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!
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
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Dance Therapy/Healing Through Movement Practice and Creation with Sarah Brahim
This workshop will help you discover deeper connection to your own body and the way you move, no matter your current level. We will explore dancing through memories and personal experiences working to continue intentional dance and movement relationships between our body and mind. We will also have fun and practice dancing to just feel good, release tension, and let go. There will be a creative portion of the class where we will (weather permitting) take movement therapy skills out into nature. We will also incorporate bodywork and massage to finish the workshop feeling relaxed and refreshed.
Sarah Brahim is a movement artist passionate about creating meaningful work with artists of varying mediums. She grew up studying, choreographing, performing, and teaching jazz, ballet, and tap in Portland, Oregon. She then studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and in 2016 she graduated from London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) and holds a BA Hons degree in contemporary dance. At LCDS she further explored the depth and resonance of movement, discovering her passion for improvisation, collaboration, choreographing, and healing through movement. In 2017 she graduated from Portland State University with a degree in Public Health specializing in Community Health Education. Returning to her roots, Sarah is currently crafting, choreographing, and performing live with local Portland artists and expanding her repertory as a tap dancer. She believes dance can be life changing, transformative, and a universal language to bring people together.
COST: $40
BRING: Water, wear comfortable clothing, (warm layers), socks, and comfortable shoes. Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 17 years and up.
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.
Blue Flags & Black Grass is a combination of many flavors of acoustic American Roots Music. With the instrumentation of Banjo, Res-o-phonic Guitar, Fiddle, Washboard, Kazoo and Upright Bass, Blue Flags emulates the String Bands of the 1920s and ‘30s. Their typical gig will blend Ragtime, Viper Jazz, Country Blues, Old-Time, Jug Band and Bluegrass. As well as performing classic standards and dusting off hidden gems, Blue Flags also features original songs by Flip ‘Fats’ McGuire.
This event is free and open to the public.
Opening Reception Friday October 5th, 5pm-8pm
for exhibition
“Deep Skies“
October 5 – December 30, 2018
This show is installed in the Art Trailer Gallery, a vintage travel trailer, at The Sou’wester Lodge. Free and open to the public.
Please stay after the reception to enjoy live music in the lodge from 8pm-10pm by band Dizzy Nest as part of this opening celebration.
Artist Biography:
Heather McLaughlin was born next to the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore Maryland and relocated to Red Lodge Montana, on the north border of Yellowstone Park, in 1991. After high school, she continued west to Portland Oregon and continued her studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art. Heather completed her Bachelors of Fine Art in Printmaking in 2005. She currently serves at the print studio Manager at PNCA while also teaching printmaking and youth arts as an adjunct instructor in PNCA’s Continuing Education Program. Heather also volunteers as an art instructor at Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls and has served on the board for Flight 64 (a Member-run Print Studio). In addition to her art Heather is a musician, performer and production assistant.
“Dizzynest” is Ron Rutter who sings his typewriter driven songs in the blues, folk and jazzy vein. With his the kalamazoo Guitar all strung up and the Willamette on his mind. Then there’s Doug “Rezonator” Kelly who hammers out the dents in the Chords & Daniyel “the pepper-grinder” with his Suitcase Bass and DJ “Mountain” with the sneaky Snare & Ukulele.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Chocolate and Coffee Making Workshop with Becca Roebber & Ryan Rabaca
Learn about where coffee and cacao come from, how they are similar and different and why we love them so much! You will learn how to roast coffee & cacao at home, best coffee brew methods and how to make chocolate at home. Finally, experience a sensory analysis by pairing single origin dark chocolate with single origin coffee in a guided tasting.
Each person will leave with a bag of freshly roasted coffee and dark chocolate made by hand.
Becca Roebber is the Marketing Director and COO of indi chocolate, in Pike Place Market. She has worked with cacao farmers for over 10 years passionately telling the story of direct trade chocolate to consumers through education, events and classes that all include tasting dark chocolate. Becca and indi chocolate love to work collaboratively with other local businesses so that chocolate can be shared with all different communities in Seattle and beyond. She travels to cacao growing regions as often as possible and works with communities to increase their standard of living through the production of cacao.
Ryan Rabaca has been Ladro‘s head roaster for two years. He has spent nearly a decade in the coffee industry and is passionate about flavor development, direct trade farming practices, and roasting coffee that everyone can enjoy. Palate training and coffee education are important pieces of his job. He loves connecting people through coffee.
COST: $55
BRING: All supplies provided. Bring a snack if desired. Water pitcher and drinking glasses provided, but bring a water bottle if you prefer.
This workshop is for students age 16 and up. 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.
Fall/Winter 2018 Workshop Series
Arabesque Quilling: Bridging Cultures With Art
with instructor Koloud ‘Kay’ Tarapolsi
Quilling is a Renaissance art form that uses strips of paper that are rolled to create designs. The paper was wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape that was glued and shaped by Catholic nuns. Now we have modern tools for you to try this pioneering art form. No experience needed as instructor will guide you in step by step instructions on creating a card, bibelot or party favor. All materials, including paper, tools, and glues are provided.
Instructor Koloud ‘Kay’ Tarapolsi is a Libyan American paper artist who has been teaching quilling for 10 years in the Pacific Northwest to children and adults. She studied African art as an undergraduate and moved to Washington to receive her Masters in International Studies, specializing in the Middle East. She enjoys using the quilling stripes in her arabesque art since the paper allows her the freedom to explore movement in calligraphy while other mediums she has tried, such as clay and wood, have been too restrictive.
photo by Ingrid Pape-Sheldon
COST: $30 plus $5 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: All materials provided. Bring a snack if you would like. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 16 and up.
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
Printmaking Without A Press: Relief, Monotypes, & Collagraphs Using Akua Non-Toxic Inks with Jane Pagliarulo
We’ll learn fast and furious, the myriad ways you can print on your kitchen table or schoolroom desk using rolling pin, printing pin, or baren. These techniques are immediate, experimental, fun and well-suited for teachers or professionals or folks who claim they are not artistic! Our printing plates will include wood, plexiglass, gel plates, easycut, scratch foam and mat board, and we will play with masking tape, paper, mylar, brushes, rags and brayers.
The $40 materials fee will include inks, newsprint, 2 sheets Arches paper, one each gel plate, scratch foam plate, tiny easy cut block, 3 tiny woodblocks. Additional Printmaking paper and bigger wood block plates available for purchase.
Jane Pagliarulo, Master Printer and co-owner of Atelier Meridian, received a BFA in Printmaking from UMass at Amherst. From 1989 to 1996 she worked as a fine art printer at Hand Graphics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she printed lithographs, woodcuts, etchings and monotypes. She worked one-on-one in creative collaboration with artists who had tremendously varied conceptual and technical approaches. As a result she strays beyond the traditional boundaries of printmaking. In 1996 Pagliarulo co-founded a printmaking workshop in Hood River, Oregon. In 2007 she started Atelier Meridian, a collaborative membership printmaking studio in Portland, teaching workshops & printing editions.
COST: $150 plus $40 material fee (includes inks, newsprint, 2 sheets Arches paper, one each gel plate, scratch foam plate, tiny easy cut block, 3 tiny woodblocks) Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.
BRING: Please bring your favorite paint brushes (stiff -bristled oil brushes are best), your favorite apron that is ok for paint to get on, any mark-making tools you would like to try, like Caran D’ache water crayons, oil sticks, and textured fabrics
Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack. Coffee and tea provided.
This workshop is for students age 10 and up. 10 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.
Michael Nau & The Mighty Thread is comprised of musicians from all over America.
“We’ve all played together in various arrangements over the past few years”, says Nau. “We made a record with this core group last year and did a west coast trip at the end of ’17. It was fun and so we want to try and keep it going wherever we can. As such, we’re going to do a string of shows coming up wherein any show listed as “…& the mighty thread” will be full band shows comprised of Will Brown on keys, Benny Yurco on guitar, Graeme Gibson on drums, Robinson Morse & Evan ApRoberts on bass and hopefully get to release some music featuring these bandmates in the near future”.
This event is free and open to the public.