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• Songwriting Works Educational Foundation is awarded the Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Legacy Award from the Family Caregiver Alliance National Center on Caregiving and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation. Judith-Kate accepted the award April 28th, 2011 at San Francisco's Hotel Nikko and performed with project participants from the Jewish Home San Francisco. Read more.
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JANUARY 1, 2011. Songwriting Works Educational Foundation made the razoo.com $1,000 grant match. Our "Season of Song" Challenge raised more than $4,000 in 10 days. Thank you for your support!
For more info on Songwriting Works' latest projects CLICK on the SQUARE LOGO LINK above to view video and slideshows or read the year-end letter about how SW is serving elders, family caregivers and professional musicians.
I'm grateful for an incredible 2010 full of songs, travel, projects, weddings, and family time. Plenty of poignancy, losses and tight places, yet made beautiful by the fiesty love of so many. 2011 looks to be the year I'll make a new CD of my own songs (YAY!).
Meanwhile, here's a song from last summer:
CLICK to listen to A Spider's Tale live in L.A.
Your support of my work makes a real difference. Thank you again.
Wishing you a New Year of much health and happiness,
Carrying on in love and song,
Judith-Kate
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Judith-Kate will bring four "Singing the Body, Moving the Soul" workshops to Madrona Mindbody Institute in Port Townsend, on WA State's beautiful Olympic Peninsula. The first of these seasonal wrokshops will be held Feb 5th, 2011 at 2pm. Future dates : May 5, Aug 6, Nov 12.
• Judith-Kate and Daniel Deardorff will be in concert July 30th in Oakland, CA with new songs, stories and poems. The concert is the first in a series of fundraisers for JK's next recording project.
See home page for concert details; to learn more about the songs and recording and how you can support the new CD write: jk at judithkate.com
• Songwriting Works has received a Washington Health Foundation Rural Health Initiative grant to train professional songwriter-facilitators and develop new tools and workshops for caregivers and older adults. Learn more at www.songwritingworks.org
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on the Olympic Peninsula celebrated its first year in rural Western Washington composing songs with a team of professional songwriters, elders and their families Nov 11, 2009). This project was initially funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Creativity and Aging in America Grant in conjunction with Arts Northwest.
• Songwritng Works is profiled in two 2009 books: Anne Bastings' book Forget Memory (2009, John Hopkins University Press) and Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts by Blair L. Sadler and Annette Ridenour (2009, Aesthetics).
• Oxford University Press has published Theresa Allison, M.D., M. Music's study "Songwriting in the Nursing Home: Transcending the Boundaries of Institutionalization through Music," The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (2008, OUP). Dr. Allison's research found demonstrated health and social benefit for elders participating in Songwriting Works™ and the Psalms, Songs and Stories™ process.
• Songwriting Works™ Educational Foundation, the non-profit Judith-Kate Friedman founded to give voice to communities, received the Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 2008 Blair J. Sadler International Healing Arts Award for its project "Songwriting Works at the Jewish Home." Judith-Kate accepted the award in Philadelphia in April.
• Judith-Kate has joined the faculty of Master Trainers with the National Center for Creative Aging. Through this program and the speakers' bureau of MetLife Foundation/American Society on Aging's MindAlert Program, Judith-Kate offers training for music, arts, healthcare and education professionals and other using music composition and performance to enhance the health of individual and communities. To learn about these opportunities, click here and scroll down to the Songwriting Works logo for a description of Judith-Kate's training.
• Judith-Kate, Daniel Deardorff, Robert Bly, Gioia Timpanelli, the Frantzich Brothers and others on a US caravan of storytellers, singers and poets performed at the Westcountry Storytelling festival in Devon, England, Sept 5-7, 2008. Shows in South England and London followed. Thanks to all the individual supporters who made it possible.