Vradiazei, plays dark, metal influenced folk music on acoustic instruments. “The realization that the darkest days are yet to come inspired us to abandon the use of electricity in our music. We express the anguish of the past, the desperation of the present, and the uncertainty of the future without it. When the world is left in ruin our sound will echo in the empty streets.”

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Born in an attic “cabin” studio lined with Douglas Fir, The Cabin Project began as a solo act project started by Katie Sawicki, a former-folksinger from Brooklyn who became inspired by electric guitars, keys, synthesizers, and balancing all three onstage. After moving to the Pacific Northwest in 2008, Sawicki sought out sound rooted in the intimacy of folk, and the arrangements of orchestral rock. While she typically collaborates with her full-time band of percussion, strings, and bass, the solo Cabin Project builds this community of influences and collaborations and cultivates a sound that chimes earnest, reverent, and full of warmth. Her most recent record, released with the Cabin Project, Unfolded, is self-described as, “an album about despair, loss, hope, freedom, heartache, justice and love.”

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Busy Hands Quiet Minds: Weaving as Meditation with Samantha LaMont & Natalie Novak

In this class we’ll explore creative meditation through the use of flower essences and the ancient craft of weaving. Weaving is a methodical and slow practice.  As our hands get involved with each stitch our minds are free to rest from our conscious stream of thought. It is in this state of quiet that we are best able to hear our creative voice and let it SHINE!  The flower essences will unlock any barriers to your true creative self as your fingers dance across the loom.

Instructors Natalie Novak and Samantha LaMont will be your guides as you use these simple, traditional tools to enter a meditative state. Join this class and learn not only how to weave, but also how weaving can be a tool used daily for self care and meditation.  Students will leave with the flower essences we use in class plus a complete weaving kit.  Kit includes a frame loom, essential weaving tools, illustrated instructions, yarn and a special tote to carry it all home in.

Samantha LaMont is a weaver, painter, and teacher living in Portland, OR.  She creates ritual art and cultivates a practice of being through guided meditation and flower exploration. Her work is often spiritual and abstractly explores themes of expanded consciousness and mysticism. Samantha has been studying with her mentor, Shayne Case, an intuitive healer, for over two years. Learning about healing and the art of gem/flower essence through meditation and spirit guided inner exploration. She started her painting and weaving business, Cardinal Point, in 2014 and has been blown away by the encouragement of the north west community. Teaching has always been a passion, showing others how to paint and weave comes naturally, seeing the excitement of students is pure joy. Art is for everyone, and it is an honor for her to share this gift.

Natalie Novak is an artist in Portland, Oregon. She has studied Navajo style weaving and tapestry at the Damascus Fiber Arts School as well as drawing and painting at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Natalie works primarily in tapestry, drawing from ancient and contemporary weaving techniques to explore color relationships, modern mysticism and the (super)natural world. Currently Natalie maintains a dedicated practice at her home studio and teaches this meditative craft to students in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.  Through weaving Natalie has cultivated so much joy; through teaching she is honored to share that magic with others.

COST:  $40 plus a $65 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to instructor.) Materials fee includes a complete Weaving as Meditation kit:  loom, set of weaving tools, flower & gem essences, illustrated weaving instruction book, essence zine, warp string for future weaves and lots of yarn and fibers to take home in a specially screen-printed tote.

BRING: An open heart and an inquisitive spirit! Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (hot tea and coffee provided).

There will be an optional Meet & Greet Saturday night Feb 24^th at 7pm followed by an optional guided bedtime meditation.

All workshops are open to the public.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

This workshop is for students all ages but minors must be accompanied by an adult.

14 students max.

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

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

This class is part of the Fall & Winter 2017/2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the entire schedule of more than 28 artist-led workshops.

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Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Hands on Healing for the People with Jason Tschimperle

Inspired by the Reiki tradition of hands- on energetic medicine, this workshop includes: a discussion on energy, medicine, meditation, breath work, and a loving hands on routine for helping others come to calm and wholeness. Perfect for sharing with the loved ones in your life.

Jason Tschimperle is the proprietor of Mamook Wellness at The Sou’wester Lodge, an educator, meditation instructor, sound healer, and therapeutic bodyworker. And he likes being calm.

COST:  $40

BRING: Please bring a notebook and wear comfortable clothing. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (hot tea and coffee provided).

All workshops are open to the public.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

This workshop is for adults. 6 students max.

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

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

This class is part of the Fall & Winter 2017/2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the entire schedule of more than 28 artist-led workshops.

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SPACENESS is a celebration of time, space and the unknown through experimental art, media and performance. Each year SPACENESS takes over the Sou’Wester Lodge in Seaview, WA, as well as the adjacent forest, seashore and wild spaces.

The next celebration of Spaceness is MARCH 2-4, 2018. Spaceness is FREE and welcoming to people of all ages. We recommend attendees secure lodging at one of the many comfortable establishments in the nearby towns of Astoria (OR), Ilwaco, Seaview, and Long Beach (WA) to enjoy the entire weekend of programming.

Follow @spacenesss ( ⏎ 3 s’) on Instagram for updates and special information about the event.

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Spaceness was founded by Portland artists Julia Barbee, Matt Suplee, and Alison Jean Cole and has been awarded funding by the Precipice Fund, Calligram Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Portland chapter of the Awesome Foundation.

SPACENESS 2018 will be accepting proposals from Sept 20, 2017 to Nov 1, 2017.

CALL TO ARTISTS

Entering the twenty-first century we have myriad human theories and logical arguments that explain the existence of our galaxy, the heavens, and the universe; however, that pool of knowledge is insufficient in addressing what we still do not know – the things that baffle and confound our species – truths that may evade us for eternity. These are the concepts that fall under the definition of “spaceness’.

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Spring 2018 Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Plant The Seed Writing Workshop: The Magnificent Practice of Getting Out What Your Heart & Guts Have To Say
with Franciszka Voeltz & Jennifer Morales

Co-led by Franciszka Voeltz and Jennifer Morales, Plant the Seed is a workshop designed to break writers of all levels (including those who don’t call themselves writers) through barriers that keep them from creating the work they are meant to write. Together we will practice moving forward in our writing–without apology. Writers of all genres are welcome to join in the work and play of cracking open our writer-hearts, busting out of our stuck practices, and harnessing the power of what emerges. We will close the workshop by naming new commitments to our writing–planting the seed for future work. If you find any part of you saying “YES!” while reading this workshop description, then this is our personal nudge encouraging you to listen to the yesses! If you struggle with making time for your writing and somehow everything else becomes more important, tell your words you have not abandoned them and put this on your calendar!

From the crossroads of writing and social practice, Franciszka Voeltz writes poems-to-go on a portable typewriter for magnificent strangers in public places, curates a collective poem to the entire planet, and has two decades’ experience facilitating community writing workshops and readings in living rooms, at universities, and everywhere in between. Writing together is her favorite way to be with people. Voeltz’s chapbook POETXTS is available from Imaginary Friend Press, and her work has appeared in journals including Dark Mountain, Analecta Literary Journal, and Adrienne. Voeltz is the recipient of various poetry fellowships including those granted by the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, and Art Farm. She earned an MFA in Writing from the University of California, San Diego. www.franciszkavoeltz.com

Jennifer Morales is a queer Latina poet, fiction writer, and performance artist whose work across genres wrestles with questions of gender, identity, complicity, and harm. She has led writing workshops for all ages—1st-graders through adults—and has been called (by the adults, not the 1st-graders) “a natural-born teacher.” She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University-Los Angeles in 2011. Jennifer’s first book, Meet Me Halfway (UW Press, 2015), a short story collection about life in hyper-segregated Milwaukee, was Wisconsin Center for the Book’s 2016 “Book of the Year.” Reviewers called it “a compelling debut” (Booklist) and Jennifer “an impressively gifted writer” (Midwest Book Review). Excerpts of her unpublished novel, Junction, appeared in The Account (spring 2017) and in Happy Hours: Our Lives in the Gay Bars (Flashpoint, 2017), edited by S. Renée Bess and Lee Lynch. Recent publications also include poems in MAYDAY and in “Pulsamos,” a special issue of Glass Poetry dedicated to the Pulse nightclub victims. She’s the president of the board of the Driftless Writing Center, building literary community in rural Southwestern Wisconsin. www.moraleswrites.com

COST: $50
BRING: Writing tools of your choice (this can be pen/pencils and paper or a laptop or a typewriter – whatever you feel most comfortable writing with). Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (hot tea and coffee provided).
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

All workshops are open to the public.
All Skill Levels Welcome. 10 students max.

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

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Wanderlodge are two longtime Portland roots-rockers who weave together musical styles from folk, country and classic rock. Their music features gritty, soulful vocal harmonies, fierce slide guitar work, and dark, vibey songs.
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The Polite Decliners offer spacey introspective country music, performed by members of The Cedar Shakes, The Sound Outside, The New Old Stock, and The Serious River Song Catalog. Songs about food and love.

Spring Workshop Series at the Sou’wester

DIY Screen Printing & Contact Paper Stencils
with Heather McLaughlin

Using tape and contact paper artists can create temporary screen printing stencils. This is a great way to make screen at home with little to no chemicals or equipment. In this workshop artists will create successful designs to cut, create the contact paper stencils by hand and pull a small set of prints. In addition to prints on paper, artists can also print on fabric or other flat materials. 

Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. After high school, she continued west to Portland Oregon and continued her studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Heather completed her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking in 2005. She currently serves at the print studio Manager at PNCA while also teaching printmaking and youth arts as an adjunct instructor in PNCA’s Continuing Education Program. Heather also volunteers as an art instructor at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls and has served on the board for Flight 64 (a Member-run Print Studio). In addition to her art Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant.

COST: $40 plus a $10 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to instructor)
BRING: Please wear clothes that can get messy. Bring an art apron if possible. Students may also bring anything they would like to print onto aside from paper (like t-shirts, handkerchiefs etc.) Please bring a snack for yourself if you’d like (hot tea and coffee provided).
This workshop is for teens and adults. Younger students okay with an adult partner. 12 students max
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542

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“Lenore., a project that skirts the edges of folk and pop to create a sound that is earthy and melodic, toned and precise.”

— paste

“a band deeply committed to strong and timeless songwriting, calling upon the husky vibes of Fleetwood Mac, the intimate wonders of Simon & Garfunkel or the ethereal bliss of Enya, all wrapped around the majestic scenery of the Pacific Northwest.”

— tidal

“When they sing you’re transported to a different dimension, an unearthly realm. Here, you’ll find safety and security. Here, you’ll be able to rest, to find peace. And here, you’ll discover the courage you need to start living the life you want.”

— NPR

The coming together of Joy Pearson and Rebecca Marie Miller as Portland’s newest folk outfit, Lenore, is serendipitous, to say the least. After individually hitting rock bottom — Pearson following her divorce and Miller after a period of destitution in LA — the pair separately turned to songwriting in the search for a still point in their turning worlds.

After several years of lending their abilities to other projects, including Saddle Creek’s The Mynabirds, and Portland’s own The High Water Jazz Band, they finally found themselves spinning on the same axis when a chance meeting through a mutual friend, Pokey LaFarge, sparked an immediate connection. A drunken night ensued, and before they’d even scoped each other’s material, they had committed.

Now, just under two years since that fateful night, and Lenore can boast having performed at legendary Pacific Northwest venues including Mississippi Studios, Aladdin Theater, and Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, as well as the Sunset Tavern, Triple Door, and Tractor Tavern in Seattle. They’ve opened for the likes of Eric Bachmann, Laura Gibson, Esmé Patterson, and ex-collaborators, The Mynabirds, and have shared the stage with Peter Buck (R.E.M.), as well as Chris Funk and Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists).

Since Lenore’s formation, Miller and Pearson have gained full-time collaborators in seasoned Portland musicians Edward Cameron (classical guitar) and Jessie Dettwiler (cello), who have contributed significantly to the evolution of Lenore’s sound — a melancholic blend of harmony-driven folk with an ever present silver lining.

Harlowe is the moniker for the songs of Mark Robertson, often with collaborators from the artist collective Sleepy Volcano in Portland, Oregon USA. The second full length recording titled “Curses” is a lo-fi collection of songs intermixed with eclectic instrumental soundscapes, released October 2017.

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