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!
Intro to Handbuilding with Clay IV with Mariam Matheson (FULL)
Learn handbuilding techniques and create an object. This half day workshop includes all materials and tools needed to create a piece of handbuilt pottery. Pieces will be glazed fired and can be shipped to attendees. Can be taken as a series or independently of other Intro to Handbuilding classes.
Mariam Matheson has been a potter since 2018 and an artist her entire life. Mariam is the ceramics studio manager at Ilwaco Art Works. She lives in Seaview, WA with her husband and dog.
Community Clay Play
Work with pottery clay and tools to create a finished piece of your own!
REGISTER TO ATTEND
$20/person, includes firing & glazing one item. Additional $10+ per piece 6 inches+. Must prepay to attend Clay Play.
All ages are welcome. Come bond with family or friends!
Location:
109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
(across from City Hall & next to Roots)
Community Clay Play
Work with pottery clay and tools to create a finished piece of your own!
REGISTER TO ATTEND
$20/person, includes firing & glazing one item. Additional $10+ per piece 6 inches+. Must prepay to attend Clay Play.
All ages are welcome. Come bond with family or friends!
Location:
109 1st Ave N Ilwaco, WA
(across from City Hall & next to Roots)
QUADRAPHONIC + ACUPUNCTURE + SOUND BATH
AUGUST 31 • 7PM
Featuring Sonic Ceremonies with Dr. Kade Rose (they/them) of Celestial Window Restorative Arts.
Harmonize your body with the healing waves of a sound bath combined with the flow of intuitive acupuncture.
- $88 WITH ACUPUNCTURE
- $44 SOUND BATH ONLY
Join us along with certified acupuncturist, Kade Rose, here at the Sou’wester Thursday August 31st for a unique wellness experience. This event will be held in our spacious Pavilion on the grounds of the beautiful Sou’wester and will be open to 15 participants. 8 reservations will be for a sound bath and acupuncture combination where Kade will be performing intuitive acupuncture while the sounds of her polyphonic analogue synthesizer offer deep relaxation and realignment. The remaining 7 reservations are for sound bath only where you can lay in a state of deep relaxation while the sound waves wash over you.The event will be an hour and a half long and we request you bring your yoga mats, blankets, pillows or anything that will make you more comfortable laying on the floor for an extended period of time. We are very excited to welcome you all to join us in wellness.
All About Sauerkraut Workshop:
How to make it, eat it, and why it rules
w/ Sash Sunday $68
Sash will briefly explain what sauerkraut is and the science of lacto-fermentation. You’ll get to help make a batch of sauerkraut and get some to take home to ferment. Then she’ll demonstrate a few recipes that incorporate raw ferments that will help you get more probiotics into your diet and more razzle-dazzle into your cooking.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
Spektrum Tea Service with Nick Jaina
MUSIC, STORIES, TEA & COLOR IMMERSION
Nick Jaina hosts a special hour of conversation, tea, color immersion, music, and reading from his new book SPEKTRUM. Every session is different because the guests bring their own excitement and hesitation, and the color for each hour is determined by a randomly selected card. If you are interested in giving a scrub to every cell of your body, rearranging your mindset, and connecting to humanity, this is the place you need to be.
The Sou’Wester sessions will take place in a vintage trailer and will be limited to 7 guests per session.
Advance tickets only. $25/person. Available sessions are:
Tea services start promptly on time, so please arrive ten minutes early.
(FULL) Handbuilt Pitcher Workshop:
3-day ceramic workshop
w/ Taylor Stefanski $90
Students will be lead through a series of hand building techniques to create their very own pitchers! We will cover how to create your base, refining forms, making handles. On the last day we will cover decorating with underglaze and adding small adornments.
- Fri 4-6PM
- Sat 10-2PM
- Sun 10-12PM
Handbuilding a Fermentation Crock Workshop:
3-day ceramic workshop
w/ Jo Pfeifer $90
In this three day workshop, we will help you hand build a fermentation crock you will use for years to come. We will focus on building crocks that will hold 1-3 quarts and have a matching lid so the water seal will keep that ferment fresh! We will provide all the materials you need, just bring some clothes and a towel you don’t mind getting a little messy. No previous ceramics knowledge necessary.
- Fri 4-6PM
- Sat 10-2PM
- Sun 10-12PM