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
4
Sat
Workshop: Expanding Macramé
May 4 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series

Expanding Macramé: Taking Your Macramé Practice To The Next Level with instructor Emily Katz

Expand on your knowledge of macramé and take your process to the next level. We will explore macra-weave techniques, working with color, macramé as sculpture, and utilizing different sizes and weights of rope, yarn and other non conventional materials. Get inspired by the scenery of the Washington Coast and design a piece that takes you out of your comfort zone. The workshop will begin with a circle and intention setting, followed by drawing out our ideas for our projects. If participants want to make a project from our book, Emily will guide you to get started. We will pause for a healthy lunch, and continue working on our pieces into the afternoon.

Emily Katz is an artist, world traveler, teacher, interior designer, creative consultant, public speaker, and the owner of Modern Macramé. Emily has taught macramé to thousands worldwide through private lessons and team building workshops, from LA to Tokyo to Copenhagen. Her creativity doesn’t stop there, as she has designed restaurant interiors and residences inspired by her travels, as well as large-scale custom macramé installations for clients like Ralph Lauren, Microsoft, and Nordstrom. Named as the “Queen of Macramé” by The Guardian UK, her work has also been featured in LA Times, Elle Japan, Buzzfeed, and more. As a self-made entrepreneur of 15 years, Emily employs an all-women team of creatives at her studio, which serves as a production center, showroom, office, and event space. The author of the best selling book, Modern Macramé, Emily loves to explore design and macramé together. Emily calls Portland, Oregon her home with her partner Adam and their dog Donut and cat Cowbear.


COST: $250 (plus materials that may be purchased on site)

BRING: This workshop expands on what you know, so feel free to bring a project in process that needs some inspiration, or get started on a big piece. Bring any special materials you want to work with including driftwood or any other support to build onto. (There will also be rope and yarn for sale on site.) Consider choosing a project from our book to explore! We will also have time to draw a design of what you have in mind to create.

Lunch and tea is included (Please let us know of any dietary restrictions at time of RSVP.)
 
This workshop is for students who already know the basic square knot and is for students age 10 and up. 15 students max.
 

RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm


 

The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

 

Thomas Mudrick @ Sou'wester Lodge
May 4 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Thomas Mudrick @ Sou'wester Lodge

Thomas Mudrick has been entertaining the Portland and Willamette Valley music scene with his Psychedelic sounds for over 10 years. This multi-talented musician brings together the diversity of world music with American Psych Rock roots. “Shoegaze”-influenced psychedelic guitar and you have a musical eclecticism that keep his faithful followers always coming back for more.

https://thomasmudrick.bandcamp.com

This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!

May
11
Sat
Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno
May 11 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series

Find Your Golden Thread: A Writing Workshop with Madeleine Eno

There’s a lot of talk these days about writing your story. And some think that means starting with your great-great grandmother and ending with what you had for breakfast this morning. So, writing becomes something daunting, dusty and overwhelming—and ripe for comparison with other more funny, interesting, adventurous people.

What would happen, though, if you started to think of your “stories,” instead of your “story”? When you know your Golden Thread, you can scan back through your life and pull from your own storytelling archives, so you have a bottomless well of material.

In this workshop, you’ll learn to polish your storytelling lens—what I call your “golden thread”—that unique and quirky point of view that’s evolved with your life, experiences and the message you’re here to share. You’ll have time to work your writing muscles with prompts, get some live feedback and hone your writing voice, and choose some stories to develop further.

 

Madeleine Eno, MA, helps creative entrepreneurs remember what they are here to say, and discover the most compelling container in which to say it.

She weaves lessons from her previous life as a magazine editor and yoga teacher into her work. In her Find Your Golden Thread and Book Mapping sessions and classes, clients and students discover the soul and meaning of their stories, so they can then confidently write their books, connect with their tribe, and change the world in their own magical way. Her students and clients describe Madeleine as a mix of wordsmith, alchemist, cheerleader, hand-holder, editor and intuitive guide. Find more at www.inthewriteplace.com


COST: $30

BRING: notebook and pen, please bring a sack lunch and/or snack, (Hot tea and coffee provided.)

14 students max.

RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm


The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

 

This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.

The Adventures of Chicken and Dumpling @ Sou'wester Lodge
May 11 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Adventures of Chicken and Dumpling @ Sou'wester Lodge
“Chicken & Dumpling are the fun-loving alter-egos of Tave Fasce Drake and Nikki Jardin.

Their shows involve original music consisting of blues, folk, swing, and 1930s style songs, along with a handful of carefully selected covers often played on unusual and whimsical instruments. The fun times also include storytelling, games, and the occasional guest performer!

When not off having adventures or performing together, Tave and Nikki are involved in several solo projects in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Additionally, Tave is the lead singer and Nikki is the drummer of Gerle Haggard Band, the “All Merle, All Girl” tribute. They will be on tour later this month to Muskogee, OK, to play the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and the Women’s Prison nearby, among other venues.”

https://www.theadventuresofchickenanddumpling.com/

This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!

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May
18
Sat
The Stargazer Lilies plus Lorka Scher @ Sou'wester Lodge
May 18 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
The Stargazer Lilies plus Lorka Scher @ Sou'wester Lodge

Kim Field and John Cep are – in studio – The Stargazer Lilies. A unit in marriage, long time – blissing as a song writing team with a rich and romantic, cutting edge presence in the musical ocean of the indie dream pop, shoegaze, ambient and psychedelic scene. They released three albums, aiding in the resurrection of shoegaze, as their former band, Soundpool. They then stripped down from the larger ensemble to create a more intimate, pulsating – primal project and released 3 full length albums as The Stargazer Lilies on Graveface Records. They have also collaborated with Part Time Punks LA for a full length live recorded album which was released exclusively on Casa del Puente Discos/South America. They toured South America, The U.S. and Europe extensively around these releases. They are currently working on their next album which is being produced by Tobacco and will be released on his label, Rad Cult. They are currently supporting indie psychedelic legends, Black Moth Super Rainbow. Live, the duo morph into a trio with the addition of a live drummer. Expect an intensely dynamic, ethereal – yet explosive, mind – altering, face – melting concert experience.


Discography –
We Are The Dreamers Graveface Records 2013
Door To The Sun Graveface Records 2016
Part Time Punks Live Sessions Casa del Puente Discos 2017
Lost Graveface Records & Anima Recordings 2017
FUTURE RELEASE COMING SOON ON RAD CULT

Photo by Crystal Joy Tuliszewki

https://www.thestargazerlilies.com/

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L O R K A S C H E R is a Russian-American, dream-folk songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and harpist based in Portland, Oregon. Her music weaves syncopated melodies, emotive imagery, ethereal vocals and delicate loops. The haunting and intimate melodies work with themes of ancestral longing, inherited memory, and the collective process of coming back to life. These are lullabies to wake us.

www.titlewillcome.com

This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!

May
25
Sat
Crafting and Nourishing Our Way into Summer with Lara Pacheco, Paige Common & Kate Coulton
May 25 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series

Crafting and Nourishing Our Way into Summer with Lara Pacheco, Paige Common & Kate Coulton

Join herbalists Lara Pacheco and Kate Coulton as we craft with natural dyeing and nourish with some seasonal medicine making to bring us into the warmer and expansive months of the year. Lunch will be provided by Chef, Paige Common from Eatin’ Alive. Each participant will learn some basic steps of dyeing with plants and will be able to personalize their own dye bath. Folks will take home a tea blend that we will make as well. When registering for the class please specify if you would like to dye a cotton scarf or a skein of wool yarn. (If signing up 4 days or less before the workshop you will dye yarn.) Join us Friday evening May 24th from 6:30-7:30pm if you want to learn how to prepare your fibers for the dye process.

Kate Coulton of Pinon Botanicals and Lara Pacheco of Seed and Thistle Apothecary offer customized experiences around connecting folks to plant medicine, body and land.  They do this through education and herbal crafting.  Lara also offers a 11 month herbal apprenticeship program that delves deeper into these connections and supports folks in tapping into their ancestral medicine.  More information can be found at www.seedandthistle.com

Paige Common started preparing plant-based foods in her Portland kitchen giving life to Eatin’ Alive in 2010.  Detroit born and bred, soulful living inspires this gal: healthy diets, hearty laughter and active lifestyle. She believes that a rainbow a day will keep the doctor away. Paige is available for one-on-one health coaching, recipe development, pre/post-natal consultations, small event catering, speaking engagements and classes.


COST: $40 plus a $20 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)

BRING: All supplies provided in addition to a catered lunch. Coffee and tea provided. Please wear clothes & shoes that are ok to get dye on. Please bring a notebook, pen/pencil, and a little bag to gather some of your crafted items at the end.

Optional lesson on how to prepare your fiber/wool for dye on Friday May 24th from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Sou’wester.

All skill levels welcome. 20 students max.

RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm. (When registering for the class please specify if you would like to dye a cotton scarf or a skein of wool yarn. Instructors need at least 4 days notice in order to provide students with this choice.)


 

The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

 

This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.


 

 

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Elisabeth Pixley-Fink @ The Sou'Wester
May 25 @ 8:00 pm
Elisabeth Pixley-Fink @ The Sou'Wester

Elisabeth Pixley-Fink is a Portland-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and band leader, born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan by a family of music-makers. Her blend of heartbreaking, heart-making folk songs and bratty garage rock hits you in the chest and mouth, with guts, trust and hunger.

“She has a campfire personality. You see her perform and you can’t turn away…you just stay there observing the fire, hypnotized.” -Luis Alberto González Arenas, rip.mx

https://pixley-fink.com

Photo by John Hanson, Adam Levy

This event is free and open to the public!!

Jun
9
Sun
Opening Reception “Forget Me Not Taxidermy” by artist Lindsay Bones
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Art Exhibit

Forget Me Not Taxidermy

by artist Lindsay Bones
June 9 through August 4, 2019


A new art exhibit in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge

‘Forget Me Not Taxidermy’ is a sculptural exhibition using taxidermy with road kill, bringing back animals in a new light. So they are remembered forever and not forgotten as victims of the road.

OPENING RECEPTION on Sunday June 9, 6pm-9pm.

OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)

Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.

Lindsay Bones
Raised in Astoria, and resides there now. Finished taxidermy school in Thompson falls Montana the summer of 2016. After having her housemates complain of having no room for ice-cream in the freezer from her collection of roadkill. Working on only animals that have died of natural causes/roadkill/pets. Dressing up squirrels, rats, mink, and mice. With inspiration from books like red wall & wind in the willows. She aspires to one day have her own boutique of oddities and taxidermy in her home town.

This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

 

Jun
29
Sat
Radiant Fearlessness: Embracing Your Best YOU with the Tools of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation
Jun 29 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm

Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series

Radiant Fearlessness: Embracing Your Best YOU with the Tools of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation

with instructor Laurel Clohessy

This 4 hour workshop is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the joy, transformation, and rejuvenation of Kundalini Yoga, sacred chant, and creativity as you re-discover and return to your true self. Whether you are an experienced yogi, or this is your first time practicing Kundalini Yoga, you can benefit from this practice. Kundalini Yoga and meditation, as taught by Yogi Bhajan is for anyone and everyone. Just breathe, and lean in the right direction and you too will benefit! The best way to know it, is by doing it-so we will experience basic pranayam or breathwork, kriyas or yogic sets, meditations, and mantras that can become a part of your own daily toolbox. Tools to release stress, to unlock creativity, and be your best YOU. Kundalini yoga is often called “the yoga of awareness,” as it is a journey of self-mastery and one that activates all the systems of the body. We will enjoy the blessings of community-in a few group meditations and excercises, as well as the natural world-taking time by the ocean to practice a walking meditation. There will be a couple of brief writing and art meduims explored post-yoga sets. Kundalini Yoga is a tool to experience your birthright to happiness and greatness as the human being that you are. “Great challenges come to Great people.” -YB
I hope to see you there! Sat Nam

 

Laurel Clohessy (Deshpal Kaur) grew up with Kundalini Yoga sprinkled throughout her early childhood. She returned to the arms of this practice following the birth of her oldest son. In 2005 Laurel studied with Gurmukh to become a certified Khalsa Way Prenatal teacher. In 2007, she completed the Radiant Child teacher training with Shakta Kaur, and in 2014 Laurel completed her Level 1 KYTT with Sevak Singh Khalsa. Laurel often incorporates poetry and dance movement into her all-levels classes. It is her joy to share these teachings with others, and she sees the powerful practice of Kundalini Yoga as a compass that can always point us forward, as well as return us to the happiest, truest Self. Laurel teaches currently in Portland, Oregon and is a transplant from Flagstaff, AZ.

 

 


COST: $45-$25 sliding scale, please pay what you can within this range

BRING: Dress comfortably to move, bring a water bottle, a cushion or blanket, and yoga mat if you have one. Please bring a sack lunch (hot tea and coffee provided). Sitting together blessing our food, and sharing a mealtime is a great thing for any community. Bring a sunhat, light jacket, and shoes to walk to the shore (a very short walk). We will experience some meditation and breathwork by the ocean.

This workshop is best for students age 14 and up. 12 students max.

RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm


The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644

 

This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.

The Best Intentions @ The Sou'wester
Jun 29 @ 8:00 pm
The Best Intentions @ The Sou'wester

 

The Best Intentions’ are Ani Banani and Pete Irving playing a repertoire that encompasses jazz standards, old blues, contemporary diamonds in the rough, and a surprising amount of classic-sounding original music.

This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!

https://www.facebook.com/The-Best-Intentions-260509951525733/