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;
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…..