SINGING the BODY, VOICING the SOUL
Exploring the Dance between Soul, Song & Sound
With Judith-Kate Friedman
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 - 2:00pm-5:30pm
Come discover and affirm your body as instrument, your voice as a gift, and your soul as a source of song, communion, and play. In the beautiful setting of Madrona Mindbody Institute and surrounding Fort Worden, we’ll tone and attune to breath, listen and welcome each other’s sacred gifts, and find and free the dancing singer within – for like birds, we are born to move, play and sing.
The afternoon will move through a series of song, melody, rhythm poem, body-soundscape, story, and improvisation experiences, sprinkled with exercises to increase confidence, tone color and vocal health. Together, in a supportive circle, we will honor and deepen our relationship to song, sound and body, movement, melody, and possibility. We’ll explore soul as a source for song, working solo, in pairs and trios, and in harmony as a vocal community. We’ll welcome spring and the energies of pushing through from hibernating winter into the wild open, like crocuses, peeking out of places of shyness and introspection, into a welcoming space from which we’ll share our beauty with each other and the world. We’ll close with personal reflection and integration using color, sound, drawing and collage to make touchstones to carry our intentions and embraced creativity into the new season.
All voices are welcome.
Pre-register to reserve your space (sliding scale) $35-$45-$55 with limited scholarship available.
Note on Scholarships: If you are interested in a scholarship spot, please let us know. If you want it, but think you can swing one of the options on the sliding scale offering without too much difficulty, please refrain from requesting the scholarship. There are a lot of people who need it right now and we want to help people participate that would not otherwise be able to. Thank You. If you have additional resources available - please consider a contribute to our scholarship fund.
Judith-Kate Friedman is a life-long singer, composer, award-winning songwriter, producer, cantorial soloist and creative catalyst. She has 30+ years experience in music, theater, poetry, radio, and film and is passionate about coaching those who seek to find and develop their 
creative voices. Trained in voice and world music at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, her teachers include jazz improvisational storyteller Rhiannon, dancer Anna Halprin, songwriter Steve Seskin, and ensemble coach Raz Kennedy, among others. Judith-Kate performs, speaks and teaches internationally. Her recordings and community projects have received wide acclaim including a 2009 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2008 Blair Sadler/Society for the Arts in Healthcare International Healing Arts Award. In addition to performing, she teaches locally from her Song Studio Port Townsend and serves as founder and director of Songwriting Works™, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring health and well-being to individuals and communities through song composition and performance. To learn more about Judith-Kate’s teaching approach and projects, please visit: www.judithkate.com and www.songwritingworks.org
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