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ABOUT: Songwritingworks.org
“Your beautiful performance and songs brought alive the importance and magnitude of
what friendship and personal caring attention can do for the elderly, as well as capturing
the heartsong of our organization’s mission and purpose”
--Judith Merrin, Executive Director, Love is the Answer (LITA)
Founder and Director Judith-Kate Friedman offers keynote presentations for conferences, civic meetings, and community events and celebrations. Her energetic lecture/demonstrations combine songs from Songwriting Works™ and/or Psalms, Songs and Stories™ participants with research findings, real-life success stories about creativity and aging, and the nuts and bolts of bridging diverse generational and cultural divides through song. Film clips, slideshows and Q&A can be included.
Topics:
- Songwriting Works™: Enhancing Life, Giving Voice to Community
- Music, Creativity, and Mental Fitness in Aging
- Using Music to Reach Out to People with Dementia
- Uniting Caregivers and Clients through Song
- The Power of Intergenerational Songwriting
- Songwriting as Service – New Paths for Professional Musicians
- How Singing Heals
With humor and sensitivity, Judith-Kate Friedman demonstrates the improved ‘quality of life’ that comes when individuals and their communities start making their own original music together. %10 to %90 of fees are donated to Songwriting Works. For more information see workshops and trainings or contact:Songwriting Works.
- Song of the Month: "I'm 100 Years Old" | Read the Lyrics | More Songs
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Songwriting Works was founded in 1990 to engage elders, youth, their families, caregivers, and professionals in health, music, and education in unique, meaningful interactive and intergenerational collaborative musical experiences. Our mission and vision is to use the power of songwriting, performance, and collective musical creativity:
- To restore music making into every day life
- To give voice to individuals and their communities
- To create new contexts for mutually beneficial intergenerational and intercultural exchange
- To raise public awareness of human creative vitality and musical intelligence across spectra of age, culture, and physical and cognitive abililty
- To promote the health and well being of all whom we serve and the culture-at-large
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