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
16
Tue
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 16 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
17
Wed
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 17 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
18
Thu
Story Collages with Jess Graff – Summer Camp Series
Aug 18 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered  finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. 

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
20
Sat
New Victorian : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Aug 20 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

New Victorian : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

New Victorian is the ethereal, small-rock project from Portlander Scott Taylor. 

Aug
23
Tue
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 23 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
24
Wed
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 24 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Aug
25
Thu
Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin – Summer Camp Series
Aug 25 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior.

Youth can sign up for the entire camp week M-F 9-4PM, or just the Sou’wester Arts Artist-led Workshops in the afternoons on T, W, Th from 1-4PM. If students would like to only sign up for artist-led workshops, they can email claire@djhcc.org to make arrangements. Please visit DJHCC.org for more information.

Sep
24
Sat
Art Installation Closing Party with Old Unconscious and Graves : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ Sou'wester Lodge
Sep 24 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Art Trailer Installation Closing Party for “Between Sea and Land: Granular Explorations” By Nicky Kriara & Cory Gray. Music by Old Unconscious (psych-jazz) and Graves (mellow singer/songwriter grooves).
About the Art Installation:
Between Sea and Land: Granular Explorations
This exhibition is based on studying sand under a microscope and is a
continuation of our project for The Sou’wester’s Arts Week 2022. We
collected sand submissions from volunteers from from January-March
2022, with samples coming from as far away as India and Egypt.
All of the audio was made onsite during our stays at The Sou’wester and
features various field recordings. Photographs of the sand were taken
with a camera phone through a microscope lens. You can view all of our
sand photographs on Instagram: @damaged.antennae
Sand submissions by: Rebecca Rassmussen, Sierra Handley-Merk, Ali
Kestel, Nancy Kunce, Dar Horenblas, Lindsay King, Dawn Stetzel, Kim
Slate, Neisha D’Souza, Meagan Hardy, Sarah Farahat, Andie Sterling,
Nicky Kriara, & Cory Gray.
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Nicky Kriara is a sculptor and painter from Portland, Oregon. For almost a decade
she worked in stop-motion animation on feature films and commercials. She now runs
a ceramic design company called Niko Far West and paints large scale murals. Her
work is often experimental and graphic with references to the natural world and the
history of place. www.nickykriara.com
Cory Cray is composer and performer in Portland OR. He leads a group called Old
Unconscious that plays experimental instrumental music, and he records and tours
internationally with The Delines. He frequently produces and arranges for other
recording artists, composes for movies and television, and creates sound installations
for multimedia art pieces.

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Oct
22
Sat
!mindparade (unplugged) : Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Oct 22 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

!mindparade (unplugged) : Presented by Sou’wester Arts

!mindparade is a psychedelic/experimental project that formed in Bloomington, Indiana. Originally the solo bedroom project of Alex Arnold, the live show and recordings are fleshed out by a revolving cast of musicians utilizing electronics and orchestration. !mindparade’s beautiful cacophony of bombast is pleasantly bewildering. Wild flourishes of dreamy psychedelic instrumentation zoom past you in all directions like standing in the middle of a busy intersection.

Currently based in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Oct
29
Sat
Jeremy James Meyer: Presented by Sou’wester Arts @ The Sou'wester
Oct 29 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Jeremy James Meyer: Presented by Sou’wester Arts

Jeremy James Meyer is an artificer of song. A songwriter’s songwriter. He crafts redemptive songs full of woody rock ‘n’ roll tones. His deep, penetrating voice has a wide range, and is especially captivating in his droning, lower register. He spent the last decade drifting around, a tool belt troubadour, working carpentry by day, bringing folk music to the people at night. As with most well traveled songwriters it’s hard to tell where the road ends and Jeremy James Meyer begins. His songs seamlessly blend plain-language and poetic lyricism. They wander from personal truth to outlaw legends. He’s capable of cathartic protest songs, cosmic country canticles, and dive bar sing-a-longs. Whenever, and however your path crosses with Jeremy James Meyer’s (and it will) prepare for an enchanting, psychedelic trip through cosmic American music.

– Sean Jewell American Standard Time

“Alive and OK by Jeremy James Meyer is a lesson in what country music can be. This is not the pop country of Nashville. This is real country music with stories and melodies that keep the listener engaged. Whether it’s a foot stomper or a song made for slow dancing, Meyer delivers songs that will get you moving.”

-Americana Highways

“Last year was a devastating time for fans of Americana, country, and pretty much anyone who loved a well-written song with the passing of Walker, Prine and Billy Joe Shaver all in the span of six months. It’s heartening though to know there is another generation of talented singers and songwriters eschewing current trends and fads and focusing simply on writing timeless, relatable music agnostic of specific genres. Meyer is certainly one of those acolytes to the greats, alongside peers like Todd Snider and Hayes Carll carrying that tradition into the future.”

Glide Magazine