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!

May
5
Fri
She Shreds Showcase
May 5 @ 7:00 pm – May 7 @ 2:00 pm

We’re thrilled to present our first She Shreds Weekend Showcase!!  Come take break from the city life, enjoy some sweet jams from Portland based artists, walk on the beach, relax in the sauna, soak in the sun (or rain, ’cause you know… PNW), bring your dog, your mom, your partner, and chill with the She Shreds crew. It’s gonna be the best.

*** Reserve your trailer/cabin by calling Sou’wester directly at (360) 642-2542 and mention it’s for the She Shreds showcase.

  • 3 days of bands (7 bands total)
  • 1 day of workshops 
  • beach hang
  • Fireworks
  • Chill hang around a fire 
  • Demo station available for shreddage
 
BANDS
 

Sallie Ford

Black Belt Eagle Scout

Claire Puckett

Marisa Anderson music

Haley Heynderickx

Savila

Daniela Karina (Women’s Beat League DJ)

DJ Suavecito (She Shreds Magazine)


 

OTHER IMPORTANT INFO:
Reservations must be made via phone NOT online.
$10 at the door day of OR $25 weekend pass available at ticket link.
ALL AGES

May
6
Sat
Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
May 6 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

May
10
Wed
Flower Moon Self-Care Workshop @ Sou'wester Lodge
May 10 @ 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Walk the beauty way. Come together to share in a healing full moon circle of the Full Flower Moon in Scorpio. Bring a flower or stone as an offering for the earth.  Our Cosmic Mother will hold us in her living flower mandala as we come together in ceremony – as Women, as Sisters, as Daughters, as Mothers, as Grandmothers. Join us for the Flower Moon Self-Care Workshop, an energetic healing for your sacred temple within. This worship honors our ancestors, the feminine lineage that is at our root, and it honors the blossoms we have birthed, our little ones, the carriers of the light.
This ceremony is an individual healing and celebration of your feminine essence. It is a liberation from the past – supported with the healing smoke of herbs, flower blossoms, fire, sacred waters and loving community. I will be sharing my wisdom from my teachers Pixie Lighthorse on creating and honoring sacred space and Tami Kent Author of the Wild Feminine, Wild Creative, and Mothering From Your Center. Thank you to these women of great strength and vision for supporting us in true wellbeing. Following the ceremony, we will discuss how to nurture the rite during our moon cycle. We will also explore our inner garden through a guided shamanic meditation and the art of creating your own lunar eclipsed flower essence and clay/sauna purification ritual. We will close with a sacred journey, opening the energy center at our throat which increases the energy flow through our womb center.
Workshop Fee $50 (Includes flower essence supplies, booklet, venue and sauna fees)
This ceremony is open to all women, from the age of 16+. Come and bring your beloveds!
*Please bring: blanket + a flower(s) for our flower mandala
Circle will be held inside and group flower mandala will be outside. Please be mindful of the weather and bring blankets or mats if you wish.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flower-moon-self-care-workshop-tickets-34154709656?aff=es2

 

May
13
Sat
Macrame Wall Hanging Workshop with Liz & Brian Wright
May 13 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Macrame Wall Hanging Workshop with Liz & Brian Wright

Macrame, a 70’s icon, has made a comeback in a big way! Come learn and practice the fundamental knots that can be used to create decorative and functional shapes, while you create a modern wall hanging to adorn your home. The foundational knotty skill set learned in this class will certainly set you on your way to creating future tapestries, plant hangers, and more!


Founded in 2016 by Liz and Brian Wright, Assembly hosts hands-on modern craft and DIY workshops in the Portland area. The workshops and classes, covering a wide variety of crafts, are perfect for beginners and designed to empower creativity and pique interest in potential new hobbies. Originally from Ohio, Liz Rosino Wright has a long history of creative projects and pursuits as a professional artist, designer, video producer, small business owner, and museum researcher. Brian Wright, a native of Southwest Washington, is a busy Portland-based drummer, event producer, and lover of all crafts beginning with his addiction to sewing in 2010.


COST:  $30 plus $25 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.) 

BRING: 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 geared for students age 14 and up. (Advanced younger students might be ok too.)

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

 

Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
May 13 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Louis Ledford
May 13 @ 8:00 pm

Photo by Francesco Lucarelli
 
Born in the American South, Louis Ledford has carved out a career composing and performing literate Americana roots music. He has produced three solo recordings in association with Waterbug Records, a relationship which began in 2005 when Ledford met label owner Andrew Calhoun at the legendary Texas Kerrvile Folk Festival. Louis has collaborated with folk diva Anais Mitchell on several projects including his singing the role of Hades for a touring production of her rock opera Hadestown. Mitchell recorded his song “When You Fall” for her collaborative album Country EP with Rachel Ries released by Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records.

Ledford’s attention to lyrical detail is simply stunning. He makes the most of everyday circumstance, while never making the mundane feel normal. – 9X Music Magazine.

Louis Ledford is a great songwriter; witty, insightful and observant regarding the oddities of human behavior. – J. Kelly, Creative Loafing, Atlanta.

Louis Ledford achieves what Woody Guthrie was so good at–making an instant connection with the listener – Americana UK.

May
14
Sun
Shorebirds, Seabirds & Little Brown Birds
May 14 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Shorebirds, Seabirds & Little Brown Birds with Mark Elliott

 

This Birding Field Trip will meet inside the Sou’wester Lodge at 9:30am and finish at noon. Some birds we will be looking for are Yellow-rumped Warblers, Great Blue Herons, Violet-green Swallows, Caspian Terns, Surf Scoters (a sea duck), nesting Brandt’s Cormorants and Bald Eagles. We will learn about bird behavior and how to identify birds by using “fieldmarks” and habitat. We will be hiking in and around Cape Disappointment State Park and we can carpool. A Washington State Park “Discovery Pass” will be needed for parking (a $10 day fee). Bring binoculars. For those who want to continue birding in the afternoon please bring a sack lunch.


Audubon Society of Lincoln City’s field trip guide Mark Elliott has been birding for 35 years. He teaches raptor identification and basic birding at Oregon Coast Community College. Mark also leads field trips for Yaquina Birders and Naturalists in Newport, Oregon and at the Birding and Blues Festival in Pacific City, Oregon. Mark stays active in citizen science by taking part in annual Christmas Birdcounts and has been recording data for COASST (Coastal Observation And Seabird Survey Team) for seven years. He has birded 48 states, the Caribbean, Canada, Mexico and Europe. He now lives on the Oregon coast.

 

COST:  $5 per person or $10 per family

BRING: Please bring binoculars if you have them. Bring weather appropriate clothing and footwear. For those who want to continue birding in the afternoon please bring a sack lunch (hot tea and coffee provided).

 


All workshops are open to the public.

All Skill Levels Welcome.

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

 
May
20
Sat
Experiments in Writing & Zine Making with A.M. O’Malley & Grant Gerald Miller
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Workshop Series at The Sou’wester

Experiments in Writing & Zine Making with A.M. O’Malley & Grant Gerald Miller

Come experiment! This workshop will consist of 4 hours of generative writing and then and 1-2 hours of zine making with a lunch break. We will explore erasure poems, flash memoir and flash fiction and will do our best to embody the spirit of play in our writing. The class include a zine-which is a self-made publication made by one person or a small group.


A.M. O’Malley lives in Portland, OR where she is the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her writing has appeared in Nailed Magazine, Poor Claudia and The Burnside Review, among other publications. Expecting Something Else her first full-length book of poem-memoir is out on University of Hell Press. Find her at amomalley.com

 

Grant Gerald Miller was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Alabama and an assistant editor at Black Warrior Review. His work has appeared or is set to appear in various journals including Hobart, Qu Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Necessary Fiction, and Nimrod.

COST:  $25 – $40 sliding scale

BRING: a writing utensil and paper, and 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 students age 15 and up.

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

Sound Bath with Mamook Wellness
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

WEEKLY EVENT

A unique ambient sound experience, blending tiny ambient concert and harmonic healing in which participants are enveloped in the vibrational drones of various traditional healing instruments.

COST: Suggested donation $5-10.  No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

RSVP: souwesterwellness@gmail.com

WHERE: Wellness Trailer

Space limited to 8 people

Lorain and Robin Bacior
May 20 @ 8:00 pm
 
Portland’s  Lorain plays wandering, lyrical music combining woozy AM folk-rock, with the ghosts of Nashville Skyline era Dylan. 
Photo by Kim Smith-Miller
This event is free and open to the public