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!

Oct
11
Wed
Spektrum Tea Service @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

TICKETS

Oct
12
Thu
Spektrum Tea Service @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Oct 12 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

TICKETS

Oct
13
Fri
Spektrum Tea Service @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Oct 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

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.

TICKETS

Oct
20
Fri
Handbuilt Pitcher 3-Day Workshop (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Oct 20 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 22 @ 12:00 pm
Handbuilt Pitcher 3-Day Workshop (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks

(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

Oct
27
Fri
Handbuilding a Fermentation Crock Workshop (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Oct 27 @ 4:00 pm – Oct 29 @ 12:00 pm
Handbuilding a Fermentation Crock Workshop (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks

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

Nov
10
Fri
Grief Retreat @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Nov 10 @ 2:00 pm – Nov 12 @ 1:00 pm

Grief Retreat with The Portland Grief house

Two night retreat with guided meditations and sound healing

Who/How much: w/Julia Francis and Laura Green of The Portland Grief House $498-807 includes lodging

What: We will spend the weekend in conversation with the non-human world; asking what medicine we can offer and what we can take. Except for grief spills and vocalizing during sound healing, we will keep conversation with humans to a bare minimum. We’ll use guided sound work, yoga practice and meditation to let spoken language shift away from the center of our attention. We’ll listen deeply, and talk sincerely with the world around us, and believe what we hear and learn. Retreat pricing includes various Sou’Wester lodging options. Full event details and itinerary found here: https://www.juliafrancis.com/retreats 

Email: info@griefhouse.org 

Nov
11
Sat
Screen Printing With Natural Dyes Workshop (FULL) @ The Sou'wester Lodge Pavilion
Nov 11 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Screen Printing With Natural Dyes Workshop (FULL) @ The Sou'wester Lodge Pavilion

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!

Nov
18
Sat
Nature-Based Creative Writing Circle @ The Sou'wester Lodge (geo dome)
Nov 18 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

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 Paper & Bookbinding Workshop (FULL) @ The Sou'wester Lodge Pavilion
Nov 18 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Japanese Paper & Bookbinding Workshop (FULL) @ The Sou'wester Lodge Pavilion

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

Dec
21
Thu
Collective Release (camp)Fire @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Dec 21 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Collective Release Fire 

Outside in the trailer court in front of the lodge, we will gather into an expanded moment of presence with the weight of the world, a time of reverence through lively celebration of the complexity of existence in togetherness, where whatever wishes to unfold may do so naturally through the intentional lighting of a fire.  There will be pieces of paper and pens on which to write and reflect and then offer the writings into the fire, instruments with which we can play, and an invitation to donate whatever resources are available, financial or otherwise, to Source Food and Goods, a group offering community aid to the local Palestinian community in Portland, OR .

*No drinks in public. Quiet hours after 10p.