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  • SONGWRITING WORKS Board of Directors

    Judith-Kate Friedman, Founding Director, ex-oficio; Suzan Goodman, M.D., M.P.H.; Daniel Deardorff, Author, Founder, the MythSinger Foundation;
    Steve Seskin, Songwriter, Lecturer

  • Advisory Council
    Anne Basting, Director, Center for Age and Community; Founder, Time Slips
    Avotcja Jiltoniro, Composer, Poet
    Barry Barkan, Live Oak Institute, Pioneer Network
    Edie Hartshorne, Composer, Author
    Janice Rubin, Photographer, Performer, Producer
    Rabbi Sheldon Marder, Chaplain
    Si Kahn, Songwriter, Founder, Grassroots Leadership
    Susan Perlstein, Founder, Director of Education, National Center for Creative Aging
    Wendy Lustbader, MSW, Author, Consultant

  • SW Artist-in-Residence Programs, 1990-present (partial list, alphabetically)
    • Abramson Center for Jewish Life, Horsham, PA
    • Arts to Elders, Port Townsend, WA
    • Artworks (now Consortium for Elders & Youth in the Arts) San Francisco, CA
    • East Bay Conservation Corps Project Y.E.S. (Youth Engaged in Service),
    Oakland, CA

  • • Hiddur: Center for Aging and Judaism, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College,
    Wyncote, PA
    • NIAD: National Institute for Art and Disability, Richmond, CA
    • Jackson Heights Community Development Corp, Queens, NY
    • Jewish Home, San Francisco, CA
    • Marin History Center WWII Stories-Intergenerational Project, Marin County CA
    • Mastery Charter School, Philadelphia, PA

  • • Seattle Labor Chorus, Seattle, WA
    • William Bremen Home, Altlanta, GA
    • William James Association, Prison Arts Project: Stockton Women’s Prison,
    Stockton, CA

  • SW thanks our supporters: (partial list)
    MetLife Foundation/American Society on Aging MindAlerts Program, Society for the Arts and Healthcare, The Ziv Tzedakah Fund, ElderCare Advocates of Marin
    The Mechanics Bank, California Arts Council, Marin Arts Council, Hannah Levin, Legacy Trust, The Brisbois Family, The SEEDS Project, Brava! For Women in the Arts and all our generous individual donors, volunteers, and site sponsors

  • In Memoriam: These are some of the friends and colleagues who worked,
    played, sang and dreamed deeply with us. They live on in our hearts and in the
    songs.
    Rosie Lee Allina; Lillian Belcher; Daniel Ben Hayim; Betty Cohn; Fredya Epstein; Ed Gershman; Irv and Betty Ginsberg; Birdie Gintzler; Ida Greenwald; Irving Grossman; Gladys Devorah Jonah; Sally Isaac; Bessie Jacobs; Cora Latz; Hannah (Channie) Levin; Ethel May Love; Tede Matthews;

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    Memoriam Continued:
    Isabelle Maynard; Erna Neubauer; Anna Paris; Irving Peace; Etta Perkins; Carl Rosenberg; Max Shor; Berk Snow; Jeanette Van Oss; Esther Weintraub; Ruth Wendell; Julian White; and so many others…..