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!
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.
Japanese Decorative Paper & Bookbinding
a workshop w/ Yuka Petz $60
In this hands-on workshop we will be introduced to sekkazome (also known as orizomegami), which is a traditional Japanese form of folding and dying paper to create a variety of colorful patterns. We will then use our newly designed papers to bind into a traditional stab-bound book.
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1:1 Wellness / Acupuncture Sessions
w/ Celestial Window Restorative Arts
$150 / 90 Minute Sessions
December 18, 2023 by Appointment | Text: 971-282-3891 to Book
My work is focused in the lineage of Worsley Five Element Acupuncture, however, in my 8 years of clinical training I studied many modalities and can offer a variety of treatment strategies. Acupuncture is a beautiful craft with techniques for bringing flow to stuck places, and fostering a deeper harmonization within the body. It is based on philosophy that sees the human being as whole, with the full potential for healing as innate. Acupuncture uses a network of physical connections to activate the body’s own healing potential and is supportive for all aspects of life, from pain management, fertility support, digestive disorders, to finding creative expansion and self actualization.
Solstice at Sou’wester
Tea “As Gentle Hospitality” Service
(by appointment) in the Tea Trailer | December 20, 2023
Hosted by Celestial Window Restorative Arts as part of their Creative Wellness Residency
Sessions by Appointment | $33 / Person for 75 Minute Sessions
Text 971-282-3891 to Book
Solstice at Sou’wester
Acupuncture + Sound Bath
“Sound Dérive (Drift)”
An Embodied-Listening-Acupuncture-Sound Bathing-Fluxus-Art-Exercise with Unity Garnish x Feast of The Epiphany
Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023 | 6-7:30pm
For this unique group “sound bathing” experience we are invoking the 1960s French Fluxus Art Exercise of the “Dérive (Drift)”, which in essence describes a meditation through which one is invited to “get lost on purpose”, in order to facilitate an embodied state of inspiration and wellbeing crafted through the blending of multiple creative mediums. Utilizing sound, visual art and the option of gentle acupuncture, participants will be guided to reset and renew into an evolution of self. In the vein of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, individuals will leave with a one of a kind art object to carry the experience with them into life and the remainder of their time at the Sou’Wester.
Solstice at Sou’wester
Quadraphonic Acupuncture & Sound Bath
With Star Child x Sonic Ceremonies
Winter Solstice | Thursday, December 21st | 3-4:30pm
Collective Release Fire
Outside in the trailer court in front of the lodge, we will gather into an expanded moment of presence with the weight of the world, a time of reverence through lively celebration of the complexity of existence in togetherness, where whatever wishes to unfold may do so naturally through the intentional lighting of a fire. There will be pieces of paper and pens on which to write and reflect and then offer the writings into the fire, instruments with which we can play, and an invitation to donate whatever resources are available, financial or otherwise, to Source Food and Goods, a group offering community aid to the local Palestinian community in Portland, OR .
*No drinks in public. Quiet hours after 10p.
Jan 6 – Feb 9
Basic Handbuilding Workshop Series: “In the Kitchen”
w/Shelly Hedges $250
Make your own dinnerware, serving platters, and storage containers in this beginning handbuilding class. Demonstrations will include slab-building, coil techniques, press molds, and glazing methods.
Includes:
- One 25lb bag of clay.
- Open studio access for the duration of class.
Saturdays, 10a – 1p
- Jan 6th – Place Settings
- Jan 13th – Serving Bowls & Platters
- Jan 20th – Lidded Jars and Utensil Crocks
- Jan 27th – Pitchers & creamers
- Feb 3rd – Glazing
- + Friday Feb 9th – Potluck Show & Tell! 6-8p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
