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Faces of Canadian Nudism

 
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Evan Nicks
A historical audio series exploring uncommon people who have gone to extraordinary lengths to incorporate nudity into their lives. It's an interview series profiling activists, artists, individualists and misfits who have a singular point of view on the world. Check out the behind-the-episode notes for each episode at http://www.planetnude.co/t/naked-age-notes
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In this episode, we'll delve into the history of Canada’s nudism movements. We’ll hear the stories of various Canadian nudist leaders, and learn how two distinct regions found common ground and forged a cooperative partnership, their shared aim to represent Canadian naturists across Canada and internationally. And then we’ll meet Petra Scheller, a woman whose relentless advocacy and effort in service of that union made her a face of Canadian naturism.

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Naked Age Notes: Faces of Canadian Nudism

Evan Nicks
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Jul 19
Naked Age Notes: Faces of Canadian Nudism

From initial introduction to finished episode, this expedition into the nudist career of Petra Scheller took over ten months. While Petra was influential in Canadian nudism for more than three decades, most of the writing by or about her occurred on the pages of Canadian nudist magazines I have little access to in Southern California. It took multiple informal preliminary interviews and fact finding before I realized how deep her story actually ran, and how much more work I would have to do to do justice to its telling. From the moment we were introduced over email by a mutual friend, she was incredibly gracious and patient with me as I probed into her history of running around naked.

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Faces of Canadian Nudism; Clockwise from top left: Petra Scheller, Michel Vaïs, Helen & Doug Beckett, Stéphane Deschênes, Ray Connett, Petra Scheller

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