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!
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Spore Printing: A Mushroom’s Unique Mark
with instructor Kyla Sjogren
This workshop is divided into 2 parts with a break in between. Please plan to attend both parts of the class:
1st part of the class: 11am – 1pm
2nd part of the class: 4pm-5:30pm
Individual mushroom spores are tiny and cannot be seen with the naked eye. Spores can become visible on mature mushrooms by the process of spore printing. In this hands-on workshop explore methods of Spore Printing with locally foraged fungus. The materials fee of this workshop includes high quality Arches Textwove paper and a special plant dyed paper for each student. Please be prepared for a possible short walk in nature to collect materials.
Strongly influenced by a blue-collar work ethic and the southern cotton fields surrounding her youth, Kyla Sjogren is a textile designer who passionately works towards awareness of material consumption in the apparel industry. In 2011, she moved from Northwest Florida to Portland to document the viability of making sustainable wool garments in the Northwest region of the US. She initiated the process from start to finish: from raising sheep, processing wool, spinning and weaving, to natural dyeing and garment design.
Kyla’s work to create a sustainable system for textile and clothing production continues through collaborations with Northwest fashion designers, her industry experience working with Pendleton Woolen Mills and Columbia Sportswear, and teaching workshops in the Pacific Northwest. Her goal is to educate through creating material with meaning, and to initiate skepticism/investigation into the origins and conditions of where our clothing is grown and manufactured.
Sjogren is a graduate of the PNCA/OCAC Applied Craft and Design MFA program in Portland, Oregon. To see more of Kyla’s work, please visit her website at www.pastoraltextiles.com.
COST: $30 plus a $20 materials fee (Please pay materials fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: All supplies provided. Please feel free to bring any snack you may need for the duration. Coffee, tea and water provided. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes ok for a possible short nature walk.
This workshop is for students age 9 years old 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.
This class is also part of the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration on the Long Beach Peninsula. “This celebration is a culinary and cultural event honoring the Pacific Northwest’s delectable, edible wild mushrooms. The six-week celebration features expert-led hikes through an Oregon state park, chef-inspired menus at some of the Long Beach Peninsula’s finest restaurants and lodging specials at acclaimed inns and vacation rentals.”~www.wildmushroomcelebration.com
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Mycopigments: Mushroom Dyed Silk Scarf with Alissa Allen
Learn about prized local wild mushrooms and lichens used for dye. We will design 3 silk scarves using resist techniques for simple, yet elegant patterns. Participants will receive a detailed instructional handout, a color guide to the best local dye fungi and 3 silk scarves.
photo by Megan Hodde
Alissa Allen is an amateur mycologist and the founder of Mycopigments. She specializes in teaching about regional mushroom and lichen dye palettes to fiber artists and mushroom enthusiasts all over the continent. Alissa got her start in the Pacific Northwest and has been sharing her passion for mushrooms for over 15 years. She has written articles for her website as well as Fungi Magazine and Fibershed. In 2015 she created the Mushroom and Lichen Dyers United discussion group and The Mushroom Dyers Trading Post. These groups have grown into a community of over 6000 members. Alissa uses brilliant colors found in mushroom dyes to entice people to take a closer look at mushrooms and their relationship within the ecosystem.
COST: $75 plus a materials fee of $25 (Please pay material fee directly to instructor.)
BRING: Dress comfortably in layers, bring gloves and a name tag. Bring mushrooms and lichens if you find them, there will be time for identification. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
All ages welcome, children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Children under 7 can work with smaller scarves at half price. Max students 20.
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.
This class is also part of the annual Wild Mushroom Celebration on the Long Beach Peninsula. “This celebration is a culinary and cultural event honoring the Pacific Northwest’s delectable, edible wild mushrooms. The six-week celebration features expert-led hikes through an Oregon state park, chef-inspired menus at some of the Long Beach Peninsula’s finest restaurants and lodging specials at acclaimed inns and vacation rentals.”~www.wildmushroomcelebration.com
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Exploring Color: Silk Painting with Jess Beebe
We will be working with color combinations on paper exploring the interaction of color before we take paint to silk scarves. The process of silk painting is much like watercolor and the application of salt at the end adds textural interest. Color is a deeply personal and provocative element with a power that shifts as it is experienced with other colors. We will explore these relationships through meditative association and color exercises on paper. The finished silks (21” square) may be worn or hung as wall art.
Jess Beebe is an artist and clothing designer who creates hand printed and dyed textiles. Her clothing line, Linea designs was created in 2001 as a way to explore textiles, color and form. She studied art and literature at PSU with an immersion in art and color theory in Florence, Italy then finishing at OCAC, with textile design. A student of Shadow Yoga since 2001, informs her work in meditation.
COST: $50
BRING: All supplies provided. Please wear clothes that are ok to get paint/dye on. Bring a snack if desired. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 10 and up. 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.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Climactic Dialogue for the Climactic Story Teller: A Writing Workshop with Diana Kirk
Dialogue is the difference between grey skies and perwinkle horizons. It’s the color, the peak, the cherry on the top of a banana split. It’s an accent to any story and it brings you from one of narration only to a multi-faceted quilt of characters and nuances that can only be found when characters speak outloud. Learn how to write using dialogue to tell your story or fold into an existing one. Find people’s voices, find your own.
In this four hour workshop, we’ll tell stories from our own lives and practice writing these into small vignettes or polaroids of dialogue leading to a climactic conclusion. When you leave, you’ll have the tools and confidence necessary to write other people’s words, to write your own words…with intent.
Diana Kirk is a liar, a hussy, a boss lady and a downright dirty dawg. Which means she’s a helluva writer. The author of Licking Flames: Tales of a Half-Assed Hussy and Nasty! has been published in Progessive magazine, Nailed, Psychology of It and has appeared on NPR. Her stories, her vignettes and her ramblings can be found all over social media and most nights at her 92 year old bar called Workers Tavern in Astoria, Oregon.
COST: $30 plus $13 material fee (includes book). Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.
BRING: Please bring paper and pen/pencil or other favorite writing method. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 18 and up. Perfect for beginners. Perfect for essay writers. Novel writers. Whomever.
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.
Pat Hull is a singer-songwriter from Connecticut currently based out of Chico, CA. His music intertwines a melodic, soulful, counter-tenor vocal range with a unique finger picking style, creating a dreamy landscape with unpredictable hooks and turns. Pat’s newest releases, ‘Origami Sessions’ and ‘Marrow,’ showcase his delicate yet raw ability to compose, sing, write, and perform.
Prior recordings include ‘Light’ and ‘Shed Skin,‘ recorded and produced in Bennington, VT with engineer, JJ Beck and vocalist, Michael Chinworth. This collaborative effort brought a vocally and lyrically charged center to Pat’s songwriting, and displayed a collection of songs with a detailed and complex configuration of supporting instrumentation.
This event is free and open to the public.
An acoustic-electric duo with endless possibilities, Syrinx Effect plays their own blend of folk punk jazz. They easily switch between dreamy ambient loops, catchy pop riffs and found sounds, all the while paying homage to their free improv roots. Naomi plays trombone with guitar pedals and Kate plays soprano saxophone with laptop and other toys. The duo got its start curating the Racer Sessions in Seattle, and has gone on to perform prolifically around the US, collaborating with many of the mainstays of the improvised music scene such as Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Elliott Sharp, Bobby Previte, Stuart Dempster, Allison Miller, Rene Hart. Syrinx Effect makes music that is authentic and expressive, employing everything from simple folk melodies to abstract, ambient noise. Each piece is a meditation, an exploration, and sometimes a romp.
This event is free and open to the public.
http://www.syrinxeffect.com/bandcamp/
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Ecstatic Dance with Scott Schaeffer
Find the joy in moving your body, regardless of how it looks to others!
Ecstatic Dance is a term used to describe free form dance and in general describes transcendental, sacred dance, and other practices of movement meditation. Ecstatic Dance events are differentiated by being inclusive to all ages in a talk-free space with little to no direction on how members are supposed to dance. While there is no single format or guidelines that all events called Ecstatic Dance adhere to, as a rule there is no talking, no cameras, and no judgement, thus creating a safe and open space where you can turn your mind off and be led by your heart and your rhythm. There is only the pulsing beat of the music under the bright light of day, best greeted stone cold sober and ready to groove. Plan on moving your body in a music filled space in a way that is freeform to the uniqueness of you!
While not quite a workshop, Scott Schaeffer will facilitate this event with a brief introduction, definition and history, of this form of free-form dance. Then join in as Schaeffer plays a mix of world and electronic rhythm and beats for this event.
Scott Schaeffer lives in Portland, Oregon and is moved by music, love, and laughter. “Through dance, we believe everyone can discover, explore, unleash, and enhance their individual potential to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. By engaging our senses and listening to our bodies, we connect to others and shape a consciousness that extends beyond our own.”
COST: $5
BRING: Wear comfortable clothes that allow your body to move without restriction and comfortable shoes that allow your feet to move on a smooth concrete floor.
All ages welcome. (Children must be accompanied by an adult if they are in attendance.)
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.
‘A Wonderful Beast’ Album Release Party!
http://www.tellallyourfriendspr.com/album/a-wonderful-beast/
This event is free and open to the public.
Baptist Arms create a dystopian gothic folk landscape with spare instrumentation and evocative harmonies.
https://baptistarms.bandcamp.com/
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Ben von Wildenhaus, is a guitarist who’s spent time in both NYC and Washington State. His style has been compared to Marc Ribot and Jim Campiglongo. New York Music Daily
calls it “deep noir.” Spin describes his music as “a tight confluence of meditative anti-shredding.” He has two albums, Great Melodies From Around (Riot Bear, 2011), and Ben von Wildenhaus II (GLOBOS, 2015).
Ben is a 2017-18 recipient of the Tacoma Arts Initiative Program grant, for which he is performing around Tacoma’s public parks on a one man raised stage. He also leads his own group Von Wildenhaus (in the band naming tradition that beget Van Halen, Dio, and Fleetwood Mac), a Seattle band which was recently featured on the cable show Band In Seattle. Their debut album will be released in early 2019.
benvonwildenhaus.org
This event is free and open to the public.
All guests staying at the Sou’wester (and community members too) are invited to a Thanksgiving Feast Potluck at the Sou’wester in the Pavilion! (All guests bring your own plates and utensils.) Dinner starts at 5:00pm.
Please RSVP via souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 with number of people and what dish/drink/food you are bringing to the potluck.
Desserts after dinner in the Main Lodge Living Room. Talent Show and Sing-a-along with IVY ROSS RICCI in the lodge in the evening around the fireplace as the kickoff for GRATITUNES, a 3-day music fest, free and open to the public.
