Section 4 on the previous page. Telephone 250-383-5819. Mail: Arbutus Park Club, P.O. Box 5542, Station LCD9, Victoria, BC, Canada V8R 6S4. www.solsante.com/Arbutus%20Swim.html . For club matters besides the swims, e-mail: arbutuspark [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] ca www.aanr.com ; www.wcanr.ca/bc_clubs.htm . http://arbutusparkclub.com . also 2014 March 15 & April 19. Open to members of Arbutus Park, Friends of Arbutus Park Swim & guests, members of Sol Sante Club & guests, members of recognized nudist organizations, others with prior approval. $10 with a Friends of Arbutus Park Swim membership, & $15 for all others. On-line membership application is optional, but is a great way to save you some money & keep costs down. Members $10, non-members $15: an RSVP by return e-mail is required first. Membership is $20. Please say if you are attending only the swim, or both the swim & social, & how many attending. For approval beforehand to attend: [email protected] ; http://arbutusparkclub.com To travel to the pool from the south, go north on Shelbourne Street, past University Heights Mall on the left, turn right on the 2nd right, Feltham Road, then first left on Lambrick Way. The reception room will be closed, so you might wait in your car. Most arrive ~9:15 from the social. Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society (OSNS) Kelowna, BC, and environs. Affiliated with the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (Section 14, below). Their indoor swims are in most of the cooler months at Parkinson Recreation Centre, 1800 Parkinson Way (off Highway 97 or Spall Road), Kelowna. The pool is 25 m long, with wet and dry saunas, hot tub, children's pool, and "pirate" feature. Temperatures ? —2014 fall. For dates, see calendar in Section 4, previous page. Indoor swims (new fees): 10$ annual dues. 10$ admission for adults. Ask if minors are free with parents, as at Lower Mainland swims (Section 6.1, above). Picnics sometimes at Three Mile Beach in Penticton, BC, (map at Web publication). (3 mi.=~4.8 km) Sometimes other events, too. Check calendar above, Section 4. Telephone 250-260-7833. P.O. Box 20182, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1Y 9H2. www.osns.ca www.osns.ca/cgi/osns/main.pl/swims.html [email protected] Cariboo Nudist Society (CNS) This club seems to be inactive since around 2011. Also called Cariboo Club and Kamloops Cariboo Club. Kamloops, BC, and environs. Affiliated with the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (Section 14, below). Their indoor swims have been in most of the cooler months at Kamloops Westsyde Pool, 859 Bebek Road, Kamloops, BC. When we learn of them, we will put them into our calendar above, in Section 4. The pool is 25 m long; with 6 lanes, hot tub, climbing wall, rope swing, diving board (springy), and water slide. Temperatures ? Indoor swim prices: 8$ CNS members. 9$ members of FCN, AANR, or INF (Section 14). 12$ non-members. Membership fee? Minors might be free with parents, as at Lower Mainland swims, Section 6.1, above. Ask first. Sometimes other events, too. Check calendar, Section 4, above. Telephone 250-318-6844. Fax 250-679-7780. Mail: CNS, RR 2, S 26, C 42, Chase, BC, Canada V0E 1M0. cariboonudistsociety [a with circle round it] yahoo [dot] ca or c/o OSNS (immediately above) or: www.osns.ca/cgi/osns/main.pl/swims.html . Clearwater River Chalet by Wells Gray Provincial Park. Private cabin, go nude if you want. www.wellsgrayparkcabins.com/wells-gray-clearwater-river-chalet.php . Cufra Clifts B&B Thetis Island. Private cabin, go nude if you want. www.thetisisland.net/business/cufracliffs/naturists.html www.thetisisland.net Pacific-Canadian Association of Nudists (P-CAN) For men. Main listing in Section 9.1 above, but some events in the rest of BC, such as in Nanaimo. Kokoro Dance (KD) Main listing in Section 9.1 above but some events in the rest of BC. NudeState (NdS) Main listing in Section 9.1 above, but some events in Nanaimo, BC, and elsewhere. —2015 March?. Bungee Jump; Nanaimo, BC; pre-register. Skyclad Yoga (SCY) Vancouver Island branch (for the Vancouver branch, see above in Section 9.1.) Some classes for men only—and now some new classes are for mixed women & men. (For other co-ed [=male and female] offerings, see the above group.) Vancouver, Victoria, and Metchosin, BC. (Separately in this entry, below, and in the calendar above, Sections 3 and 4.) The word "skyclad" is English for "digambara", a Bharati (India) term. It means clad (clothed) with the sky (the air), in other words: "nude". Beginners are welcome who are moderately fit, or better. Bring drinking water, plus mat, towel, or light blanket. Near Victoria, BC; some classes for women & men; some for men only. Ron Stewart, Certified Hatha Yoga Instructor. Telephone 778-265-2939, 250-813-2939. E-mail (as of 2014 1 22): ron [insert a with a circle round it] skyclad [dot] ca . For pre-registering; more information; dates for which instructors; updates; etc.: www.skyclad.ca www.skycladyoga.com www.deerleapyoga.com Clothing Optional Courtenay (COC) This club, nick-named "The Jaybirds", is in the Courtenay-Comox area of east-central Vanvouver Island, BC. Founded 2011. dj_fossil [a with circle round it] hotmail [dot] com . Burning Man Vancouver (BMV) and Burn BC (BBC) See listing in Section 9.1 above. Captain Under Pants on CJMP (CU) A weekly radio programme with nude songs, poems, discussion, etc. Your host is poet Daniel Rajala. He presents this on CJMP radio while naked, and he streaks around. It has an anarchistic theme, talking about Occupy Wall Street, with music from Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jim Erkiletian, Janette Briere, and Michael Franks to movie soundtracks like "Men in Black". ---Mon, 8:30-10 pm. Captain Under Pants radio CJMP 90.1 FM. Music, anarchy, poetry, naked news, Powell River, BC; Sect. 9.2. 90.1 FM, or 89.1 Shaw, or http://blog.cjmp.ca/listen/ and other ways to listen. Telephone 604-485-0088 and possibly be on the air. First, call while he's playing a record. Broadcast from CJMP, Powell River, BC. Naked Poetry Slam (NPS) Victoria, BC. Information and contact needed for this group. Please tell editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Nanaimo nudes (Nn) Group now forming, unnamed as of yet. Various activities forseen. Nude gardening has been by invitation only. Reach them c/o editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Nude-friendly female federation (Nfff) Main listing in Section 9.1 above but might be active throughout BC. Young adult faction (Yaf) Main listing in Section 9.1 above but might be active throughout BC. Nudism in performance (Nip) Main listing in Section 9.1 above but applies to all of BC. Wreck Beach: see WBPS, the first entry in Section 10, below. 10. NUDE BEACHES and HOT SPRINGS First Nations traditionally expect or respect social nudity in many circumstances. Please respect them and their territories: almost all of so-called British Columbia. About 95% of ocean, river, creek, lake, and pond coasts in "BC" are nude-friendly. That's because when you and your friends get there—no one else is there! That often happens, even at some hot springs. Ocean tides: www.waterlevels.gc.ca/cgi-bin/tide-shc.cgi . Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS) —Take a Walk on the Wild Side. http://web.me.com/photoboots/Take_a_Walk_on_the_Wild_Side _2011/Welcome.html & Section 10 below. www.planning.ubc.ca/vancouver_home/consultations/landuseplan_publichearing.php Amendment 4.1.1 c: "To consider the visual effects of campus buildings on views from Wreck Beach, any proposed project located either in the area west of Lower Mall between Memorial Road and the southern edge of the west parkade Building #900 or, in the area west of West Mall between Biological Sciences Road and Stadium Road, and that is taller than 30 m above existing grade, is required to provide a view analysis as part of UBC’s project review process." This does not say they won’t build to 18+ storeys ; it merely says they will provide a view analysis! And it addresses high rises north of Trail 6 only. That makes Totem Field fair game! Do please gently recall that their view analysis of the marine towers which are now highly visible, especially in winter, was in error for the towers and the views from the beach were exactly what our blimp analysis predicted. For more info: home/fax 604-856-9598; or cell phone 604-308-6336. Judyw [at] wreckbeach [dot] org . The WBPS is affiliated with the Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) (Section 14, below). Wreck Beach is one of the most popular and well-known nude beaches in the world. It is at Ulksen (or Ulksun) in Coast Salish, which the invaders call Point Grey. The Coast Salish People have sovereignty here. The invader governments classify an 8-km stretch of the coast to be within Pacific Spirit Regional Park, which surrounds the University of British Columbia (UBC). The beach is defended by the WBPS against constant attempts to cover it with a road, develop it physically for invader commerce, destroy the naturalness, reduce the nudity, etc. The WBPS presents many events listed in the calendar, mostly in the summer, but also including year-round meetings, the WBSC indoor swims (autumn through spring), indoor dances, etc. Trail 7 leads to a part of Wreck Beach preferred mostly by gay men. To get there by bus, take the little C68 bus from the UBC loop to Stadium Road and Marine Drive. Walk right (north) on Marine Drive to the first road on the left: Old Marine Drive. Walk south on that drive to the head of Trail 7. There is also some free parking there. Jane's Walk. A second Jane's Walk will be announced. Explore the flora, fauna, geology, and rich ethnographic and cultural history of a selected stretch of the 7.8-kilometre long Wreck Beach. Judy Williams is the chair of the Wreck Beach Preservation Society. As this will be along a sand and cobble beach and the weather might be wet, wear suitable footwear and dress accordingly. Birders might wish to bring their binoculars, and proper beach etiquette should be observed, especially with regard to photography. Not wheelchair accessible. Registrants will be notified of starting location. Jane's Walk is held simultaneously in cities across Canada and other countries around the world. Inspired by Jane Jacobs and her belief that in order to know your city "you have to get out and walk." http://jw10wreckbeachwalkonthewildside1.eventbrite.com/ The invaders' park authority designated greater Wreck Beach "clothing optional" around 1989, from Acadia Beach (see below) west and south to and beyond Trail 7. That designation includes Towers Beach (contrary to Chris Gudgeon's otherwise-good book, The Naked Truth). Lawsuit in 2004 against UBC: "UBC, Nudists Duel in the Sand" by Tyler Hopson: foes of planned towers above Wreck Beach fear the cliffs eroding; 2004 June 7. http://thetyee.ca/News/2004/06/07/UBC_Nudists_Duel_in_the_Sand/ Buses: Take any bus that goes to the UBC Bus Loop, as below. Bus 99 is quite fast. —West on 4th Avenude: 4, 44, 84, 258. —West on Broadway and 10th Avenude: 9, 17, 99, N17. —West on King Edward and 25th Avenude, etc: 25. —West on 41st Avenude: 41, 43, 480. —West on 49th Avenude: 49. Then, from the UBC Bus Loop, either walk to Marine Drive or take the C20 Marine Drive / UBC Loop bus to Marine Drive, which probably still continues until ~9:20 pm or later. It stops just south of the top of Trail 6 at 30-minute intervals (as of 2013 December 16). Map: www.wreckbeach.org/images/wblocal.gif . Your help is needed for the WBPS. Attend meetings, government hearings, fun fund-raisers, etc. Get on the WBPS e-announcement list: judyw [insert a with a circle round it] wreckbeach [dot] org or check frequently: www.wreckbeach.org . WBPS, Box 602, Delta, BC, Canada V4K 4J7. Telephones 604-856-9598, 604-273-6950. www.wreckbeach.org . judyw [insert a with a circle round it] wreckbeach [dot] org . An auxiliary of WBPS is the Wreck Beach Swim Club (WBSC), which offers indoor swims: see Sections 6.1 and 6.4, above. See also the book Wreck Beach by Carellin Brooks, from New Star Books, in Section 11, below. The book is not written, published, sold, or endorsed by the WBPS. Acadia Beach (AB) This beach is a stretch of greater Wreck Beach (see above), between Towers Beach (nude) and Spanish Banks West Beach (textile). All of those are north-east of Ulksen (Point Grey). AB is good for people less physically able, because the trail is very short and gentle. The beach itself is soft sand with some logs and rocks. Directions to Acadia Beach: Starting from the top of Trail 6 (the main trail to Wreck Beach), go north on Marine Dr. (the main road around UBC) to the big intersection of Chancellor Blvd. and Marine Dr. Turn left. Continue north, then curving east on NW Marine Dr., which goes downhill. As the road curves right, almost to sea level, there's a small dirt parking lot on the left. It adjoins the beach. Directions from beaches to the east (Jericho Beach, Kitsilano, etc.): go west on West 4th Avenue, which turns into NW Marine Dr., winding past popular clothed beaches. After you pass Spanish Banks West Beach, you'll see many trees on the right, before the uphill stretch of Marine Dr. On the right there is a small parking lot adjoining the beach. Bus to Acadia Beach: The buses along 4th Avenude (above) and that little C20 bus are the ones which go a bit closer to this part of the beach. Ask the driver if they can let you off at Chancellor Boulevard and Wesbrook. Then walk northwest on Wesbrook to Marine Drive, then east on Marine. Might take you about 15 minutes. If the C20 won't stop there, ask for Marine Drive and Chancellor Boulevard, then walk east on Marine. Metro Vancouver (MV) (The district, not the newspaper) Formerly named Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) This regional government district encompasses the Lower Mainland, approximately. It is a ruling body of the invader government. It meets monthly with the WBPS (the above listing) to co-operate on matters of mutual concern. —Usually third Thursday of the month, starting at 6 or 7 pm (sometimes 8 pm in summer): Metro Vancouver (MV) monthly meetings with WBPS, free; for dates and locations, etc., see calendar at top.* Meetings, until further notice, at Airport Square building, #130-1200 W. 73rd Ave. (foot of Hudson Street), Vancouver. That is near the north foot of the Oak Street Bridge (which connects Vancouver and Richmond), facing west (toward Arthur Laing Bridge). Heavy traffic in area. Nudist Boat-Pool and Car-Pool (NBC) (formerly Nude Beach Boat-Pool - NBB) A free matching service for people in BC. Boat-pool To connect those who: 1. Have watercraft to transport one or more nudists. 2. Want a ride to or from a beach to go nude, especially if disabled. Especially for Wreck Beach. Vessels could be sail boats, row boats, canoes, kayaks, power boats, etc. Please always use float-vests, even when naked otherwise! And sail sober! Car-pool To connect those who: 1. Have a land vehicle to transport one or more nudists. 2. Want a ride to or from a nude event or site. (For instance, your editor would like a ride from Vancouver to try the nude swims in Kelowna and Kamloops, BC.) Please drive sober. Such trips could be one-way or both ways. It could be free, for barter, etc.—whatever you arrange. Could be for topfree activities, too. Arrange trips as far ahead as possible, please. No guarantees of a match or of satisfaction. For service, e-write to korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Crescent Rock Beach (CRB) Used nude since ~1957 (and earlier) unofficially. In south-west Surrey around Kwomais Point. 6.5 km long: south from Crescent Beach (in south-west Surrey), then east to White Rock. For nudity, use any shore out of sight of trains and of passers-by on paths above the beach. Sometimes around a dozen nudists-naturists on a good day. 3 main naturist areas: 1. Most-used part: from Crescent Beach, walk south 10 min.; or from west end of 24th Ave., descend "101 Steps", then south 200 m (just south of the giant Crescent Rock Boulder) and around the next point (another 200 m — until sand ends and shore is seen from tracks). 2. From Ocean Park area of Surrey, go west on 15A Avenue to its end. Descend "1001 Steps". Walk north 500 m to railway marker "126 mile" (=203 km); many raised beds built above high tide. 3. From White Rock, go south on 140th Street = Nichol Road. Respect parking rules. Continue to end, Terry Road, then left (east) 1 block to stairs. Descend to beach, then 1 km right (west) to railway marker "124 Mile" (=200 km) on tracks, just inside Surrey. Use next 1.6 km of beach. Buses: Routes 351, 352, C50, and C51. See Surrey's United Naturists (SUN) in Section 9.1 Non-landed groups, above. Third Beach Topfree (3BT) Some women have made the north end of Third Beach in Stanley Park into a popular topfree area for everyone, as of 2009. (People are not nude there.) Some of them are connected to Burning Man Vancouver (Section 9.1 above). Third Beach is on the west coast of Stanley Park, which is in north-central Vancouver, BC. Theoretically, all public places are topfree as much for women as for men in Canada, although that is practiced seldom by females. See legality, below, in Section 11, TERA. Contact c/o Burning Man Vancouver (above, in Section 9.1): bmvan [insert a with a circle round it] yahoogroups [dot] com . Third Beach Topfree (3BT) Some women have made the north end of Third Beach in Stanley Park into another popular topfree area. Some of them are connected to Burning Man Vancouver (Section 9.1 above). Theoretically, all public places are topfree as much for women as for men in Canada, although that is practiced seldom by females. See legality, see above, in Section 11, TERA. Prior Lake Club (PL) Prior Lake has a long-established unofficial nude beach section. The lake is west of Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC, and north-east of Thetis Lake in Thetis Lake Park. We at NFIRC need a contact for them. In the meantime, ask Arbutus Park Club in Section 9, Non-landed groups, above. Map: www.crd.bc.ca/parks/documents/thetis_lake_web_map.pdf . Little Tribune Bay (LTB) Hornby Island. Long-time, small, unofficial, nude beach on the east central coast of Hornby Island (off the east central coast of Vancouver Island). Ferry via Buckley Bay and Denman Island. No cars on ferry. Sandy, small round-gravel. Close to co-op camping. Contact needed. Please e-write to: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Barnston Bare Beach (BBB) This traditionally-nude river beach has activists trying to protect it. See SUN in Section 9.1 (above) to defend it. Ferry: Directions: on the east end of Barnston Island, take the free ferry to the west side of the island. Barnston Island Ferry crosses Parsons Channel on the south side of the Fraser River between Barnston Island (north bank of channel) and Port Kells (south bank of channel) in the northeast corner of Surrey at the foot of 104th Avenue. It runs on demand, Mon – Thurs 6:15 a.m. – 11:55 p.m., and Fri – Sun 6:15 a.m. – 12:55 a.m. Service might be slowed by river traffic. Crossing time is 5 minutes. The capacity is 5 vehicles and 52 passengers. Operated by Western Pacific Marine, telephone 604-681-5199. Chesterman Beach (CB) This long-nude beach is on the north end of Pacific Rim National Park encompassing Long Beach. On the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC, between Tofino and Ucluelet. Park rangers will direct nudists there, probably to keep us nudists from being nude elsewhere. By land, from east, via Port Alberni, BC. Update: The nude area might be moved to Florencia Bay, or that might be an additional nude beach. Red Sands Beach (RS) Nude beach near Nelson, BC. Also, camping is there, reportedly. 3 Mile Beach (3M) Nude beach north of Penticton, BC. Contact OSNS (Section 9.2 above), which sometimes goes there. (3 miles = 4.8 km) Nipple Point Beach (NP) 4 km east of Canoe by Salmon Arm, BC. Occasionally nude. Rocky. Update on skinny dipping spots: Cedar Creek, Kelowna, BC, on east side of lake. Kamloops, BC, south side of the river and south of the airport. North-West Hot Springs (NWHS) Nude-friendly hot springs in BC and in the USA's Pacific North-West. For the ones in BC: www.nwhotsprings.net/british_columbia.htm . Clothing Optional BC (COBC) (In practice, clothing optional means the same as nude optional, but using the latter allows us to eschew that dreaded word "clothing".) http://members.shaw.ca/co-bc . 11. FREEDOM AMONG TEXTILES (and miscellaneous groups) The teasing nick-name "textiles" means people who wear textile (or other attire) socially to hide their genitals, breasts, bums, etc. So this section "freedom among textiles" includes possibilities for being nude or topfree non-commercially and non-offencively among clothed people, including when not expected. For topfreedom, see also --RM, Section 9.1, above. --3BT, Section 10, above. The first 8 entries below relate to topfreedom, including: --Topfree swims. --Dykes on Bikes. --CFOX Radio. --Vancouver Folk Music Festival. --Take Back the Night. Topfree Equality Rights Association (TERA) Association du droit égal aux seins nus Your equal right to remove your top in public and bare your chest, regardless of your sex, is legally established in BC, Ontario, and Manitoba, but denied in Saskatchewan. That is a return to First Nations custom—and a great boon to breastfeeding. Places includes beaches, parks, pools, sidewalks, your own property, and some private businesses and premises open to the public. Wherever one sex can bare their chests in public sight, so can the other, according to the courts. See equal rights section of the Canadian Constitution. (Web site?) (Such rights are established also in parts of the USA: California coast; San Francisco, CA; New York state; Hawaii; Maine; Ohio; Texas; Washington, DC; etc. Europe and Australia are generally much more advanced on this.) Even if the authorities illegally harass you, if you're calm and respectful, they'll generally give you just a warning so that you can avoid arrest, fines, etc. Then you either cover up or wait while they check with their supervisors and illegally detain you. In BC, cite the court case Maple Ridge vs. Meyer, 2000 June 8 www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb%2Dtxt/sc/00/09/s00%2D0902.htm . 2000 BCSC 902, Docket # A 972072, Registry Vancouver. The case document is also at: www.tera.ca/legal.html#Meyer . For problems with Vancouver city parks staff at beaches, parks, pools, community centres, etc., cordially remind them of the letter that all staff got from the parks department. That letter (approximately 2000 June) instructed their staff to comply with that court ruling. We have a report of occasional topfree at Kitsilano Beach. Breastfeeding while hiding most of your breasts is even less likely to draw illegal and immoral harassment (from the authorities and others). If you are bolder, though, you'll enhance your rights and increase your mother-child love by letting your child see more and feel more of you, which also lets your child learn your pride. Mail: TERA, Box 81128 FGPO, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada L9G 4X1. Telephone 905-304-4836 (Ontario). www.tera.ca topfree [insert a with a circle round it] tera [dot] ca topfree [insert a with a circle round it] topfree [dot] ca . Topfree swims (Ts) Theoretically, all public swims are topfree in Canada, although that is practiced seldom by females. That legal precedent was set in BC in 2000 June 8 (see TERA, in this section, adjacent entry, above). To attend one at which you will be topfree with other females besides yourself (to avoid problems), or to organise such, ask women in various groups listed herein--or ask c/o your editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . See also 3BT (Section 10) for a new topfree beach. Dykes on Bikes (DB) A group of lesbian motor-bikers. Some of them ride topfree in: —2014 TBA, Saturday, noon. DB lead the V. Dyke March. —2014 TBA, Sunday, noon. DB lead the Pride Parade (VPS, this section, above). (They might welcome topfree non-motorised cyclists also.) See also TERA, in this section, above. http://bykedykes.vancouverleather.com . (seems not working; update needed) Trans Pride Vancouver (TPV) Trangender people and their allies, friends, and fans, come to the parade! Created By Tami Cosmic. www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180463212013842 http://transpridevancouver.wordpress.com/ transpridevancouver [at] gmail [dot] com —2014 TBA. TPV's Trans Celebration & Liberation March; transgender & allies; topfree!; route TBA. Take Back the Night (TBN) Night march in the street of feminist women who insist that women should be free and safe, including outside and at night. The last one was in 2005. Occasionally some of the marchers are topfree. In the Vancouver, BC, area. Past marches have been in the autumn. Men are invited to stand at the sidelines in solidarity. —TO BE ANNOUNCED. Take Back the Night march. Presented by Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter. www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/events/index.html#tbtn . Vancouver Folk Music Festival (VFMF) Large, progressive, annual event. Music and booths are both inside the fenced area (paid admission) and outside, in an area with no admission charge, to the northwest. Usually some women are topfree, inside and out. See TERA, at the top of this section. www.thefestival.bc.ca . --TENTATIVE 2014 mid-July, Friday-Sunday. NFIR topfree booth (not nude but promoting topfreedom, nudity, & books) outside north-west fence of Vancouver Folk Music Festival at the beach (free—if you stay outside the paid zone); Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC. A pro-nude (possibly topfree) booth might be in the paid zone, too; some women traditionally are topfree throughout the festival. Contact: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . CFOX 99.3 FM Radio Commercial radio station CFOX 99.3 FM started their Annual Topless Train-ride of Fun in 2007. I guess they haven't heard that the liberated term is now "topfree". Their second one, 2008 March 14, was busted by the Vancouver Police. See news story below in Section 15, News. They have not responded to our requests for information about 2009 or later events. If you know, please tell us. They invite everyone to ride topfree with them. Promoted on the station's Jeff O'Neil programme, weekdays 6-10 am. They say "Prizes for the loveliest and most creative people!" That and other things on Jeff's Web pages indicate that maybe they need us nudists and topfrees to teach them a bit more liberation, so they can be less sleazy. However, let's hope for the best. See TERA entry, above. Cost to attend is only the usual 3-zone transit fare or pass. www.cfox.com . Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) Celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transvestite, questioning, etc. people (LGBTTQ). Annual July or August parade (might be the biggest parade of any kind in BC). To walk nude in this public parade, men can contact P-CAN (Section 9.1, above). In the 2010 parade, a man in another contiguent was nude. Also, some women are topfree in the parade, including some of the Dykes on Bikes. Many other events, too, in addition to the parade, mostly in the week before the parade. www.vancouverpride.ca/event-details.cfm?pageid=30&id=154 . —2014 Aug 3, Sunday, ?noon. VPS Pride Parade (LGBTQ); Dykes on Bikes lead parade, some topfree (this section, below), other occasional topfree throughout, including spectators; ?Robson & ?Burrard, to Denman Street, then to Sunset Beach, West End, Vancouver, BC. World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) Bare as you dare on a bicycle. You need not be completely naked to join this event. Police might arrest you for nudity, a criminal charge, but haven't yet in BC (since 2002). Minors attending would be risky. Nevertheless, topfree is perfectly legal in the ride in BC: see TERA above at the top of this section. Daring nude and near-nude cyclists tour the city together. They get away with it in many cities. Also they use other human-powered vehicles and skates (getting behind because of slowness could be a problem). Often assisted by NIFTY (Section 6.5 above). Register for ride: http://nakedwiki.org/index.php?title=Vancouver www.worldnakedbikeride.org (includes other cities). Telephone 604-537-2044 or 215-9395. To help organize, e-mail Jessica Rabbit: touchmeirock [insert a with a circle round it] gmail [dot] com . The documentary movie about WNBR is called Indecent Exposure to Cars: The Story of the World Naked Bike Ride; rated PG, DVD 15$. For a review, see archives, below, Section 18. www.worldnakedbikeride.org/movie/movie.htm The first Vancouver naked ride was 2002 January 17. The first WNBR was 2004 June 10 in Vancouver. Critical Mass (CM) Usually a clothed group. They have fun, political, group bicycle rides in Vancouver. Many of the same people as WNBR, above. Ocassionally they have had a nude, near-nude, or undergarment theme, etc. for their ride. It will be listed in this calendar when we hear that they will do that. They say that they don't believe in leaders. Route is spontaneous. Many opponents accuse them of unnecessary delays to other traffic. Last Friday of every month, 5:30 p.m., start at Vancouver Artgallery, 850 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC. www.velolove.bc.ca . vancouver [insert a with a circle round it] velolove [dot] bc [dot] ca . KD and ESD moved to Section 9.1 above. New Star Books (NSB) book publisher NSB published Carellin Brooks' book, Wreck Beach, an illustrated guide to Vancouver's world-famous nude beach (Transmontanus series 16). Published in 2007. It includes travel guide, history, how-to, watch-for, interviews, and the prospects for the beach and its defenders. Costs 19$ in most bookstores and at some nude-friendly events and sites. In many public libraries. Banned on BC Ferries by porno-king Jim Pattison's distribution company. One book-seller was banned from selling the book Wreck Beach on Wreck Beach itself! A volunteer freedom-of-the-press lawyer is needed! See about book reviews on Wreck Beach, including by your NFIRC editor, in Section 15, News, below. For more about Wreck Beach, the place, see Wreck Beach Preservation Society in Section 10, first sub-section, above. The WBPS did not write and does not publish, sell, or endorse the book. Another New Star book is City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties. It is a 2010 non-fiction book by Lawrence Aronsen about the 1960s and early 1970s. It includes some discussion of the movement for public nudity. It has about 2 nude and/or topfree illustrations. This book is now in bookstores. Price: 24$. Number 978-155420048-1. http://newstarbooks.com/book.php?book_id=1554200482 . New Star Books, #107 – 3477 Commercial Street (at 18th Avenue), Vancouver, BC V5N 4E8. Telephone 604-738-9429. www.newstarbooks.com info [a with circle round it] newstarbooks [dot] com . Vegan Voices (V V) Some nude and near-nude protests. www.VeganVoices.org . People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) Some nude and near-nude protests. www.peta.org . WildPlay Element Parks (WP) Non-nude adventure park with annual nude bungy jumping. For nudes 45 $ (advance 35 $). Non-nude jumpers 99 $, spectators 15 $, as usual. 18+ years old. To benefit BC Schizophrenic Society charity. Reserve early to avoid disappointment. www.wildplay.com/nakedbungy2012 . 35 Nanaimo River Road (15 minute drive south of Nanaimo), Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC. Mail: Unit C, 485 Garbally Rd., Victoria, BC V8T 2J9. Telephone 250-716-7874; fax 250-755-1196; Toll-free telephone 1-888-716-7374. —TENTATIVE 2015 ?February, Sat, 10 am-February 24, Sun, 5 pm. Naked Bungy Jump for BCSS; 45 $ (or 35 $ in advance; 99 $ clothed; 15 $ spectator); WildPlay Element Parks, 35 Nanaimo River Road, Nanaimo, BC. Other urgent, necessary body freedoms (besides nudity and topfree) Back to Nurture (BN) parenting; Vancouver: www.alternatives.com/backtonurture/ . La Leche League (LLL), mother-to-mother breastfeeding information and support by volunteers. The phrase "la leche" is Español for "the milk". The group was named that because back then the words breastfeeding and suckling were not mentioned in polite company. Leche is pronounced "LEH-cheh" (not "lesh", as in français). Telephones Vancouver 604-520-4623. Victoria 250-727-4384. www.lllc.ca . National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) against male and female genital mutilation. info [insert a with a circle round it] nocirc [dot] org www.nocirc.org . International Coalition for Genital Integrity (ICGI), against male and female mutilation www.icgi.org . Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (in BC with local events) www.can-fap.net . Secular Organization for Sobriety (SOS), non-religious, www.secularsobriety.org . Rational Recovery (RR) from psycho-active drugs (including alcohol); non-religious, www.rational.org . LifeRing, Canada (LR). Secular self-help meetings for recovery from addictive drugs. A non-profit group. Telephone toll-free 1-888-920-2095. Mail: #303 - 575 Vancouver Street, Victoria, BC V8V 3T8. info [a with circle round it] liferingcanada [dot] org www.liferingcanada.org . Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) (atheists welcome), www.aa.org . Vancouver meetings: www.vancouveraa.ca/directory.pdf Narcotics Anonymous (NA) (atheists welcome), www.na.org . Overeaters Anonymous (OA) (atheists welcome), for people with any eating disorder, including anorexia. www.oa.org . KD and ESD moved to Section 9.1. 12. POLITICAL PARTIES These parties have (relatively) nude-friendly policies when we last checked, though not all would allow nudity at their events. It's recommended to ask them before trying. The Nude Garden Party (NGP) c/o your editor: [email protected] The Green Party (GP) www.greenparty.ca www.greenparty.bc.ca . The Work Less Party (WLP) ?and/or The De-Growth Party Political party which also promotes events which attempt to be liberating and often open to nudity, as is the one below; might include eroticism. Telephone 604-537-2044. www.WorkLessParty.org . coordinator [insert a with a circle round it] worklessparty [dot] org . The Sex Party of BC (SP) This group promotes the rights of everyone to be nude voluntarily, in agreement with the nudist movement. Their main goals also include: free and open sexuality; and more and better sex. In partial contrast, the mainstream nudist movement is mostly neutral about, or opposed to, open sexuality, at least at their own events and sites. (See also on previous page: Section 5.3.a.) Therefore, there is an overlap between this party and the nudist movement. www.thesexparty.ca . info [insert a with a circle round it] thesexparty [dot] ca . Affiliated with the Art of Loving store-seminars (above in Section 8). Other parties Libertarians around the world include many who argue on libertarian principles in favour of your right to be nude--except when on the private property of someone who prohibits it. NFIRC requested their policy from the BC Libertarian Party in 2010 March. No answer yet. www.libertarian.bc.ca Some other federal political parties, we suspect, would be relatively pro-nude, such as the Rhinoceros Party www.neorhino.ca and the Marijuana Party www.marijuanaparty.ca/index.en.php3 We need more information about those and any others which might value nudists' votes. You may ask also for an article in our NFIRC archives about streaking in another (Vancouver civic) political party. 13. E-GROUPS (Internet groups) Vancouver Nudists (VN) Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vancouver_nudists . Naked Iconoclasts Fighting The Yoke (NIFTY) Their main listing is in Section 6.5 (the last group there), above. Their Yahoo group (still active??): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nifty_vancouver . Canadian Naturist Group (CNG) Yahoo group: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadian_naturist_group . Burning Man Vancouver (BMV) and Burn BC (BBC) Moved to Section 9.1 above. Nudist Clubhouse (NC) Recommended by AANR (Section 14, below). Like FaceBook for nudists, they say. World-wide. (Do not confuse it with FVNC's Clubhouse, which is an actual building, mentioned in Section 9.1, above.) www.nudistclubhouse.com . OTHER e-groups & e-services Single Nudist (on-line) -- see AANR in Section 14 below. For other Web services you might use, see Section 17, below: the article, "Proposals . . ." and within that article, Sub-section C.10. Wreck Beach Memories (WBM) Disbanded ~2009. Several Wreck Beach groups are in www.facebook.com 14. AFFILIATIONS and GROUPS OUTSIDE B.C. Membership in one group in an affiliation usually lets you visit the other groups in the same affiliation. It sometimes lets you visit groups in other affiliations. They all have national and/or international headquarters outside BC. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN) Their 3 landed clubs in BC are Van Tan Nudist Club (Section 7, above), Sol Santé (Section 8, above), and Sunny Trails Club (Section 8, above). Their 3 non-landed clubs in BC are Cariboo Nudist Society (Section 9.2, above), Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society (Section 9.2, above), and the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (Section 10, above). F.C.N., P.O. Box 186, Station D, Etobicoke, ON, Canada M9A 4X2. Telephone 416-410-NUDE (=6833); toll-free in Canada and USA 888-512-NUDE (=6833). www.fcn.ca . information [insert a with a circle round it] fcn [dot] ca . The Naturist Society (NS) A large group promoting mostly beach and public-wilderness sites and activities. Mostly in North America. (Elsewhere abbreviated "TNS".) Mail: The Naturist Society, P.O. Box 132 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA 54903. Telephone 920-426-5009; fax: 920-426-5184. www.naturistsociety.com . naturist [insert a with a circle round it] naturistsociety [dot] com . American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) Hundreds of member resorts and clubs in Canada, the USA, and a few other places. For the 7 affiliates in BC, see the next group below (AANR-WC). NEW: One of their chartered groups is Single Nudist, which is on-line dating, etc., for nudists everywhere: www.SingleNudist.com . AANR telephone toll-free 800-TRY-NUDE (=800-879-6833). Telephone 407-933-2064; fax 407-933-7577. AANR, 1703 North Main St. Suite E; Kissimmee, FL, USA 34744. For free periodic e-news, ask: try-nude [insert a with a circle round it] aanr [dot] com . www.aanr.com . American Association for Nude Recreation - Western Canadian Region (AANR-WC) formerly "Western Canadian Association for Nude Recreation" before 2008 August; before that "Western Canadian Sunbathing Association" This is one of the regional subdivisions of the AANR (the entry above). The AANR-WC includes British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. (No affiliates yet in the last 3 of those.) They have 7 clubs in BC (followed by section numbers in parentheses; to read more about them, see above, on this page): Their 3 landed clubs in BC are Van Tan Nudist Club (Sections 6.2 & 8), Sol Santé (Section 8), and Sunny Trails Club (Section 8). Their 4 non-landed clubs in BC are Fraser Valley Naturist Club (Section 9), Skinnydipper Recreation Club (Section 6.3),Cariboo Naturist Society (Section 7 & 9), and Arbutus Park Club (Section 7 & 9). Okanagan Shuswap Nudist Society (Section 7 & 9) might not be affiliated anymore. Mail: AANR-WC, PO Box 1113, Station M, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 2K9. www.aanr-wc.com/clubs/#bc www.aanr.com/nudist-events http://aanr-wc.squarespace.com/events/ International Naturist Federation (INF) La Fédération Naturiste Internationale (FNI) La Federación Internacional de Naturista? (FIN) Internacia Naturista Federacio? (The last 2 are unconfirmed translations: Español and Esperanto) The biggest naturist and nudist affiliation, by far. It is world-wide. INF Office, St. Hubertusstraat 5, BE-2600 Antwerp, Belgium, Europe. Telephone 32-3-230-05-72; fax 32-3-281-26-07. naturism [insert a with a circle round it] inf-fni [dot] org . www.inf-fni.org . Gay Naturist International (GNI) For men. www.gaynaturists.org Club Desnudo (CD) (Seattle, formerly BC) Men only. New in 2011. Was in Vancouver, BC (Sect. 9.1). Moved to Seattle, WA, USA, in 2011. Maybe they'll have more events in BC if enough men express interest. www.clubdesnudo.wordpress.com . Outside of BC (in Alberta and USA) (4 separate groups. 3 are near BC. See also a moved one, Club Desnudo, above) 1. Helios Edmonton Club; Edmonton, Alberta; indoor swims: www.freewebs.com/heliosnudistassociation/winterswims.htm . 2. Sunny Chinooks Club; Calgary, Alberta; indoor swims: www.sunnychinooks.com/3.html . 3. SLUGS (Sun Lovers Under Gray Skies) a non-landed club. New mailing address: PO Box 3049, Lacey, WA, USA 98509-3049. Telephone 206-344-NUDE (=6833). slugs [insert a with a circle round it] slimetrail [dot] org info [insert a with a circle round it] slimetrail [dot] org (the above is for automated basic info) www.slimetrail.org www.slimetrail.org/Calendar/Activity_Calendar.html www.cityofseattle.net/parks/aquatics/ballardp.htm http://pattisonswest.net talkgood [insert a with a circle round it] me [dot] com 4. Burning Man Festival, near Gerlach, Nevada, USA; north of Reno on aboriginal reservation; late August and/or early September, annually. A radical participatory art and nude-optional festival in the desert; $. —TENTATIVE 2014 Labour Day week, Monday-Monday. Burning Man Festival; Nevada, USA. See news about a group going there from BC in Section 15, below next, near the end. See also Burning Man Vancouver and Burn BC in Section 9.1, above. www.burningman.com . bmvan [insert a with a circle round it] yahoogroups [dot] com . 15. NEWS and LETTERS (In order of newest to oldest) Going to Wreck Beach without hiking a steep trail by Korky Day, 2014 June 20. The trail from North-West Marine Drive to Acadia Beach is very low and mild compared to all the others. If that is too hard for you, you'll have to start further east at Spanish Banks Beach if you are walking. It's a long walk, maybe an hour, with a few barriers, like logs and rocks. Avoid high tide, for sure. Have you considered water travel? I'd go by canoe or rowboat, etc., if I had bad legs and good arms. If those are not possible or are too arduous, you can use the stretcher I made with which people can carry you on the trail. Or you can make your own stretcher. It's easy. I learned how in Scouts in 1960. Here's how: Get 2 long poles: a little longer than you are tall. I use trees branches I pruned in the back yard. Get a blanket or strong cloth, not slippery, about your height and quadruple your width. Lay the blanket on the ground. Place the 2 poles along the length of the blanket dividing it into thirds. Fold each of the outside thirds over a pole so that they overlap in the middle. It's ready to use. The friction of the top 2 layers of cloth against each other, with your weight on them, keeps your stretcher from coming apart. Now get 4 strong volunteers to grab it by the 4 ends of the poles and carry you. Volunteers can be recruited at the trail most days. Test on level land first. If you want to use my stretcher, ask me. NIFTY planning 2 swims / month and other events 2013 September 28, revised December 30. The Van Tan Swim Club will suspend their indoor swims for a year or more, as of 2014 January, because of William Griffin Pool being rebuilt. To fill the gap, NIFTY will have 2 swims per month starting Saturday, January 11, in addition to the current last-Satuday routine. Skinnydippers are changing to the first Saturday. That means you'll still have 4 indoor swims per month most months through June presented by Skinnydipper at Newton Wave, Wreck Beach Swim Club at Lord Byng, and NIFTY at Templeton. Watch the calendar on the previous page for confirmed dates. Forum and Talent Show Before the NIFTY swims will also be some new events in the same building: --TENTATIVE 2014 Oct 25, Sat, 5:30-7:15 pm. NIFTY forum; optional potluck supper. Invited are panelists from Van Tan Swim Club, Skinnydipper Recreation Club, Wreck Beach Swim Club, and NIFTY; by donation; open to members of all 4 clubs; party room, 700 Templeton Drive, Vancouver. --TENTATIVE 2014 Nov 29, Sat, 5:30-7:15 pm. NIFTY Talent Show; reduced admission for performers, no matter how amateurish; optional potluck supper; party room, 700 Templeton Drive, Vancouver; your performance could be singing, playing a musical instrument, dancing, acting, poetry, juggling, magic, acrobatics, martial arts, comedy, dramatic reading, answering questions, etc. --NFIRC editor. Letter to the NFIRC editor published here 2013 February 1, received 2012 September 14: 'Prophet' by a woman who visited Syria I have travelled to the Middle East twice. Syria is 90% muslim. It is their prophet who is telling Muslim women to wear the hijab for protection. Protection from? Protection from men. Men in undeveloped nations are unable to channel their sexual energy. Muslim Arab men are in the majority unsophisticated and have lower levels of education. Also, because the Middle East is a war zone, women are safer if they are sexually unprovocative. Also, they live in countries where the level of censorship is maximum. They don't see nudity or swimsuits anywhere. When I went to a swimming pool in Syria, a young male swam underneath the water with a mask and pinched my labia. I screamed and went toward him with the intention of hitting him. I couldn't catch him. I then told the lifeguard, he laughed at me with the boy and said I was crazy. When we left the pool we were told to not tell anyone what had happened. If we told, we would be forbidden to return to the pool. We would be punished. Meanwhile he got no punishment. I kept my mouth shut because it was over 40 degrees celsius everyday. We needed and wanted to be able to return to the pool. Anytime we went out, we needed to be acompanied by a male. My aunt would walk with an umbrella at all times, because the men are constantly trying to pinch women's buttocks in the street. This is the truth. I was there. I lived it. I experienced it. I know you will argue that the women are now safe in Canada. Why can't they just hang up their hijab? Because, they are unable to. They are extremely vulnerable to men. They are 100% untrained at protecting themselves from masculine desire. It's like walking into a lion's den for them. Men are preying on women who they sense are not "men smart". These women can very easily be abused, taken advantage of. Very easily. They are not aggressive women able to yell stuff at a man. They are conditioned to be submissive. They also don't know martial arts, for the most part. I spoke with a Muslim woman who graduated from SFU. Feeling momentarily free she removed her hijab and began circulating in society. A young white man, about her age, fell in love with her, they started dating. He became too clingy, she felt fearful and unprepared. She got scared. She phoned the cops, said he was stalking her. She went through a hellish time. She did not know what was happening to her in her life, she began eating junk food at McDonald's, gained weight and began seeing a psychiatrist. He medicated her. She then started having nightmares about him at night. She would wake up in such a panic that she wasn't able to tell it was only a bad dream, she thought he would come after her so she ended up phoning the police in the middle of the night. The police came and they told her she needed to seek help from her psychiatrist. You see, a muslim woman does not know what to do with a man other than get married, give birth to children, rear his kids. Basically, raise a family. Go to the mosque, obey the prophet Muhammed and God, Allah. Dating, espacially a white man is for them like taking acid. They will likely hallucinate a hellish nightmare from being clueless about what's going on. I have to let you go now, please remain co-operative in trying to empathize. ---from a very unrepressed woman, [name withheld by request]. NIFTY Web publication hacked! 2012 September 30. by Korky Day, NFIRC volunteer publisher-editor. See NIFTY's entry in Section 6.5 above on this page and its listings in the calendar on the previous page. I am very sorry and angry at whoever has attacked and ruined the NIFTY Web publication. NIFTY will recover somehow as soon as possible. In the meantime, we at NFIRC will try to fill the gap. But remember that both are volunteer efforts. Probably because of the hack-job, the NIFTY swim 2012 September 29 suffered slightly decreased attendance when I expected an increase. We had spent many hours in a promotional campaign to recruit new members for that date in particular, but only 1 or 2 newcomers came. The event was still fun, and might have broken even financially, but we must respond with determination for our cause. Please attend all the nudist events that you might enjoy. Help us recruit members and encourage continued attendance. If anything on-line looks suspicious, please contact us. I suggest that you telephone people. NFIRC does not have an office or an office number, but ask me, and most likely I will give you my personal telephone number. Meanwhile, NIFTY (of which I am a active member) will be responding and making a come-back. Swim suits not harmless at Wreck Beach Letter rejected for publication by The Province, as far as we know. To: [email protected] The Province, 2012 August 2. Dear editor, Province writer Patrick Johnston ("A beginner's guide to Wreck Beach", The Province, July 31, 2012 www.theprovince.com/beginner+guide+Wreck+Beach/7016026/story.html#ixzz22PQwwXRp) misleadingly wrote, " . . . if you choose to keep your bathing suit on - and that's very acceptable to the beach regulars . . .". Yes, bathing suits are acceptable to some Wreck Beach regulars. Many others of us, though, see the fearsome mental strait-jacket of body terror and shame as a blight on any beach, as is wearing a burqa or other prisoners' uniform. Do you want to spend your whole life as a cowering captive of mental-sexist-social-religious-commercial-political oppression? If not, join us nudists in spreading freedom, love, and peace. Korky Day Lifeguards told to watch swimmers by Korky Day, 2012 January 11. In the last few days, the head lifeguards of Vancouver and North Vancouver both have told me that they have instructed (or will instruct) all their guards to stop 2 practices that I think have endangered pool occupants. I had complained to them about a disturbing new trend in the last few years. Some lifeguards have sat as far from the pool as possible. Some have clustered with each other and chatted at length instead of putting enough attention to guarding. Both supervisors David Fletcher of North Vancouver and Sean Heaney of Vancouver said they are re-educating their staffs. Please tell me and them if you notice violations. End of article "Lifeguards told to watch swimmers". Who's been flying nude? by Korky Day, NFIRC editor, 2011 Nov. 17. I haven't flown this millenium, so I don't know the new proceedures. Can anyone tell me if air passengers can choose to strip for the inspectors instead of being X-rayed or patted? Please answer to korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Fore-Skin For-Her (seminar 2012 Jan. 10 in Vancouver and repeated periodically thereafter?) From www.artofloving.ca/seminars/seminar-topics/fore-skin-her See also other courses, and the sponsoring group, The Art of Loving, above in Section 8. Did you know that women were almost 6 times likelier to achieve vaginal orgasm when the man had an (uncircumcised) natural penis and that they were significantly likelier to achieve multiple vaginal orgasms, as well? Did you also know that intact men (uncircumcised) usually lasted longer and that premature ejaculation was significantly more common among circumcised men? In fact, surveyed women preferred sex with a natural penis by a margin of 9 to 1!!! Why? This is the first seminar to explain, in simple terms, the many sexual functions and benefits of the foreskin, not only for the man, but especially for the woman on the receiving end of the penis during intercourse. You will learn how circumcision adversely alters a man’s sexual performance —to his detriment, and to his female partner's, why the surgical-altered, circumcised penis makes it difficult —in some cases impossible—for most women to achieve orgasm from intercourse and why millions of North American women routinely experience chafing, redness, soreness, and discomfort (even pain) as a consequence of "circumcised intercourse." You will also learn about some of the many adverse health effects that having regular sex with circumcised men can have on a healthy woman. Who can benefit from this seminar? --Women Married to (or in a Relationship with) Men With Foreskins— Learn about the differences women noticed between making love with circumcised men and men with natural penises. --Women Married to (or in a Relationship with) Circumcised Men—learn how to free yourself to experience true sexual fulfillment, increased vaginal orgasmic success, and the betterments in your relationship happiness this will bring. --Prospective Parents—provides everything you need to know to make an informed decision for your child. --Circumcised Men—sexual pleasure beyond your highest expectations—unlike anything you've ever experienced before—will be your reward for attending this seminar. --Men With Foreskins - the many sexual benefits and functions of the foreskin are explained in detail. --Gay Men—the most important information you'll ever get about the male sex organ. --Health Care Professionals, Doctors, Nurses, Childbirth Educators, Marriage Counselors, Sex Therapists, and Others Concerned with Human Sexuality—the information in this seminar will enlighten you on the sexual issues of this topic, as well as other aspects—a must-know for any professional who advises people on circumcision or sexuality. The above is from The Art of Loving. Topfree Occupy Wall Street by Korky Day, NFIRC editor, 2011 October 5. Today I read an e-news story: "The 'Occupy Wall Street' kids finally got naked". An included colour photograph shows the bare chests of 3 young women censored by the publisher, but not the 2 young men. A printed pinko protest sign in the photo says, "A job is a right! Capitalism doesn't work!" (I agree. See the first page here at www.korky.ca .) Another sign says "We didn't say look. We said listen!" Some protesters chanted, "We can't afford shirts!" ---Anonymous article in Metro daily newspaper, 2011 September 22 (revised Sep 26): www.metro.us/newyork/national/article/977074--the-occupy-wall-street-kids-finally-got-naked-nsfw You'll learn to live with the smoking ban (double entendre headline!) by Korky Day, NFIRC editor, 2011 September 27. Perhaps you feel threatened or appalled at the news: Smoking will be banned at Wreck Beach (Sect. 10, previous page) as of 2012 January 1. Unfortunately, the Wreck Beach Preservation Society (Sect. 10) got its good name besmirched by opposing the ban. However, perhaps you and the WBPS do not understand that today's sophisticated approach to smoking control is way ahead of the ham-fisted approach of alcohol prohibition a century ago. It lost; we are winning. The movement back then was well-meaning. AA hadn't started. Women, especially, were sick of their men blowing their pay-cheques on booze--and the family going hungry. Few women got any significant money. Prohibition was a quasi-feminist effort then, largely, as was the (earlier) anti-slavery movement. Men reacted violently, and they defeated prohibition, as they had brought in 'Jim Crow'. Compare that to our successful (so far) anti-nicotine movement of the last 55 years or so. Imagine how it's going to go at Wreck Beach. The ban comes in. They put up a few signs. Maybe there's a smoking-designated zone about 5 by 5 metres. (Like the unofficial one I saw a year ago at the otherwise smoke-free campus of the University of North Carolina--in a tobacco state!) No extra funds are allocated for enforcement. Not much change for a year or 2. Some smokers comply immediately, according to their personalities and desires. The more rebellious (and more intoxicated) smokers break the rule, but, over the years, get used to the idea. Sometimes they comply; sometimes they don't. You'll see smokers on the beach endure dirty looks and snide comments, feel guilty, act defencive, feel lonely, and realize they're wrong--hurting others and themselves. Eventually, over a few years, almost all comply voluntarily. They don't hide in the woods to smoke because enforcement never gets harsh--or even particularly effective. After a few more years, so few smokers break the rule that real enforcement, if it finally comes, is sparse and cheap. Also, the surviving smokers, by then, mostly older, are getting weaker, more tired, and half-dead from their addiction. Their feeble arguments don't convince or impress anybody, and they know it. Gradually, more and more smokers realize that this gentle way the government went about it is really for their own good. Many smokers are actually (sometimes secretly) glad when each new smoking restriction prompts them to quit or cut down. They almost all want to quit smoking, anyway, remember! The difference in the 2 approaches is between harsh authoritarianism--and loving, patient, but persistent, nudging. We've watched this progression with each baby step of the anti-nicotine movement. First, in the 1960s, little warnings on the decks. Over the years, they raise tobacco taxes occasionally. Then, no smoking in certain parts of the hospital. A few years later we achieved smoking sections in restaurants. Now we've advanced from indoor restrictions to the outdoors. See? Slow, but sure. Tortoise vs. hare. When the government does a good thing, there's no reason to oppose it. When government promotes war, the exploitation of women, body shame, and towers on the cliff-top, of course, we must still oppose them. But having a government and laws is not necessarily bad. Rather, our goal must be GOOD government and laws. Since our invader governments now are illegitimate and undemocratic, it's hard to see that they could do some good things, but they do. This is one such case. Another, similar, case is closing the beach at sunset. That, while it is especially irritating to the innocent, probably saves a lot of lives which would be lost or ruined due to night drinking and brawling. If human beings never drank, we might be able to use the beach all night (see next article below). Just like if smokers would always stay downwind of others, never littered their butts and wrappers, never started forest fires, and never stifled their desire to go nude with the drug nicotine, we might not need the smoking ban at the beach. RCMP vs. Wreck Beach boozers Posted 2011 July 14, in The Ubyssey's comments (if it gets by the moderator) by Korky Day at http://ubyssey.ca/news/drinking-on-wreck-beach888/#comment-45575 The police wouldn't bother the boozers if so many of them didn't cause serious problems. I've been picking up their damn broken bottles for 41 years, and that's the least of it. If Canadians want European-style boozing, let them act like Europeans. It's a myth, though, that Europe has less alcoholism, but maybe it isn't manifested in public. Better to get natural at Wreck Beach: nude and sober. Desert Flower opposes genital excision Movie review by Korky Day. Added here 2011 March 19; slightly revised 2011 July 14. This movie, Desert Flower, is not about nudism, as far as I can tell without seeing it. However, it is about the related topics of (1) your right to body integrity, (2) body image, (3) clothing fashion, and (4) feminism. If you know whether or not it shows any nudity, please tell us. MPAA rated R for some violent content, a scene of sexuality and language. Do they show a mutilated crotch? My guess is that it would be too painful for the audience, so they don't. 2 hours long. Released 2009, but only now playing in a few theatres in North America: starting 2011 March 18. If you know of any showings in BC, please tell us. http://vancouver.mrmovietimes.com/movies/Desert-Flower-Wustenblume.html Quote from a movie review by Melissa Silvestri: Desert Flower is a deeply emotional drama (with light comedic moments) that tells the true story of Waris Dirie, a Somali woman who had undergone female genital mutilation at 3 years old, escaped her rural home village before an arranged marriage at 13, became an indentured servant to the Somali ambassador in London, and then, by chance, was discovered and became a supermodel. But despite her fairy tale rags to riches story, Dirie was still haunted by her past, and all the celebrity brought on by her looks couldn’t deny that what happened to her as a child was an unnecessary act of violence, so she used her position and fame to raise awareness about the issue and became a UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM). The rest of that review: http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/archives/guest_post_desert_flower_review_by_melissa_silvestri/ See also: www.imdb.com/title/tt1054580/ For theatre showings: http://movies.nationalgeographic.com/movies/desert-flower/theater-listings/ The closest showing I can find to BC (as of 2011 March 25) is in Seattle, Washington, at the Pacific Place 11, telephone toll-free 1-888-AMC-4FUN. Vancouver Fuel Delivery Project opposed by SUN 2011 February 21. The Vancouver Airport Fuel Facility Corporation's (VAFFC) Vancouver Airport Fuel Delivery Project (VAFDP) application to the BC Environmental Assessment Office was posted on the BCEAO website this week. It calls for half a million barrel oil tankers loaded with jet fuel to enter the south arm of the Fraser River to an off-loading and 80 million litre storage facility near the George Massey tunnel and a 15 km. pipeline across Richmond to the Vancouver Airport. The public comment period [ended] April 11, 2011. A public open house has been scheduled for Monday, March 7 [ . . . ] Please review the attached news release from the BC Environmental Assessment Office for more details on this important meeting. We encourage anyone interested in this project to get involved by attending the Open House and reviewing the information available on the BC Environmental Assessment Office website (www.eao.gov.bc.ca ) and the VAFFC project website (www.vancouverairportfuel.ca ). Comments on this environmental assessment should be made to the BC Environmental Office where they will be posted for public and governmental scrutiny. SUN opposes this project which we believe is unnecessary and whose environmental risks far outweigh any fuel cost savings to the airlines using YVR that are the only shareholders of the VAFFC. In particular, the decision by the VAFFC to not consider rail shipments of jet fuel from Cherry Point in Washington State, where a large portion of aviation fuel for YVR is currently delivered from, needs to be seriously questioned since rail deliveries from Alberta refineries tied with the tanker plan as the preferred option. Choosing only one jet fuel delivery method for the Vancouver International Airport while threatening the estuary of B.C.'s largest river, the wildlife preserves in this region, our wild salmon stocks along with the public safety of residents living near the proposed pipeline means that the tanker plan for the Fraser needs to be scuttled. You can review SUN's detailed examination of the VAFDP and the errors, blatant omissions, questionable data and outright fallacies contained within this project that were previously posted on the BCEAO website on May 26, 2010 at the following location: http://a100.gov.bc.ca/appsdata/epic/documents/p346/1275423183785_e71376a301f00b1753abff676ef16d8bb 985b33d1077ebd4d2b4d957498fd9ab.pdf —by Don Pitcairn, president, Surrey's United Naturists (SUN) sun-assn [at] hotmail [dot ] com www.crescentrockbeach.org Telephone 604-328-7433. Airport X-rays fatal--possible nude option Protests keep arising about the screening of human bodies for weapons at airports. Prudes worry about the screening agents seeing them near-nude on the X-ray machines. Health professionals warn of the danger of X-rays, which increases with repetition. The authorities give passengers the options of cancer-causing X-rays or "an enhanced pat-down" (groping?). Neither option is the nudist option, which is simply to strip and show that you are unarmed. Nobody is hurt that way. It's fool-proof. No 170,000$ machines to buy. Quick and easy. Ralph Nader says you have to assert your right to forgo the machine BEFORE you get into the scanner line. The only reason the stripping option is not being talked about much yet is people's paranoia about nudity. Keen nudists would not mind seeing nudity or being seen nude. If anyone tries the nudist option at an airport, please tell us how it goes! —Written 2010 November 17 / 19. www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20101115-247226.html Yahoo e-mail ruins NFIR Calendar records The latest version of Yahoo Classic e-mail replaced the version your editor was using in 2010 October~. We customers had no warning or choice. One of the many negative effects is that Yahoo has lost our records (stored in the editor's Yahoo account, in the "Contacts" list) about your e-mailing preferences. Luckily, NFIR has partial back-up elsewhere. Many complaints by us to Yahoo have resulted in no fix yet, though they keep promising to do so. Therefore we ask your forgiveness if any e-mailing goes wrong. If you want to correct us, please do so. We recommend you patronize other e-mail providers besides Yahoo. When you find a very good one, we'd like to hear about it. We want one that doesn't lose data and one that doesn't degrade its service with supposed improvements, especially not without asking us customers first. Temporarily still at: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . —Written 2010 November 14 & 17; no improvement or fix as of 2014 6 10. Celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Nude-In at Wreck Beach 2010 August 22, Sunday, 2-9 pm. (one day before the actual anniversary) Followed by general discussion. Near the foot of Trail 6, Wreck Beach (Ulksen Beach), in so-called Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver, BC. by "Mr. Natural" (Korky Day), organiser of the original Nude-In. Come and re-live those days of youthful rebellion, naturalness, innovation, elation, solidarity, freedom, intelligence, change, hope, love, and peace. Go nude unless you're too cowardly, repressed, or rude. Bring sunscreen. Please respect everyone's right to refuse photography. When I was 22 years old, in 1970, I was frustrated that the Vancouver area had no nude beach of which I was aware. So I announced a Nude-In (inspired by civil rights "sit-ins", etc.) for 1970 August 23, Sunday, in the radical newspaper of which I was one of the collective owners, the Georgia Straight. Then people told me that there was already a local nude beach that was not very well-known: Wreck Beach. Some were fearful that I would spoil it, their secret skinny-dipping spot, with publicity and hordes of attenders. Others welcomed nudists coming out of the closet. Arrests ensued. Court cases. Victory. No one charged with nudity in the following 40 years. Let us acknowledge our debt and gratitude to the First Nations, including the Musqueam, who of course have sovereignty over Wreck Beach. The greedy, criminal, invader governments (Canada and the provinces) continue, generation after generation, to refuse to negotiate aboriginal land claims in good faith. Point Grey is "Ulksen" in Musqueam, I've read. The First Nations had no swimsuits or, as far as I can tell, little or no false modesty. They lived largely nude in warm weather. Then those hang-ups were imposed on the indigeni nations by the European invaders, including their missionaries and authorities. At this event I hope to provoke a good discussion of the successes, failures, and future of Wreck Beach. Will successive generations of humans defend or neglect what we hippies, nudists, and allies tried to create? Will the moneyed and prudish interests finally get their road on the beach all around the peninsula? Please contact me ahead of the celebration with offers of participation, questions, suggestions, etc.: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . —published here 2010 August 11, revised slightly 2010 11 18. Yahoo hides "nude" e-mail: shocking test results You are taking a risk if you include the word "nude" in an e-letter, including in the appended previous correspondance. Such a message might get filtred out as spam by Yahoo (and maybe other e-mail services), it seems by my test results. It might be better in your e-mail to use abbreviations or substitutes for the word, such as N or n***. Also, you might want to send a copy to yourself of e-letters that you send, and then check your spam box, just to if they arrive there. If so, try to determine what words you used triggered the sorting as spam. Also I suggest that you check your Spam or Bulk box to rescue such letters going to you. And I wonder what all the taboo words are! — 2010 August 9. September update on the crisis: Introducing "nwd" as a new spelling for "nude" as practised by us true nwdists! The word "nude" and its practice has long been tainted by people who exploit it, in a sexist way, for money. But I realized that we have a real crisis when my innocent nude e-mail got caught in a "spam" filtre! So I decided that we must take action! Nudists of the world arise! Dodge those spam filtres (and butterfly nets)! Use new spellings for nude in e-mail, such as "n*de", "nood", "nuud" (I coined 2010 9 23), and "nwd" (I coined 2010 9 17). That last one is the cutest nwdist word, eh? Those "w"s have the same sound as the "oo" in "mood". A "w" is also used like that in a few other words, such as pwka (meaning "ghost") in the great movie and play Harvey by Mary Chase. Similarly, write nwd-friendly, nwdism, nwdity, nwdly, etc. Also, some Canadians, British, and others might want to match their pronunciation by spelling it "nywd". — Korky Day, 2010 September 17~ to 23. Men, see the movie Babies with a woman! Movie review by Korky Day. See the upcoming movie showing in the calendar near the top and in Nip in Section 10! 2010 May 12, revised 2010 August 10. French title Bébé(s). A documentary movie by French men about 4 babies from 4 countries is not considered fit for all audiences in the USA. I saw it 2010 May 11 in a small theatre holding maybe 50 women and 3 men (I'm in the second category). We saw scenes in Mongolia, Japan, Namibia, and the USA continually inter-spliced. The USA authorities gave it a PG classification: "parental guidance". Are they trying to protect tender eyes from the sight of one baby slapping another? Gosh, no, they are paranoid about the sight of breastfeeding! They lie through their teeth and call it "cultural and maternal nudity throughout". Seeing only breasts is not "nudity"! We were shown no vaginas, merely a couple of baby penises. Furthermore, the numbskull authorities don't understand that all nudity is "cultural". The sight of naughty bits was occasional, not "throughout", and mostly in Namibia. Nobody over the age of one appeared to be a real nudist. What this commercial release seemed to be attempting was to entertain us while opening our minds to other cultures' ways of upbringing. A modest goal, and it succeeded. A more helpful, more urgent goal would have been to present real evidence about the health and sustainability of various child-raising practices. Instead, we who are already well-informed will notice the superiority of old traditions like breastfeeding, while the naive will judge the 2 bottle-fed babies in the 2 modern countries to be doing fine and maybe even being better raised than the 2 exclusively-breastfed babies. All in all, though, Babies is much better than America's Funniest Home Videos. Men, risk the boredom of a movie without car chases or sex. See it with a woman about whom you care. France; 79 minutes. Official Web site: www.focusfeatures.com/focusfeatures/film/babies/ and www.focusfeatures.com/article/babies___meet_the_parents See also: www.imdb.com/title/tt1020938/ Vote in DemoChoice's polls on body exposure The great e-poll service DemoChoice lets the public rank their choices in numerical order of preference. Few other public polls do so, unfortunately. As anyone can, your editor recently posted 2 questions there. You can vote on those 2 and see the results so far. (I have other polls there that you can answer, too.) When voting, you are not required to rank ALL the choices. Here is how to vote on the 2 relating to nudity: www.demochoice.org/dcballot.php?norot=on&poll=menexposur "What of men you want to see in public" www.demochoice.org/dcballot.php?norot=on&poll=womexposur "What of women you want to see in public" The answers that you can rank (as to what you want to see) are the same for each of those 2 polls. They are: 1. Nothing exposed: all covered. 2. Just eyes. 3. Just face. 4. Face and lower head. 5. Whole head. 6. Face, lower head, and hands. 7. Whole head and hands. 8. Eyes, hands, and feet. 9. Eyes, midriff, hands, and feet. 10. Face, hands, and feet. 11. Face, lower head, hands, and feet. 12. Whole head, hands, and feet. 13. Face, lower head, hands, feet, arms, and calves. 14. Whole head, hands, feet, arms, and calves. 15. Face, lower head, hands, feet, arms, calves, and lower thighs. 16. Whole head, hands, feet, arms, calves, and lower thighs. 17. Whole head, limbs, back, and shoulders. 18. Whole head, limbs, back, shoulders, and belly. 19. Whole head, limbs, back, shoulders, belly, and buttocks. 20. Whole head, limbs, and upper torso, except nipples. 21. Whole head, limbs, buttocks, and upper torso, except nipples. 22. Whole head, limbs, and upper torso. 23. Whole head, limbs, buttocks, and upper torso. 24. Everything exposed except nipples. 25. Everything exposed. 26. Whatever they want to show. 27. Uncertain. 28. No preference. 29. Other. End of DemoChoice poll article. —Added 2010 January 1~. Dust and Illusions (A History of Burning Man) Movie review by Korky Day. Movie directed by Olivier Bonin. Review 2009 July 13, revised December 29. Dust and Illusions is intriguing, well-done, thought-provoking, and illuminating (pardon the pun!). However, I still am not sure if I ever want to attend the festival. I like art, but having so much of it over-sized seems a waste. Burning is a waste and harms nature. Fireworks are symbolic of war and horror. Perhaps all that fits with the male megalomaniacal destructive themes and nature of the event, even though some of the art is shown being made by women. We learn in the movie that Burning Man has always been male-dominated. The movie was also very male-dominated (director, narrator, most interviewees, etc.). I would have liked to see scenes of walking around in the daytime and seeing what art and activities people brought that were not huge, not burning, and not subsidized by ticket sales. I've heard that such things there are quite amazing. Also, I'm attracted to Burning Man's camping, community spirit, near total lack of selling (not mentioned in the movie), potential for liberation, fun, and nudity. I'm repelled by the widespread use of what I call "drope" (alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, pharmaceuticals, grass, and other drugs). A veteran female attender told me that at the event there's a lot of sex with people whose ability to consent is impaired by drope, including the date-rape drug. That was mentioned only obliquely in the movie. The movie mentioned "deadly accidents" at the event, but left it unclear how many deaths. It seems the sympathetic director's intent was to help "Burners" improve their event. Dust and Illusions is a fine attempt at that. I hope it succeeds. See http://dustandillusions.com End of movie review. —Added 2009 Aug. 1~. 5 new nude groups need organisers Five proposed new nude-friendly and topfree groups in "BC" are now recruiting organisers. (The group names below are interim names.) 1. Young adult faction (Yaf), age 18-39. (Section 9.1, above.) 2. Nanaimo nudists (Nn) for central Vancouver Island. (Section 9.2, above.) 3. Nude-friendly female club (Nffc). Females and their small offspring. (Section 9.1, above.) 4. Topfree swims (Ts). Outings at non-nude public pool sessions and non-nude beaches, etc. (Section 11, above.) 5. Look Nude Film Festival International of Vancouver (LNFF). (Section 9.1, above.) Sign up now! E-write to those groups c/o korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Do you want to help to start some group different from those, or in some other part of "BC"? Tell us! News added for 2008 August: 2 new groups "launched"! Here are 2 new exciting efforts in the nude-friendly community in the Lower Mainland of "BC": Nude Beach Boat-Pool (NBB), which matches people with watercraft going to Wreck Beach (or other nude beaches) with people who can't use the trails. See the listing in Section 10, above. Look Nude Film Festival International of Vancouver (LNFF), an annual festival of movies and shorts (pardon the expression). They are all about genuine social nudity—movies to be looked at by a nude audience, preferably. Volunteer to plan and to present this! See the listing above in Section 9. Letter from the Mother of Topfree in BC 2008 March 19 To the editor, About five years ago Evangeline [Godron] and I went topfree (on public transit) from Maple Ridge to White Rock and back. We could have walked to White Rock faster. I have photos of Evangeline being harrassed at the Surrey SkyTrain station (by the RCMP) she never did put her top on and neither did I. I tried to take photos of the RCMP officers and they hid their faces. I told the RCMP officers they hid their faces in shame. Thank goodness for freedom of speech! Every time Evangeline and I changed our mode of public transportation the police boarded whatever we were riding and demanded we leave. We said one word: no. We would wrap our legs around the chair we were sitting on and I showed the police my case documents, and section 15 (equality) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and they backed off. In fact, I carried extra copies of my case and I would offer my case to the police. Tell women that since men go topfree in public, including public transit, then so can women. Women can go topfree on public property any time they want. If no one believes me I will go topfree on the bus and on SkyTrain. —from Linda Meyer, A.A.B.A.P.B.D., Independent Scholar. New vegetarian restaurant socials after NIFTY swims Written after the successful event (2008 June; revised 2010 8 10) We were happy to get 4 nudists brave enough to try a vegetarian restaurant, unlike the previous attempts! Who knew a carrot was so scary?! For more about it, see: Written after the (pardon the expression:) "dud" event (2008 February) Vancouver-area nudes haven't tried a meatless restaurant as a group for a few years. (It then was the Naam Restaurant on 4th Avenue, just east of MacDonald St.) Therefore, your editor invited you to come to one (clothed), starting after the 2008 February NIFTY swim. All of you chickened out (pardon the expression!) Come on, naked people, one vegetarian meal isn't going to ruin your life! Some of you definitely need to be healthier, so why don't you try again? The restaurant is near Templeton Pool and is called Deserts, the Falafel Oasis (named after the desert land of North Africa, not "desserts" with 3 "S"s). 905 Commercial Drive, about 5 blocks west of the pool. It's semi-cafeteria style, so you won't have to wait long. Brown rice dishes, smoothies, tabbouleh salad, etc. Some is mildly spicy. Pay only for the food you order, if any. Low prices, too. Chef's special dinner is only 6$. They have a nice deck outside. Restaurant telephones 604-251-4171, 568-0776. For dates, see calendar at top. Costs, rides, or other problems? If you or your associates are not attending many of these events, why not? The event organisers or we might be able to help: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Nude-friendly goes cyber To remain successful, nude-friendly groups, activities, and sites often e-announce. Give them your e-address, we suggest. Lend nudist movies, recordings, literature, etc., please Do any of you have any of those to lend to us at NFIR? (Non-sexual nudity.) For instance, The Bulletin newspaper of the AANR. We might like to have more movie showings. For instance, please lend to NFIR these AANR movies: #302 (13 US$) and #540 (15 US$): members' prices. Another, Welcome to Our World (~12 min.; 10 US$, non-members' price), buy from: www.aanr.com . To lend any related material to us, please contact korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . We can talk by telephone if you arrange it by e-mail, etc. 16. NUDE-FRIENDLY HUMOUR This section has been removed. For information about it, please contact the editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . 17. NUDE-FRIENDLY ARTICLES For other articles by your editor about nudity, ask your editor for the Nude-peace articles, which will be re-posted here soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published here 2013 6 20; received 2013 6 ~12: Dave Fleming Dispatch from Hanlan’s Point Clothing-optional beach (in Ontario) Why ‘clothing-optional’ really means ‘nudist’, and a plea to keep this beach nude We are experiencing a tsunami of clothed people who have no intention of trying the nude life. For the few who do have the courage to try it, it’s a lot more difficult when surrounded by clothed people instead of nude people. Here are 15 points to make our case: 1. We originally asked for a nudist beach in 1999. 2. Lawyers for city hall told the councillors that city hall could not get into the business of forcing people to get nude. The only alternative word was “clothing-optional”. 3. Therefore “clothing-optional” is lawyer-speak for “nudist”. 4. The proposed designation was always intended to accommodate the people who wanted to get nude. 5. It was not ‘designated’ to create another clothing beach. 6. We want clothed people to think about what they are doing before coming to this ‘designated’ section. 7. We expect people to make up their mind to get nude on this beach before they leave home. 8. Because we are becoming a victim of our own success, the additional clothed people coming down to the beach have been like a tsunami causing the percentage of nudists to drop below 20% as the percentage of clothed people climbs to over 80% on many weekends. 9. Four years ago, there were 55% nudists. This year the percentage of nude people has been 30% to less than 20%. At this rate, the trend will drop to 10%, then 5% nudists in a couple of years. A reasonable percentage of clothed people should be less than 10% and nudist people should be more than 90%. 10. An analogy example is two hobby groups, model railroaders and model airplane makers. If too many of the railroad group attends a meeting of the airplane group consistently, the airplane group cannot claim to be a model airplane group anymore. It has become a model railroad group when the percentage of model railroaders is 80% in the model airplane group. This is not fair to the airplane group. 11. For people who want to try being nude, it’s a lot easier when they are surrounded by nude people. It’s a lot tougher if you are surrounded by clothed people. Therefore clothed people are intimidating the people who want to be nude for the first time. 12. For the reasons above, the idea by clothed people that “clothing-optional” means they have the option of wearing their clothes is wrong. 13. Every nudist knows that clothing-optional beach means that it’s a nudist beach. 14. The OPTION for clothed people is 11 other beaches where clothed people have a MONOPOLY since as a nudist, we can’t go to any other beach. 15. This is our ONLY beach we can use as naturists/nudists. IMPORTANT We wish you to show respect for the nudists. To respect the Nudists, please GO NUDE. Our objective is to save this beach as a nudist beach to avoid it becoming another clothing beach. Thanks for your co-operation. HBN - Hanlan's Beach Naturists. Religious rights vs. human rights by Korky Day We should support freedom of religion and should respect others' traditions, cultures, and customs, as long as there is no good reason to do otherwise. I say that as an atheist. However, all so-called rights must be limited when they go "over the line", undeniably killing, maiming, torturing, and oppressing people. Examples of practices to stop » Undue pressure to believe or accept any interpretation of truth or right, even an interpretation allegedly mandated by a god, tradition, or belief system. That pressure leads to authoritarian or theocratic religion. You see, freedom of belief, by definition, includes the freedom NOT to believe. » Oppression of women and children. » Oppression of sexual and sexual-identity minorities. » Genital mutilation of boys and girls. » Honour killing. » Killing a man who violates the alleged property of another man (her husband or father). » Rape to "cure" homosexuality or AIDS. » Oppression of harmless sexual minorities and sexual-identity minorities. » Involuntary or pressured marriage. » Marriage when one is too young or restricted to give reasonable consent. » More pressure on females to be chaste than on males. » Shaming or other oppression of masturbaters. » Barriers to abortion, birth control, and sex education. » Interference (by a husband, family, or by institutions) with the mother-child bond which normally is established by natural birth and by ample, unhampered breastfeeding. (Clothing the breast reduces natural breastfeeding.) » Pressure on teens and older women to get breast implants to impress men or to feel better about themselves. » Foot-binding. » Pressure on males to wear head coverings to show their dominance. » Pressure on females to wear confining, restrictive, and "modest" head coverings and other clothing to show their subservience as property and to "protect" them from the sight of excitable or jealous men outside the family. » Restrictions on nudity, except when they are necessary for safety or hygiene. » Slavery. » A caste system. » Financial and other pressures for sex work. » Alcohol as a "sacrament". » Torture. » Execution. » Invasion. » Conquest. Until the last century or so, veiling and hair covering was done mostly by women of the richest classes of some Moslem countries. It was and is a strong status symbol. Many mistakenly believe that the religion mandates such covering. Sadly, the practice is now infecting all strata of society, people who are striving to be prestigous, like the rich. Everything in that list (above) has been justified as protected expressions of religion or culture. Notice anything else about that list? Those are all traits of patriarchy and male dominance! Such practices are absent (or much less) in matriarchal or mother-centred cultures, such as wiccans, Iroquois, Mosuo, and matriarchal pagans and animists. --2011 December 13, revised 2013 December 30. End of article "Religious rights vs. human rights". A new plea for unity among nudists Recently there have been some conflicts among local nudists. You know who you are! Please ask yourselves: Have I done everything I could to resolve a conflict before involving others, especially non-nudists? Am I letting petty jealousies and criticisms harm our movement? Am I taking well-intentioned actions to be intentionally or negligently bad? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Am I forgiving and open to practical resolution? Am I bending the truth to make myself look better? Am I admitting when I'm wrong? Am I hurting myself with my rashness? Am I keeping a sense of humour? Is nudist unity a priority for me? NFIR is doing what we can to mediate, as should others. Please contact us at korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . —Korky Day, 2011 April 13, resolution still needed as of 2014 June 10. Most popular answer about crying child on Yahoo Questions is crazy They failed even to mention breastfeeding or topfree On any Yahoo question, the answer voted the most popular might be all wrong. Not only the general public, but even the mainstream "experts" are often wrong. The problem of a child crying is treated as a discipline problem in the answer in the link below. No, a crying child is not a bad child who is trying to spoil your normal life, as they implied. The child is usually crying to be breastfed, which they need, or for some other non-malicious reason. A naturally raised child might need to breastfeed several times an hour, not just several times a day, as most Western experts stupidly say. To freely breastfeed is why almost all your female ancestors were topfree—so the children could have a few sucks any time. That's natural and healthy. If you don't like that, don't be a parent. Any less breastfeeding will damage your child's physical and emotional health. And will damage the mother's physical and emotional health. Reference: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgAM0T41n0dWSq1MwHjeIDfpFQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20070410065005AAcfmYY —Korky Day, 2010 January 5, revised April 28. Added 2009 October (revised 2010 2 16): Legality of topfree and nudity Below is our answer to a reader's enquiry regarding Canadian law. This is not legal advice. Confirm with a lawyer. Topfree Topfree means bare-chested males and females. Canada's constitution quarantees sexual equality. Such equality has been proven in the courts of BC and Ontario for chests. Elsewhere you might have to be the first to prove likewise in court. If you are suckling a child, you have even further legal and moral reason to uncover your chest. Equality means that on all public property, if one sex is allowed to be topfree, the other sex is, too. That includes public beaches, streets, parks, and pools. That also includes private property, if the owner allows it, even if visible from public property. If you are topfree in a place where neither sex is allowed to be topfree, they can make you comply or leave. Even there, however, topfree (bare-chested) is not in itself a criminal offence. Unfortunately, many police and people in the public don't know the constitution, so they might hassle you. Fortunately, they won't convict you, unless the court precedents are disregarded or unless you are in Saskatchewan. The precedents will probably hold in today's political climate. The authorities will back down when their superior officer clues them in, or else if you back down. For more, see TERA, above, in Section 12. For other provinces, the same might be the case, but might have to be proven in a test case in court. Volunteer defendants and lawyers? Nudity Public nudity is a more complex issue than topfree. Unlike topfree, nudity is a criminal offence: the Nudity Act in the federal criminal code. That applies everywhere that others can see you, including your neighbour looking over your fence to see you lying down sunbathing. However, the Nudity Act requires all prosecutions to be approved by the provincial attorney-general. He is highly unlikely to prosecute at Wreck Beach because Metro Vancouver (the regional district) has declared it to be "clothing-optional". But legally he still could, but he would not get a lasting conviction. For Vancouver's annual Pride Parade, he hasn't prosecuted those nude in the parade, and is unlikely to do so, because the people who would be offended don't like gays and so wouldn't watch the parade, anyway. For the World Naked Bike Ride, the nudes go by so fast, on-lookers hardly have time to be offended. Besides, their genitals are not easy to see when they are cycling. Also, they seem so harmless and exuberant. Also, there is legal ambiguity about whether you are nude if you have shoes on. But you are at a much higher risk of a criminal charge and conviction if you try it without many nudes along with you! Also, bringing a minor is risky. Added for 2009 February: Clothing generally is offencive; nudity creates solidarity by Korky Day Many people cry that nudity is offencive (British spelling). Does it occur to them that merely being clothed might be offencive? I am not referring to the case of clothing with something offencive on it, like a Nazi swastika or a Confederate flag. Neither do I mean that the clothing is ugly or dirty. I mean just the fact that someone is clothed when it's warm enough to be naked and some place where the "textile" (clothed person) isn't going to be busted, and they have no other good excuse. Yes, then their being clothed does offend me! I'll explain. Actually, I think everyone has a similar feeling of offence that I do, but it might be subconscious or the feeling might be obscured by other strong feelings. I think that it is just a natural, animal feeling that when someone unnecessarily hides all or part of themself from you, you feel that they don't trust you and/or don't like you. Like if someone wears sunglasses, especially when out of the sun. That can be disconcerting in the same way. When people are dressed all alike voluntarily, that can help them create a feeling of solidarity that they have something in common, like a volleyball team. Even more so if they are all naked, because they are saying, in addition to their bodies being equally nude, that they have nothing to hide from each other, that they trust each other, that they like (or at least accept) each other. However, people dressed differently are alienating themselves from each other. Someone in a prison guard uniform is saying that he or she is superior to someone in a prisoner's uniform. Someone in a suit and tie or in a fancy formal gown is saying usually that he or she is economically or socially superior to others, or trying to be. Even ordinary clothing sends messages of some sort or another. And it's generally alienating unless it's a shirt saying "I'd rather be nude!" People remain clothed at a nude beach for reasons I put in 3 categories: 1. Fear of being attacked, bothered, or ridiculed. (Mostly women and youth in this category.) 2. Desire to be in a superior position, like watching a commercial strip show while clothed, or like being more armed than an opponent or an underling. (Mostly men in this category.) 3. Fear of being embarrassed or ashamed. (All types of people.) Part of maturing as a person is, I think, admitting and overcoming such fears, if you've ever had them. I'm not a nude optionist. I'm a nudist. I think it's not just a frivolous option to be nude, but actually better for you and for society if you are. I encourage everyone to go nude (weather and laws permitting) not just "if they feel like it", but to grow as people so they know why they feel like it or not. Going nude in front of others is not just for fun, but to extend good feelings toward others, to try to overcome the usual alienation. It's up to all of us to create social scenes where everyone feels safe enough to go nude. Nevertheless, yes, you will see me at nude optional events and sites. I go to enjoy being nude, to reward others who are nude, and to encourage the textiles to free themselves of their fears. I don't mean that I harass textiles, but I often will befriend them so that I can, when the mood is right, encourage them toward freedom. It's up to all of us to try to make everyone confortable enough to be nude. That's why we don't comment on their attractiveness or make premature suggestive comments, etc. In the old days, many nudist resorts and clubs had thinly disguised beauty contests, often called king, queen, prince, and princess contests. The nudist movement has now mostly dispensed with them because such events imply that some people are less accepted and less valued. Even the textile world has fewer beauty contests out of similarly expanded consciousness, including feminism. When laws prevent you from being nude, I think showing more skin will cause a natural animal reaction in others of less alienation than being more fully dressed. Down with clothing! Added for 2008 December: Where to recruit nudists Our movement needs your help to grow. Invite people who you'd like to be nudists, including people you'd like to date. Tell them about this calendar: www.korky.ca www.korky.ca/nfirc.html . Below are some local, mostly non-nudist places to find prospects. E-mail your suggestions to add to this list! 1. Dances, such as a. Just Dance. www.justdance.ca b. Vancouver Country Dances. www.vcn.bc.ca/vcountry 2. At nude beaches, befriend people, those nude or not. There you can also find many who don't know yet about nudist events elsewhere. 3. In neighbourhoods around nude swims, pass out fliers to homes or on corners. 4. Sing-along parties. (c/o your editor.) 5. Nightclubs. (Want to suggest any particular ones?) 6. Critical Mass bike rides, as in Section 11, above. 7. Festivals, parades, marches, etc., as in Section 11, above. 8. Tourist hang-outs, hostels, hotels, etc. Talk to them, pass out fliers, and post fliers. 9. Progressive and radical demonstrations and other events. 10. Any other organisations, events, and places you like. 11. The annual Fool's Day Parade in Vancouver, on or near April 1, if it is revived. 12. Relatively tolerant places of worship, such as the Unitarian Church, the Pastafarians, etc. 13. Your e-mail contacts. —2008 November - 2010 October 3. Emotional bind over women's bindings What if you saw a woman sitting calmly and quietly on a park bench wearing handcuffs, leg chains, a blind fold, and a gag. How would you feel? I'd feel horrified, afraid, sympathetic, and sorry for her. I'd want to free her, or at least call the police. If I did anything to help her, though, I'd be afraid of retribution from whomever bound her. Well, that's just how I feel when I see a woman or girl wearing a hajib (Middle East headscarf). I feel the same when I see a woman wearing a prescribed veil or burqa. Those are not quite as binding as the hypothetical situation I described, and the female might think that she is wearing the hajib purely out of her own volition, but I still believe the pressures on her are horrific and intolerable, so that she basically is restricted like a slave. Now the same is true for all of us in the West who are forced to dress at all. We could be nude if we wouldn't be harassed. Nevertheless, the extreme of the hajib still tugs more at my heartstrings. At least I can imagine that a person in Western dress might be a nudist in their free time. It's hard to imagine that for the hajib-wearer. — © 2008 November 21 to 2013 December 30, Korky Day. Women's tough questions Men, nudism can help you with some answers in delicate situations. For instance, she might asks you, "Does this outfit make me look fat?" You can reply, "To value a person primarily for her looks or clothing is hurtful, oppressive, and sexist. Since I love you, I want you to be happy. So for whatever you want, I'll be supportive. If it would please you, I'd prefer you take the outfit off." Also, she might ask about another woman, "Do you think she is prettier than I?" You could explain, "Our patriarchal society tries to make you insecure so that you obey men, serve them, and help them get power. I want all women to be competent and confident. Let's make this a world where women wield at least half the political and financial power. Prettiness is an opinion, not a fact. I avoid thinking of people in competition for attractiveness." "If I die, will you let your next woman wear my old clothes?" "I wish we could live without clothes. But they are your clothes, so I shall do your will." — © 2008 November, Korky Day. Free too floss You can use hair for dental floss. I've used my own head hair. Take a few strands, maybe a dozen or so. Preferably they're long enough that you can leave them rooted. — © 2008 November, Korky Day. P.S. We had a complaint in 2013 that this Web publication about nudism was spoiled by the inclusion of this tiny non-nudist article. If enough of you agree, I will remove it. Added for 2008 October: Are your pants too tight? In the colder climates, we nudists often have to wear clothes for warmth. Many of you foolishly believe that if you can still breathe, your trousers and underpants are loose enough. How do you think your muscles are going to flex and stay fit if your clothing is always doing their work for them? Tight pants are the new corsets and girdles of our age, causing muscle flabbiness and many other diseases and accidents. When you undress, look at your skin. Do you see line dents where the elastic bands were? Do you see marks in other places that garments were constricting you? If you are white- or brown-skinned, those dents are usually redish. Those should be your warning signals. They are not healthy. Give that clothing to someone thinner! Clothes should be loose enough that you can lift them up without stretching and slide them around all over your skin. Ask me to show you when you see me clothed. Go without underpants, especially "briefs". Even in the rare cases when they are not too tight, they restrict air flow and breed yeast and other infections. People like to laugh at famous entertainers who recently got publicity for being seen in public without underpants, but actually the celebrities have the right idea. If someone gets a glimpse up a skirt, well, at least no one is injured! — © 2008 September - 2010 July 3, Korky Day. Adages, answers, aphorisms, figures of speech, idioms, mottoes, oaths, pearls of wisdom, proverbs, quotations, quotes, sayings, signs, slogans, toasts, zingers, etc. This section and some others which were here have been removed. For information about them, please contact the editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Afraid of being pigeon-holed? I'm getting a little tired of people who practice social nudity but claim not to be nudists or naturists. They're like women who are all in favour of equal rights but claim not to be feminists. People who consider themselves nude optionists (or, to put it backwards, clothing optionists or optionalists) are also nudists if they practice social or public nudity voluntarily. Those who wear clothes at nude sites and events are known scientifically as gawkers, party-poopers, and pervs. — © 2008 June - 2010 July 3, Korky Day. Exceptions to nudity in nudism We nudists are reasonable! Even strict nudist rules are sometimes bent. That lenience is part of the old nudist tradition, which continues today. Examples of exceptions: warm clothes when the place is cold; nappies for babies and other incontinent people; shorts for menstruating women (though many nudist women choose other options); clothes when welcoming people at the entrance to a nudist site; aprons for fry cooks; sun hats; footwear; or, rarely, for unnaturally fearful children. Also: clothes to counter-act or prevent sunburn, illness, injury, etc. Since your face and shoulders usually are most at risk of sunburn, you needn't cover your entire body just to shade those parts. However, sunscreen lotion is very popular among nudists. If you are pained by playing volleyball without a brassiere, you might be allowed to wear a top to play the game, even at a "nude-only" venue. We're not sadists, after all! Just ask an event organiser if you want an exception in order to wear something. They will be kind and polite, even if they disallow the exemption. Some event organisers might be more reasonable than others, so please forgive human fallibility. For instance, the event organizers would be well advised to ensure that the room is warm enough for themselves to go nude. Organisers of nude-only events are unlikely to accept as reasons for adults to cover themselves: religious objections, newness to the nude freedom movement, shyness, fear of being seen naked, fear of others taking offence, fear of mistreatment because of being nude, fear of arousal, etc. That last situation has good solutions, for which just ask the nudist veterans and officials, especially the men. If any of those bother you, please discuss it with the organizers. At nude-optional events, on the other hand, you may wear clothes without having to justify them. However, I hope you can instead join us in the liberation of nudity as much as possible. Please see also the article "Are you proud of tolerating nudes while you are not nude?", above, in Section 5.4.5. — © 2009 March 18 to 2013 December 30, Korky Day. Writing needed This article moved to "Section 19. Possible Upcoming Articles, Ideas for . . . ", below. Proposals to promote nudism, nude-optionism, topfreedom, etc. by Korky Day (continually revised, like most of this Web publication) Without enough effort by us, society could sink further back into genital shame and fear. The social nudity movement needs your help. Please report your efforts to NFIR Calendar. A. Procedures. 1. Stop scheduling events to conflict with nude-friendly events. Pressure the groups which do that. 2. Continue to encourage your group's members to attend events of other nude-friendly groups. 3. Discount admission for indigenes, students, disabled people, low income, and members of La Leche League and NOCIRC. (NIFTY already discounts for those first 4 categories.) 4. One admission card for all 4 clubs sponsoring swims. (Idea of Paul of Skinnydippers.) 5. More quickly admit attenders to events. For instance, at the swims, collect people's money well before the change rooms are open to us. 6. Rewards for bringing newcomers. (See B.7.) 7. NIFTY brings in quite a lot of donations by asking for a yearly donation to be a member, possibly more income than if we charged a set price of 3$. People can then feel good about how generous they were. That's better than just thinking that since they had to pay, they did—or better than just calculating whether they'd save more money by getting a membership and a lower rate of admission. (So they are in a generous mood instead of a scrimping mood.) Also, people who cannot so easily afford 3$ will be more likely to attend and give less—instead of staying away and paying nothing. 8. Discount for first-timers and/or young adults. B. Publicity in public. 1. More tabling for nude groups at non-nude events. 2. Fliers to neighbourhoods around pools. 3. Pass out more fliers on street corners, etc. 4. Discreet posters at each pool all the time. 5. Posters at hostels. 6. Badges and message clothing, such as "Nudist in disguise", "I'd rather be nude", "Nude-peace", "Nude-friendly". 7. To recruiters, maybe pay a commission for each newcomer who attends a swim. Maybe 10$. That reward could be from the host group or from a separate fund. Anyone could start such a fund. (See A.6.) C. Publicity in the media. 1. More free announcements in newspapers, radio, telly, etc. 2. More free announcements on the Internet, especially Eventful and Craigslist. 3. Each group encourages its members to subscribe to NFIR Calendar. Ask every attender to their events to tell you their e-address. If they write it themselves, it will very likely be illegible.) 4. Each group posts a link to NFIR Calendar in its Web publication. (FVNC has done something similar.) 5. Innovative news creation. a. Publicity stunts. b. Demonstrations. c. Public speeches, debates, and discussions. d. Lawsuits. e. More news releases because they generate free publicity, mostly favourable. 6. Buy newspaper ads. 7. Notices in the government recreation brochures. 8. Call in to radio and television talk shows. 9. Write in to Internet discussions. 10. Organise with Web services, possibly Pledgebank, Facebook, Meetup, Eventful, MySpace, FlashMob, DemoChoice, etc. (See others in Section 13, above.) D. Practice. 1. Encourage and support writers who are on our side, such as Carellin Brooks (author of the 2007 book Wreck Beach), even if their writing isn't perfect. See story above, in Section 15, News. 2. Expose more skin in public. When required to wear a swimsuit, boldly wear a skimpy one, though not with a teasing attitude. 3. Streak. (Warning: you could get a criminal record.) 4. Legally, females now can be topfree anywhere males can be (in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, etc.). If you don't exercise that right, you might lose it. That includes all public pool sessions. Also parks and sidewalks. 5. Everywhere, not just at nudist places, refrain from scorning how people dress or don't dress, unless they were pressured into covering up. Seldom mention a person's appearance. Comment constructively or not at all. Even to say how good someone looks might suggest that a person's worth depends largely on their looks, which are largely the luck of their genetics. Instead, encourage an atmosphere of acceptance so that people don't worry so much about what they can't change. When you encourage nutrition, health, and fitness, do so to help make everyone happier in all ways, not just looking good. 6. Go nude at home, especially when others are there, such as guests. Do it indoors and out. (To avoid criminal charges, be careful that you are not visible to people who are off your property.) Go nude at others' homes if they don't object. 7. Skinnydip in groups at isolated places. 8. Don't consume alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, or other psycho-active drugs (drope) while nude or before disrobing. Be naturally high instead. If you are unsatisfied to be nude while totally sober, then perhaps you need to re-examine your entire life and attitudes. You might be harming the cause of nudity. Caffeine and sweets are drope, too. Cut them out, along with sick food, such as white flour, white rice, fried food, artificial sweeteners, etc. 9. Social nudity and breastfeeding should help you with your sex hang-ups and eating disorders. Improve yourself. 10. Don't sexually mutilate yourself or your male or female children ("circumcision"). Fully breastfeed them. E. Initiatives. 1. Show nude-friendly films (non-porn), maybe before or after swims. (NIFTY has shown movies after swims, but without much nudity.) 2. Annual meeting with 1 or 2 representatives of each group. Discuss common problems and how to advance the whole movement. 3. Expand the nude-friendly zone at Ulksen eastward from Acadia Beach (part of greater Wreck Beach) to West Spanish Banks Beach. Nude song list This article has been removed. For information about it, please contact the editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . 18. ABOUT OUR ARCHIVES You may request previous issues (or parts of them). The following articles, and others, in our archives are still pertinent: 1. "Top 10 best excuses for skipping a nude-friendly event" and "Top 35 worst excuses for skipping a nude-friendly event". Humorous. 2007 October. 2. "Event Scheduling. 10 reasons not to plan an event for the same time as a nude-friendly event." Serious. 2007 September. 3. Vancouverites re-invent nudity and the Olympics. Movie reviews of Indecent Exposure to Cars: The Story of the World Naked Bike Ride, and Five Ring Circus (the no-longer-nude Olympics, next in Vancouver and Whistler, BC, in 2010). 2007 March. While not about nudity, you also might like my article (related to the above article about the Olympics): "Ekcheiria! Return peace to the Olympics by 2010!" It is not in the NFIR Calendarwww.korky.ca/philocracy.html , article #7 therein. archives, but on another page at this same Web site: click on "Part 4 Philocracy" in the upper left corner of your screen; or 19. POSSIBLE UPCOMING ARTICLES Would you like to contribute to the following articles or to suggest other articles? In each, the emphasis is on social nudity and/or topfreedom (rather than on eroticism). We do not publish illustrations. If you want to write or research such articles, please contact the NFIRC editor: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . • Articles as in "Ideas for . . .", below. • Speeches, debates, and discussions about nudity and nude sites. • Nude movies. • Nude television. • Nude books. • Nude periodicals. • Nude art and commentary. • Nude Web publications. • Famous nudists, nude-optionists, skinnydippers, topfrees, etc. • Travel reports, including hot springs, especially in BC. • More nude humour, songs, news, and reviews. Ideas for books, articles, movies, television, radio, songs, poems, etc. This is to writers, artists, photographers, composers, scientists, publishers, researchers, students, producers, etc. Below are ideas for books, articles, art, songs, opinion polls, research, science, games, Web publications, movies, television shows, radio programmes, (etc.) about nude freedom. We might publish some of them here (without illustration). Some of those already might have been created. If you know of any, please inform us: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . You might have fun researching them on the Internet. Animal Naughty-Bits Photos (Genitals, Teats, and Bums). Booby Traps: Breast Fetishes of the Under-Breastfed. Breastfeeding, Nudism, and Topfreedom. Cartoon Characters Turn Nudist. Christ—Clothed With the Sun. Clothes Kill: How, Why—and Who Benefits. Clothing Addiction—Suffering, Denial, and Recovery. Clothing-Optional Vs. Nudism. The Desire to Look Good. Famous Nudists. (short biographies and why they go nude; include home nudists). Funny Nude Art. Funny Nude Cartoons. Funny Nude Photos. Gawking at Nudes? Why Not Join In? He Strips, She Strips: Sex Differences in Nudism. Judy Emily Williams biography. Naked Disease, Injury, and Healing. Naked Extremes. (world and regional records). Nude Appearance: Bias, Preference, Roles, Judgement, Emotion, and Acceptance. Nude Art Contest Winners. Nude Bibliography. Nude for Every Sport, Game, and Pastime. Nude Indigenes. (aboriginal people). Nude Matriarchal Utopias: Beyond Virgins, Whores, Housewives, and Nuns. Nude-peace: How Nudism Helps Prevent and Stop War. Nude Photography: Trick, Altered, and Collage. Nude Protest. Nude Song Book and Discography (see song list "Proposals to promote . . .", below, in this section). Nude Wicca. Nudified Art: Altered to Look Nude (paintings, cartoons, photography, sculpture, dolls, cartoons, animated characters, mascots, costumes, quilts, fabric art, etc.) Nudism and Body Health. Nudism and Eating Disorders. Nudism and Politics. Nudism and Religion. Nudism and Sanity. Nudism and Self-Esteem. Nudism and the Law. Nudism for Families. Nudism for People Less Able. Nudism for the Blind. Nudism in the Home. Nudism Through the World's Eyes. Nudism: To See and/or Be Seen? Nudism Pro and Con: by Celebrities and Others. Nudism Vs. Commercial Nudity. Nudist art and photo calendars—with dates of upcoming nudist events and important anniversaries; genuine social nudism. Nudist Celebrity Photos; not made for erotic purposes; Jon Stewart wrote Naked Pictures of Famous People ~1999, but the title is a fake-joke, as the book is essays. Nudist Diversity in Photos. Nudist Dreams. Nudist Fantasy Paradises: Words, Art, and Photos. Nudist Feminism. Nudist Humour. Nudist Limericks. Nudist Lyrics (include new lyrics for old tunes; maybe hold a contest!?) Nudist or Not: People's Choices. (statistics, psychology, etc.) Nudist Poetry. (New or collection of old; appealing to people who don't usually like poetry.) Nudist Science Fiction. Nudist Short Stories. (fiction). Nudist Trivia. Nudist True Stories. Nudists Look at Clothing: Burqas, Veils, Dress Codes, Uniforms, Dressing Alike, Dressing Differently, Peer Pressure, Customs, Fashion, Fads, Anti-Fashion, Topfreedom, and Related Protests (philosophy, psychology, sociology). Nudists' True Stories. Nudity and Crime. (How nudity might help or hurt.) Nudity Problems in Dating and Courting. Nudity Problems in Families. Nudity Problems in Marriage. Nudity Problems in Organisations. Nudity, Sexism, and Patriarchy (Bare, Bikini, or Burqa!?). Nudity, Sport, and Recreation. The Oddest-Looking Nudes (pictures). Religious Nudists. Skimpy Bikinis and Bulky Jams (and other men's "shorts"). Streaking. Topfreedom: Breasts Are for Children to Suck. A Treasury of Filthy Religious Art Masterpieces (proposed unpublished book). Wreck Beach Nudist Calendars --with dates of upcoming events and important anniversaries; could be several versions, such as art, photography, etc. (The e-group Wreck Beach Memories is now defunct; above in Section 13.) 20. CONCLUSION Criteria for inclusion of events This NFIR Calendar includes upcoming nude-friendly events, plus events which encourage topfree, in "British Columbia, Canada". Although nude sex is usually good, it is not the subject of this e-publication. To save you time, confusion, and annoyance, we delete past events. * Events for pro-nude people to attend clothed are in this fuchsia colour and with an asterisk (*). Such events are related to the cause, such as restaurant socials, fund-raisers, and government meetings. Some events are not listed herein if they are announced only to a group's members, such as at private resorts. For many of those resorts, please see Section 8 above. Please get on the e-lists of any of the groups for further information. Also check their Web publications often, such as www.wreckbeach.org and http://club.skinnydipper.ca/other_events.php . Spoilers For a book, play, movie, performance, etc., we do not reveal the ending or spoil a surprise, etc. E-precautions When e-writing to us the first time from an e-address, so that we can tell that your message isn't "spam" junk mail, please include "NFIR" in your "Subject" line and maybe some other words you wouldn't see in spam. When we send it to you, we send from "Korky Day editor" and state the discreet "NFIR Calendar BC" in the "Subject" line. You won't see the word "nude" until you see this Web site. Going the opposite way, our messages to you, too, might be rejected or categorized as spam or bulk. Reduce the chance of that by putting this e-address into your e-mail "address book" or "contacts" list: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com . Submissions Please submit new and revised information, comments, and questions as soon as possible. Please warn us about failed, wrong, tentative, and uncertain events and information. Please send to editor, below. Subscriptions Volunteers produce NFIR Calendar and e-mail a link to it monthly at no charge. Archives available (see Section 18, above). To comment, enquire, e-subscribe for free, or cancel your subscription, etc.: Publisher-editor-writer Nude-Friendly Information and Referral (formerly Nudist Information and Referral). Since 1970. Non-profit. Lately we have been offering "talking stick" and "shy therapy" at Wreck Beach. Of the dozens of Web site mentions we print here, only 3 mention this site, as far as we know: Van Tan Club, Skinnydipper RC, & NIFTY (Sections 6.2, 6.3, and 6.5 above)! Volunteer publisher-editor-writer Korky Day: korkyday [insert a with a circle round it] yahoo [dot] com We probably can talk by telephone if you ask by e-mail, etc. This Web site: www.korky.ca which is also reached via http://nfirc.weebly.com . Contact also for editing of your writing of any kind. "Even the best writers need editors." 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