CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

 

NOV 2012

 

Sunday Nov 11th from 3pm til 8:45 pm
at the Northwest Maritime Center,
431 Water Street in Port Townsend. WA

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3-4:15 pm – Musical Magic for the Young & Young at Heart
• Parents Choice award winners! the Harmonic Pocket featuring Keeth Apgar & Nala Walla and Jim Valley's Rainbow Planet

4:15pm – PT Songlines Choir ~ interactive singing – harmony!

5pm – Local Songs

• Songwriting Works' Touring Ensemble Judith-Kate Friedman, Matt Sircely, Keeth Monta Apgar with Daniel Deardorff and the Musical Instigators perform songs composed in Jefferson and Clallam counties

 

5:30-6:45 – Local Feast! Delicious community potlock with local yummies from Mt. Townsend Creamery, Pane D'Amore, Midori Farm, Red Dog Farm, Muskan Indian Restaurant and more

 

7pm – Honoring Veterans
• Northwest Premiere of Aba Kiser's WWII Homecoming Song Video - "poignant" - "inspiring" - "haunting" - historic photos from Ft. Worden, the Straits of Juan De Fuca, and the National Archive, tells the story of elder vets, their families and neighbors who served in and survived WWII. And the story of how songwriting inspired the reunion of twin brothers.

 

7:30pm – More Local Songs!
8pm Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff with Joe Breskin, guitar
8:30pm • Finale.

 

Supported by the Port Townsend Arts Commission and First Federal Bank.

SEPT 2012

Songwriting Works is honored to be represented
in the Dementia Arts exhibit
at the Rotunda of the Russell Senate Building on Capitol Hill
Sept 17-21, 2012
and to premiere Aba Kiser's
WWII Homecoming Song video
at the Dementia Arts Festival
Memory Arts Café
Sept 20th at IONA Senior Services
in Washington DC

SW founder Judith-Kate Friedman will perform/facilitate with Maria Genné founder of Kairos Alive! and festival producer
Gary Glazner of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project 9/20 and 9/21.
Full schedule of Events

April 2011

APRIL 26th, 2011: Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Legacy Award - Songwriting Works to receive award in the category of Creative Expression. Presentation: 10am San Francisco Hilton, Union Square 9 (Tower 3, 4th floor).

AWARD RECEPTION & CELEBRATION 5:30-7:30pm Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street at O'Farrell, San Francisco Union Square. Short performance by Songwriting Works participants: Singers & Songwriters of the Jewish Home San Francisco with Judith-Kate Friedman. No host dinner to follow.
Read the INVITATION.

CREATIVITY MATTERS SYMPOSIUM: Health, Wellness and the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Yerba Buena Lane between Market and Mission Streets, San Francisco, 8am to 4pm. Judith-Kate Friedman presents in the afternoon sessions. Speakers include Susan Perlstein, founder emeritus of the National Center for Creativie Aging and Elders Share the Arts; Stu Kandell, founder of Stagebridge Theater; Maria Genne, director of Kairos Dance Theatre; Michael Patterson of MindRAMP, LLC. Info: creativeaging.org

 

THROUGHOUT APRIL and MAY 2011 on the Olympic Peninsula:

See SONGWRITING WORKS' MUSIC FOR WELLNESS EVENTS WEBPAGE for

Port Townsend, Quilcene, Brinnon, Chimacum, Sequim, Port Angeles events.

 

Jan 12, 2011:
Nat'l Center for Creative Aging Webinar on Creative Engagement with Older Adults and the "Creativity Matters" toolkit. Presenters: Judith-Kate Friedman, founder and director of Songwriting Works™ and Susan Perlstein, founder emeritus of the National Center for Creativie Aging and Elders Share the Arts. 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. Registration and Information: creativeaging.org

 

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More concerts and programs are added frequently.
Please watch for updates. Or contact us.

 

Billy Cauley and Judith-Kate Friedman open the 2nd Art of Aging festival, Berkeley, CA
photo by Stu Kandell

 

Jewish Home Singers & Songwriters at the 1st Art of Aging festival, San Francisco, CA
photo by Gary Wagner