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Song Writing Works

Judith-Kate Friedman and elders at St. Mary's.Songwriting Works' founder and director Judith-Kate Friedman writes songs with elders at St. Mary’s in San Francisco, CA.


Songwriting Works™ Educational Foundation became an IRS 501c3 non-profit charitable organization in 2009.

Our Mission:
TO RESTORE HEALTH AND COMMUNITY THROUGH THE POWER OF SONGWRITING & PERFORMANCE.

Welcome!

SONGWRITING WORKS™ is dedicated to changing lives through the power of song.


• We engage hundreds of elders, older adults and families each year in hands-on songwriting and performance using an internationally recognized method proven to restore health and community.

 

• We write songs with active and frail folks including those living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. We lift voices of those too often unseen and unheard into public awareness.

• We offer trainings and consulting for arts and health practitioners and families seeking to bring the benefits of song to clients and loved ones.

 

• We work with researchers in music, medicine, brain health, life-long learning, and the positive impact singers, song-makers and song carriers have on individual and collective quality of life.
Areas of expertise.

 

• We operate nationally with long-term projects in San Francisco and on WA's Olympic Peninsula.


VISION: As SONGWRITING WORKS restores song composition, performance, and collective musical expression
into daily life across the generations, we seek to:

  • Give voice to individuals and communities across spectra of age, culture, physical and cognitive ability
  • Provide elders and others access to being seen, heard, honored and celebrated in their own words & music
  • Create new opportunities for mutually beneficial inter-generational, inter-cultural, and inter-faith exchange
  • Bring innovation and interdisciplinary creative collaboration into the fields of arts, healthcare and education
  • Raise public awareness of human creative vitality and musical intelligence
  • Promote the health and well being of all whom we serve and of the culture-at-large

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