— POPMATTERS, 2018“A rare exhibition of the weight that minimalism can bear in contemporary, reflective folk music. ”
Lindsay Clark finds balance between traditional and english folk, country, and her own version of experimental folk that seems to come from within. Exquisite and pitch perfect, her music speaks of quiet revelation, with a background of (usually her own) multi-tracked vocal arrangements. With influences ranging from the Beach Boys, Elizabeth Cotton, Joni Mitchell, Appalachian folk, her classical upbringing, and her father’s record collection, she blends many worlds into a uniquely warm sound. She has carved out a vibrant place as an artist with a penchant for poetry, rich harmony, and a style of self-taught fingerpicking influenced by Nick Drake, John Fahey, and others.
Event Page: https://www.souwesterlodge.com/event/lindsay-clark-presented-by-souwester-arts/?instance_id=27739
REGISTER | $20
Let’s write some memoir! This workshop will help us move past resistance and start to unlock memories and develop them into stories. The key is to start to understand the events of your life into elements that you can use to tell the most effective story you can. Let’s get into some of the particulars of how memoir functions and do some writing in class to get momentum with our stories.
Nick Jaina is a writer and musician living with his family in Oakland, California. He was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in 2015 for his memoir Get It While You Can. He has composed music for film and ballet, and toured the world playing a unique mixture of music soundscapes, songs, and readings.
Event Page: https://www.souwesterlodge.com/event/memoir-writing-workshop-with-nick-jaina/?instance_id=27733
Ages 5-14
$75 per week (scholarships available)
Discounts for multi-week and siblings (See below)
Transportation is available!
Snack & Lunch provided
Program runs from 9 am - 4 pm, Monday - Friday
Extended Hours Available - Small additional fee
Drop off as early as 7:30 am, pick up as late as 5:30 pm
July 12-14 Clay Creatures and Miniature Things with Kaitlyn Nelson
Students will use clay and underglaze to develop hand-building skills and make small clay objects such as coil pots, tiles, and animal figurines. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
July 19-21 Mixed Media Tapestries with Kaitlyn Nelson
Students will create mixed-media wall hangings utilizing canvas, paint, thread and yarn to push the boundaries between painting and sculpture. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
July 26-28 Drawing Club with Heather McLaughlin
In this workshop students will use a variety of drawing implements to create imagery while exploring elements of design, such as: value, texture, pattern, rhythm, composition, line, realism, abstraction, and fractals! https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
August 2-4 Painting the Natural World with Jess Graff
Students of this creative workshop will explore nature themes using a variety of drawing and painting materials. Techniques for using pencil, pen, ink, watercolor medias, and more will be covered in this program. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
August 9-11 Animation with Cynthia Star
In this workshop students will work with simple apps to make unique stop motion animations using everyday objects like LEGO’s, clay, and more! On our last day we will end with an animation festival of our creations. Instructor Cynthia Star has fabricated for Laika Movies Coraline, ParaNorman and Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
August 16-18 Story Collages with Jess Graff
Explore creativity and personal stories through collage! Students of this hands-on workshop, will draw, paint, cut, and paste their way to layered finished projects that showcase their own imagination and unique perspectives. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
August 23-25 Mythical Creatures with Heather McLaughlin
Students will use paper mache to sculpt Mythical Creatures by expanding on their current animal knowledge and imagination. Students will also make a painting that depicts their creatures’ habitat and behavior. https://www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops-2/
TICKETS | $10 Early Bird (through 6/30), $13 (through 7/9), $15 day of event
XRay is proud to be a sponsor of The Big Float X. The Big Float is a celebration of the Willamette River. It’s a parade/float/beach party in downtown Portland that benefits the Human Access Project (HAP), a local, volunteer-driven nonprofit dedicated to helping people connect with their river and perhaps even fall in love with it. Live Music to be announced soon. This is both the event’s 10 year anniversary and last Big Float. Join us for the sendoff and celebrate!
A Party 10 Years In The Making: https://youtu.be/8FbJirWPknk
The son of an acting coach and a therapist, Kite seems to have it in his DNA to blend the dramatic and analytic. Each musical wave crest and fall mirrors a turn in the story. Instruments rest for minutes before suddenly emerging. Emotions and motifs sustain and then drop into oblivion. The tone switches suddenly from accusation to epiphany. It is the sound of someone going through it.
TICKETS | $15
Proof of full COVID vaccination (or negative rapid COVID test) required for entrance.
Golden Hour
A feel good summer nights house music experience
featuring:
Durante
(LA, Anjunadeep)
LILO
(Sweden, US debut)
Lassi
Follow Ibiza Boys on Instagram!: @ibiza_boyss
TICKETS | $13 Advance, $15 at the Door
21+ Only
FREE EVENT
Drew Martin is a songwriter from Maui, Hawaii. Original music written in nature throughout the Mauna Kahalawai mountain range.
https://drewmartinmusic.bandcamp.com/
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
FREE EVENT
Pony Hunt is a New Orleans based band that plays like a ghostly jukebox; hazy melodies with sweet, lingering waves of nostalgia.
TICKETS | $25
21+ Only
7 PM Doors, 8 PM Showtime
Jaws of Love is the solo project of Colombian-American recording artist Kelcey Ayer. He is the co-lead vocalist of Los Angeles band Local Natives, a revered pillar of the indie rock community having released 4 records and 2 EPs to critical and commercial acclaim, and touring the world since 2009. Jaws of Love released its debut album, Tasha Sits Close to the Piano, in 2017 to similar praise.
Ayer now starts the next phase of Jaws of Love with a new EP entitled Patricia, in memory of his late mother of the same name. While his debut album touched on his love of finding light in dark places, these 5 original new tracks mark a giant leap forward for the artist. Co-produced by Danny Reisch (Shearwater, Sun June), the songs share influences from BJ Burton’s production work with Low and Charli XCX, Iosonouncane’s IRA and Mark Pritchard’s Under The Sun, all deep wells of distortion, subtlety, brutality and beauty that Ayer drew from to shape his own. Through the memory of his mother, Ayer explores depression, reconnection with his Colombian roots, and the duality of being biracial and white-passing. With more new music on the way, Ayer is excited for Patricia to usher in a new era for Jaws of Love.
"Patricia" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk6f0E72vaM
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
TICKETS | $22
21+
Celebrating the release of their new LP 'For the Sake of Bethel Woods.'
Loss and hope, isolation and communion, the cessation and renewal of purpose. Timeless and salient, these themes echo throughout the fifth album from Midlake, their first since Antiphon in 2013. Produced to layered, loving perfection by John Congleton, For the Sake of Bethel Woods is an album of immersive warmth and mystery from a band of ardent seekers, one of our generation’s finest: a band once feared lost themselves by fans, perhaps, but here revivified with freshness and constancy of intent.
Featuring Field Division
REGISTRATION | $180
June 14, 21, 28, 2022
Saturdays | 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | 3 Sessions
Please note: Issues of sexuality, race, and some violent imagery are part of the class.
Centered on the heyday of practical special effects in 1980’s horror and science fiction, this 3 week online seminar will examine the history of bodily transformation from the earliest days of cinema through contemporary films and visual arts. Through comparative viewings, short readings, and weekly discussions we will examine the concepts of the cinematic body; representation of disease, bodily dissolution, and reparation; and the viewer relationship to on-screen physicality.s Discussion sessions will take place once a week. The third and final session will contain a special guest presentation by Nelson Lowry who has worked as head production designer for Danny Boyle, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, as well as recent Portland based Laika films.
TICKETS | $44.75 ADV RESERVED, $39-75 ADV GA, $50.00 DOS
McBride manages to tour consistently with his quartet, the New Jawn. He also fronts the GRAMMY-winning Christian McBride Big Band, whose Mack Avenue recordings, The Good Feeling and Bringin’ It won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2012 and 2017, respectively.
TICKETS | $44.75 ADV RESERVED, $39-75 ADV GA, $50.00 DOS
McBride manages to tour consistently with his quartet, the New Jawn. He also fronts the GRAMMY-winning Christian McBride Big Band, whose Mack Avenue recordings, The Good Feeling and Bringin’ It won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2012 and 2017, respectively.
FREE EVENT
Veteran songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall has been amazingly prolific over the last three decades or so. Currently most well known for his duties as a sideman, producer, and recordist via his work with M Ward, Blitzen Trapper, She & Him, Annalisa Tornfelt, & Tin Hat Trio, to name a few, Coykendall has been making his own unique outsider records since the mid ’80s.
TICKETS | $35 Advance, $40 day of show, $40 Advance 21+ Reserved Balcony, $50 day of show 21+ Reserved Balcony
Doors 6:30 PM | Show 8 PM
All Ages | Proof of COVID vaccination or Negative Test within 72 hours required for entry
Breton-born artist Yann Tiersen has been involved in music for most of his life.
He started learning piano at the age of four, took up violin at the age of six and received classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Since the early 1990s, Tiersen has changed his style many times. His latest album, Kerber, contains his most overtly electronic material to date but still beautifully textured, highly immersive.
Featuring Charlie Cunningham
TICKETS | $16
All Ages
Takénobu is a live-looping cinematic folk string duo performing original songs with vocal harmonies and ethereal instrumentals.
Cellist Nick Ogawa has been a touring member of Kishi Bashi and is a composer for NPR's Invisibilia, Netflix's Last Chance U, and the Netflix documentary 42 Grams by Jack Newell about michelin star chef Jake Bickelhaupt.
Kathryn Koch holds a Masters degree in Violin Performance and plays regularly with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Opera, and Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. She has toured with the Trans Siberian Orchestra and Tiny Rhymes, and appears on many film and video game soundtracks.
TICKETS | $13
21+ /// Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken in the prior 72 hours required
w/ Kelli Schaefer & Field Drums
Slang’s debut COCKROACH IN A GHOST TOWN is a force of nature that came, seemingly, out of nowhere. Lyricist/singer/guitarist Drew Grow and drummer/singer Janet Weiss started the band over a decade ago in Portland, OR—both having spent more than half their lives dedicated to making and performing music. Through the years, Weiss has played with everyone from her bands Quasi, Wild Flag, and Sleater-Kinney, to collaborators like Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, and others.; Grow has fronted his own groups Modern Kin and the Pastors’ Wives, producing other bands along the way. Starting as a moonlighting collaboration, the meeting of this particular group was kismet if not totally cosmic.