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!

Aug
5
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 5 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Aug
11
Fri
Rollin’ Oldies Vintage Travel Trailer Rally
Aug 11 @ 9:00 am – Aug 13 @ 9:00 pm

Rollin’ Oldies Vintage Travel Trailer Rally

ROVT Sou’ wester Associated Vintage Trailer Rally

August 11 – 13, 2017

 

Friday August 11th

7pm Meet & Greet with Snacks & Presenter Salon in the Lodge Living Room – Sharing Your Top 3 “AHA Moments” in Your Trailer Restoration History (Please bring photos if you have them to show.)

Saturday August 12th  

9am – 9pm “Pop-Up Trailer Show” in our new art trailer: located in the main trailer courtyard on the west side

10am-2:30pm  Workshop in the Pavilion with instructor Melissa          Favara: Use vintage typewriters and make a zine about your trailer      and travels. Cost of workshop is $35 and requires RSVP via          souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

Please bring: Pen, Notebook (trailer memorabilia if you have it)          & please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea & coffee provided.

3pm – 4pm Open House to view visiting trailers

4pm Group Photo & Photo Shoot of trailers – Meet in the RV Park

6pm  Potluck in Pavilion

8pm  Live Music & Drinks in the Pavilion

Sunday August 13th

9:30am – 12pm Coffee & Crepe Breakfast/Brunch in the Lodge Living Room

 

Thank you! Have Fun!

 

Location: 3728 J Pl, Seaview, WA 98644 (360) 642-2542

“One of our Associated rallies hosted by Sou’ Wester for ROVT. No registration fee’s required by ROVT. All vintage trailers welcome to attend. Call 1-360-642-2542 for a site or more info. Thandi Rosebaum is the host for this rally!” – www.rovt.org

The Rollin’ Oldies Vintage Trailer group is a loosely organized group of vintage trailer enthusiasts, based in Oregon.  We have members throughout the Northwest and welcome all vintage trailer fans in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana and some parts of Canada.  We host vintage trailer rallies for our members and welcome owners of retro trailers, teardrops, and motor homes.

Vintage trailers are those considered to be those built before 1980, or those built later with the same design as the original vintage trailer.  Homebuilt teardrops are also welcome to attend our events.” – www.rovt.org 

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Aug
12
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 12 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Time/Travel: Experiments in Typewriting Creative Nonfiction about Place and Movement with Melissa Favara
Aug 12 @ 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

 

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Time/Travel: Experiments in Typewriting Creative Nonfiction about Place and Movement with Melissa Favara

 

Come play with vintage manual typewriters and focused creative prompts as you experiment with writing about places, travels, and the various kinds of movement you’ve experienced in your life. After writing, we will work as a group to create one of a kind zines in which you’ll include your favorite writings from the day.


Melissa Favara is a writer, educator, and vintage typewriter enthusiast who lives in Portland. She has published work in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, street roots, the Columbia Poetry Review, Metro Parent, and elsewhere, and she’s delighted to teach at the Sou’wester again. 


COST:  $30 plus $5 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)

BRING: Pen, Notebook and please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided.

Optional Meet & Greet at 7:30pm on Friday August 11th in the Lodge.


All workshops are open to the public.

All Skill Levels Welcome. Open to teens and up.

RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

 
Aug
15
Tue
Writing Through the Cracks: Self-Forgiveness & Compassion in Memoir Writing with Cooper Lee Bombardier & Gina Senarighi
Aug 15 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Writing Through the Cracks: Self-Forgiveness & Compassion in Memoir Writing with 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 glamourous 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 day-long 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, Oregon. His work appears in many publications and anthologies, most recently in The Kenyon Review, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Original Plumbing, as well as the anthology The RemedyEssays on Queer Health Issues, (ed. Zena Sharman) from Arsenal Pulp Press. Cooper’s visual art was recently curated in an exhibition called “Intersectionality” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He teaches writing at the University of Portland, Clark College, Portland State University, and at various Portland-area high schools as a writer-in-residence through Literary Art’s program Writers in The Schools. 

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.


COST: $30 ($50 for both classes)

(This workshop will run on Tuesday August 15th and also on Wednesday August 16th. The cost for each workshop is $30, but if students wish to take both classes, the returning students on Wednesday would receive guided writing time. and both classes together would cost only $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! Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided.

 

All workshops are open to the public.

Workshop for students age 18 and older.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

 

Aug
16
Wed
Writing Through the Cracks: Self-Forgiveness & Compassion in Memoir Writing with Cooper Lee Bombardier & Gina Senarighi
Aug 16 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Writing Through the Cracks: Self-Forgiveness & Compassion in Memoir Writing with 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 glamourous 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 day-long 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, Oregon. His work appears in many publications and anthologies, most recently in The Kenyon Review, CutBank, Nailed Magazine, Original Plumbing, as well as the anthology The RemedyEssays on Queer Health Issues, (ed. Zena Sharman) from Arsenal Pulp Press. Cooper’s visual art was recently curated in an exhibition called “Intersectionality” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. He teaches writing at the University of Portland, Clark College, Portland State University, and at various Portland-area high schools as a writer-in-residence through Literary Art’s program Writers in The Schools. 

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.


COST: $30 ($50 for both classes)

(This workshop will run on Tuesday August 15th and also on Wednesday August 16th. The cost for each workshop is $30, but if students wish to take both classes, the returning students on Wednesday would receive guided writing time. and both classes together would cost only $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! Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided.

 

All workshops are open to the public.

Workshop for students age 18 and older.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

 

Community Clay & Sauna @ Sou'wester Lodge
Aug 16 @ 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Come experience the therapeutic workings of a Finnish sauna in combination with a full body mask of wild foraged mineral clay. These natural therapies joined together, act as powerful means of detoxification, stress relief, muscle relaxant, skin cleanser, and more. Bring your bathing suit and a friend, be prepared to sweat it out with like minded folks, brave a cold plunge, and paint each other with some Skagit river valley clay.

$20 for Sou’wester guests $25 for general public.

 
Dress to accommodate the maximum amount of clay. Towels, clay, information hand-outs, tea and filtered water provided. There will also be an opportunity to purchase wild harvested mineral clay for future personal use.

Space is limited to 8 folks

 
Please RSVP. Any questions? Email mamookwellness@icloud.com

Aug
19
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 19 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Aug
26
Sat
Fermented Vegetables 101 with Sash Sunday
Aug 26 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Fermented Vegetables 101 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 brined pickles before the day is done. We will go through the basic sauerkraut and pickle 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. 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 plus $10 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)

BRING: 2 Quart Jars – Wide mouth. If you have a nice sharp chopping knife please bring one. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided.

All workshops are open to the public.

Workshop geared for adults.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

 
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
Aug 26 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people