SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

Craft & DIY Workshops with Liz Rosino Wright & Brian Wright

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 2 10am – 1pm
Leatherworking – Mason Jar Sleeve

Learn how fun and easy it is to work with leather! Become familiar with how to stitch, rivet, and tool one of nature’s most durable and beautiful materials. You’ll leave with a unique thermal sleeve with your own design that will transform a standard mason jar into a personalized camp mug that’s perfect for hot and cold drinks! You’ll also gain the skills and confidence you need to make all the leather goods your heart desires, such as wallets, belts, and jewelry.

Wed Aug 3 10am – 1pm
Block Printing – Fabric and Journals

Block printing is one of the most ancient types of printmaking and is an excellent way to make something truly by hand that can also be very easily replicated. In this class you will create your design, carve your block, and explore printing on various materials to make stunning tote bags, journals, or tea towels. Take the block home with you and continue printing on everything in sight! (Wear clothes that are ok for you,or others, to possibly get paint on.)

Thurs Aug 4 10am – 1pm
Macramé – Plant Hanger

Learn the relaxing technique of macramé, the art of tying cord into knots in such a way that creates useful and decorative shapes. You’ll learn the basics and apply your new skills to create a modern plant hanger that will bring life to a corner of your home. Once you’ve mastered the knots, there is no limit to the masterpieces you can create!

Started in 2016 by Liz and Brian Wright, Assembly PDX offers opportunities to make fun, unique and modern crafts and DIY projects. Helping people harness their creativity and feel empowered, Assembly provides well-organized educational events, kits, and supplies. Originally from Ohio, Liz Rosino Wright has a long history of creative projects and pursuits as a professional artist, designer, video producer, small business owner, and museum researcher. Liz founded Craftin’ Outlaws, an alternative craft fair in Columbus, Ohio that attracts thousands, now in its 11th year. She finds tools, materials, and processes from the usual to the unexpected to be a major source of inspiration in her work. Brian Wright, a native of Southwest Washington, is a busy Portland-based drummer, event producer, and lover of all crafts beginning with his addiction to sewing in 2010.

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day paid to the Sou’wester.

Material fee for each class $15 paid to instructor. Classes geared for beginners but all skill levels welcome. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Workshop for students ages 16+. Max # of students:15

Please RSVP by day before each workshop     souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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So sorry folks….due to zero students signing up for this class we have to cancel it.

Animation & Painting Workshops with Rachel Blumberg

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 9 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Found Object Fun

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using materials we’ll collect on a nature walk, as well as anything you’d like to bring from home.  Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor.

Wed Aug 10 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Colors and Shapes

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using cut paper shapes and characters. Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor. Bring a pair of scissors too!

Thurs Aug 11 10am – 1pm

Painting Workshop: Make Your Own Tea Towels

Make your own beautiful household art.  In this class you will learn several water based painting on fabric  techniques and  discuss how to choose subject matter with a focus on storytelling and narrative in art. Painting experience is not necessary.  This is great relaxing fun for kids and adults alike!

Please bring an additional material fee of $15 paid directly to the instructor. Please wear clothes ok for you, or others, to get paint on.

Rachel Blumberg is a multi-media artist and educator who works in the fields of visual art, music, and stop motion animation. As a visual artist she makes paintings, drawings, found object pieces and other work inspired by dream land, folklore, history, nature, and people’s stories. She shows regularly as well as creating many commissioned works. As a musician she has performed, toured and recorded with many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Califone, Norfolk & Western, Laura Gibson, Death Vessel,  Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley and many more, as well as composing and performing her own music. As a stop motion animator she has created shorts and music videos for Nada Surf, Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), and Musee Mechanique among others. As an educator she teaches drums and general music, stop motion animation, painting, and  mixed media arts to kids and adults privately, in workshops, camps, and has also worked for many public and private schools and non-profits. Originally from Portland, OR, she now lives in Rhode Island.

Annie Beedy grew up riding horses, drawing spaceships and skipping class in the idyllic wilds of Northern California. After a failed attempt at institutionalized education, she headed to the Pacific Northwest where she became involved with that region’s incredibly vibrant music and arts scene. These days she identifies as a nature based designer and photographer. Often she can be found covered in dust in her woodshop handcarving kitchen tools, plant stands and furniture as well as designing gardens, interior spaces and floral arrangements. Best known photographically for her casual, photojournalistic portraiture, she captures intimate, real moments in human lives. Annie shoots with natural and available light. No bells and whistles needed, just a good instinct for light and recognition of the right moments. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Vogue, Nylon, Dwell and more – and on the sides of Portland’s Tri-Met buses and countless blogs.

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day.

Parent-guided kids ages 6-11 welcome. All kids age 12 and up welcome! Adults welcome! All parent/kid teams welcome! All skill levels welcome. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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The Sou’wester is so excited to have these two ladies joining us!

Rebecca Clay Cole is a musician from Great Crossing, KY. She has played a multitude of keyboards, drums, and/or percussion instruments in many bands including The Minders, Wild Flag, Rebecca Gates & the Consortium, and Portland Cello Project. She currently plays keytar in Portland’s own Chanti Darling and keyboards in Seattle’s Telekinesis, in addition to performing and recording her own music as Clay Cole.

Rebecca Gates is a US based musician, curator, artist and audio editor. She has released five albums, three as leader of the critically acclaimed group The Spinanes (Sub Pop), toured internationally and appeared as a vocalist on numerous records by artists as wide ranging as The Decemberists and Willie Nelson. Her record Ruby Series was hailed by Spin Magazine as “warm, thoughtful, and melodically gorgeous.”

So sorry folks….due to zero students signing up for this class we have to cancel it.

Animation & Painting Workshops with Rachel Blumberg

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 9 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Found Object Fun

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using materials we’ll collect on a nature walk, as well as anything you’d like to bring from home.  Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor.

Wed Aug 10 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Colors and Shapes

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using cut paper shapes and characters. Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor. Bring a pair of scissors too!

Thurs Aug 11 10am – 1pm

Painting Workshop: Make Your Own Tea Towels

Make your own beautiful household art.  In this class you will learn several water based painting on fabric  techniques and  discuss how to choose subject matter with a focus on storytelling and narrative in art. Painting experience is not necessary.  This is great relaxing fun for kids and adults alike!

Please bring an additional material fee of $15 paid directly to the instructor. Please wear clothes ok for you, or others, to get paint on.

Rachel Blumberg is a multi-media artist and educator who works in the fields of visual art, music, and stop motion animation. As a visual artist she makes paintings, drawings, found object pieces and other work inspired by dream land, folklore, history, nature, and people’s stories. She shows regularly as well as creating many commissioned works. As a musician she has performed, toured and recorded with many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Califone, Norfolk & Western, Laura Gibson, Death Vessel,  Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley and many more, as well as composing and performing her own music. As a stop motion animator she has created shorts and music videos for Nada Surf, Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), and Musee Mechanique among others. As an educator she teaches drums and general music, stop motion animation, painting, and  mixed media arts to kids and adults privately, in workshops, camps, and has also worked for many public and private schools and non-profits. Originally from Portland, OR, she now lives in Rhode Island.

Annie Beedy grew up riding horses, drawing spaceships and skipping class in the idyllic wilds of Northern California. After a failed attempt at institutionalized education, she headed to the Pacific Northwest where she became involved with that region’s incredibly vibrant music and arts scene. These days she identifies as a nature based designer and photographer. Often she can be found covered in dust in her woodshop handcarving kitchen tools, plant stands and furniture as well as designing gardens, interior spaces and floral arrangements. Best known photographically for her casual, photojournalistic portraiture, she captures intimate, real moments in human lives. Annie shoots with natural and available light. No bells and whistles needed, just a good instinct for light and recognition of the right moments. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Vogue, Nylon, Dwell and more – and on the sides of Portland’s Tri-Met buses and countless blogs.

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day.

Parent-guided kids ages 6-11 welcome. All kids age 12 and up welcome! Adults welcome! All parent/kid teams welcome! All skill levels welcome. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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So sorry folks….due to zero students signing up for this class we have to cancel it.

Animation & Painting Workshops with Rachel Blumberg

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 9 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Found Object Fun

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using materials we’ll collect on a nature walk, as well as anything you’d like to bring from home.  Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor.

Wed Aug 10 10am – 2pm

Stop Motion Animation Workshop: Colors and Shapes

You are invited to enter the wonderful world of stop motion animation! In this workshop you will learn a few simple stop motion techniques and make your own short film using cut paper shapes and characters. Bring your imagination and learn the magical art of animated storytelling!  Fun for kids and adults alike.

Each student or parent/kid team will need

Animation Tools:

• A laptop computer with a compatible digital camera and tripod.
• OR an ipad with stand or tripod.
• OR a smart phone with a tripod.
• AND the charging device for what they are bringing.
  

And An Animation Program:

• iStopMotion 3   https://boinx.com/istopmotion/mac/
• OR Stop Motion Recorder app  – https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stopmotion-recorder/id373313019?mt=8
• OR the Smoovie app – http://www.smoovie.com/

Please bring an additional material fee of $10 paid directly to the instructor. Bring a pair of scissors too!

Thurs Aug 11 10am – 1pm

Painting Workshop: Make Your Own Tea Towels

Make your own beautiful household art.  In this class you will learn several water based painting on fabric  techniques and  discuss how to choose subject matter with a focus on storytelling and narrative in art. Painting experience is not necessary.  This is great relaxing fun for kids and adults alike!

Please bring an additional material fee of $15 paid directly to the instructor. Please wear clothes ok for you, or others, to get paint on.

Rachel Blumberg is a multi-media artist and educator who works in the fields of visual art, music, and stop motion animation. As a visual artist she makes paintings, drawings, found object pieces and other work inspired by dream land, folklore, history, nature, and people’s stories. She shows regularly as well as creating many commissioned works. As a musician she has performed, toured and recorded with many widely acclaimed artists including The Decemberists, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Califone, Norfolk & Western, Laura Gibson, Death Vessel,  Tara Jane O’Neil, Michael Hurley and many more, as well as composing and performing her own music. As a stop motion animator she has created shorts and music videos for Nada Surf, Tom Hagerman (Devotchka), and Musee Mechanique among others. As an educator she teaches drums and general music, stop motion animation, painting, and  mixed media arts to kids and adults privately, in workshops, camps, and has also worked for many public and private schools and non-profits. Originally from Portland, OR, she now lives in Rhode Island.

Annie Beedy grew up riding horses, drawing spaceships and skipping class in the idyllic wilds of Northern California. After a failed attempt at institutionalized education, she headed to the Pacific Northwest where she became involved with that region’s incredibly vibrant music and arts scene. These days she identifies as a nature based designer and photographer. Often she can be found covered in dust in her woodshop handcarving kitchen tools, plant stands and furniture as well as designing gardens, interior spaces and floral arrangements. Best known photographically for her casual, photojournalistic portraiture, she captures intimate, real moments in human lives. Annie shoots with natural and available light. No bells and whistles needed, just a good instinct for light and recognition of the right moments. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Vogue, Nylon, Dwell and more – and on the sides of Portland’s Tri-Met buses and countless blogs.

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day.

Parent-guided kids ages 6-11 welcome. All kids age 12 and up welcome! Adults welcome! All parent/kid teams welcome! All skill levels welcome. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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A swing group from Portland, OR inspired by 1920s-40s swing, hot jazz, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli, Les Paul and Mary Ford. From Brazilian to Bebop to Bach, to Parisian musette waltzes; this Guitar and Cello fronted ensemble comes in a lot of combinations, additional players, and permutations but always employs the freedom and spirit of improvisation, a good time, and simply enjoying and loving life.

Paper Mache, Collage & Paint Workshop with Heather McLaughlin

Kids (and Adults) Art Classes: Found Object; Exercise the Creative Mind, Paper Mache and Collage

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 16 10am – 1pm

Wed Aug 17 10am – 1pm

Thurs Aug 18 10am – 1pm

About Heather:

Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. She continued west to obtain her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since 2004 Heather has taught a variety of adult printmaking and youth arts courses in the Continuing Education Program at PNCA, SUN after school programs, and at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls. From 2008 to 2014 Heather served as the Director of Flight 64 Studio, a non-profit collaboratively run printmaking studio. She currently serves as the Printmaking Studio Manager at PNCA. Heather is an avid arts integration volunteer, bringing art-based learning projects to organizations like New Avenues for Youth and Sea Change 350.  In addition to her art, Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant who loves traveling and the ocean.

Examples of Heather teaching can be found on the PNCA Youth Program’s Flickr page  (Most recent class: Art and Place SmART Works)

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day paid to the Sou’wester. In addition, please bring an additional $15 for a material fee paid directly to the instructor.

Geared for kids age 4 – 14 years old but adults are welcome. A skill levels welcome, no art experience needed. Please wear clothes that you, or others, may get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP     souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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Paper Mache, Collage & Paint Workshop with Heather McLaughlin

Kids (and Adults) Art Classes: Found Object; Exercise the Creative Mind, Paper Mache and Collage

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 16 10am – 1pm

Wed Aug 17 10am – 1pm

Thurs Aug 18 10am – 1pm

About Heather:

Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. She continued west to obtain her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since 2004 Heather has taught a variety of adult printmaking and youth arts courses in the Continuing Education Program at PNCA, SUN after school programs, and at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls. From 2008 to 2014 Heather served as the Director of Flight 64 Studio, a non-profit collaboratively run printmaking studio. She currently serves as the Printmaking Studio Manager at PNCA. Heather is an avid arts integration volunteer, bringing art-based learning projects to organizations like New Avenues for Youth and Sea Change 350.  In addition to her art, Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant who loves traveling and the ocean.

Examples of Heather teaching can be found on the PNCA Youth Program’s Flickr page  (Most recent class: Art and Place SmART Works)

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day paid to the Sou’wester. In addition, please bring an additional $15 for a material fee paid directly to the instructor.

Geared for kids age 4 – 14 years old but adults are welcome. A skill levels welcome, no art experience needed. Please wear clothes that you, or others, may get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP     souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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Paper Mache, Collage & Paint Workshop with Heather McLaughlin

Kids (and Adults) Art Classes: Found Object; Exercise the Creative Mind, Paper Mache and Collage

Three One-Day Workshops: RSVP for 1 or all 3

Tues Aug 16 10am – 1pm

Wed Aug 17 10am – 1pm

Thurs Aug 18 10am – 1pm

About Heather:

Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. She continued west to obtain her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Since 2004 Heather has taught a variety of adult printmaking and youth arts courses in the Continuing Education Program at PNCA, SUN after school programs, and at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls. From 2008 to 2014 Heather served as the Director of Flight 64 Studio, a non-profit collaboratively run printmaking studio. She currently serves as the Printmaking Studio Manager at PNCA. Heather is an avid arts integration volunteer, bringing art-based learning projects to organizations like New Avenues for Youth and Sea Change 350.  In addition to her art, Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant who loves traveling and the ocean.

Examples of Heather teaching can be found on the PNCA Youth Program’s Flickr page  (Most recent class: Art and Place SmART Works)

Cost $75 for all three days or $30 each day paid to the Sou’wester. In addition, please bring an additional $15 for a material fee paid directly to the instructor.

Geared for kids age 4 – 14 years old but adults are welcome. A skill levels welcome, no art experience needed. Please wear clothes that you, or others, may get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Max # of students:10

Please RSVP     souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com   or   360 – 642 – 2542

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Sharing vocal and songwriting duties, Birger Olsen, Mike Elias and Tom Bevitori are the heart of Denver, while the rest of the line-up has long included several of Portland’s finest players. Currently, the band consists of drummer Sean MacNeil, bassist Billy Slater (Grails) and the legendary Lewi Longmire on lead guitar. Past and future editions include Blitzen Trapper’s Eric Earley and Michael Van Pelt, Ben Nugent (Dolorean), Ryan Spellman (Quiet Life), Ray Raposa (Castanets), Tom Menig and many others.

Paste praised their 2012 self-titled debut’s “perfect tunes,” while KEXP hosted a live session and proclaimed, “sweet harmonies and tight arrangements abound.” Statements like these become all the more relevant with their upcoming release, Rowdy Love, as Denver teamed up with Earley and Adam Selzer (M. Ward, Norfolk & Western) for their first trip to a proper studio. Recorded live in just two days at Selzer’s Type Foundry Studio, Rowdy Love certainly showcases all the endless chops at Denver’s disposal.

The record’s true focus, however, lies in the rare way Olsen, Elias and Bevitori’s distinct voices co-exist. There’s a natural melding of styles that’s evolved from afternoons on Olsen’s back porch, late night’s around Elias’ fire pit, and every last time they’ve nailed “The Weight” harmonies at the old Triple Nickel. Denver’s three songwriters may come to the process with varying style and influences, but Denver’s songwriting is universally honest and bare, whiskey-fueled, sweat-soaked, and steeped in working class life. Some might call it country. Some might call it rock. Some might call it a few drunks on a stage. Either way, bullshit and irony have no home here.