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!
Creative Writing Retreat with Nick Jaina
Nick’s first Summer Art Camp workshops went so well that we are adding another workshop. This time in Artist-In-Residence style in which the entire lodge is set aside for students in this workshop and all students may book a room in the lodge for $50 a night.
Mon Sept 12 th – Thurs Sept 15th 10am – 1pm or 2pm – 5pm
This set of workshops focuses on all the good things that writing can do for your mental and emotional state, how it can bring you closer to people, and how it can help you understand the world. Rather than just trying to make something marketable, we will work on discovering the interesting, funny, and wonderful ideas that are sitting inside of us.
Students sign up for the workshop and then pick the time slot they prefer.
Sign up for 1 day or all 4. Pick one time slot for each day.
We are offering Writer Retreat prices for any suite in the lodge: $150 for the week or $50 a night (potentially shared accommodations). Students do not have to stay at the Sou’wester to take any of these classes.
Nick Jaina is a musician and author from Portland, Oregon. His book Get It While You Can is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in Creative Non-Fiction. He has taught writing workshops for ten years at Pendleton Rock Camp.
Cost $100 for all four days or $30 each day.
Please bring a laptop or pen and paper. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Hot tea and coffee provided. Workshop for students ages 15+. All skill levels welcome. Max # of students:10 (5 in each session, morning or afternoon.)
Please RSVP souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360 – 642 – 2542.
Call the Sou’wester to book your stay – all lodge rooms have been set aside for this retreat.
We are located at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
Join us for an exploration into the worlds of two renowned medicinal mushrooms coexisting in the forests of Cascadia. This workshop includes: an introduction to the classification of fungi, identification techniques for Reishi and Turkey Tail (including distinctions from common look-a likes), an overview of the medicinal constituents of each species and their histories in healing, conscious and sustainable wild harvesting skills, as well as medicine making techniques for tinctures, balms, and teas.
$30. Includes handouts and a balm sample.
RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542
Space is limited to 10 folks
Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!
In this special event we will come together in a cooperative effort to educate ourselves and make healthy plans for minimizing stress, living fuller and healthier, with endurance and spacious awareness. As a group we will come together and learn how to create personal refuges based in stress prevention and relaxation techniques. A general overview of stress and anxiety in human health will be met with yoga techniques, breathing methods, recommendations for natural therapeutics, creative outlets, mindfulness meditation, a discussion on diet, grounding techniques, and more. Participants will walk away with a toolbox of resources of personal empowerment, allowing them to improve mood health with understanding and confidence.
$30 per person. Handouts included. Space limited to 10 people.
RSVP souwesterwellness@gmail.com OR call our front desk @ 360.642.2542
Space is limited to 10 folks
Let’s meet @ the wellness camper!
All guests staying at the Sou’wester (and community members too) are invited to a Thanksgiving Feast Potluck at the Sou’wester in the Pavilion! (All guests bring your own plates and utensils.) Dinner starts at 5:00pm. Desserts after dinner in the Main Lodge Living Room. Games in the lodge in the evening around the fireplace.
Handmade Bazaar & Thrifty Grand Re-Opening
We have turned our entire lodge into a handmade bazaar, full of artists selling art, and handcrafted items from 10am-5pm:
***Artist Tables by:
***JULIA BARBEE STUDIOS:Her perfumes are uniquely composed, and the rest of her work is equally divinely conceived.
***NICKY KRIARA and NIKO FAR WEST makes functional ceramic ware inspired by the history, landscape, and textures of The Pacific Northwest.
***BROOKE SHEPHERD of SEAWATER STUDIO: will bring her hand dyed wares such as linen dish towels and kimonos
***HEATHER MCLAUGHLIN a stellar printmaker, will bring her work: limited graphic editions, drawings, and hand printed concert posters
***Artist JOE CHASSE, famous for his canned ham mini vintage travel trailers, will be selling his new works, tabletop recycled metal sculptures.
***VETIVER THERAPY selling Wildcrafted therapeutics.
***TERA STENZEL will bring her artwork, hand sculpted “taxidermy” mushroom people
***A COUPLE OF ARTISTS: Annie Eskelin and Bill Atwood will bring metal sculpture, original seascape paintings, mini prints and jewelry.
***DAWN STETZEL and NATURE NELL’S SISTER bringing 100% reclaimed materials cards and journals.
***and more……
We will have a “print your own card station” too! Print your own Mermaid Holiday Card with hand carved images by Heather McLaughlin, sliding scale $1-$5.
*free crafting supplies box in the lodge: feel free to take and/or add to
Visit our newly remodeled “Thrifty”, our popular Vintage Travel Trailer Thrift Shop, and it’s Grand Re-Opening. New and unusual thrifty items for sale. Please come and peruse!
Stay, or come back, for the live music of Lindsie Feathers at 8pm in the lodge.
New updates posted here too: https://www.facebook.com/events/328554510844818/
Winter Solstice Potluck, Bonfire & Sauna
Come celebrate this shortest day of the year, the change of seasons, and the return of the light that the Winter Solstice brings. Join us for a potluck in the lodge at 6pm, harvest vegetables and winter delights, with a bonfire celebration in our sauna garden after dinner.
As part of the sauna bonfire we will serve locally harvested wild herb hot tea as a special treat. Mention SOLSTICE for 20% off your stay at the Sou’wester. Includes entrance to all of the Solstice events and a warm-up sauna any time of the day.
Community members or those already in the area, please join us for the potluck and if you want to use the sauna it is only $6 per person or $10 per couple.
Formal Dinner & White Elephant Game & Gift Exchange
This always brings lotsa-laughs! Come celebrate togetherness at the Sou’wester with a White Elephant Gift Exhange! (Gift Price Range: $10)
Sunday December 25
9am – 9pm
PJ Party and All Day Movies
Bring your favorite slippers to the Sou’wester and join us for a PJ Party and All Day Movies! Help us select a handful of wonderful movies from our massive VHS collection!
Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens
Toast the New Year with Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens at the Sou’wester!
Winter Workshop Series
Prose Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina
DATE: Saturday January 21st
TIME: 10am-2pm
TITLE: Prose Writing with Nick Jaina
COST: $30
Nick Jaina is a musician and writer from Portland, Oregon. His new album Brutal Lives is out on Fluff & Gravy Records. It is available on Spotify, iTunes, Bandcamp, and wherever digital albums are sold. There will be an album release performance at the Liquor Store in Portland on October 6th.
He is a co-founder and musical director of the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City. He has composed the music for three ballets and three contemporary dances with that group, featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet, Ten Hairy Legs, and Juilliard, performing at the Baryshnikov Center and the Joyce Theater. Their most recent performance was two sold-out shows at Brooklyn Academy of Music in May 2014. Of that show, the New York Times wrote, “[The] pure, pungent, earthy music for strings, piano, and percussion… was the most physically bracing part of the night.”
He released his first book, Get It While You Can, a work of non-fiction, through Perfect Day Publishing in January 2015. It was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Awards.
To RSVP please call the Sou’wester front desk at 360-642-2542 or email souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com.