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!

Jan
27
Sat
Workshop: Ceramic Trinket Trays or Watercolor Palettes @ Ilwaco Artworks
Jan 27 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Jan 27

Ceramic Trinket Trays (or Watercolor Palettes) Workshop

w/Kimberly Gottschalk $70

Join us for a hands-on, one-day hand-building workshop where you can craft a unique ceramic trinket tray or watercolor palette! Throughout an engaging 4-hour session, you will dive into the art of ceramics, learning the fundamentals of working with clay before creating a unique template to help shape your clay into your choice of tray or palette. Please bring pictures or ideas of shapes to work with.

  • Saturday 2-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Kimberly is an emerging potter who crafts joyful objects, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and nature, shaping the clay through emotion and intention. She owns Lucida Ceramics, specializing in the whimsical, illustrative, and sometimes spooky. Always seeking to learn from the world around her and expand her techniques, you can find her in the woods as often as in the studio.

https://www.instagram.com/lucida.ceramics/

Live Music: Jonah Sissoyev @ The Sou'wester
Jan 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Jonah Sissoyev Live at the Sou’wester

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Jonah Sissoyev finds himself on the road often living between a black T shirt and blue jeans, a Walmart parking lots and gasstations. Since the release of SHADOW OF THE SUN Jonah has spent most of His time touring around the country in cities such as Los Angeles, Nashville, and New York.

Feb
3
Sat
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 3 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Jan 6 – Feb 9

Basic Handbuilding Workshop Series“In the Kitchen”

w/Shelly Hedges $250

Make your own dinnerware, serving platters, and storage containers in this beginning handbuilding class. Demonstrations will include slab-building, coil techniques, press molds, and glazing methods.

Includes:

  • One 25lb bag of clay.
  • Open studio access for the duration of class.

Saturdays, 10a – 1p

  • Jan 6th – Place Settings
  • Jan 13th – Serving Bowls & Platters
  • Jan 20th – Lidded Jars and Utensil Crocks 
  • Jan 27th – Pitchers & creamers
  • Feb 3rd – Glazing
  • + Friday Feb 9th – Potluck Show & Tell! 6-8p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 

Workshop: Clay Creatures & Miniature Things @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 3 @ 2:00 pm – Feb 4 @ 4:00 pm

Feb 3 & 4

Clay Creatures and Miniature Things Workshop

w/Kaitlyn Nelson $70

In Clay Creatures and Miniature Things we will spend 2 days learning a variety of hand building techniques to create objects such as clay tiles, mini figurines, pinch pots, coil pots and more! On day two we will spend time painting our sculptures using underglazes with a clear top coat.

  • Saturday 2-6p
  • Sunday 12-4p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 
Kaitlyn Nelson is a multi-disciplinary Artist and Educator. She has a vibrant studio practice working in hybrid media creating surrealism and storytelling infused with a passion for technical craft.  Her creative works amount in a wide breath of material forms as: soft sculpture- mask and costumes, theatrical production, object design, fine art paintings and illustrative book arts. Kaitlyn is originally from Portland, OR where she received a BFA in illustration and Communication Design at PNCA in 2017. She is currently working on a film, “Mistakes Will Be Made” as well as a children’s book / Cumphy synth collaborative album.
Live music: Night Brunch @ The Sou'wester
Feb 3 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Night Brunch Live at The Sou’wester!

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Night Brunch (Portland) brings their dense vocal harmonies and jangular guitar riffs but leaves a few decibels at home for an intimate “Light Brunch” version of their timeless groovemath. 

Feb
9
Fri
Workshop: “In the Kitchen” Basic Handbuilding Series @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 9 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Jan 6 – Feb 9

Basic Handbuilding Workshop Series“In the Kitchen”

w/Shelly Hedges $250

Make your own dinnerware, serving platters, and storage containers in this beginning handbuilding class. Demonstrations will include slab-building, coil techniques, press molds, and glazing methods.

Includes:

  • One 25lb bag of clay.
  • Open studio access for the duration of class.

Saturdays, 10a – 1p

  • Jan 6th – Place Settings
  • Jan 13th – Serving Bowls & Platters
  • Jan 20th – Lidded Jars and Utensil Crocks 
  • Jan 27th – Pitchers & creamers
  • Feb 3rd – Glazing
  • + Friday Feb 9th – Potluck Show & Tell! 6-8p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

 

Contemplative Rest Retreat @ Sou'wester Lodge
Feb 9 @ 7:00 pm – Feb 11 @ 11:00 am

Contemplative Rest Retreat

Contemplative Rest: Our Basic Peace Work
A weekend-long retreat with M Freeman
Fri, Feb 9 @ 7:00pm – Sun, Feb11 @ 11am


In-person only at:

The Sou’wester Lodge
3728 J Place
Seaview, Wa 98644

The Brief
Explore, savor, and rest in the numinous through this weekend-long retreat with contemplative guide, media artist, and writer, M Freeman. Inspired by decades of heart-centered contemplative practices and by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness teaching that rest is our most basic peace work, Freeman’s Contemplative Rest cultivates engagement in the mystical realm and nurtures awe as a profoundly fortifying resource.

We’ve all had unforgettable experiences of awe. Maybe it was on a hike, or holding a newborn, or watching a flock of birds. Maybe it was in moonlight, or with your cat, or in a hospital room. This spacious weekend features practice sessions in which Freeman will lead participants through exploring and honoring recollected moments, and will then guide folks into reverent, somatic, contemplative rest. Participants will be invited into reflective writing, to share reflections and insights, and to enjoy lots of solo relaxation time. All this wonder happens along the stunning Washington State coast at the Sou’wester Lodge and Vintage Travel Trailer Resort.

How much: Retreat fee is sliding scale, starting at $325 – Tickets

Lodging is additional. The Sou’wester has set aside select lodging options for retreat participantsBook lodging directly here with the Sou’wester.

Event details at marilynfreeman.com

About M Freeman

Media artist, writer, contemplative, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. Author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020/winner of the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation) and creator of Cinema Divina (short films for contemplative practice), Freeman is the founder of Contemplative Rest: Exploring, Savoring & Resting in the Numinous; and co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-based Disturbances. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone, Abbey of the Arts, and Good Symptom. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide. marilynfreeman.com.

M Freeman photo by Anne de Marcken

Feb
10
Sat
Workshop: Kintsugi Breaking & Mending (FULL) @ Ilwaco Artworks
Feb 10 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Feb 10

Kintsugi Breaking and Mending Workshop (FULL)

w/Glenda Goodrich $70

Where Grief, Gratitude, and Beauty Coexist.

Come join us as we delve into the art of breaking and mending. Participants will choose a bowl to break and mend as a ceremonial metaphor for the woundings of life and the beauty that comes from its broken places. The act of breaking a bowl and mending the “scars” with gold is based on the Japanese art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi teaches us we cannot go back to the way we were before, but instead move forward with our woundings and the beauty they can bring. Students will leave with a ceramic bowl with golden mended fault lines as a reminder of the places where grief, gratitude, and beauty coexist, as well as the opportunity to reframe old ideas about loss and adversity. Workshop fee includes ceremony, instruction, bowls, and all materials.

  • Saturday 1:30-6p

Location: Ilwaco Artworks

Glenda “GG” Goodrich is an artist, art doula, author, and SoulCollage(r) facilitator living in Salem, OR. GG works one-on-one and with groups to create opportunities for people to explore their intuitive creative potential. Her students describe her teaching style as fun, warm and supportive. She recently published her first book, Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions (available wherever books are sold), which is a testament to the healing and restorative powers of nature illustrated through stories about her vision questing experiences in the wild over a 20-year period.

Glendagoodrich.com    @glendagoodrich      #ggsdowntoearthstudio

Live Music: Ancient Pools @ The Sou'wester
Feb 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Ancient Pools: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Ancient Pools is the home recording project of husband and wife duo Vin Christopher and Anna Jeter. They have a soft approach to pop music. Warm, lush synth chords, watery guitar playing and crystalline vocals aim to usher listeners to a calm and peaceful place. 

Feb
17
Sat
Live Music: Ollella @ The Sou'wester
Feb 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Ollella Live at the Sou’wester

Ollella’s (pronounced oh-lel-uh) career as a musician started early, when she sang before she could talk. Trained as a classical cellist since the age of nine, the Seattle indie-folk musician merges her technical string background with authoritative vocals and live-looping. Described as “really outstanding” by NPR Music’s Bob Boilen and “so tastefully done” by Michelle Zauner (AKA Japanese Breakfast), Ollella blends the acoustic with the contemporary, folk with pop, and tenacity with softness, pulling on influences such as Feist, Cat Power, and Sylvan Esso. She was a finalist in the 2022 NPR Tiny Desk Contest, has had music featured in film festivals and on TV, and is a frequent collaborator with others. She finds herself drawn to music because it unlocks a particularly organic flavor of humanity – one that fits the type of world she believes in.