SOU’WESTER EVENTS!

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Apr
14
Sat
Exhibit: Larry Yes
Apr 14 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Opening Reception Saturday April 14th, 5pm-7pm

for exhibition

what the world needs now is LOVE

by Larry Yes

April 14 – June 24, 2018

This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.

 
Larry Yes is an artist, songwriter and musician whose focus is on positivity, humor and heartfelt emotion. He loves using art to turn strangers into friends. His social engagement projects include, “Free Art in the Park”, a public party/art therapy session; and Positive Words, a community-sourced installation of uplifting language. His visual art has been shown at PDX Contemporary Art Window Project and the Portland Building, and he has collaborated with the Portland Museum of Modern Art. In his nearly 30-year musical career, he has toured Europe, performed with Michael Hurley; Sonny and the Sunsets; and Elliot Smith; and has played the Quiet Music Festival and SXSW. He describes his current musical style as “positive cosmic folk.” A native Oregonian, he lives in Portland.
 
 
2014 to present Studio to School (Portland, Or.) various art collaborations with Julie Keefe and the Peninsula Elementary School Community, Including the Fruit Tree Project in collaboration with Caldera and the Artists of Fallen Fruit
2006 to 2016 Free Art in the Park (Portland, Or.) “Free Art in the Park” is an extension of artist and social practitioner Larry Yes’ long-term community engagement event series. Part block party and part creative free-for-all, this free, inclusive event invites people of all ages to paint, socialize and enjoy live music by local musicians. Intended for people from all walks of life, it aims to transcend the barriers that separate artist from audience, and to create human connection using art. Yes has facilitated this event at NoPo’s Albina Green Park, and recently at Pioneer Square in partnership with Portland Museum of Modern Art’s (PMOMA) Houseguest residency.
2006 to 2016 Art and Culture Curator at Cherry Sprout Produce (Portland, OR) With a focus on local community artists and musicians and universal freethinkers featuring installations and performances by Chris Johanson, Vanessa Renwick, Jefferson High school, Cynthia Star, Ural Thomas, Michael Hurley, Pierced Arrows, Edna Vazquez, Lonnie Holley, August Lipp, Victoria Williams….
2005 to 2008 Artist Assistant for Jacob Hashimoto (New York/Italy) Fabrication and installation for shows in New York and Italy including shows at Studio La Città Verona, IT; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2004 to 2005 The ArcTisTics (Taos, New Mexico) Acting and collaborative member of an amazing theater troupe that brought together artists from the community to perform along with adults with disabilities from Taos County Arc.
 
2017 RACC Professional Development Grant
 
Curriculum Vitae
ART
At Paragon Gallery, Portland Community College, Cascade, “Making Change” May 2017
At Cascade Gallery, “What the World Needs Now is Love” September 2017
At Hello Goodmorning, “Pink Show” Group-Show January 2017
At Splendorporium, “For all the Creatures of the Universe” July 2016
At the Tall Skinny, “Radical Positivity” May 2016
At the Portland Building, “Positive Words” September 2015 At PDX Contemporary
At ROCA, “Positive Mountain and Positive Heart” 2016
At Marigold, “108 Positive Words” May 2015
At Cherry Sprout, “Positive Words For All the People” September 2014
At PMOMA, “SUN/LIGHT” group-show February 2013
At The Fresh Pot, “Ice Cream Ghosts and Other Fun Ideas” 2009
At Cherry Sprout, “24 Cones of Ice Cream and the Ghosts who Love Them” 2009
At Taos Diner, “Mind Flowers” 2006
MUSIC Solo and Band Albums
“Love Vibes For All the Creatures of the Universe” 2017
“The Next Wave of Omni Galactic Peace Warriors” 2012
“The New You” 2010
“Seal in the Sunshine” 2008
“Take Me to Your Spaceship” 2006
“Whole Lotta Skeletons” 2003
“Sad Silly Story” 2002
“Love Is” 2001
“All Numbers are Mystical”1999
“Alone in the House of Love” 1997
“Full on Toast” 1996
 
The Art Trailer Gallery lives in a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon! It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. After lots of TLC, it has transformed into a bright and beautiful open space to reflect a traditional gallery. It is now part of the Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

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Jul
19
Thu
Opening Reception “Pillow Talk”
Jul 19 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Opening Reception Thursday July 19th, 6pm-9pm 

for exhibition

Pillow Talk”

by Amanda Manitach

July 3 – September 23, 2018

This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.

upper left photo credit Bruce Clayton Tom

Artist Statement:
My work revolves around drawing, specifically making marks with the body. It’s about the process and physicality involved in embroidering marks to make a statement that vacillates between the poles of vulgar, violent, gorgeous. The texts come from personal musings, found internet memes and aphorisms, fragments of forgotten poetry, or the banal, pithy, heartbroken musings of cultural icons and the unknown alike.

The practice of my drawing is largely intuitive and physically demanding. In drawings up to 30 feet long, text melts into a vibrating, hallucinatory design sourced from a 1885 French wallpaper sample, which harkens to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In creating them I invoke a similar physicality to the story’s protagonist, often on my hands and knees for hours and weeks at a time, using a 0.5 mm mechanical pencil to make marks. Drawings are smudged, worn and covered with fingerprints. Many drawings comprise a palimpsest of sketches where masked figures, erased words, or traces of knotted and tangled fabric bleed through.

In installations like “Pillow Talk”, fragments of text gleaned from found sources or original writings literally pile up in soft heaps offering immersive, intimate exploration by visitors who are invited to physically embed themselves amongst the murmurings of forgotten poets and others.

photo credit Linda Derschang

Artist Biography:
I am a self-taught artist and the daughter of a Charismatic Christian minister who grew up in rural Kansas and Texas before moving to Seattle in my early 20’s. I see my work as a task of both consciously and subliminally sorting out the experience of a female trying to make expressive marks—a task that has found uncanny resonance for me with the history of female hysteria. I am fascinated by history, art, the politics surrounding the female body, and by art that borders on obsessive, meditative devotion. I sometimes have a dirty sense of humor. 

Manitach’s work has been exhibited at venues including Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Bellevue Arts Museum, Winston Wächter Gallery, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Roq la Rue and Lawrimore Project. She is represented by Winston Wächter Gallery. From 2012-2015 she served as curator of Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University. She co-founded and co-directed multiple mixed-use arts spaces in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, including TMRW Party (2014) and The Factory (2015-16). She holds a BA in Literature (2001) from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK. Her work is included in the permanent collection of Tacoma Art Museum.


The Art Trailer Gallery lives in a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon! It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. After lots of TLC, it has transformed into a bright and beautiful open space to reflect a traditional gallery. It is now part of the Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

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Oct
5
Fri
Opening Reception “Deep Skies”
Oct 5 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Opening Reception Friday October 5th, 5pm-8pm 

for exhibition

“Deep Skies

by Heather McLaughlin

October 5 – December 30, 2018

This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.

Please stay after the reception to enjoy live music in the lodge from 8pm-10pm by band Dizzy Nest as part of this opening celebration.

Artist Biography:
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.

 


The Art Trailer Gallery lives in a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon! It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. After lots of TLC, it has transformed into a bright and beautiful open space to reflect a traditional gallery. It is now part of the Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

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Dec
15
Sat
4th Annual Handmade Bazaar
Dec 15 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

4th Annual Handmade Bazaar at The Sou’wester

We are hosting our 4th Annual Handmade Bazaar. Free and open to the public. The sale is on Sat Dec 15th from noon-6pm at The Sou’wester in 3 spaces: our large heated Pavilion, the Lodge Living Room and the Lodge Velvet Lounge Guest Room. Come meet a lovely bunch of talented artists/makers!
List of 19+ participating artists/crafters/makers/creative folk:
 
Josephine Banks (Ocean Park, WA)
– stained glass
Artist Julia Barbee as St. Nick of Seaview (Portland, OR)
– St. Nick of Seaview photo booth! A snowy beach scene photo op with Santa on a pre-Christmas Eve weekend getaway. A Polaroid camera with film will be available if you want to purchase a printed photo with St. Nick, otherwise you can use your phone.
– perfume made by Julia Barbee
– novelty felted snowballs
– organic wool covered chime or shaker— safe for babies and delightful for adults as well
Melissa Black of Blackloot Jewelry (Astoria, OR)
– handmade electroformed jewelry
www.blackloot.net
 
Kendra Cooley of Yarrow Magik (Portland, OR)
– handmade lunar calendar
– zines and prints
Dierdre Duewel (Long Beach, WA)
– mosaic tables, birdhouses, mirrors & garden globes
 
Allan Fritz (Ilwaco, WA)
– book seller
A homemade book for people who like to paddle, pedal, row and or sail their car top little dinghies, kayaks, canoes, SUPs, or inflatables on flat water with the shore nearby. 70 launch sites are covered from Ocean Shores, east to Stella and Clatskanie, and south to the Nehalem River. Each given a page, map, address, directions and GPS coordinates along with area maps, suggested destinations and what to expect. I have visited each to insure accuracy and paddled over 40 as blogged about at: www.southwestwashingtonpaddletrips.wordpress.com
 
Forest Fox Designs (Astoria, Oregon)
Kay Beizel
– wire weave jewelry
– wire weave & wrapped trees with gemstones
www.facebook.com/forestfoxastoria
 
Sandra Gibbons of Severe Snacks (Portland, Oregon)
– comics, notecards & buttons featuring funny food fights and one POed feminist
– original framed art
– handmade soaking salts
 
Kathryn Holloway of Lovebird Paper (Long Beach, WA)
– paper cards and stationary designs
www.lovebirdpaper.com
 
HRAP Trash Talk (Cannon Beach, Oregon)
Haystack Rock Awareness Program
– jewelry & art made from marine debris
– DIY “Make & Take” workshop station to make your own creative piece with marine debris
Audrey Knippa of Gearhart Knitting (Gearhart, Oregon)
– hand knitted items: hats, scarfs, blankets & baby sweaters
Heather McLaughlin (Portland, OR)
– framed visual art
– calendars
– limited edition prints
– DIY “Make & Take” workshop station to print and decorate your own holiday cards
Roger J Porter Arts (Portland, Oregon)
– handcarved wooden whales painted
 
Dawn Stetzel (Seaview, WA)
Nature Nell’s Sister
– eco printed journals
– handmade cards 100% recycled materials
www.etsy.com/shop/naturenellssister
 
Tectonic Jelly (Eugene, OR)
Aaron Sullivan 
– watercolor postcards depicting colorful & enchanting worlds
– original portraits drawn on the spot
– comic & coloring books
Dennis Thomas (Warrenton, Oregon)
Thomas & Son Woodworks, LLC
– creative/functional woodcrafts
Catherine Watson/CWO Design (Long Beach Peninsula, Ocean Park, WA) C.Watson Originals
– one of a kind hand painted tops and aprons
– handpainted notecards
 
JoAnne Webster (Long Beach, WA)
– fairy furniture
– spirit dolls
– table-top shrines
 
Thrifty Pop-Up (Sou’wester Lodge Vintage Travel Trailer)
– “Thrifty” is our Vintage Travel Trailer turned into a thrift shop
– pop-up thrifty items curated and brought in special for this bazaar – visit new items inside and outside in thrifty pop-up tent
 
Visit the Sou’wester Swag table with totes, cups, wearables and more!
 
Stay or return for live music in the lodge by Brush Prairie 8pm-10pm free and open to the public.
 
The Sou’wester Lodge, 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar
360-642-2542 front desk 9am-9pm
(sorry our vendor list is full and we cannot accept any other requests for artists/crafters)
 

The Adrift Hotel in Long Beach, WA is having a similar sale as well on this same day so swing by to visit them 10am-4pm on Saturday! (409 Sid Snyder Dr, Long Beach, Washington 98631, 360-642-2311) Here is a list of their event on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/306163463322558/ 

 
 
 

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Jan
11
Fri
Exhibit:”Vertellen”
Jan 11 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Art Exhibit, Vertellen, by artist Andie Sterling

January 11 through February 24, 2019

A new art installation of collected sound, abstract waterscapes and drifting velella in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge

 

OPENING RECEPTION on Friday January 11, 6pm-9pm.

OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)

Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.

 

Andie Sterling is a “west Texas born and raised, westward wanderer” currently living in Astoria, Oregon. She received her MFA in Sculpture/Installation from the University of North Texas and recently completed her Residency via Astoria Visual Arts. Andie Sterling’s work includes site specific installation, space design, public art, murals and performance collaboration.

 

This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

 

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

360-642-2542 9am-9pm, www.souwesterlodge.com, souwesterlodge@gmail.com

 

Mar
1
Fri
Spaceness 2019
Mar 1 @ 7:00 pm – Mar 3 @ 12:00 pm

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 1-3, 2019. Spaceness is FREE, open to the public, and welcoming to people of all ages.

To secure lodging at the Sou’wester please call the office 9am-9pm at 360-642-2542 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.

 

 

 

 

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Mar
8
Fri
Exhibit: Jillian Barthold
Mar 8 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Art Exhibit

Treasure From

by artist Jillian Barthold
March 8 through June 2, 2019


A new art exhibit in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge

‘Treasure From’ is a new series of illustrations by Portland-based artist Jillian Barthold that explores her relationship to the objects surrounding her and their worth – while removing the word worth from the context of monetary value. The series examines what constitutes treasure to an individual and finds that perhaps most often, treasure is less about the object itself and more about where it comes from.

OPENING RECEPTION on Friday March 8, 6pm-9pm.

OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)

Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.

Jillian Barthold is an illustrator, designer, and maker originally from nowhere, but currently living in Portland, OR. Her work is heavily inspired by the Japanese world view or aesthetic of wabi-sabi, travel, and child-like wonder. She creates and makes many things under the moniker Monster Songs. Other enjoyments include, but are not limited to, staring at the moon, sitting in the ocean, and playing fetch with her cats.

This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

 

Jun
9
Sun
Opening Reception “Forget Me Not Taxidermy” by artist Lindsay Bones
Jun 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Art Exhibit

Forget Me Not Taxidermy

by artist Lindsay Bones
June 9 through August 4, 2019


A new art exhibit in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge

‘Forget Me Not Taxidermy’ is a sculptural exhibition using taxidermy with road kill, bringing back animals in a new light. So they are remembered forever and not forgotten as victims of the road.

OPENING RECEPTION on Sunday June 9, 6pm-9pm.

OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)

Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.

Lindsay Bones
Raised in Astoria, and resides there now. Finished taxidermy school in Thompson falls Montana the summer of 2016. After having her housemates complain of having no room for ice-cream in the freezer from her collection of roadkill. Working on only animals that have died of natural causes/roadkill/pets. Dressing up squirrels, rats, mink, and mice. With inspiration from books like red wall & wind in the willows. She aspires to one day have her own boutique of oddities and taxidermy in her home town.

This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

 

Aug
9
Fri
Exhibit: Becca Van K and Andrew Cortes
Aug 9 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Art Exhibit

We’ve Never Met Before Today

by artists Becca Van K and Andrew Cortes
August 9 through November 3, 2019


A new art exhibit in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge

‘We’ve Never Met Before Today’ is an exhibition featuring sensory textiles and fiber landscapes by east coast artist Becca Van K and sculpture-like mosaic-based work by west coast artist Andrew Cortes. This show will also include collaborations in needlepoint and mosaics between these two artists who share similar themes and were brought together by residencies at the Sou’wester that spurred them to become creative partners in this exhibition.

“We’ve Never Met Before Today is the result of two Sou’wester artists-in-residence’s Instagram connection in the immediate aftermath of their respective times at the Lodge in the winter of 2018. Like ships in the night (Cortes one week, Van K the next), the artists never had the opportunity to meet in person, but serendipitously found each other on social media through Sou’wester posts. The two have formed a kinship and collaborative relationship through their mutual reverence for each other’s work. Until the show’s installation, they have never met in person, as Cortes is a resident of Los Angeles, CA, and Van K is from New York’s Hudson Valley. Shipping works from coast to coast, they work together to create elaborate studies in spiritual, meditative repetition and love for the natural world. Each piece contains mosaic mementos from Cortes’s travels and each Van K needlepoint is directly inspired by a landscape that she has visited. This exhibition is a combination of individual works and collaborations.”

OPENING RECEPTION on Friday August 9, 6pm-9pm.

OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)

Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.

Becca Van K (b. 1991, Chicago) is a mixed media artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her work is highly sensory, with a strong focus on tactile comfort, the sounds of house & techno music, and vibrant colors & patterns which she explores through various handcraft and fiber art methods. Listening exclusively to dance music mixes when working puts her in a repetitious, meditative rhythm through which she transcribes her sensorial experiences. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Basilica Hudson’s 24-HOUR DRONE (Hudson, NY), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA), Hastings College (Hastings, NE), and Paradice Palase (Brooklyn, NY). Torn between city nightlife and the woods of the Catskill Mountains, she’d only leave New York if there were techno clubs in the desert.

Andrew Philip Cortes is a first generation Southern California Native, who in growing up split his time between the rural suburbs near rolling cow pasture hills where his parents settled and the city of Los Angeles. He attended University at California State Long Beach followed by a move to New York City where he lived and worked in Gowanus, Brooklyn for several years expanding his creative vision into woodwork, installation, and sound art. Upon his return to Los Angeles, he came full circle settling in the neighborhood of Cypress Park, where his family had immigrated to in the 60’s. His practice was re-imagined in his grandfathers old workshed and does not shy away from a deep often spiritual like connection to his past and its entanglement with the natural world. A marriage of painting, sculpture, mosaic, and textile materials, his reference points for his work grows from ongoing travels through the west coast of America, the deserts, mountains, and forests he explores collecting stones, driftwood, and taking photographs as he travels. He has developed a system in which he is even able to work on sculpture while on the road to directly be able to connect with his surroundings on site. Ultimately though, his traveling ideas materialize fully when they make their way back to his studio and abode where their energies find a new home to live. Andrew lives and works in Los Angeles, California with his two cats Mosh and Peatree. He spends his time surfing and rock climbing when he’s not in his studio always adhering to a strict code of pursuing the fleeting moment.

 

This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.

 

Aug
30
Fri
Clay Wheels and Striped Shirts: Skateboarding Films from the 1960s
Aug 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Clay Wheels & Striped Shirts: Skateboarding Films from the 1960s

A special screening of rare skateboarding films from the 1960s gathered from the Dead Media Hour Archive by head researcher Stephen Slappe. Two early classics, Skaterdater (1965) and Rouli Roulant, a.k.a. The Devil’s Toy (1966) will be presented in glorious 16mm film. A never-before-seen collection of beautiful skateboarding home movies filmed in Oakland and Berkeley in 1965 will also be shown.
 

Stephen Slappe is an artist and professor based in Portland, Oregon. Slappe’s work has exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and The Karachi Biennial (Pakistan). Slappe is an Associate Professor at Pacific Northwest College of Art where he created a Video & Sound department that focuses on experimental media production. He also operates an ongoing archival media project called Dead Media Hour, connecting neglected recordings of the past to present times.

 

 

Films will be shown in the Lodge Living Room. This screening is free & open to the public.