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!

May
21
Sat
Matt Mitchell (album release show) with The Holy Broke : Presented by Sou’wester Arts
May 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Matt Mitchell (album release show) with The Holy Broke: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

 

Jun
11
Sat
Music Mike Coykendall
Jun 11 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid ’80s.

Jun
25
Sat
Pony Hunt : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jun 25 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Pony Hunt : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Pony Hunt is a New Orleans based band that plays like a ghostly jukebox; hazy melodies with sweet, lingering waves of nostalgia.
Born in California, raised in Chicago, transformed by Oakland and set alight by New Orleans, Jessie Antonick’s heart and hands are continually consumed by her passion for songwriting, building, and creating space—an eternally braided compulsion for crafting and evoking emotion, for creating worlds where one’s spirit can roam free—where a wandering mind can find home.

 

Antonick discovered a love for music early in life in the live venues and record shops of Chicago.  Captivated by doo-wop artists as a child and thrilled by indie and punk rock as a teen, it was her discovery of classic American styles that inspired her to learn to play the guitar.  

 

Longing for the ocean air, she soon settled in Oakland, CA, living on a sailboat whilst building and repairing sails as the push and pull of the tides slowly found their way into her blood, then to the page, and finally to her guitar.  The rising and falling pulse of her heart and the chatter of her mind pushed her to create an elegant, transportable canvas cottage where she set in solitude to discover the melodies and rhythms passing through the light and upon the sea air.  Antonick soon discovered a new home in her ‘78 Chevy van and she followed the sound of the rushing Mississippi River down to New Orleans where she found herself humbled by cultural beauty and set ablaze with inspiration.

 

It was in New Orleans where Antonick began writing the new Pony Hunt release VAR!.  In VAR! she investigates the heart and mind entangled, looking to understand how to be at home with one’s self, exploring the dualities of mind at play within her journey of emotional connection, societal imposition, gender, lost identities and the lesser understood–– discovered variables amongst the seemingly ever still. 

Jul
2
Sat
Drew Martin : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jul 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Drew Martin : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Drew Martin is a songwriter from Maui, Hawaii.

Jul
9
Sat
Noah Kite : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Jul 9 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Noah Kite : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

The son of an acting coach and a therapist, Kite seems to have it in his DNA to blend the dramatic and analytic. Each musical wave crest and fall mirrors a turn in the story. Instruments rest for minutes before suddenly emerging. Emotions and motifs sustain and then drop into oblivion. The tone switches suddenly from accusation to epiphany. It is the sound of someone going through it.

Alongside the the musical tumult, the steady voice of Kite never loses his cool despite the searing intimacy of the song’s content. He thoughtfully guides us through the story of his relationship, in as well as struggles with friends, substances, sex and codependency. He has been clearly affected by the proceedings, but is determined to stare into them without blinking.

 
 
Jul
12
Tue
Clay Creatures and Miniature Things with Kaitlyn Nelson – Summer Camp Series
Jul 12 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use clay and underglaze to develop hand-building skills and make small clay objects such as coil pots, tiles, and animal figurines.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Jul
13
Wed
Clay Creatures and Miniature Things with Kaitlyn Nelson – Summer Camp Series
Jul 13 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use clay and underglaze to develop hand-building skills and make small clay objects such as coil pots, tiles, and animal figurines.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Jul
14
Thu
Clay Creatures and Miniature Things with Kaitlyn Nelson – Summer Camp Series
Jul 14 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use clay and underglaze to develop hand-building skills and make small clay objects such as coil pots, tiles, and animal figurines.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Jul
16
Sat
Memoir Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina @ Pavilion at Sou'wester Lodge
Jul 16 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Memoir Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina @ Pavilion at Sou'wester Lodge

Let’s write some memoir! This workshop will help us move past resistance and start to unlock memories and develop them into stories. The key is to start to understand the events of your life into elements that you can use to tell the most effective story you can. Let’s get into some of the particulars of how memoir functions and do some writing in class to get momentum with our stories.

Nick Jaina is a writer and musician living with his family in Oakland, California. He was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 2015 for his memoir Get It While You Can. He has composed music for film and ballet, and toured the world playing a unique mixture of music soundscapes, songs, and readings.

Workshop cost $20

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Jul
19
Tue
Mixed Media Tapestries with Kaitlyn Nelson – Summer Camp Series
Jul 19 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will create mixed-media wall hangings utilizing canvas, paint, thread and yarn to push the boundaries between painting and sculpture.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.