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!
Join Flourish Meditation founder and writer/author Kimberly Novosel for a weekend retreat where we’ll practice a variety of writing methods and other creative and reflective mindfulness tools in order to know the self, heal the self, and move the self forward.
Over a cozy weekend on the Washington/Oregon Coast, you’ll learn the art of creative writing as a practice in self-discovery and return home with a new ritual for your growth and wellbeing.
This retreat experience is for anyone who is curious about writing, hungry to connect more with your own creativity, excited to play, and willing to do something brave.
Each March The Sou’wester is given over to 30+ artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a public exhibition of performances, installations & studio tours. Arts Week highlights the creative process and experiential nature of the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. Arts week 2024 hopes to create communal movement from the confluence of individual flow states. Through each of our visions, we come together to share in making something bigger. How does this energized space wash back on us? How does it inspire us, heal us, move us towards a sense of belonging? What do we take back from this exchange to seed our own revisioning?
Schedule and itinerary TBA
Each March The Sou’wester is given over to 30+ artists and art collectives for a week of residency work culminating in a public exhibition of performances, installations & studio tours. Arts Week highlights the creative process and experiential nature of the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. Arts week 2024 hopes to create communal movement from the confluence of individual flow states. Through each of our visions, we come together to share in making something bigger. How does this energized space wash back on us? How does it inspire us, heal us, move us towards a sense of belonging? What do we take back from this exchange to seed our own revisioning?FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC MARCH 15-17
FRI, 6-10p @ ILWACO ARTWORKS
SAT, 10a-12p @ WAVE PRESCHOOL
SAT, 12-10p @ THE SOU’WESTER
SUN, 11-1p @ ILWACO ARTWORKS
Schedule and itinerary TBA
Mar 23
Nerikomi Plates and Platters Workshop
w/Ally Bruser $70
In this workshop, students will explore the “nerikomi” technique of pressing or folding multiple colors of clay to achieve unique surface designs. Students will learn the basics of hand-building with clay while creating plates and platters for any purpose. This class is beginner-friendly and includes all the tools you need, clay, glaze, and firing of two or three finished pieces.
- Saturday 2-6p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
Lili St. Anne: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Elizabeth Margit-Anne is the frontwoman of Lili St Anne, a Santa Fe-based art-folk trio that combines the excitement of psychedelic rock with the groundedness of Elizabeth’s folk songwriting. When performing solo, Elizabeth shares the intimacy of her songwriting with grit and grace, exploring themes of love, loss, and grief with a heart-swelling verve. For fans of Laura Gibson, Big Thief, and Sharon Van Etten. Elizabeth grew up coming to Seaview many times a year, and the Sou’Wester holds a very special place in her heart. She is thrilled to be performing here again. Follow Lili St Anne on social media for shows and news of upcoming dual-single release, Water Songs, in Spring of 2024.
Sun, March 24th: Tiles & Trivets | 2-5p. $35/person. Ages 14+ & all experience levels. Learn handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! Clay Play includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing .
REGISTER
*Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H)
CLAY PLAY
Sat, March 30th: Mugs & Cups | 2-5p | $35/person
CLASS FULL
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+. Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. Shipping available for visiting attendees! ($15 S&H).
Mar 30-31 & Apr 6-7
Wheel Throwing Fundamentals Workshop
w/Kaitlyn Nelson $150
Wheel Throwing Fundamentals (getting centered) and hand building exploration. During the two week course we will be developing beginner skills and techniques for wheel thrown ceramics. This course is designed so give each student 1:1 time to learn how to wheel throw. Between individual wheel throwing sessions with the instructor student will be creating hand built objects and are encouraged explore the properties of clay as a medium. Students will likely bring home 1-2 cylindrical objects and a variety of hand built items.
- Saturday 2-6p
- Sunday 12-4p
- Includes 1 week of open studio access between classes (M,W,F 3-7)
Location: Ilwaco Artworks