Judith-Kate Friedman and elders at St. Mary’s in San Francisco, CA.
Welcome!
SONGWRITING WORKS™ is an internationally recognized model for promoting health through the power of songwriting and performance. Our hands-on programs serve hundreds of elders, youth and families each year. We offer trainings and consulting services for professionals in healthcare, music, expressive arts therapies, spirituality, and education.
At SONGWRITINGWORKS.org you can:
- Learn about programs, research, and public awareness projects
- Access our latest publications, films, and recordings
- Download articles and songs
- Support our work
- Song of the Month: "I'm 100 Years Old"
| Lyrics | More Songs
- News: Songwriting Works on the Olympic Peninsula (SWOP) celebrates new songs composed by local elders in benefit concert NOVEMBER 11th 2009 in Port Townsend, WA. SW's first Northwest facilitator's training and regional workshops for elders and families are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (pdf)
- News: Songwriting Works receives 2009 NEA Creativity and Aging in America Grant in conjunction with Arts NorthWest and the Olympic Area Agency on Aging
- News: Dr. Theresa Allison's study of SW published in the Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2008).
- News: Songwriting Works receives 2008 Blair J. Sadler INTERNATIONAL HEALING ARTS AWARD from the Society for the Arts in Healthcare
1:Press Release 2:SAH website
- News: Songwriting Works receives 2007 MIND ALERT AWARD from MetLife/ American Society on Aging. 1:ASA Story 2:MarketWatch Story 3:Award PDF
- Upcoming Interactive Events: see 2009 calendar.
- Trainings: Day-long trainings for arts and health professionals, and a comprehensive facilitator certification program will be offered in 2010.
Contact 360.385.1160 or info@songwritingworks.org to learn more. - Conferences: Center for Spirituality & Aging Feb 24, 2010 Anaheim, CA and Feb 25, 2010 San Jose, CA; Aging in America Mar 15-19, 2010 Chicago, IL
MISSION and VISION:
SONGWRITING WORKS is a non-profit educational foundation which promotes individual and community
health through the power of music.
We use song composition, performance, and collective musical creativity to:
- Give voice to individuals and communities across spectra of age, culture, physical and cognitive ability
- Provide elders, youth and others access to being seen, heard, honored and celebrated in their own words and music
- Create new opportunities for mutually beneficial inter-generational, inter-cultural, and inter-faith exchange
- Facilitate interdiscilinary collaboration and bring innovative approaches into the arts, healthcare and education
- Raise public awareness of human creative vitality and musical intelligence
- Restore music-making into daily life across the generations
- Promote the health and well being of all we serve and the culture-at-large.
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