Happiness is a renewable resource. So is courage.
Creativity is how we get there.
And we get there together.
— Judith-Kate Friedman
Welcome to Aliveness Through Arts.
In these times, art-making of all kinds is as crucial than ever.
With harvest underway in the Northern Hemisphere (and springtime burgeoning Down Under), the beauty and poignancy of life’s cycles is everywhere.
What are you feeling?
What helps you to sustain strength and your passion for life amidst change?
In my work as a singer, performing songwriter, author, and facilitator, I’m aware—as Charlie Murphy once sang—that “No one can bring in the harvest alone.”
So, tell me: What are you on the verge of harvesting? Where can you use a hand?
You’ve landed on this page, likely looking for something important.
Perhaps you’re seeking a song—one written or yet to be born, yours or one of mine.
Perhaps you or someone you love is struggling with issues of aging, creative blocks, a sense of disconnection or despair, a longing for renewal, or simply more joy!
On stage, on the page, and behind the scenes, my work is to spark and re-spark, mend and tend creative fires, mid-wife projects, and kindle encouragement and courage in everyone I meet.
This season I invite you to gather with me around the hearth for my second concert-reading in a year-long series. I’ll be sharing recent and treasured songs, poetry, a short mythic tale and my newest creative non-fiction toward a book-in-progress. The online “virtual hearth” event is October 25. The in-person birthday event will be on November 8. (Event details coming soon.)
Starting October 21, I’m offering a new cohort Creative in Cahoots, a six-week salon to support you in your progress on a creative project, focus, or dream. Make it real!
I also have spaces for three people interested in deepening creative transformation on a specific project, wanting to catalyze more life joy, or have support on legacy planning in individual coaching sessions. Let’s talk about what’s possible in a 3-month, 6-month, or 9-month package!
In this website you’ll also find links to my poetry, multi-media work, mythic tales, kinship conversations with the Living World, and the two organizations I steward: Songwritingworks.org and Mythsingerlegacy.org.
Reach out if I–or we–can support you in your creative life or bring a workshop or concert expressly designed for your community.
With love, gratitude, story, and song,
Here’s to a season of sharing joy, collective bounty—wisdom—curiosity.
Vote!
Judith-Kate
Tapestry, Deer Park, Olympic Mountains, WA —Judith-Kate Friedman