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• 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
• Songwriting Works
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.