Swims
N.I.F.T.Y. INDOOR SWIM NIGHTS
Warning!
Attention!! Sometimes our swims are cancelled or moved to a different location. Please check our
calendar events page or scroll further down this page to see the latest information regarding dates/times of confirmed swims.
Location: Templeton Pool, 700 Templeton drive, Vancouver.
Cost: Regular admission is $9. NIFTY offers half price swim rates to students and low income people. Children (18 years & younger) are admitted free when accompanied by their parents. Annual membership (by donation, $0 and up) required for all adult admissions. Please bring a quarter (refundable) or your own lock for the locker.
Important!
Attention Newcomers: Your first NIFTY swim is only $1. Please click on the image below, print, photograph or save the discount coupon on your smartphone or camera and present it at the next NIFTY swim. We accept the coupons on paper, digital cameras and smartphones.
Following each swim night there is usually an optional get together for snacks at a local restaurant. Check with the front desk for location. All N.I.F.T.Y. swims are clothing optional.
OTHER SWIMS (please verify the details with the official event organizers):
WRECK BEACH SWIM CLUB
Location: Lord Byng Pool, 3990 W. 14th, Vancouver.
Following each swim night there is usually an optional get together for snacks at a local restaurant. Check with the front desk for location. All Wreck Beach Swim Club swims are nude only. Visit the Wreck Beach website for more details: http://www.wreckbeach.org/swim.html
SKINNYDIPPER SWIM NIGHTS
Location: Newton Wave Pool – 13730 72nd Ave, Surrey
All Skinnydipper swims are nude only. Visit the Skinnydipper Nude Recreation website for more details: http://www.skinnydipper.ca/
Permanent link to this article: http://niftynude.org/swims/
NIFTY is first and foremost an activist political entity. Although organizing and engaging in social and recreational activities is necessarily part of our function, our primary focus must always remain on political organization towards full clothing-optional rights in all public spaces in Canada.
(NIFTY Constutution, Paragraph 2)
All decisions at NIFTY meetings shall be made by consensus if possible. In the event that consensus cannot he achieved after reasonable attempts, a vote shall take place, with majority rule carrying.
No individual members may use cameras at NIFTY events. NIFTY may authorise camera(s) to photograph special events; in that case “no photo” wristbands and/or designated photography areas will be established, depending on the event. All participants shall be privately made aware of photography and release options at the entrance to the event.
Membership in NIFTY shall be open to anyone who supports the elimination of legislation forcing the wearing of clothing in public spaces.
While many NIFTY members are nudists and naturists, we are neither a nudist nor a naturist group. Membership is open to any person who supports our vision of Canada and a world free of legislated clothing requirements.
(NIFTY Constutution, Paragraph 3)
NIFTY meetings shall be non-smoking and clothing-optional if possible.
NIFTY has held many events over the years: topfree and clothing-optional parades and marches, topfree picnics and book readings, clothing-optional dances and movie nights, and more. We also usually host a clothing-optional picnic following the Vancouver portion of the annual World Naked Bike Ride. While these events are celebratory in nature, they also serve to educate the public about the harmful effects of suppressing the natural body, and to advocate for clothing-optional rights.
NIFTY membership shall be by donation, with no minimum. Lack of financial means shall never he a barrier to NIFTY membership.
Notwithstanding (7) above, to amend the NIFTY constitution, a two-thirds majority vote at a legitimate NIFTY meeting shall he required. Notwithstanding (7) above, to amend these bylaws, a simple majority vote at a legitimate NIFTY meeting shall be required.
Lady Godiva
Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. In 1043 Leofric founded and endowed a Benedictine monastery at Coventry. People of Coventry were suffering under her husband’s oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva asked her husband to remit the tolls. Leofric said he would grant her request if she would strip naked and ride through the streets of the town. Lady Godiva took him at his word and, after issuing a proclamation that all persons should stay indoors and shut their windows, she rode through the town, clothed only in her long hair. Just one person in the town, a tailor ever afterwards known as Peeping Tom, disobeyed her proclamation in one of the most famous instances of voyeurism. In the story, Tom bores a hole in his shutters so that he might see Godiva pass, and is struck blind. In the end, Godiva’s husband keeps his word and abolishes the onerous taxes.
Established by BC Supreme Court, 2000 June 8
(Citation: Maple Ridge v. Meyer, 2000 BCSC 902)
“We had a legal opinion and its very clear she is correct. It is not a crime.” – Terry La Liberte, Vancouver Police Board
“Deputy [Vancouver Police] Chief Doug LePard said he would notify the training session of the department to issue a bulletin for police officers.” – Vancouver Courier, 2007 Feb.28
NIFTY is proud of its twenty-plus year history of advocacy, and we intend to continue our fight until all citizens have the freedom to wear clothes if they choose, and not wear them if they choose, in public spaces around the world.
NIFTY shall be, as much as possible, a grassroots democratic organization. No president or permanent chair shall exist. A chair shall be elected at each NIFTY meeting for the purpose of that meeting only, their term ending with that meeting. The only table officers are the secretary and the treasurer.
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1. Nudists are asexual people.