Assemble 21+ Night: Wet Felting Sauna Hats

Description:

Sauna hats are the perfect functional accessory for your next trip to the sauna! Sauna hats insulate your head while protecting your hair and your ears. We will be joined by Greg Schaffer from Bad Sauna and by our guest expert Vic Adair, who will be leading us through the process of wet felting our very own sauna hats!

21+ Nights include instruction, materials, snacks, and drinks! Free tickets are available for Garfield residents, with a selected number of scholarship tickets also available to anyone for whom full-price tickets are prohibitive.

Ticket prices cover the cost of staff time, materials, and food & beverages. Any amount made beyond these expenses goes towards supporting Assemble’s free kids STEAM programs, such as afterschool and summer camps!

About Bad Sauna:

Sauna—the Finnish practice of steam bathing—has been around for thousands of years, providing a reliable source of both individual and collective wellbeing. In fact, you can find people getting together to sweat in most times and places, from the Turkish hammam to the Lakota inipi, making steam bathing a truly universal human heritage. Bad Sauna (Swedish for “Bath Sauna”) aims to honor this tradition by reviving Pittsburgh's once vibrant public sweat culture. By doing so, we hope to lower our collective stress, create a relaxed space for civic life, and have fun. You can follow us @bad.sauna

About Greg Schaffer:

Greg Schaffer is a bath master and the owner/operator of Bad Sauna. A Pittsburgh native, Greg discovered his love of sweat bathing at Archimedes Banya while living in San Francisco and has been scheming on ways to revive Pittsburgh's bathing culture ever since. Greg has received training from bath masters in five countries, including the International Bath Academy in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he received his bath masters certification in 2023.

About Vic Adair:

Vic Adair is a multidisciplinary teaching artist, specializing in jewelry design, DJing, and wet and needle felting! For their real job, they turn people into magical creatures at Renaissance Faires and music festivals across the country. Their passion is in building community through the arts, finding ways to play as an adult, and the healing magic of saunas and bath houses. Don't miss the launch of their sober somatic dance party at the Glitterbox Theatre on November 30th called So Magic!, a space for ritual and play that centers queer bodies. You can follow them on Instagram @mx.defy and Soundcloud @Mx.defy.

About Assemble:

Located at 4824 Penn Avenue in the Garfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s east end, Assemble is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization with the mission to unite artists, technologists, and makers with our neighbors of all demographics and provide a platform for experiential learning, opening creative processes, and building confidence through making.

Founded in 2011, Assemble envisions a diverse community that creates, connects, and learns through the experience of art and technology.

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