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!

Aug
17
Tue
Workshop: PIGMENT AND WATER with Daniela Molnar @ Sou'wester Arts Center
Aug 17 @ 10:00 am – Aug 19 @ 5:00 pm
Weekly workshops are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Youth (7-14) program is 10 AM – 5 PM.
Adult workshops (15+) are 3 PM – 5:30 PM.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In this workshop students will explore the two main elements of watermedia painting: pigment and water. We will play with questions such as: What does it mean to work with different water sources? Where do pigments come from and how are they made? We will explore the ecological, sociopolitical, historical, chemical, material, emotional, and spiritual aspects of these questions. Students will create at least one finished painting and several smaller experiments to inspire future work.
 
 
Youth Weekly– $200 + materials fee
Adults Weekly– $150 + materials fee
Sign up for more than 3 sessions for a 10% discount!
or 20% off when you sign for all summer sessions – $1600 + materials fees.
Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
*Scholarships Available
Aug
18
Wed
Dustin Hamman: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Aug 18 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Dustin Hamman is a composer, musician, hack/wannabe actor/director, and donut enthusiast.

Dustin’s musical tastes span many genres but have always been rooted in folk. He had an early fascination with American Indian singing and early punk rock…later he explored the blues and the origins of country, eventually gaining interest in early jazz, swing, and big band. During a short life in Florida he was introduced to Latin rhythms and became intrigued by Flamenco and classical guitar.  More recently, he’s been dabbling in marriages of a variety of genres including, rap, rock, r&b, and noise/ambient, many of which can be heard on the recently released soundtrack for Beneath The Harvest Sky.  This was his first film scoring effort and he hopes to do many more.

 

Aug
21
Sat
Jolie Holland: A fundraiser for Sou’wester Arts Sponsored Artist Residency. @ The Sou'wester
Aug 21 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

A fundraiser for Sou’wester Arts Sponsored Artist Residency.

JOLIE HOLLAND & STEVIE WEINSTEIN-FONER

AT THE SOU’WESTER

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21

$30 TIX / ALL AGES

8:00PM SHOW

A fundraiser for: Sou’wester Arts – Sponsored Artist Residency

Dedicated to supporting BIPOC and all underrepresented voices.

Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot center of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail. Note how easily the line “I’ve been taken outside and I’ve been brutalized” trips off her tongue in Joe Tex’s “The Love You Save.”

 

Which brings us to Wine Dark Sea. Astute listeners to Holland’s work can recognize how her writing over the years has deepened, matured, become the songwriting of a wise, worldly adult, not just of a rambler across the American latitudes, but to understand this is still no preparation for the sonic assault, the unprecedented confidence and merciless brilliance of Wine Dark Sea which yokes the New York underground to American song in a way that has rarely been attempted since White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground. Yes, the classic Holland lyrical concerns are evident in songs like “Palm Wine Drunkard,” and “St. Dymphna,” and “Out on the Wine Dark Sea,” all of which mix a density of literature and poetry to brutalities of romantic love, to the fragmentation of self and narrator in a torrent of loss and grief, but this tells us nothing about the band Holland has assembled and leads to express her present vision. Two drummers, sometimes as many as three or four electric guitars, horns of a sort that come out of free jazz and the No Wave scene as much as they come from soul music, and a refreshing need, on Holland’s part, to sing out at the extreme of her range, above the squalling insatiable lullaby of the thing. And, just when you think you know how to listen to multiple incendiary devices as occasionally rise up out of the category five of it all—guitar playing that makes Zuma or On the Beach sound somewhat restrained—there are the ballads: graceful, melancholy, wistful. There has been no album of the recent decade with quite this sonic ambition, with quite this command of what a rock and roll song is and ought to be, but Wine Dark Sea is all of that, with a little bit of Homer and Maya Deren mixed in too.

 

Jolie Holland has a Desperation to tell Now. And she has called on deep, dark forces to get there. It’s always a pleasure to hear a musician come to a new precipice in her output, where great skills and great courage are required to rise to the occasion. Wine Dark Sea is the album of a lifetime, with a lifetime of work in it.

 

Aug
24
Tue
Sou’Wester Summer Camp Workshop: MASK MAKING with Kaitlyn Nelson @ Sou'wester Arts Center
Aug 24 @ 10:00 am – Aug 26 @ 5:00 pm
Weekly workshops are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
Youth (7-14) program is 10 AM – 5 PM.
Adult workshops (15+) are 3 PM – 5:30 PM.
 
In this workshop, students will create a wearable soft sculpture mask using the processes of armature building, patterning, gathering, refining, and adornment. In addition to the project essential supplies, students are invited to bring personal supplies and sentimental materials to incorporate into the mask-making process. Items such as family heirloom fabrics, stones, and favorite textural materials are a few examples of great additional elements to include.
 
 
Youth Weekly– $200 + materials fee
Adults Weekly– $150 + materials fee
Sign up for more than 3 sessions for a 10% discount!
or 20% off when you sign for all summer sessions – $1600 + materials fees.
Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
*Scholarships Available
Sep
4
Sat
Henry Chadwick: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Sep 4 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

http://www.henrychadwick.net
Henry Chadwick is a Santa Cruz, CA-based singer-songwriter, musician & producer. Chadwick’s music dances between genres – landing somewhere between indie, garage rock, psychedelia, and shimmery, sunshine-tinged power-pop. His 2nd full length record – We All Start Again – is due out this fall (2021) via Swoon City Music. 
 
“Chadwick not only mixes his tastes into something original, he also has something worth hearing to say.” – Grimy Goods

 

Sep
11
Sat
Nick Delffs : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Sep 11 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

http://www.mamabirdrecordingco.com/nick-delffs

Nick Delffs is a seeker. He’d never identify himself that way. He’s unassuming and self-effacing, careful to discuss song meanings and biographical details without indulgence or melodrama. Delffs cut his teeth playing basement shows in Portland a dozen years ago, just before that city’s cover was irreversibly blown. It was a time when being musically ambitious meant impressing other local musicians. You were a joke, in that world, if you proclaimed yourself an artist or promoted your band with any zeal. So Delffs would probably find “seeker” a rather grandiose title.

Sep
21
Tue
After-School Workshop: INDIGO STARS & FLOWERS with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center
Sep 21 @ 3:30 pm – Sep 23 @ 5:30 pm
After-School Workshop: INDIGO STARS & FLOWERS with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center

Indigo! The way plants and people bring the blue of sky and sea to cloth. Students will learn about fascinating indigo. Together we will make an indigo vat, and learn to fold cloth to create patterns. This class is great taken in conjunction with the other dye workshops, but not required. Materials fee for this workshop is $30.

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

  • Youth After-School Program Ages 7-11
  • T, W, Th 3:30-5:30 with possible transportation from LB Elementary
  • $75/week + materials fee
  • All youth Natural Dye Workshops (Four weeks and four Saturdays): 25% off
  • 20% off when you sign up for all After-School Workshops!
  • Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
  • *Scholarships Available

 

Sep
25
Sat
Saturday Workshop: FRESH LEAF INDIGO SILK with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center
Sep 25 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Saturday Workshop: FRESH LEAF INDIGO SILK with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center

Direct dyeing silk with Japanese Indigo plants creates beautiful turquoise blues, colors that can’t be created in any other way.  Come immerse yourself in the magic of fresh indigo. This class is great taken in conjunction with the other dye workshops, but not required. Materials fee for this workshop is $30

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

  • Adult Saturday Workshop (youth under 12 accompanied by an adult) 10AM – 2PM
  • $50 + materials fee
  • Sign up for all Natural Dye Saturday Workshops (four total) 25% off
  • *Scholarships Available
Lasers Lasers Birmingham : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Sep 25 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

https://www.laserslasersbirmingham.com

Tipping the Stetson hat that covers his scruffy hair, Lasers Lasers Birmingham carries on the legacy of hard living, left of center country music from the city of angels. Owen’s brand of “weird country music” draws inspiration from both right and left field, citing George Jones and Pink Floyd as influences.
 
“A fresh outlook on country music…” – Glide Magazine
“The music is an irresistible take on California country music.”-Twangville
Sep
28
Tue
After-School Workshop: YELLOW LIKE THE SUN with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center
Sep 28 @ 3:30 pm – Sep 30 @ 5:30 pm
After-School Workshop: YELLOW LIKE THE SUN with Iris Sullivan @ Sou'Wester Arts & Ecology Center

In this class students will explore using common local plants to create a variety of yellows, greens, oranges and blacks to make a joyful string of flags for autumn bunting. This class is great taken in conjunction with the other dye workshops, but not required. Materials fee for this workshop is $30

Register here then follow the link in the registration confirmation to submit payment.

  • Youth After-School Program Ages 7-11
  • T, W, Th 3:30-5:30 with possible transportation from LB Elementary
  • $75/week + materials fee
  • All youth Natural Dye Workshops (Four weeks and four Saturdays): 25% off
  • 20% off when you sign up for all After-School Workshops!
  • Sibling discount an additional 10% off.
  • *Scholarships Available