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!
All About Sauerkraut Workshop:
How to make it, eat it, and why it rules
w/ Sash Sunday $68
Sash will briefly explain what sauerkraut is and the science of lacto-fermentation. You’ll get to help make a batch of sauerkraut and get some to take home to ferment. Then she’ll demonstrate a few recipes that incorporate raw ferments that will help you get more probiotics into your diet and more razzle-dazzle into your cooking.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
(FULL) Handbuilt Pitcher Workshop:
3-day ceramic workshop
w/ Taylor Stefanski $90
Students will be lead through a series of hand building techniques to create their very own pitchers! We will cover how to create your base, refining forms, making handles. On the last day we will cover decorating with underglaze and adding small adornments.
- Fri 4-6PM
- Sat 10-2PM
- Sun 10-12PM
Handbuilding a Fermentation Crock Workshop:
3-day ceramic workshop
w/ Jo Pfeifer $90
In this three day workshop, we will help you hand build a fermentation crock you will use for years to come. We will focus on building crocks that will hold 1-3 quarts and have a matching lid so the water seal will keep that ferment fresh! We will provide all the materials you need, just bring some clothes and a towel you don’t mind getting a little messy. No previous ceramics knowledge necessary.
- Fri 4-6PM
- Sat 10-2PM
- Sun 10-12PM
Screenprinting With Natural Dyes Workshop
w/ Katey Rissi $60
Learn how to make screenprinting ink from scratch using natural dyes and use those inks to create prints. In this class, students will create a screen printed edition on paper, working with a palette of color made possible by materials foraged and grown. The resulting work is entirely biodegradable, place-based, and beautiful!
Nature-Based Creative Writing Circle
guided by poet Charity E. Yoro
Saturday, Nov 18 | 10:30am | Sou’wester Geodesic Dome
Free & open to the public in The Sou’wester Lodge’s Geodesic Dome
Join Charity E. Yoro for a creative writing circle in a casual, low-pressure environment, as we allow our pen to be stirred by the elements of the coastal forest! Held in the cozy, light-filled Geodesic Dome, we’ll draw inspiration from nature-based prompts, gentle stretching/movement, and our collective energy. Bring a pen/pencil, your favorite notebook, and a mug for coffee/tea. This gathering is free & open to all levels/genres of writers.
Japanese Decorative Paper & Bookbinding
a workshop w/ Yuka Petz $60
In this hands-on workshop we will be introduced to sekkazome (also known as orizomegami), which is a traditional Japanese form of folding and dying paper to create a variety of colorful patterns. We will then use our newly designed papers to bind into a traditional stab-bound book.
FULL
Exhibtion opening in our Art Trailer Gallery
No Lo Tenia Escrito / It Wasn’t in My Plans by Jade Mara Novarino
No Lo Tenia Escrito showcases a short film, Mi Abuela La Hormiga / My Grandma the Ant (40 minutes, 2023), and several prints and works on paper. The footage and the work are from a trip to Argentina in February of 2023. This work was made in order to remember—my grandma, us, a place, and a time. In a sense, it is a small archive, a document that marks a special moment in our relationship. Initially, for the film, I had set out to ask my grandmother many questions, and in some cases succeeded in receiving answers—but in the still and quiet moments of the footage, when the camera was just another piece of furniture and not someone to act in front of, was where I learned the most. The film is conscious of its own form, and the camera itself is acknowledged multiple times. Even so, the main subject—my grandma—doesn’t seem shy or to change before its presence. The prints and works on paper are reflections, journal entries, and photographs made within the year leading up to the show.
Jade Mara Novarino is a first generation American artist, educator, farmer, and community member born and raised in San Diego, California. Her work draws on inspiration from her family and the seasons, personal narrative, site-specificity, songs, and attempts to highlight the everyday as sacred. Her multidisciplinary work spans from socially engaged projects to imaginary restaurants to calligraphy to video to collage, photography, painting, and found sculpture. She runs an artist space and farm from her home in Milwaukie, Oregon. Her birthday is in February, her favorite month is September, and she looks forward to planting garlic every October. She is always looking for new pen-pals.
Curated by Nikki Cormaci