SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
See what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
Ian Williams’ and Katie Mosehauer’s meticulous songwriting and production make up the centrifuge around which Glass Heart String Choir’s music spins.
The roles have been established over ten years of collaboration: Ian writes the lyrics, assembling songs into rawbone skeletons. He sends them to Katie, who adds flavor and layering. The song bounces back and forth, back and forth: Ian, the messenger, Katie the interpreter. Eventually, all the pieces are in place. Having built their own studio four years ago in hopes of creating a space where they could freely experiment with technique and sound layering, The Thoughts are able to take their time engineering and mixing, capturing every feature flawlessly.
New EP Light – engineered to perfection – deals in many ways with insecurity. Threaded primarily around uncertainty, anxiety, and the feelings of inability that come alongside not being able to capture beauty in a way that does it justice, The Thoughts’ nonetheless gorgeous EP is lush and layered, playing with surging vocals over baroque musical sheets, weaving together intricate stories that express leveling doubt. Pieced together meticulously by two classically trained composers, it’s a testament to the band’s sensitivity and work ethic: a tonal masterpiece that grounds listeners in reality as it flies them away with wonderment.
This event is free and open to the public.
Talia Keys is a genre crossing multi-instrumental “musical powerhouse” bringing you her brand of Soul-Funk-Rock n’ Roll, with unique vocal stylings and a storytelling flow.
Sourcing energies largely compared to the bluesy rawness of Janis Joplin and the fire of Jimi Hendrix. Synergizing that old soul vibe with new school sounds, best described by Katie Bain as “blistering.” Having been “struck by her talent, stage presence and refreshing candor.” – Insomniac: 2014 Best of Electric Forest.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://www.taliakeys.com/solo.html
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Artful Correspondence with Melissa Favara
Create beautiful one of a kind artifacts to send in the mail during this session. Creative letter craft will involve writing, gathering ephemera, and collaging with a wealth of curious materials. Optional typewriters and all materials provided.
Melissa Favara writes creative nonfiction, teaches writing and literature at Clark College, collects typewriters, and curates the 1,000 Words reading series. She is a member of the board of directors of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, writes the zine teen sleuth, and seeks every opportunity to promote reading, writing, and the printed word. Her work has appeared in street roots, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere.
COST: $30 plus a $5 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to instructor)
BRING: All supplies provided. Please bring a sack lunch and/or a snack. Coffee and tea provided.
Max students 10.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Dustin Hamman is the front man for Run On Sentence. His musical tastes span many genres but have always been rooted in American folk music. He had an early fascination with American Indian singing and early punk rock but has recently been dabbling in marriages of a variety of genres including soul, psychedelic country and noise/ambient. Dustin has toured the United States and Western Europe extensively and continues to surprise audiences with his diversity as a performer.
This event is free and open to the public.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Can You Learn To Be A Poet?: A Writing Workshop with Nick Jaina
Is the ability to write poetry something you are born with, or can you cultivate it?
Naomi Shihab Nye says, “Your life is a poem.”
What if we don’t see it in ourselves? What if our life feels mundane and unpoetic?
Most academic approaches to writing poetry stress an intellectual understanding of the mechanics, and discuss the great canon of poetry that already exists.
This approach is important but incomplete. Nick Jaina believes that poetry also comes from having a reverence for the world. The best way to do that is not intellectual, but actually physical.
Nick will lead a poetry writing workshop that entails a short guided meditation, some light movement, a meditation walk, and writing exercises. It will culminate with students reading poetry aloud while Nick provides a musical soundtrack.
Poetry was meant to be read lovingly to someone else, but it is rare that we get a chance to do this in an environment where we feel reverence for ourselves and the world.
When you read poetry over music, it gives you the reader more confidence to slow down, leave space, and wring the truth out of every word. The way those words feel vibrating in your body, the way they feel in the air, the way the people in the room react to them, all of those sensations are part of the poem. Poetry is a living thing that needs to be let loose. We can never know it just from its domesticated form, watching it pace around in a cage.
The world can use more poets, precisely because it is a job that pays nothing. It aims to bring a heightened focus on true things. Come join Nick in learning how to be a poet.
Nick Jaina is an author and musician. His first book, the memoir Get It While You Can, was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award. He has released several albums, co-founded a ballet company, recording soundtracks for feature films and documentaries. He teaches writing workshops around the world that involve Tarot, meditation, theatrical movement, and, of course, love.
COST: $40
BRING: Bring pen and paper. Please no laptops. Coffee, tea and water provided.
This workshop is for students age 13 years old and up. 15 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Paint Your Pet: Painting Workshop with Cindy Geffel
Paint a 16″x20″ canvas of your pet (or favorite animal) with acrylic paint. No experience needed! Instructor will guide you step by step to create a beautiful and original portrait of your “best friend.” All materials, including paint, canvas, and easels are provided.
Instructor Cindy Geffel has over 20 years experience of painting instruction, including paint parties and events. In 2003 she completed a BS in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking from Portland State University, with a minor in graphic design and art history, a course of study that has influenced her interest in both the ancient art culture and the contemporary artists of the 20th century. “There has always been a clear direction in my art – create and explore the endless possibilities of form and the essential elements of what art is and can be.”
COST: $30 plus a $8 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: 8″ x 11″ photo of your pet (or favorite animal); shoulders and head shot will get the best results. PLEASE BRING YOUR PHOTO ALREADY PRINTED ON PAPER AS WE CANNOT PRINT THE IMAGE FOR YOU. Wear clothes that are ok to get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (coffee & hot tea provided).
This workshop is for students age 11 years and up, 12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Paint Your Pet: Painting Workshop with Cindy Geffel
Paint a 16″x20″ canvas of your pet (or favorite animal) with acrylic paint. No experience needed! Instructor will guide you step by step to create a beautiful and original portrait of your “best friend.” All materials, including paint, canvas, and easels are provided.
Instructor Cindy Geffel has over 20 years experience of painting instruction, including paint parties and events. In 2003 she completed a BS in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking from Portland State University, with a minor in graphic design and art history, a course of study that has influenced her interest in both the ancient art culture and the contemporary artists of the 20th century. “There has always been a clear direction in my art – create and explore the endless possibilities of form and the essential elements of what art is and can be.”
COST: $30 plus a $8 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: 8″ x 11″ photo of your pet (or favorite animal); shoulders and head shot will get the best results. PLEASE BRING YOUR PHOTO ALREADY PRINTED ON PAPER AS WE CANNOT PRINT THE IMAGE FOR YOU. Wear clothes that are ok to get paint on. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (coffee & hot tea provided).
This workshop is for students age 11 years and up, 12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Doodling for Creativity with Cynthia Mosser
Step into a course that helps you play artistically without fear. Do you doodle? Would you like to experience more creativity and calm your mind? Learn how artists start their projects. You’ll discover how to bring out your inner artist or create ideas for you next big project. The goal of this class is to start the process of playing in your sketchbook with a pen or pencil. Feeling lost? The instructor will guide you through activities to get your pen flowing.
The class will involve guided doodling, allowing your pen to wander without judgement, even using a meaningful word/shape around which to begin. Perfection isn’t the end result, but a process of discovery and exploration. By the end of the class, you may have a project in mind, or an idea for piece of art derived from the class. A pen, sketchbook and an open mind is all that is required!
The work of painter, Cynthia Mosser, is abstract, colorful and biological. She loves ocean forms, succulents, and doodles regularly. Her work has been critically reviewed in ARTnews Magazine, Willamette Week Newspaper, and featured in PortlandMonthlyMag.com Cynthia received a B.A. in Art History from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is represented by the Augen Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
COST: $20 plus $2 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: Please bring an 8.5″ x 11″ sketchbook and your favorite pen/pencil. Coffee and tea provided.
Optional Meet&Greet on Friday September 21st from 5pm-7pm at the Sou’wester in the lodge living room.
This workshop is for students age 18 and up. 20 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/calendar to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Tsar Anise is the Pacific Northwest-based, dreamy bedroom-pop recording project of Sarah Van Horn, turned live two-piece with the addition of Tasha Trasher. The two, sharing a love of things lush and beautiful, create unique and emotional recordings while seeking to connect through their genuine and dynamic live shows.
Sarah (pdx locals Vibrissae, Visiting Diplomats, So Long Forever, Larrabee) began writing and recording for the project in 2015 while in various states of life and locale transition. The songs, materializing out of her ruminations on womanhood, lost love and faith, mental illness, and familial estrangement resulted in the Leisure/Love Demo (Nov.2016). Her style of dreamy, pop-inspired music weaves through genres and shows little concern for traditional structure or rules; relying more on feeling and story to guide the outcome. Tasha (Violaine, Magic Mansion, Kim Baxter, Hope and Anchor, and innumerable other well-loved PDX bands) joined in late 2017. With Tasha bringing her experience as a seasoned multi-instrumentalist and song writer to the creative process, the two are working on new songs and recordings. Their live sound has been compared to Low, Neko Case and The Cocteau Twins.
Tsar Anise is the ‘verby soundtrack to your quotidian-escapist daydreams and the radio playing while you make french toast on the weekend. Tsar Anise is sincere, self-indulgent survival in a space suit.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://tsaranise.com/
Photo credit : Christina Carlsson
All are invited to welcome Vanessa Renwick as she presents 70 minutes of short films as part of her North South East West Film Tour.
Three different film programs of Vanessa’s work hit the road on the NSEW Film Tour.
1. A selection of 13 shorts. These short, personal constructions demonstrate a wide range of formal approaches and subjects that include wildness, hitchhiking, death, nuclear power, gentrification and migration.
Renwick’s films share a restless spirit, an interest in outlaw art-making, and an unflagging sense of wanderlust.
2. Medusa Smack with Hope and Prey. A program which starts with a poetic, relaxing video about jellyfish – Moon Jellies and Sea Nettles, with a score by Tara Jane O’Neil. Then we head into a heart-pounding three channel exploration of wolves, coyotes, bison, elk, eagles, ravens and moose in the Yellowstone winter scape, with a score by Daniel Menche.
3. A program focusing on wolves and wildlife management. Charismatic Megafauna with documentation of Hunting Requires Optimism
Vanessa Renwick is an artist by nature, not by stress of research. She puts scholars to rout by embracing nature’s teaching problems that have fretted trained minds. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, her iconoclastic work embodies her interest in landscape and transformation, and relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders.
She has been a singular voice in the experimental cinema for over 20 years. Eschewing an allegiance to any one medium or form, Renwick builds authentic moving image works revealing an insatiable curiosity and unflinching engagement with the world around her. Often focusing her lens on themes of westward expansion and the locales of her adopted home, the Pacific Northwest, Renwick uses avant-garde formal elements to explore radical politics and environmental issues. An artist who often self-distributes, her screening history reads as a map of independent cinema worldwide. She has screened work in hundreds of venues internationally, institutional and not, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, Bread and Puppet Theater and True/False Film Festival, among many others.
Vanessa Olivia Renwick is an artist of Scottish and German descent, born on the traditional and unceded territory of the Illiniwek in what is now known as Chicago, Illinois. She lives and works as an uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the Chinookan peoples, now known as Portland, Oregon.
Represented by PDX Contemporary Art