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.
- Song of the Month: "I'm 100 Years Old"
| Lyrics | More Songs
- 2010: Benefit Concert and Silent Auction 5/8 Chimacum, WA. 7/30 Oakland, CA.
- 2009: SW receives National Endowment for the Arts Creativity and Aging in America Grant (pdf) in conjunction with Arts NorthWest and the Olympic Area Agency on Aging. Profiles about SW are featured in Transforming the Healthcare Experience through the Arts (Sadler and Ridenour, Art & Healthcare, 2009) and Forget Memory (Anne Basting, John Hopkins U. Press, 2009)
- 2008: Dr. Theresa Allison, M.D., M. Music, publishes her study of SW in the
Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2008).
SW receives the Blair Sadler INTERNATIONAL HEALING ARTS AWARD from the Society for the Arts in Healthcare 1:Press Release 2:SAH website
- 2007: SW receives MindAlert AWARD from MetLife/American Society on Aging. Judith-Kate joins MindAlert Speakers Bureau 1:Story 2:MarketWatch 3:PDF
- Upcoming Events: May 13, Music & Brain Health Webinar; June 10 Music and Memory StoryCorps event, SF Contemporary Jewish Museum
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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