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  • Songwriting Works Songwriter-Facilitators

    Judith-Kate Friedman, Founder and Director, Port Townsend, WA
    Matt Sircely, 2nd year Apprentice, Port Townsend, WA
    Paula Lalish, 2nd year Apprentice, Marrowstone Island, WA
    Keeth Monta Apgar, 2nd year Apprentice, Marrowstone Island, WA
    Anke Summerhill (not pictured), 2nd year Apprentice, Salt Lake City, UT
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  • SW in Western Washington (State), Elders Advisory Council
    Andy Mackie, Andy Mackie Music Foundation
    Annette Huenke
    Annetta Callin-Young
    Jim Valley, Rainbow Planet
    Laurence Cole, Founder/Director PT Songlines Choir
    Leah Hammer
    Martha E. "Marty" Richards,
    Marcia Perlstein
    Pam McWethy

  • SW Facilitator Certification Training, Core Faculty (2009-10)
    • Judith-Kate Friedman, SW Founder and Director, Port Townsend, WA
    • Daniel Deardorff, Author/Mythologist, Mythsinger Foundation Port Townsend, WA
    • Kathy Burrer, Administrator, Dungeness Courte, Sequim, WA
    • Martha E. "Marty" Richards, MSW, LICSW, Author "CareSharing" Port Townsend, WA
    Guest Faculty
    • Steve Seskin, Songwriter, Seskin Music, Operation Respect, Richmond, CA
    • Jim Valley, Rainbow Planet, Gig Harbor, WA
    • Vickie Dodd, Sacred Sound School, Port Angeles, WA

  • SW in Western Washington Project Partners (2009)
    • Olympic Area Agency on Aging and Senior Information & Assistance
    • Arts Northwest
    • CARE Partnership (Community Advocates for Rural Elders)
    • United Way of Clallam County
    • Olympic Community Action Program (OlyCAP)
    • Critical Junctures Institute at Western Washington U/St. Joseph's/PeaceHealth
    • Alzheimers' Association of Central and Western Washington (pending 2010-12)
    • Northwest Care Management, Inc (pending 2010-12)
    • Centrum, Fort Worden State Park (pending 2010-12)


  • SW on the Olympic Peninsula 2007-09 Host Sites

    • Dungeness Courte Alzheimer's Community, Northwest Care, Sequim
    • Kah Tai Care Center, Port Townsend • Victoria House, Port Townsend
    • Seaport Landing, Port Townsend • Discovery View, Port Townse
    • Arts to Elders, Port Townsend • Tri Area Community Center, Chimacum
    • Juan de Fuca Festival, Port Angeles • Port Townsend Community Center
    • Port Angeles Senior Center • Sequim Senior Center • Sequim Irrigation Festival

  • SW thanks our Western Washington supporters: (partial list)

    National Endowment for the Arts Creativity and Aging in America grant program in
    conjunction with Arts Northwest, MetLife Foundation/American Society on Aging MindAlert Program, the Good People Fund, National Center for Creative Aging, Arts to Elders, the Mythsinger Foundation, and generous individual donors, volunteers, site and program sponsors and project partners



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