AFFILIATED NATIONALLY WITH JUNE 2012 SERVING THE NATURIST COMMINUTY FOR OVER TEN YEARS VOL. 11 NO 6 NUDIST GROUPS TO SUPPORT NUDE BIKE RIDE THROUGH L.A. ON JUNE 16 SCNA EVENTS IN JUNE 2012 SCNA is joining forces with the local YNA (Youth Naturists of Saturday, June 9 America) club and also with ANFA (American Naturist Families Pool Party, Brentwood Association, based in Long Beach) to support and help organize Friday-Sunday, June 8-10 the World Naked Bike Ride event schedule for downtown Los Angeles on June 16. AANR Summer Festival Glen Eden, Corona Saturday, June 16 Last year, the event was hosted by couple of non-nudists who Nude Bike Ride thru LA wanted to promote bike safety. They decided not to be the organizers this year, so our 3 groups have stepped in. Saturday-Sunday, June 23-24 Deep Creek Hike San Bernardino Mtns (3-club event) The police permit is for a bike Saturday June 30 ride starting in Silverlake, Independence Day Parade/ $2 Bill Day Carpinteria snaking through downtown Los Angeles and back again. Monthly Meet-up Dinner Meetings Tuesday, June 12, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Van Nuys Last year, over 250 riders Thursday, June 21, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, West LA participated in the event on the same route. Because it was a Friday, June 8, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Ventura “freedom of speech protest” Monday, June 18, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Pasadena against the U.S. dependency Wednesday, June 27, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Torrance on oil and also to promote Naked Yoga bicycle safety, LAPD allowed Indefinitely postponed, Culver City the riders to be nude and, in SCNA EVENTS IN JULY 2012 fact, they gave the riders an Saturday, July 7, Noon-8pm escort through downtown! SCNA joins Olympian Club at GE for picnic If you do not want to go nude Saturday , July 14, Noon – whenever or top-free, another idea is to Deer Park Olympics, Body Painting Contest, Toga! apply body paint before the Sunday July 22, Noon – 7pm race to cover "private" areas. Others may choose to hang signs Pool Party and annual SCNA elections, Northridge over their bodies so their skin can only be seen in profile. You can do this at the staging area during the hour before the ride Saturday, July 28, 2:30pm – 5:30 pm begins. Nude Bowling, Montrose (3-club event) Monthly Meet-up Dinner Meetings The whole point is to have fun doing something you normally Tuesday, July 10, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Van Nuys cannot do in public! The other goal is to get our message out in a fun way that will bring minimum discomfort to un-prepared Friday, July 13, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Ventura onlookers as the riders streak by. Thursday, July 19, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, West LA Monday July 16, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Pasadena Bring your own bicycle, as none will be provided. There will be Wednesday, July 25, 6:45 – 8:30 PM, Torrance a couple of pickup trucks following in case you break down (or get too tired) along the way. Naked Yoga Indefinitely postponed, Culver City To help keep all the names in one place, please sign up on the event’s Facebook page (use the Facebook search feature for: © COPYRIGHT 2012, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NATURIST ASSOCIATION, A NON-PROFIT “Naked Bike Ride Los Angeles 2012”). Those who sign up will 501(C)(7) CORPORATION, CALABASAS, CALIFORNIA, USA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. be sent the address of the assembly point and nearby parking lots IMAGES AND TEXT ARE THE PROPERTY OF SCNA AND CANNOT BE REPRODUCED about 48 hours beforehand. WITHOUT ADVANCED WRITTEN PERMISSION. SCNA Newsletter for June 2012 Page 1 of 10 NUDE BOWLING EVENT SET FOR JULY 28 You asked for it (for years!), so you got it! SCNA is hosting a Nude Bowling event at the Montrose Bowl (near the Rose Bowl, if you don't know where Montrose is) from 2:30 to 5:30 pm on Saturday, July 28. We have rented out the entire alley for the event, and it has complete privacy from the street. There will be nobody there but us for these 3 hours. Cost will be $20/person. We need 25 people to “break even,” so we have opened up this event to all our local clubs such as YNA, AANFA, NitOC, and the Olympian club to be sure we can get enough to cover our deposit. The cost includes shoes. This will be a pot luck event, with the bowling alley providing water, soft drinks, and beer and wine for a nominal sum. They have no kitchen or refrigerator available, so all food you bring must be prepared in advance (bring a cooler if your food must be kept chilled). We will have prizes for best scores. More information and Tim and Ricc celebrate with a birthday cake at the Westchester party. directions next month. Please RSVP to SCNA at (818) 225-2273 or via email to [email protected]. We will have our PayPal SCNA CLUB EVENTS link operational for this event by July 1 so you can pay in advance YEA! PLENTY OF SUN AT SCNA online. WESTCHESTER PARTY No “May Gray” this year! The sun was out and the 30 members and guests who attended had an excellent day to start working on their tans, enjoy a good soak, and eat some terrific food. The party theme was “Viva Fiesta,” and we had a wide variety of Mexican food to choose from including some delicious homemade chili rienos, fideo noodles, and chilaquiles, plus a wonderful guacamole dip for the chips! Also, Akila baked a birthday cake for Tim and Ricc, both of whom celebrated their 60th birthdays a week apart this month. As is a tradition at this party, Michael brought out his “Catch Phrase” game, and many members joined in the fun. Thanks again to Michael for being such a gracious host, as always. Bare to Breakers – SCNA members ran in this annual 5k run through the streets of San Francisco on May 20. There are no laws against public nudity here and an estimated 700 persons (out of the 50,000 who did the run) did it without clothes. SCNA’S ONE ACT PLAY PERFORMANCES POSTPONED We are informed our lead actress has a schedule conflict and has withdrawn from our one act play, Love the Body Positive. We have had no choice but to cancel the scheduled performances for June 9 (at our Brentwood party) and June 10 (Glen Eden). We are have posted an ad on Craig’s List for the lead female role and we are also interviewing some local nudist park members for the part. We will notify you when the show is rescheduled. Members and guests pose for traditional group photo in Westchester . SCNA Newsletter for June 2012 Page 2 of 10 COOL SATURDAY BUT WARM SUNDAY AT OLIVE DELL FOR ANNUAL PIRATE WEEKEND We had a nice club turnout at Olive Dell over the Memorial Day Weekend to celebrate their annual Pirates of the Caribbean Festival. It was too bad the weather was unseasonably cool (cloudy and 68 degrees!) on Saturday, as this was the first time we ever saw so many clothed nudists on the patio there! However the Jacuzzi was great, and we shared many fun conversations there with the other guests, OD members, and even a few friends who were visiting from Deer Park up the road. Park volunteers gamely put on a very energetic vaudeville-type MOVIE “HIT AND RUN” IS SET review for us in mid-afternoon. Bobby’s dinner of BBQ ribs with FOR AUGUST 24 RELEASE all the trimmings is always the best bargain of the day! A summer romantic/comedy/chase movie, which includes Sunday and Monday, the sun came out early, and many more SCNA members as extras, is set for an August 24 release. people arrived to celebrate. The Review was repeated Saturday, “Paki,” Gloria, and Bob spent about six hours as movie extras accompanied by music this time, to the delight of all. last June filming a nude scene in a motel which may last all of ten seconds on the big screen; however, the scene is prominently included in the movie’s trailer, now out in theaters and on You Tube. In the trailer, those in the motel room are dressed in bras and panties, but in the real movie they are full-frontal naked. The film, originally titled “Outrun,” stars Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Tom Arnold (True Lies), Dax Shepard (Parenthood). The trailer indicates Shepard is in the witness protection program after driving the getaway car in a bank heist some years before. The other robbers are now out of prison and discover where Shepard is living. They want their money, which Shepard has hidden. To see the trailer, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaxzTw8qvg SCNA Newsletter for June 2012 Page 3 of 10 ON-GOING ACTIVITIES: SCNA MONTHLY MEET-UPS NOW AVAILABLE MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS! Open to members, non-members, and first-timers! Topics range from personal experiences to current club info and news events affecting local beaches, nudist parks, or the naturist movement in general. Find us on-line at: http://www.meetup.com/nature-519/ This meeting is a great first- step for non-nudists who are WEDNESDAYS: SOUTH BAY/TORRANCE curious and have questions Always the fourth Wednesday of each month. about naturism, and it is a required orientation before June 27 and July 25, 6:45PM to 8:30PM non-members are invited Location: Coco's Restaurant (left-rear section of restaurant) (on a space-available basis) 18120 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, 90504 to attend one of our regular monthly pool parties.