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!

Sep
12
Mon
SUMMER ART CAMP: Creative Writing Retreat with Nick Jaina
Sep 12 @ 10:00 am

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


 

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Nov
24
Thu
Thanksgiving Feast Potluck
Nov 24 @ 5:00 pm

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.

Dec
17
Sat
Handmade Bazaar & Thrifty Grand Re-Opening
Dec 17 @ 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

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/

Dec
21
Wed
Winter Solstice Potluck, Bonfire & Sauna
Dec 21 @ 6:00 pm

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.

Dec
24
Sat
Formal Dinner & White Elephant Gift Exchange
Dec 24 @ 7:00 pm

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)

Dec
25
Sun
PJ Party and All Day Movies
Dec 25 @ 9:00 am – 9:00 pm

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!

Jan
1
Sun
Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens
Jan 1 @ 3:00 pm

Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens

Toast the New Year with Black Eyed Peas & Collard Greens at the Sou’wester!

Feb
24
Fri
Spaceness 2017
Feb 24 @ 5:00 pm – Feb 26 @ 5:00 pm

Welcome Spaceness 2017 to The Sou’wester! An Annual Celebration in it’s 3rd year hosted by The Sou’wester Lodge:

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. 

This year’s event takes place FEBRUARY 24-26, 2017. 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 is curated and organized by Portland artists Julia BarbeeMatt 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.

Apr
16
Sun
Easter Egg Hunt
Apr 16 @ 10:00 am

 

Calling all Sou’wester Guests…..Please join us in Welcoming Springtime with an Easter Egg Hunt starting at 10:00am. Come on into the lodge for coffee and tea and then rush off to find your treats!

10:00am to 12:00pm

Egg Hunt OUTSIDE for Kiddos (Kid-Kind Treats)

AND

Egg Hunt INSIDE the Lodge for Adults (Adult-Themed Treats)

 

You’ll even find some fun non-traditional non-junk food style fun in the hunt too! (Event for Sou’wester friends/family and for guests staying in lodging at the Sou’wester.)

 

Apr
29
Sat
5 Year Anniversary Celebration
Apr 29 @ 4:00 pm – Apr 30 @ 12:00 pm