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!
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)
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
Grief Retreat with The Portland Grief house
Two night retreat with guided meditations and sound healing
Who/How much: w/Julia Francis and Laura Green of The Portland Grief House $498-807 includes lodging
What: We will spend the weekend in conversation with the non-human world; asking what medicine we can offer and what we can take. Except for grief spills and vocalizing during sound healing, we will keep conversation with humans to a bare minimum. We’ll use guided sound work, yoga practice and meditation to let spoken language shift away from the center of our attention. We’ll listen deeply, and talk sincerely with the world around us, and believe what we hear and learn. Retreat pricing includes various Sou’Wester lodging options. Full event details and itinerary found here: https://www.
Email: info@griefhouse.org
Screenprinting With Natural Dyes Workshop
w/ Katey Rissi $60
Learn how to make screenprinting ink from scratch using natural dyes and use those inks to create prints. In this class, students will create a screen printed edition on paper, working with a palette of color made possible by materials foraged and grown. The resulting work is entirely biodegradable, place-based, and beautiful!
Nature-Based Creative Writing Circle
guided by poet Charity E. Yoro
Saturday, Nov 18 | 10:30am | Sou’wester Geodesic Dome
Free & open to the public in The Sou’wester Lodge’s Geodesic Dome
Join Charity E. Yoro for a creative writing circle in a casual, low-pressure environment, as we allow our pen to be stirred by the elements of the coastal forest! Held in the cozy, light-filled Geodesic Dome, we’ll draw inspiration from nature-based prompts, gentle stretching/movement, and our collective energy. Bring a pen/pencil, your favorite notebook, and a mug for coffee/tea. This gathering is free & open to all levels/genres of writers.