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!
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
our community clay studio!
$35/person | 1-4p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. *Select Clay Play day from the drop-down menu. Same day registration accepted up to 30min before Clay Play begins.
Get any four Clay Plays for just $100 in May! Add four to your cart. Discount is automatically applied at checkout
- Sun, Jun 2nd: Party Trays- Snacks or Cheese
- Sat, Jun 8th: Seashell Dishes for World Ocean Day
- Sun, Jun 9th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, Jun 15th: Garden Mushrooms
- Sun, Jun 16th: Sushi Sets- Chopstick Holders, Soy Saucers & Rice Bowls
- Sat, Jun 22nd: Ceramic Flair- Magnets & Wearable Pins
- Sun, Jun 23rd: Hanging Planters
- Sat, Jun 29th: Ceramic Poems- Haikus or Words of Inspiration
- Sun, June 30th Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Hours, 1-4pm: Tiles, Trivets, House #s or Magnets. (no registration necessary for June 20th)
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
our community clay studio!
$35/person | 1-4p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. *Select Clay Play day from the drop-down menu. Same day registration accepted up to 30min before Clay Play begins.
Get any four Clay Plays for just $100 in May! Add four to your cart. Discount is automatically applied at checkout
- Sun, Jun 2nd: Party Trays- Snacks or Cheese
- Sat, Jun 8th: Seashell Dishes for World Ocean Day
- Sun, Jun 9th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, Jun 15th: Garden Mushrooms
- Sun, Jun 16th: Sushi Sets- Chopstick Holders, Soy Saucers & Rice Bowls
- Sat, Jun 22nd: Ceramic Flair- Magnets & Wearable Pins
- Sun, Jun 23rd: Hanging Planters
- Sat, Jun 29th: Ceramic Poems- Haikus or Words of Inspiration
- Sun, June 30th Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Hours, 1-4pm: Tiles, Trivets, House #s or Magnets. (no registration necessary for June 20th)
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Hand building with Clay & Plants
June 8th 2-6p & June 9th 12-4p at Ilwaco Artworks in Ilwaco, WA w/visiting artist, Misha Hahnl
Students will learn the basics of hand building and incorporate found natural elements (plans, sticks, etc) for decoration and texture: each student will leave the studio with either a painter’s palate, mug or bowl textured with found natural elements and glaze. All levels welcome!
Misha is a teaching artist who has worked in the world of art and education for 15 plus years. Her background is in ceramics, printmaking, education, and caregiving. Currently Misha is working on a program focused on how clay can help process grief with the Portland Grief House and Sandy River Studio. She also offers printmaking workshops in various locations (Chehalem Cultural Center, Grey Raven Gallery, etc). You can learn more about her work, process and workshops @softhandstudio and soft-hand-studio.com.
Live Music: Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo
6/8. 8p. FREE
Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo (he/they/them) is a Nigerian-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, comedian, and creator of live performance and theater. They were a founding member of the award-winning experimental jazz quartet Industrial Revelation, a Mellon Creative Research Fellow, a Creative Capital awardee, an ArtistTrust Arts Innovators award recipient, and a semi-finalist in NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity comedy competition. Oluo co-produced comedian Hari Kondabolu’s Waiting for 2042 and Mainstream American Comic for Kill Rock Stars, and the album Who the Hell is Dwayne Kennedy? by the eponymous stand-up legend. They premiered two autobiographical music-based performances at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival: Now I’m Fine (2016), which the New York Times described as “a New Orleans funeral march orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg,” and of which Time Out New York said, “A day later, it’s as though I grabbed a live wire; I can still feel the electricity in my skin”; and Susan (2020), which Brantley called “virtuosic” and “crackerjack.” Oluo has written for television, including the stop-motion animated comedy Santa Inc.on HBO Max, starring Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. They have also appeared on This American Life. Now I’m Fine was adapted into the film Thin Skin, starring Oluo, who also wrote the score and co-wrote the script. Thin Skin won Best Director at the Harlem Film Festival. Oluo’s work has been commissioned, presented, or invited by On the Boards, PICA, the Meany Center, the Clarice, Seattle Theater Group, and REDCAT.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
our community clay studio!
$35/person | 1-4p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. *Select Clay Play day from the drop-down menu. Same day registration accepted up to 30min before Clay Play begins.
Get any four Clay Plays for just $100 in May! Add four to your cart. Discount is automatically applied at checkout
- Sun, Jun 2nd: Party Trays- Snacks or Cheese
- Sat, Jun 8th: Seashell Dishes for World Ocean Day
- Sun, Jun 9th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, Jun 15th: Garden Mushrooms
- Sun, Jun 16th: Sushi Sets- Chopstick Holders, Soy Saucers & Rice Bowls
- Sat, Jun 22nd: Ceramic Flair- Magnets & Wearable Pins
- Sun, Jun 23rd: Hanging Planters
- Sat, Jun 29th: Ceramic Poems- Haikus or Words of Inspiration
- Sun, June 30th Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Hours, 1-4pm: Tiles, Trivets, House #s or Magnets. (no registration necessary for June 20th)
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester with lara pacheco
Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester in Seaview, Washington on Friday, June 14th, 10-2pm with lara pacheco. $25-$55 sliding scale.
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This in-person event will take place at the beautiful Sou’wester Historic Lodge. lara pacheco, a licensed acupuncturist, will be providing community acupuncture as a way of making acupuncture more accessible. Community acupuncture is also a way that multiple people are able to relax in a communal space and share in the wide array of benefits that this ancient medicine provides. Acupuncture can treat anything from depression, anxiety, any kind of pain, digestion, sleep issues, and chronic conditions to also providing overall support for general well being. People can expect to rest anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on what your body needs and what you are comfortable with. Come experience this simple, yet powerful medicine with community and as an addition to being surrounded by the coast and forest.
Please bring a whatever you need to relax (blanket, mat, cushions). Please dress in comfortable layers and be prepared to roll up pants up to knees and long sleeves that roll up to the elbow and to remove socks and shoes for treatment.
- How does this work? Sign up for a time slot. Tickets will be available in 15 minute slots. You’ll sign up for some short paper work, then find a spot, roll up sleeves and pant legs if that is comfortable for you and lara will start treatment.
- How long do I stay? Depends. At least 30 minutes is recommended but listening to your body’s needs is most important. Sometimes people fall asleep and sometimes they don’t, but what is most important is that they relax.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
our community clay studio!
$35/person | 1-4p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. *Select Clay Play day from the drop-down menu. Same day registration accepted up to 30min before Clay Play begins.
Get any four Clay Plays for just $100 in May! Add four to your cart. Discount is automatically applied at checkout
- Sun, Jun 2nd: Party Trays- Snacks or Cheese
- Sat, Jun 8th: Seashell Dishes for World Ocean Day
- Sun, Jun 9th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, Jun 15th: Garden Mushrooms
- Sun, Jun 16th: Sushi Sets- Chopstick Holders, Soy Saucers & Rice Bowls
- Sat, Jun 22nd: Ceramic Flair- Magnets & Wearable Pins
- Sun, Jun 23rd: Hanging Planters
- Sat, Jun 29th: Ceramic Poems- Haikus or Words of Inspiration
- Sun, June 30th Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Hours, 1-4pm: Tiles, Trivets, House #s or Magnets. (no registration necessary for June 20th)
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.
Jun 15
Glazing & Surface Decoration Techniques Workshop
w/visiting artist, w/Charlotte Deason Robillard $80
Students will learn about a variety of ceramic surface decoration techniques. We will provide each student with a bisqued tumbler that they’ll decorate and glaze during the workshop; students are also welcome to bring a piece of their own bisqued work. We’ll go over masking and resistance methods, overlapping glazes, painting with underglazes, using stencils, and techniques for getting clean precise surface designs as well as more organic freehand designs. No previous ceramics experience is required.
Saturday 2-6p
Location: Ilwaco Artworks
Nick Delffs: Presented by Sou’wester Arts
Nick Delffs grew up in Mendocino County, a lawless stretch of coastline that’s hard to get to and, for many, hard to escape. Nick did — emerging in the early aughts as the frontman for Portland band The Shaky Hands, whose sharp, jittery rock was anchored by Nick’s quavering vocals and questing lyrics. The Shaky Hands were mainstays of Portland on the verge of a major shift, and they rode that shift a while, signing to Kill Rock Stars and touring internationally with some of the bigger names in indie rock. But a hiatus in 2011 became indefinite and Nick Delffs was once again cast into the world: working as a sideman, releasing solo records, doing manual labor, going deeper into his spiritual practices, and, crucially, becoming a father.
Becoming a parent can affect different artists in different ways. Nick rode that change with surpassing grace and maturity. 2017’s Redesign, his first full-length under his own name, reflected the transition. In “Song for Aja”, Nick touched on other concerns familiar to those who follow his work: love of the natural world; longing for spiritual and physical connection; the desire to suffer with meaning and exult with abandon, to embrace somehow the world in its maddening contradictions and find the unity at the core.
Childhood Pastimes, his second release on Mama Bird Recording Co., is both more focused and, despite being technically an EP, more ambitious. It’s a four-song cycle — one song with many movements or four songs that bleed into one another, depending on how you hear it — that can be viewed either as a personal journey or an archetypal passage of a human being through four discrete stages: roughly, the movement from childhood innocence into adolescent adventure (The Escape); the sudden immersion into a life of discovery and excitement (The Dream); the first experience of romantic love, followed by the onset of heartbreak, dissolution, breakdown of self (The Affair); the emergence into a new way of thinking, a fresh perspective that encompasses all the suffering and joy into a balanced whole (The Outside).
Nick plays nearly all of the instruments here and the result is a unified aesthetic, born ultimately of his deep-seated love of rhythm: the thrum and throb of the acoustic guitars, the percussive melodic bang of the elegantly-crafted piano lines, and always, always the insistent, driving drums, propelling the record, and the listener, on this journey as the four tracks bleed into one another, one body, one blood, one beating heart. The concept of four songs that are really one suite of music requires a sure hand, and Nick’s never shakes: the way the songs blend together while retaining their distinctiveness — from the poppy exaltation of “The Escape” to the cold intensity, almost like an acoustic Kraftwerk, of “The Affair” — shows a songwriter and musician who has fully grown into his powers.
Those who have followed Nick’s career may see this as a culmination of years and years of honing and fine-tuning his bountiful gifts, and wonder with delight what might come next. For those who haven’t listened to Nick before, Childhood Pastimes is the perfect entry point, a distillation of what’s come before and the promise of a new beginning.
COMMUNITY CLAY PLAY
At Ilwaco Artworks
our community clay studio!
$35/person | 1-4p
Learn basic handbuilding skills to create a finished piece! No experience necessary. Ages 14+ solo or ages 10-13 with parent. Clay Play Includes a demonstration, clay, glazing & firing. *Select Clay Play day from the drop-down menu. Same day registration accepted up to 30min before Clay Play begins.
Get any four Clay Plays for just $100 in May! Add four to your cart. Discount is automatically applied at checkout
- Sun, Jun 2nd: Party Trays- Snacks or Cheese
- Sat, Jun 8th: Seashell Dishes for World Ocean Day
- Sun, Jun 9th: Mugs & Cups
- Sat, Jun 15th: Garden Mushrooms
- Sun, Jun 16th: Sushi Sets- Chopstick Holders, Soy Saucers & Rice Bowls
- Sat, Jun 22nd: Ceramic Flair- Magnets & Wearable Pins
- Sun, Jun 23rd: Hanging Planters
- Sat, Jun 29th: Ceramic Poems- Haikus or Words of Inspiration
- Sun, June 30th Ilwaco Art Walk Drop-in Hours, 1-4pm: Tiles, Trivets, House #s or Magnets. (no registration necessary for June 20th)
email ilwacoartworks@gmail.com to join a waitlist or if you experience any issues with checkout. If you are trying to register for multiple events and run into a checkout error please try purchasing them separately. Thank you! Inspiration photos are credited and linked in our “Ideas & Inspiration” page.