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
16
Tue
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 16 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
17
Wed
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
18
Thu
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
23
Tue
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
24
Wed
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 24 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
25
Thu
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 25 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Mar
12
Sun
Sou’wester ARTS WEEK 2023
Mar 12 @ 3:00 pm – Mar 19 @ 11:00 am

4th Annual ARTS WEEK!

During Arts Week The Sou’wester hosts 30-35 artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a weekend (Friday and Saturday) of music, studio tours, performances and installations.

Over the past 9 years we have held an event around this time of year to highlight the creative process and the experiential nature of the Sou’wester Residency Program. Each year this event brings amazing artists to this neck of the woods and shines creative light into the darkest heart of winter.

The focus of Arts Week 2023 is SHIFTING CYCLES:

“Our reliance on a known occurrence has been disrupted. This shift is replacing existing patterns and problems. Collective action and individual insight paving our path forward.”


On the weekend, Friday and Saturday March 17th and 18th, 2023 the public will be invited, free and open to all, to tour the grounds and surrounding areas for a weekend full of installations, music, performances and open studios.


 

(The Sou’wester has regular residencies offered year-round in addition to residency events such as the annual ARTS WEEK. Applications for the Sou’wester Standard Residency are separate from ARTS WEEK and accepted on a rolling basis.)


Thank you to our Arts Week 2023 Sponsors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jun
27
Tue
Summer Camp: Stop Motion(FULL) @ lwaco Artworks
Jun 27 @ 9:00 am – Jun 29 @ 3:00 pm

June 27th-29th

Stop Motion En Plein Air! with Aarica North

This summer camp week is currently full. Feel free to register for a different summer camp week.

Who says you have to animate alone in the dark? Each student will build their own puppet with organic material, then the group will play a collaborative game outside where we create a stop motion animation together. Students will receive a copy of the final animation, and can bring their puppets home with them.

REGISTER

Jul
25
Tue
Summer Art Camp: DIY Screen Printing @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jul 25 @ 9:00 am – Jul 27 @ 3:00 pm

DIY Screen Printing with Azenath and Ian

Screenprinting is a hands-on medium that allows students to reproduce any artwork they want in multiple colours and on many mediums. Our workshop, aimed at beginner students, will show how to undergo the entire printing process using a combination of recycled, homemade and a few purchased tools. Students will leave with the handmade screens and prints they made in the workshop, a booklet of historical art and propaganda prints from our collection, and inspiration and understanding to help them start screenprinting on their own.


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