SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
Spring 2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester
Wild Forage Workshop/Forage for Health/Spring Seasonal Transition
with Lara Pacheco & Paige Common
Join Chef, Paige Common of Eatin’ Alive, and herbalist, Lara Pacheco to transition from Spring movement to Summer expansion with nutrient dense food, plant medicine and seasonal awareness. Our workshop will include a plant walk, meditation, food demo and medicine that we make to take home. A catered, seasonal lunch by Paige will also be included.
Lara Pacheco is a Taíno, Latinx mamita that believes that our collective liberation is accessed through decolonizing ourselves by weaving into the web of ancestral medicine. Lara directly works through this realm with plants, fungi, music and dance. When not caring for her family, land and all creatures, Lara runs Seed and Thistle Apothecary an educational resource, and co runs the seasonal wellness clinic that works to provide access to herbal medicine and massage for marginalized communities and brown girl rise, a youth empowerment program for young femmes of color.
Detroit born and bred, soulful living inspires this gal: healthy diets, hearty laughter and active lifestyle. Paige Common started preparing plant-based foods in her Portland kitchen giving life to Eatin’ Alive in 2010. She believes that a rainbow a day will keep the doctor away. Paige is available for one-on-one health coaching, recipe development, pre/post-natal consultations, small event catering, speaking engagements and classes.
COST: $30
BRING: Notebook, pen, scissors, brown paper bag. Hot tea and coffee provided. Nourishing lunch provided by Paige Common.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.c
All workshops are open to the public.
All Skill Levels Welcome. 15 students max.
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
Eelgrass is an important coastal seagrass that helps store carbon, reduce erosion, and provide shelter and spawning areas for a host of marine wildlife in bays and estuaries across the globe, including right here in the pacific northwest.
Eelgrass is also the name of a longtime musical collaboration between Lara Pacheco and Dan Swenson, along with new friends Bobby Hayden and Todd Summers. They play folky-tonk with psychedelic vibes and call Portland, Oregon home.
https://soundcloud.com/eelgrass
Spring 2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester
The Creative Flash: Writing Workshop
with Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
Flash fiction is a small and powerful beast that will bite you in the ass if you’re lucky. Think of a moment that left a mark and ask yourself where it’s teeth are. In this class we’ll examine the particular bite marks of a variety of flash fictions and work on sharpening our own teeth in this condensed and intense prose form. Class time will be spent reading and discussing examples from masterful flash fiction authors, generating work from prompts, and sharing writing, and offering feedback.
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is the author of Adventures in Property Management (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and Thunder Lizard (H_NGM_N, 2016). She is co-founder and director of Tilll, a literary organization that offers an annual writing residency at Smoke Farm in Arlington, WA. She is outreach coordinator for Conium Review. She has been a Jack Straw Writer, an Artist Trust EDGE fellow, and an incubator artist through Cornish College. She has received residencies from Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale Foundation, taught creative writing through Seattle Central Community College, and served on the board of Lit Crawl Seattle.
COST: $25
BRING: Notebook or paper, pen. Please pack a lunch that you can take to the beach for a lunch break writing exercise (hot tea and coffee provided).
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
All skill levels welcome.
This workshop is for students 16 years of age and up. 20 students max.
Marisa Anderson channels the history of the guitar and stretches the boundaries of tradition. Her deeply original work applies elements of minimalism, electronic music, drone and 20th century classical music to compositions based on blues, jazz and gospel and country music, re-imagining the landscape of American music. Onstage, she is a master storyteller, bringing warmth, wit and insight to her virtuosic compositions and arrangements.
In 2017 Mississippi Records is re-issuing Anderson’s 2013 record, ‘Traditional and Public Domain Songs’. Anderson spent a year researching hymns, blues, murder ballads and American patriotic songs. The resulting record is an exploration of the relationship between evangelical Christianity and state sanctioned violence. Her next record, ‘Cloud Corner’ will be released June 15 on Thrill Jockey Records.
Originally from Northern California, Anderson dropped out of college at age nineteen to walk across the US and eventually landed in Portland, Oregon, where she currently lives. Classically trained, she honed her skills playing in country, jazz and circus bands. In 2011 she released her first solo guitar record, ‘The Golden Hour’ followed by ‘Mercury’ (2013) and ‘Into The Light’ (2016). She is in demand as a collaborator and composer, contributing to recent recordings by Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux among others, as well as creating music for short films and soundtracks.
Anderson tours extensively throughout Europe and North America. Her work has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, SPIN, Pitchfork and The Wire. Billboard magazine named ‘Into the Light’ one of the best records of 2016 and Pitchfork named Anderson’s 2015 split LP with Tashi Dorji one of the top experimental records of the year. Recent festival appearances include Le Guess Who, Moog Fest, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival.
www.marisaandersonmusic.com
Spring 2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester
Fermented Vegetables & Fermented Lunch!
with Sash Sunday
OlyKraut owner, Sash Sunday, will present the basics of vegetable ferments. You will each make a batch of sauerkraut and a batch of kimchi before the day is done. We will go through the basic sauerkraut and kimchi making process, take a little dive into the science of fermentation, and discuss why probiotics are so awesome. Sash will also answer questions and go over some troubleshooting for your home ferments. At lunch time we’ll make tempeh reubens out of several different fermented foods. Come with some jars and lots of questions! Sash will bring the veggies and some know-how.
Sash Sunday grew up in the PNW and, in 2008, founded OlyKraut to put her fermentation fanaticism to work building a food system that supports healthy people and farms. OlyKraut makes delicious, raw fermented vegetables with mountains of local produce while sharing the wonders of probiotic foods with the community. She has a BA from The Evergreen State College, and an MBA in Sustainable Systems and Certificate in Sustainable Food and Agriculture from Pinchot University.
COST: $30 per person plus a $10 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to instructor)
BRING: 2 Quart Jars – Wide mouth, & Knife-Large/Sharp/
10 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.c
There is always a hint of menace and reservoirs of force haunting the corners of Eliza Rickman’s voice, whatever register it occupies. Her presence on stage: whether she wears flowers in her hair, or stuffed birds; whether she plays a toy piano or a grand piano; is an enveloping, soft darkness, impossible to ignore.
It has been three years between Rickman’s first album, O, You Sinners, and her newest effort, Footnotes for the Spring. In those intervening three years, Rickman added the autoharp to her repertoire, fought illness and heartbreak (and won), and turned 30. But mostly, she toured. She is a frequent featured musical act for the live rendition of the popular podcast Welcome to Night Vale, a regular opening act for cello rock band Rasputina, and has organized her own successful solo tours in the U.S. and abroad.
Rickman’s voice has the power to hold the smallest grain of sadness, an intimation that the longed-for innocence depicted in her lyrics has slipped just below the glow of the orchestra and out of sight.
www.elizarickman.com
Photo by Stevie Mada
Come celebrate Zia’s 43 Jamboree with Brush Prairie, Lindsie Feathers and special guests Rachael Rice and Thomas Mudrick on Friday, June 1st from 8pm-10pm. There will be a mixture of country, blues, and songwriters in the round. Gonna be a good’n! This event is Free, All ages, and Open to the Public!
Brush Prairie : https://m.facebook.com/brush
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Summer 2018 Workshop Series
Leatherworking Class: Mason Jar Coozie with Liz Wright
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! This class is designed for those with very little or no leatherworking experience. You’ll gain the basic skills and confidence you need to make all the leather goods your heart desires, such as wallets, belts, and jewelry.
Founded in 2016 by Liz and Brian Wright, Assembly (www.assemblypdx.com) hosts hands-on modern craft and DIY workshops in the Portland area. The workshops and classes, covering a wide variety of crafts, are perfect for beginners and designed to empower creativity and pique interest in potential new hobbies. Originally from Ohio, Liz Wright has a long history of creative projects and pursuits as a professional artist, clothing designer, video producer, small business owner, craft fair founder, and museum researcher. She holds a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design and a MA from the University of Washington. She considers herself a lifelong learner and enjoys the challenges and thrills of learning a new skill and supporting others to do the same. At Assembly Liz develops and teaches classes, runs daily operations, and steers the ship towards providing the most fun, accessible, and high quality creative educational experiences around.
COST: $30 plus a $15 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to instructor.)
BRING: All supplies provided as well as coffee and hot tea. This workshop is for students age 16 years and up, 15 students max, geared for beginners but all skill levels welcome.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Summer 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
This show is a benefit for Sou’Wester Arts, a non-profit 501c3 organization that helps fund our art, music and wellness programming. Our mission is to be of service to the artist community at large by providing a space for folks to create, connect, restore and renew in order to experience transformation within themselves and their work.
Brooklyn based songwriter Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has been creating incorruptible independent pop music since the late 1990’s. She has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on K Records, Kill Rock Stars and various domestic and foreign independent labels.
She has performed with The Oregon Symphony, Contemporaneous Orchestra and The Portland Cello Project and has toured solo and with countless iterations of her own band in concert halls, music clubs and punk basements all across North America, Japan and Europe.
Mirah has always sought the creative company of unique collaborators, from multi-media artists and orchestral composers to dj’s, Baltic music enthusiasts, and entomologists. A partial list of some of her collaborators includes Phil Elverum (The Microphones/Mount Eerie), Susie Ibarra, Jherek Bischoff, Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Thao Nguyen, Tara Jane O’Neil, Lori Goldston, Britta Johnson and Ginger Brooks Takahashi.
Mirah lived in the Pacific Northwest for 16 very formative years throughout the 90’s and early 2000’s and she LOVES coming back to visit.
www.mirahmusic.com
Summer 2018 Workshop Series
Writing Through the Cracks: self-forgiveness and compassion in memoir writing with instructors Cooper Lee Bombardier & Gina Senarighi
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
To write about pivotal events from our own lives requires a reckoning with our pasts. How do we interrogate ourselves to get at the truth of our stories when the details do not always shine a glamorous light upon us? Writing Through the Cracks will give you tools to get vulnerable in your writing, scrutinize the past from a place of compassion, and help you to discover the story beneath your stories. Join educator, coach, consultant, and professional shame slayer Gina Senarighi and nonfiction writer and educator Cooper Lee Bombardier for an engaging, accessible, and intensive writing workshop at the beautiful and historic Sou’wester Lodge. Writers of all levels are welcome!
Cooper Lee Bombardier is a writer and visual artist based in Portland, OR. His work appears in many publications and award-winning anthologies, most recently in The Kenyon Review, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Original Plumbing, and The Rumpus, as well as the anthology The Remedy–Essays on Queer Health Issues. Cooper’s visual art was recently curated in an exhibition called “Intersectionality” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He’s taught writing at the University of Portland, Clark College, PSU, PNCA and at various Portland-area high schools as a writer-in-residence through Literary Art’s program Writers in The Schools. www.cooperleebombardier.com
Gina Senarighi, MS, MA, CPC is a communication consultant, sexuality counselor and certified relationship coach specializing in queer love polyamory, open relationships, jealousy, and infidelity. She’s been leading retreats to build courage and slay shame in LGBTQ community across Washington and Oregon since 2003. www.ginasenarighi.com
COST: $50
BRING: an open mind, a couple of pens and a notebook or paper to write in/on. A legal pad with a cardboard back is ideal! If people like to write on laptops, great, but we cannot guarantee access to outlets for everyone in the workshop space. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snacks. Hot tea and coffee provided. 1/2 hr lunchbreak and optional beach walk afterward This workshop is for students age 14 years and up, 20 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Summer 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.