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!
J. Graves
Live at The Sou’wester
Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Tense relationship rock, sanguine lyricism, chord changes like a secret longing, a rhythm section that thuds, skitters, and melts over the determined voice of Jessa Graves. The heat of the cataclysm gives off a vapor known to galvanize meatspace
into writhing, dancing heaps, creating rabid, loyal fans. Joined by Kelly Clifton, perhaps one of the best bassists, and the
unassuming Aaron MacDonald, who would be a watchmaker were he not a drummer, J. Graves is back with a crushing new LP FORTRESS OF FUN, a first of it’s kind choose your own adventure record.
8TH ANNUAL HANDMADE BAZAAR!
December 16th 10a-4p at The Sou’wester Lodge Pavilion & Ilwaco Artworks Studio
Sou’wester Arts is hosting artists and makers for our 8th annual handmade bazaar! Join us for a friendly Winter gathering.
2023 vendors:
At Ilwaco Artworks Studio – 109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
- Mossy Bones: Mossy Bones is where whimsy and oddities meet.
- Seahearts: Ceramics, art and plush.
- All Bottled Up: Home and garden decor from recycled glass and other up-cycled materials.
- Sun Bunny Studios: Handwoven brooms and brushes.
- Leslie Walters: Nature made jewelry.
- Flowering Hedge Designs: Pottery and sustainably made accessories for the home and frame.
- Sahar Quilts & more: Quilts, succulents & dog sweaters
- AND MORE
At Sou’wester Pavilion – 3728 J Place Seaview, WA
- Process Objects: Small-batch artisan jewelry and glass home goods, embracing pattern, color and texture.
- Pacific Barnyard Bags: Upcycled recycled shopping totes, bags, embroidery products and pet bandanas.
- Kim Rose Adams Designs: Nature Photography & Botanical Self-care.
- Myranda Kali Ceramics: Ceramics.
- Dark Sky Candles: Handdipped, local beeswax candles.
- Healthy Tonics: Tonics and blends.
- Meadow Base: Paintings.
- StarTrip Allies: Hand-dyed textiles, block print work, batik and crystals.
- Upstairs Oddities: Taxidermy.
- Nice Folk Co: Art prints and apparel.
- Al Be Pottery: Ceramics.
- Mali Drexelius: Printworks & clothing.
- Sora Blu Apothecary: CBG, CBD and perfume oils + photography.
- AND MORE
Noah Kite
Live at The Sou’wester
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 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.
1:1 Wellness / Acupuncture Sessions
w/ Celestial Window Restorative Arts
$150 / 90 Minute Sessions
December 18, 2023 by Appointment | Text: 971-282-3891 to Book
My work is focused in the lineage of Worsley Five Element Acupuncture, however, in my 8 years of clinical training I studied many modalities and can offer a variety of treatment strategies. Acupuncture is a beautiful craft with techniques for bringing flow to stuck places, and fostering a deeper harmonization within the body. It is based on philosophy that sees the human being as whole, with the full potential for healing as innate. Acupuncture uses a network of physical connections to activate the body’s own healing potential and is supportive for all aspects of life, from pain management, fertility support, digestive disorders, to finding creative expansion and self actualization.
Solstice at Sou’wester
Tea “As Gentle Hospitality” Service
(by appointment) in the Tea Trailer | December 20, 2023
Hosted by Celestial Window Restorative Arts as part of their Creative Wellness Residency
Sessions by Appointment | $33 / Person for 75 Minute Sessions
Text 971-282-3891 to Book
Solstice at Sou’wester
Acupuncture + Sound Bath
“Sound Dérive (Drift)”
An Embodied-Listening-Acupuncture-Sound Bathing-Fluxus-Art-Exercise with Unity Garnish x Feast of The Epiphany
Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023 | 6-7:30pm
For this unique group “sound bathing” experience we are invoking the 1960s French Fluxus Art Exercise of the “Dérive (Drift)”, which in essence describes a meditation through which one is invited to “get lost on purpose”, in order to facilitate an embodied state of inspiration and wellbeing crafted through the blending of multiple creative mediums. Utilizing sound, visual art and the option of gentle acupuncture, participants will be guided to reset and renew into an evolution of self. In the vein of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, individuals will leave with a one of a kind art object to carry the experience with them into life and the remainder of their time at the Sou’Wester.
Solstice at Sou’wester
Quadraphonic Acupuncture & Sound Bath
With Star Child x Sonic Ceremonies
Winter Solstice | Thursday, December 21st | 3-4:30pm
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.
Maria DeHart
Live at The Sou’wester
Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Since her early days of musical performance, Maria DeHart has been on a continuous journey of building her sound. Starting in 2018, the Portland, Oregon-based artist has traveled through a few distinct phases, going from acoustic songwriter to loop-pedal expert to full band frontperson. Her newest release, an EP called “Win Some, Lose Everyone” on the east coast-based indie label Self Aware Records, is a brief yet strong run of filled-out songs that signals a development in DeHart’s self-actualization. While prepping for its release, DeHart came to the realization that this would be the perfect time to adopt an official name for her project, Myriads, which nowadays includes much collaboration and feels significantly bigger than just herself.
Recorded mostly in her bedroom and a backyard practice space belonging to her bandmate and partner Sean Cooper, the four tracks that make up the EP build off of her acoustic beginnings and introduce a heavier and fuller sound to DeHart’s musical repertoire. She enlisted emo legend Peter Helmis, a good friend and musical collaborator, to mix the tracks and Chris Baglivo, a Philly-based audio engineer, musician, and producer, to master them. Her production choices are no coincidence; DeHart’s music has a place in the universe of today’s emo and shoegaze revival. In the sharp, overdriven guitar riffs and verbed-out vocals, you can hear her influences– there are distinct nods to bands like Tigers Jaw, Pity Sex, and Turnover. Above all, in her authentically vulnerable lyrics and thoughtful storytelling, she pays homage to the work of today’s influential femme artists, including Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Phoebe Bridgers, and Wednesday.
DeHart is proud to be a part of the world of non-male musicians writing thoughtful and heartfelt music that communicates strength and badassery. At the same time, she writes about the struggle of living with a marginalized identity; in the EP’s concluding track, “Whore,” she explores the reality of navigating relationships as a sex worker. Her lyrics hit like a truck; during the musical and emotional climax of the track, she laments, “Thought that nobody would want me / worn out body, I’m a whore.” DeHart’s intentional emotional transparency, sometimes painfully honest and always woven together with meticulously layered instrumentation, compels listeners to enter a dreamy, introspective space that encourages them to open up, explore, and just rock out.
OPEN HOUSE
Join us at our community Ceramics Studio & Art Gallery, Ilwaco Artworks
Jan, 1st 2024 | 3-7p
Open to all! Come see what we’re up to, tour our ceramics studio, browse our art gallery or bring a friend and get into some pottery! There will be snacks & great vibes.
Set the mood for 2024 by making a creative start to the New Year! Play with clay at our studio drop-in rate of $30/person from 3-7p. Clay/glazes/firing for one wareboard of work included! *Larger work will be charged an additional firing space fee.
109 FIRST AVENUE NORTH ILWACO, WA
