SAUNA: TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, FOLK HEALING AND MAGIC Dalva Lamminmäki and Frank Eld will talk about Finnish sauna culture, within and outside of Finland by asking: Do we still have space for these myths and rituals as part of the experience of taking a sauna, and can we recognize the intangible cultural heritage in our sauna activities?
Celebrating National Sauna Week with Aimee O'Carroll and Jon Gentry from Go'C, a leading architecture firm in Seattle, Washington. Together they will present the two saunas that GO’C has designed and built in Seattle including a floating sauna that explores connections between community, water, and fire; and sauna chapel for a Seattle resident that acts […]
Finlandia Foundation Boston celebrates sauna with a mobile sauna at the Scandinavian Cultural Center at 206 Waltham Street in Newton from Friday to Sunday, February 23-25. There will be buckets of water for rinsing, an outdoor shower with a privacy screen, birch whisks to use in the sauna and a cold water dunk pool located […]
ERIC AHO: LIFE IN CONTRAST – ART AND THE SAUNA Finlandia Foundation National Artist of the Year Eric Aho explores the role that sauna has played in his life and its impact on his painting.
The Finlandia Foundation Utah and Finnish club at Brigham Young University will sponsor a sauna party for a group of Finnish students. We will also be providing Finnish food and treats ordered from Touch of Finland, as well as good quality sausages and hot dogs from local stores.
A local sauna/sauna event company will host sessions at The Yard. This is an opportunity to introduce people to a sauna service that is readily available in our community. A cooperative effort by Finlandia Foundation Twin Cities and Finnish American Cultural Activities.
The Suomi chapter will host a mobile sauna for the day. Also creating a "sauna map" of the area. Check for sauna booking times.
Tune in for an exclusive, limited time screening of the Finland episode of Perfect Sweat by Mikkel Aaland. In the 34-minute video, Mikkel visits a variety of Finnish saunas with local host Samuel Aarnio. The documentary series is inspired by Mikkel’s 1978 book Sweat. The link to the video will be available on the 24th; check back then!
“Sauna: History and Construction” presented by Mike Potsaid and Erwin Kann. Breakfast from 8–10 am of pannukakku, the traditional Finnish oven pancake, and pulla. Vendors and baked goods sale. Sauna Museum open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; X-C skiing, snowshoeing or hiking from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
A public forum to discuss the possibilities of a public sauna in the area. Inspired by the “new” public saunas going up in Finland, the idea has been raised here. National Sauna Week is a good time to talk about the possibilities of more public saunas in the Keweenaw. The forum is free and open […]
