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• Songwriting Works™,
the non-profit Judith-Kate Friedman founded to give voice to
communities, has been awarded 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 will be in Philadelphia
April 17-19 to accept the award.
• Judith-Kate's work songwriting with elders is the subject of a research study, "Songwriting in the Nursing Home: Transcending
the Boundaries of Institutionalization through Music," by Theresa
Allison, M.D., M. Music. Her findings will be published in a book
chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology: Music, Medicine, and Culture, on Oxford University Press later
this year.
• Judith-Kate is working on music for a new recording of original songs. She is also seeking funding to produce a CD and songbook of new songs based upon Psalms, featuring renowned artists in Jewish and World music.
• In September 2008, Judith-Kate will join mythologists Martin Shaw and Daniel Deardorff, poet Robert Bly, storyteller/bard Robin Williamson and others from the UK and the US at the first Conference on the Culture of Wildness, and a Storytelling Festival.
For more info visit: Stalkingtherebelsoul.com or check the tour calendar for updates.
• MetLife Foundation & the American Society on Aging's MindAlert Program offer a grant opportunity for music, arts and healthcare professionals interested in hosting a training with Judith-Kate Friedman on "best practices" and ways to "enhance mental fitness" through music, songwriting and performance with older adults.
To learn more about this program and funding opportunities, click here. Look for Judith-Kate's training in the MindAlert faculty listing under the Songwritng Works logo.