Deep Cleaned the Sauna Sparkly Cedar Eucalyptus Magnificent

Posted on February 6, 2012 by prawns

What is it with people named Meaghan and how they all have such sauna greatness in their sweat?

Meaghan Orlinski, the newest sauna hero in our midst: provided the muscle and meticulousness to get Sauna III @ The Hammock Residency into sparkly red cedar gleam yesterday eve prior to another well attended sweat.

The BC Mobile Sauna Society Presents:

How To Clean Your 3 Tonne Mobile Sauna in 2hrs

Step One – Get a really badass flood light (blinding level)
Step Two – Hot water, soap, and scrubbies and a bucket
Step Three – Remove all benches and really get-in there
Step Four – Scrape, laugh and grunt the detritus out
Step Five – Hose it down, eh?
Step Five – Fire up the rocks and heat it up!

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Winter Newsletter!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by karlis

If you haven’t already seen it the Winter 2011-2012 newsletter pdf is out! We’re really excited about it because it looks amazing and it’s got all the latest BCMSS news. View it, print it out, show your friends!

BCMSS Winter 2011/2012 Newsletter

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New Years Sweat: 11 years of Saunasessions

Posted on January 4, 2012 by karlis

Jan 1 was our traditional new years day sweat. This year was co-hosted in East Van by the Hammock Residency and the Slivovica house who were conveniently having a balkan jam session right next door. Special bonus: new changeroom lighting! Thanks to all for the good times. We’re looking forward to an exciting year ahead.

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Mobile Sauna: Artist in Residence at The Hammock, Vancouver, BC. Sept 2011 – May 2012

Posted on December 23, 2011 by prawns

 

We have been enjoying being the Artist in Residence at The Hammock. Karlis built a new mobile shower for outdoor bathers and we have been making some safety and style improvements that have been long overdue. Solar charger for the secondary battery array, new grip tape for the wooden stairs, and new modular lighting rig.

The Coordinator of the Hammock Residency, Heidi Nagtegaal, asked to write a little something about this ongoing pleasure project, and the following is what we submitted for her website.

We built a SaunaTruck. Several, in fact. We roll them around and sweat by the ocean, in parks, in backyards, and up in the mountains by rivers and lakes. Our current mobile sauna is made inside of an Antique 1970′s Hino KL Cargo Truck and you can see it under construction. It has a change room in the entrance and a sauna that seats 6-14 people (14 is very friendly). It gets really hot and the red cedar feels amazing inside. Cedar is quite the healing material. The SaunaTruck is sometimes available for rentals. Keep in mind that it’s a very old and temperamental truck; but we do love parties and festivals and weddings and full moon gatherings and all sorts of stuff like that. We’ve been having weekly sunday saunasessions since 2001. You may have been already.  Some sessions are huge and awesome, some are small and awesome. They are in various locations with various intentions. Some are dance parties, some are potlucks, or live jams, or tea parties, or booze-ups. We’ve also seen maybe more mobile saunas than you can imagine, and we’ve got the biggest photo gallery of mobile saunas anywhere. Got some ideas or want more information? — Adrian (Prof. Prawns) Sinclair & Karlis (Count Snacky) Kalnins
Adrian (Prof. Prawns) Sinclair – Besides co-curating Mobile Sauna Truck Happenings, Adrian has been staging Guerilla Freestyle-Rap interventions via Sound Bike with the Freestyle Focus Group FFG, growing and fermenting various foods, Serving Tea with the RYTWM Project, and doing activist and communications work for arts and non-profit groups like [PIVOT Legal, GREENPEACE, 45WEST STUDIOS and Wilderness Committee]. He is an amateur entho-botanist-forager, an academically trained philosopher and a children’s zine writer. He lives in eastvan with his jade plant Maurice M P.
Karlis (Count Snacky) Kalnins – Karlis Kalnins is based in Vancouver where he bio-intensively gardens, builds mobile bike-based sound systems, freestyle raps, develops his skills in mycology, and is co-director of the newly founded BC Tea Growers Association. His past works in the arts contributed to the early formations of locative media art in Canada. In 2001 Karlis founded the Locative Media Lab with Marc Tuters to explore the field of user generated cartography. These efforts resulting in GPSter (2001), Geograffiti (2002) and now Where-FI (2003). His work has been presented internationally at conferences and new media festivals including: IMPAKT (Utrecht), Media Architecture (Riga), Collaborative Cartography (London), VSMM (Berkeley + Montreal), Next 5 Minutes, E-Culture Fair (Amsterdam) and others.
http://saunasessions.ca/v2/saunas

 

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Back to the Banks 2011

Posted on January 4, 2011 by karlis

Ok the two nights at the Two Kings 10 year sauna sweatacular were dope, but we’ve got one more: we’re going back to Spanish Banks tonight for another beach mission. Maybe you were there for the epic acid Laser Zepplin after party circa 2005? Maybe you biked in for our Spanish banks ice trilogy in December 2009? Or maybe you just heard how amazing it is to stand sipping cider steaming naked in the moonlight on the beach in winter with an epic view of Vancouver and the north shore mountains. You can’t rent beachfront moments like this in this city, you just have to own it. Like tonight. Second-to-last parking lot at Spanish Banks, 8 till late.

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10 years of saunasessions

Posted on January 1, 2011 by karlis

So 10 years ago we had this idea to build a sauna in a truck and drive it up to the Intention festival for new years eve. That sunday we had a few peeps over for a sweat. We did it again the next week. And every week since. 10 sweaty years. This saturday, Jan 1, and this sunday Jan 2 we’ll be trying to figure out what happened and celebrating all those buckets of persperation. Bring some tunes, some tea, any old sauna party photos, and of course, bring a towel. 2Kings estate, 4093 Dumphries, basically on Kingsway just east of Knight st, across from the Rona, 8 till late.

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Creation Slayshun

Posted on September 27, 2010 by karlis

OK that may have been the most epic saunasession ever (or at least “one of the. . .”). KLC was closing down the Creation Station in Whistler and we went up there to heat it up. The tension started building when the truck (of course) broke down before we even started moving, but you know we’re dope so we got that shit operational. Were we doing gung fu cha styles on a stove in the cab during a rainstorm on the way up? Oh yea. Epic sweats for two days in whistler jumping in the river at Function Junction? Check. 2 days of dressup with hot peeps and limitless wardrobe? Freestyling for 16 hours with a mic feed live from the sauna? Rapping in a real fucking bear’s face? Ride back to Van with CP and Professor Prawns and a blown transmission with only two gears? Fuck yaaaah.

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Seshin in Whistler

Posted on September 25, 2010 by karlis

So don’t come to my house in East Van Sunday night cause I’m in Whister closing out KLC’s infamous Creation Station (at Function Junction) in some serious saunasession style. You know the deets, bring a towel! What I hear is that Prawnsie and CP will be out too so you know there’s gonna be something freestyle serious

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Summer heat freestyles

Posted on August 30, 2010 by karlis

I’m completely stoked about our recent summer sessions! We made it through the heat for some low-key saunasessions with help from PBS, CP and Unity crew. Epic freestyles! Last night we slayed ‘em with the freestyle bike at the PNE and Deuce Lite HQ.

Check out some details (like the premiere of the freestyle bike and our night with CP) over at Professor Prawns Presents.

The cold nights are back and we know you need to sweat! We got some dope locations lined up, so get ready for fall sauna season!

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Basscoast Saunasessions & Woodhead live at Slay Bay!

Posted on July 28, 2010 by karlis

We just rolled the truck back from Squamish! Holy fuck, Basscoast!

The police were so stoked about the saunatruck they insisted we get a tow from Lions Bay up to Squamish after we hung out with them for an hour or two on the highway. By the time we got to the festival our special agents had our riverfront site marked out ready for 4 days of sweaty nights and icewater plunges. The truck was made for this. We were made for this.

Woodhead slayed the Slay Bay for his signature 4am set

http://saunasessions.ca/mp3/Woodhead-Bass-Coast-Project-July25-10.mp3

01. Redlight feat. Roses Gabor – Stupid
02. Sony – Sugar Rush
03. Suncylcle – No More Feat. Mavado (Redlight & Toddla T Remix)
04. DJ Zinc – Killa Sound feat No Lay
05. Footsteps – Tip Toe
06. Jack Beats – Out Of Body
07. Drop The Lime – Set Me Free (Harvard Bass remix)
08. Warrior One – Bad Like Jimmy Cliff
09. MJ Cole Feat. Serocee – AO (Mj’s Open Your Gob Dubb)
10. Spoonface – Wine Pon Dem
11. The Partysquad – Murderer
12. Malente & ManroX – Spend Ur Cash
13. Neighbour and Spilt Milk – Get With This (Sofalumpkins remix)
14. Crookers – Put Your Hands On Me (Solo Remix)
15. Bobby & Klein – Get That Bass
16. Roska – In Your Handbag
17. Zombie Disco Squad – Vie
18. Buraka Som Sistema – Yah! (feat_Petty)
19. NB Funky – Nutz
20. Gregor Salto – Just For Fun

Big thanks to the Basscoast girls and crew!

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