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!

Nov
2
Sat
Live Music: Forest Veil @ The Sou'wester
Nov 2 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Forest Veil Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/2/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public!

 

https://forestveil.bandcamp.com/album/caldera

Forest Veil is the moniker of Portland producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter, Monica Metzler. Forest Veil makes dynamic music, with enigmatic lyricism and masterful musicality, to create a distinct, hypnotic psych-folk sound.

Caldera (EP) is Forest Veil’s most recent release with Spirit House Records, the label she co-founded with Johanna Warren in 2016. Caldera was born during an Artist-in-Residency at Caldera Arts– an arts and environmental immersion program in the mountains of Sisters, Oregon. 

Forest Veil’s music has been synched in ads, movies, and TV shows such as NBC’s The Black List. An avid guitarist for over 25 years, Metzler also plays piano, synths, flutes, and percussion. She currently plays drums in the all femme band, Pool Boys.

Nov
9
Sat
Live Music: A Beat Happening presents Luvjonez and Candid Ramblings @ The Sou'wester
Nov 9 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

A BEAT HAPPENING Presents LUVJONEZ x CANDID RAMBLINGS Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/9/2024 | 8pm

Free and open to the public!

A BEAT HAPPENINGA Beat Happening is a free, monthly, all ages, all genres, all identity inclusive music producer and DJ showcase based in Portland, Oregon. 

LUVJONEZ: Luvjonez is a Puerto Rican instrumental hip hop music producer based in Portland, Oregon. He weaves a nostalgic and downtempo blend of musical influences from his cultural roots, extensive travels, and multimedia visual art practices. His instrumental tracks combine Down South, East Coast, Pacific Northwest elements and ancestral Caribbean vibes, creating a genre-defying mix of lofi, jazzy, downtempo, and boom bap styles. 

CANDID RAMBLINGS: Candid Ramblings represents a mix of the “dirty south” and the dusty southwest. Hailing from Lake City, Florida and El Paso, Texas, she’s a former college basketball player chasing her music and poetry dreams through deeply personal lyrics, and a blend of fun upbeat songs and insightful, chill vibes.

Nov
16
Sat
Live Music: Helen Gillet @ The Sou'wester
Nov 16 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

 

Helen Gillet Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/16/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public

 

Helen Gillet is a musician, composer, cellist, singer (Belgian French & English), improviser and
looping artist. Her prolific career has won her awards of Offbeat Best of the Beat, Gambit Big
Easy Awards, featured artist at the New Orleans Jazz Museum and has been nominated three
times, most recently in 2023, as a rising star in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll. She has
played, recorded with many musicians over the past 20 years, including members of the Sun Ra
Arkestra, AACM (Chicago), ICP (Holland), Members of Morphine, Kidd Jordan, Marianne
Faithful, Cassandra Wilson, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine (North
America Tour 2018), Zachary Richard, opened up as a solo artist for Les Claypool at the
Orpheum Theatre in New Orleans in 2003 and Jeff Tweedy at Lincoln Center in 2019. She has
performed at a variety of festivals and venues worldwide including the Copenhagen Jazz
Festival, Dark MOFO Festival in Tasmania, Darwin World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz
Festival, New Direction Cello Society Festival at Berkeley College of Music, Kennedy Center
and at The Big Ears Music Festival in 2024 and many more.

Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archeologist exploring synthesized sounds,
texture, and rhythm using an acoustic cello. For someone with her varied background, New
Orleans, with its mix of cultures and musics, seemed like a natural place to call home.

Nov
22
Fri
Community Acupuncture @ The Sou'wester Lodge
Nov 22 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester

Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester on Friday, November 22nd, 4pm-7pm and Saturday the 23rd, 10am-1pm. $25 – $55 sliding scale. 

Acupuncture supports recovery, sleep, immunity, digestion and reduces stress, pain, anxiety and lifts depression. Acupuncture regulates the nervous system, reduce inflammation, &speeds up healing. $25-$55 is a sliding scale pay what you can model making this care accessible to

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Nov
23
Sat
Community Acupuncture
Nov 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester

Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester on Friday, November 22nd, 4pm-7pm and Saturday the 23rd, 10am-1pm. $25 – $55 sliding scale. 

Acupuncture supports recovery, sleep, immunity, digestion and reduces stress, pain, anxiety and lifts depression. Acupuncture regulates the nervous system, reduce inflammation, &speeds up healing. $25-$55 sliding scale. Pay what you can. 

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Nov
30
Sat
Live Music: Twingle @ The Sou'wester
Nov 30 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

TWINGLE Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

11/30/2024 | 8pm

Free & open to the public

https://twingle.bandcamp.com/album/future-caviar

Twingle is the moniker of songstress and multi instrumentalists Anna Sabatino based out of Portland, OR. Raised in a one room cabin in the small town of Evergreen, Colorado she began writing songs at a young age featuring guitar and banjo. Her roots are in old timey folk and bluegrass, but later went on to realms of Experimental/Psychedelic/French pop which all work to cultivate her sound and melodic patterns. Songs that live somewhere in the realm of familiar but entirely unexpected. Twingle’s debut album ‘Future Caviar’ is out on Little Cloud Records.

Dec
7
Sat
Live Music: John Lensing @ The Sou'wester
Dec 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

John Lensing LIVE at The Sou’wester Lodge

12/7/2024 | 7pm

Free & open to the public!

https://johnlensing.bandcamp.com/album/america-needs-therapy
 
John Lensing started out as a street performer, writing songs and driving around the US to play them for people. Slowly, this led to playing shows and festivals, but the goal has always been the same. To make people care — about others, themselves, and things that sometimes hurt to care about.
 
His genre-blurring songwriting has brought him on tours all across North America and Europe. Most notably playing a Sofar Sounds showcase at the Sommer in Altona festival (Hamburg), and being named “an artist to watch” by No Depression.
Dec
14
Sat
Live Music: A Beat Happening presents Luvjonez and SuckerForLights @ The Sou'wester
Dec 14 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

A BEAT HAPPENING Presents LUVJONEZ x SUCKERFORLIGHTS Live at The Sou’wester Lodge

12/14/2024 | 7pm

Free and open to the public!

A BEAT HAPPENINGA Beat Happening is a free, monthly, all ages, all genres, all identity inclusive music producer and DJ showcase based in Portland, Oregon. 

LUVJONEZ: Luvjonez is a Puerto Rican instrumental hip hop music producer based in Portland, Oregon. He weaves a nostalgic and downtempo blend of musical influences from his cultural roots, extensive travels, and multimedia visual art practices. His instrumental tracks combine Down South, East Coast, Pacific Northwest elements and ancestral Caribbean vibes, creating a genre-defying mix of lofi, jazzy, downtempo, and boom bap styles. 

SUCKERFORLIGHTS: Husband and wife dream pop duo from Portland, OR. Their last full length album, “Hearts Fade”, is a lush and expansive pop record covering themes on the many facets of love.SOU’WESTER PRESS

Dec
21
Sat
‘What If’ – Artist Talk & Exhibition by Dawn Stetzel @ Ilwaco Artworks
Dec 21 all-day

What If 

an intimate solo exhibition of sculptural works by Dawn Stetzel

Nov-Dec 2024

 

Artist Talk Sat, Dec 21st in the evening

 

Fire Coversall Fire Coveralls

2023

zip hazmat suit, image transfers, urban fire zone

Fire Coveralls is a hazmat suit covered in flames, wearable, by me, by many. I use this wearable fire suit as a garment that I can climb into, as a way to try to enter, to attempt to more fully engage in a conversation I am unable to understand. Temperatures rise and extended fire seasons intensify. I made Fire Coveralls as fire seems to cover all, and I don’t know what to do about it. This work gives me the opportunity to grapple with how to exist in our climate crisis and live in our house on fire.


Biography

Dawn Stetzel is a visual artist from the United States living on the Long Beach Peninsula on the southern coast of Washington. Her body-activated sculptures become ambitious attempts at reimagining a sustainable existence. The heart of her deep emotional distress lays within the climate crisis and its impact on disparity and spatial and environmental justice. Using a tinge of the ridiculous, these works suggest struggles seeking opportunistic-existence within dysfunction.

She has a Master of Fine Arts from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. She has exhibited widely through multiple solo exhibitions, public art commissions and group exhibitions across the United States including Grounds for Sculpture, Disjecta and the Portland Biennial. Her work is included in permanent public collections at The City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and the Shiwan Ceramic Museum in the Guangdong Province of China. Her work is printed in multiple publications, she has shown internationally and has lectured in the United States, China and Brazil. Innovative in her field and in recognition of the quality of her work and dedication to her art over a period of many years, she was recently awarded a 2024 Individual Support Grant from the Gottlieb Foundation in New York.

web:    dawnstetzel.com

IG: @dawnstetzelstudio

Artist Statement

I make sculptural objects, contraptions that interact with a specific environment. These environments are usually in the margins of places, feeling somehow desolate, vast, or lonely due to forms of neglect or absence. These are places I find oddly fascinating, sometimes disgusting and pull at visceral threads in my being. Often these landscapes exhibit hints of resourcefulness and potential paths to new ways of living in a place, thus they feel somewhat like home to me.

Within this environment I use my sculpture as a tool, or mode of locomotion in which to navigate the landscape. Manually operated, these pieces require me to physically propel, push, pull, row or ski and push the limits of my physical strength, safety and comfort levels. This process places my work between sculpture and performance.

My sculptures embrace the aesthetics of resourcefulness, repairing, adaptability and invention. I prefer a low-tech approach and glean materials from my surroundings. I select all materials for their inherent story of place relevant to the concepts within each sculpture. This process of collecting materials puts me in the edges of places, a process I need to connect me to my emotions, the specifics of place and a non-threatening bridge of connection to other people through their discards.

I am currently making work that struggles with seeking moments of survival within a dysfunctional system, on the move, searching opportunistic existence. I use a tinge of the ridiculous and make pieces that function but just barely. I am exploring spatial and environmental justice, systematic disparity, and the climate crisis. The heart of my deep emotional distress lays within our overlapping crises as the climate crisis connects us all and at the same time amplifies our disparity gap.

Implementing a mechanism of survival is not a safe feeling; it is one of risk, uncertainty and maybe just barely making it. The solo nature of this work and many of my pieces reflect my extreme independence as a trauma response. It contains a longing for trust in the universe, in humanity and political systems to equitably help and protect when needed