Events
Mythsinger StoryNight
Join us on Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 27th at 6-8pm Pacific Time as we gather together round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to savor our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2024. One of the ancient stories which Daniel Deardorff—beloved mythsinger, master teller, and teacher—carried will be told! Judith-Kate Friedman—songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years—will add live music into the mythic mix.
Mythsinger StoryNight
Join us on Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 27th at 11-1pm Pacific Time as we gather together round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to savor our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2024. One of the ancient stories which Daniel Deardorff—beloved mythsinger, master teller, and teacher—carried will be told! Judith-Kate Friedman—songwriter, story-carrier, and Daniel's partner for many years—will add live music into the mythic mix.
3rd Annual Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - Encore event: Parts I and II - concert video plus live music
Leap into Love on February 29th, 2024. Judith-Kate Friedman hosts a watch party for the full concert screening of Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff at 11am (Pacific Time). This event blends a classic concert video (filmed on Valentine's day, 2015), plus new love poems and music from Judith-Kate and time for conversation.
These events will be held on zoom.
Donations benefit the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
3rd Annual Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - Full concert video plus live music
Leap into Love on February 29th, 2024. Judith-Kate Friedman hosts a watch party for the full concert screening of Love Dogs - An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff at 11am (Pacific Time). This event blends a classic concert video (filmed on Valentine's day, 2015), plus new love poems and music from Judith-Kate and time for conversation.
These events will be held on zoom.
Donations benefit the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
3rd annual Love Dogs: An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - Part I - concert video plus live music
On February 15th, 2024, Judith-Kate Friedman hosts Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event with live music will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video, Judith-Kate performing new poems and a song or improvisation, plus sharing conversation with all who attend.
3rd annual Love Dogs: An Evening with Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - Part I - concert video plus live music
On February 15th, 2024, Judith-Kate Friedman hosts Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event with live music will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video, Judith-Kate performing new poems and a song or improvisation, plus sharing conversation with all who attend.
STORYNIGHT: CREATION STORIES FOR THE NEW YEAR
Join us for a deep dive into the resiliency and power of the old story and song.
At this time in the world the wisdom in ancient myths is more important than ever.
Creation myths have teachings for us to hear and share together Now.
STORYNIGHT: CREATION STORIES FOR THE NEW YEAR
Join us for a deep dive into the resiliency and power of the old story and song.
At this time in the world the wisdom in ancient myths is more important than ever.
Creation myths have teachings for us to hear and share together Now.
Earth Day Weekend Book Event featuring readings from The Other Within and live music with Judith-Kate Friedman
In celebration of Earth Day Weekend and the publication of the 3rd edition of Daniel Deardorff’s classic book, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche Dandelion Botanical Company, 4681 Sequim Dungeness Way in Sequim, WA 98382, will host a book signing with music event on Sunday afternoon, April 23rd from 4:00-5:30pm. Judith-Kate Friedman, award-winning composer, vocalist, Steward of the Mythsinger Legacy Project, and Deardorff’s life partner from 2006 until his passing in 2019, will read from the book and sing original songs, accompanied by friend Peter T Hutter, related to some of the book’s many themes including: otherness, belonging, severance from and honoring of the earth, re-connecting with the wild, and how myth can guide us to living wholeheartedly. Discussion and a book signing will follow.
Mythsinger StoryNight featuring a story from the archive of Daniel Deardorff with live music by Judith-Kate Friedman
On Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 29th at noon Pacific and 7pm Pacific we’ll gather round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to be together and savor the warmth of our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2023. We carry on Daniel Deardorff’s custom of meeting on the last Wednesday of each quarter, with his presence and teaching at the center.
The story and practice of “feeding the story” will run 90 minutes with time after social connecting.
Mythsinger StoryNight featuring a story from the archive of Daniel Deardorff with live music by Judith-Kate Friedman
On Wednesday, Odin’s Day, March 29th at noon Pacific and 7pm Pacific we’ll gather round the virtual hearth, coast to coast and around the world, to be together and savor the warmth of our first Mythsinger StoryNight of 2023. We carry on Daniel Deardorff’s custom of meeting on the last Wednesday of each quarter, with his presence and teaching at the center.
The telling and “feeding the story” will run approximately 90 minutes with time for social connecting at the end.
Love Dogs - Part 2 - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff in concert!
Love Dogs - Part II - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - An Evening of Love Songs including the 3rd Body, Lucky, The Inner Nest and more.
On the weekend of February 25 and 26th, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - a two-hour Evening of Love Songs concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom in two parts on sequential days. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by new poems by Judith-Kate and live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project (a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, 501c3).
Part I takes place the previous day Feb 25th at noon and 7pm.
Love Dogs - Part 2 - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff in concert!
Love Dogs - Part II - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - An Evening of Love Songs including the 3rd Body, Lucky, The Inner Nest and more.
On the weekend of February 25 and 26th, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - a two-hour Evening of Love Songs concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom in two parts on sequential days. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by new poems by Judith-Kate and live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project (a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, 501c3).
Part I takes place the previous day Feb 25th at noon and 7pm.
Love Dogs - Part 1 - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff in concert!
Love Dogs - Part I - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - An Evening of Love Songs including Count Me In, The Signal Fire, Love Dogs and more.
On the weekend of February 25 and 26th, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - a two-hour Evening of Love Songs concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom in two parts on sequential days. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by new poems by Judith-Kate and live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project (a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, 501c3).
Please note this is an evening screening of Part 1 of Love Dogs, which also aired at Noon.
Part II will take place the following day Feb 26th at noon and 7pm.
Love Dogs - Part 1 - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel Deardorff in concert!
Love Dogs - Part I - Judith-Kate Friedman and Daniel “3D” Deardorff - An Evening of Love Songs including Count Me In, The Signal Fire, Love Dogs and more.
On the weekend of February 25 and 26th, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - a two-hour Evening of Love Songs concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom in two parts on sequential days. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by new poems by Judith-Kate and live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project (a fiscally sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, 501c3).
Part II will take place the following day Feb 26th at noon and 7pm.
The Other Within on the Magickal Solution podcast ~ Talking about myth, spirit and healing wounds in ourselves and society as we also celebrate mythsinger Daniel Deardorff on the date of his birth!
On Sunday Feb 12, 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific - the day Daniel Deardorff was born - Lailani of The Magickal Solution podcast talks with Judith-Kate Friedman about his book, The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche. How can myths - the ancient stories - support us to address Otherness, and the experience of being “othered”? How does living mythically and ritually help us heal wounds of racism, classism, able-ism and other oppressions? Amidst great division, violence, and grief, how can myth re-awaken us to a whole-hearted way of living, re-connecting with our true selves and in concert with the Living World?
Myth and Memory in Community: A Year-End Online Storytelling Celebration
Featuring Creation Stories from Many Lands and Re-Kindling Daniel Deardorff’s Olympic Peninsula Tradition for Entering the New Year with music by Judith-Kate Friedman and ASL interpretation by Annie Clark.
Myths awaken memory and stir our senses with sound, rhythm, story, and image allowing us to recall the ancient resonances of Oral Tradition tales that have been gifted from generation to generation for tens of thousands of years. On December 29th, 2022 from 7-9pm PST, the Mythsinger Legacy Project (MLP) re-kindles mythsinger and storyteller Daniel Deardorff’s annual year-end community custom of sharing three very different Creation myths: one Norse, one Sumerian, and one from the Toba of South America.
Each story will unfold truths about need, renewal, loss, sacrifice, possibility, courage, beauty, and love. Each will open the imagination, showing us ways to re-member and re-store ourselves and our love and care for humankind and the Living World. The online magic of the Zoom platform will allow us to come together around the virtual hearth from near and far to hear Daniel Deardorff, albeit posthumously. Although he “flew out of this story into the next” in 2019, Deardorff’s music, his storytelling and his voice via a live recording will give all who are present an opportunity to hear the man who the poet Robert Bly called “a true inheritor of Joseph Campbell” and of whom the mythologist Martin Shaw said “Deardorff was the greatest storyteller I ever saw.”
The event will be held on Zoom, tickets are available at Eventbrite. Advanced registration is encouraged, all ages are welcome. Suggested donation is $20-$45 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Read on for more information about the event.
Solstice Party 2 (evening)
Join Judith-Kate and Mythsinger Legacy Project’s crew for an online Solstice party full of song, dance, story and interactive fun. Come hear what Songwriting Works and the Mythsinger Legacy Project have in store for 2023. [This is the evening session] Read on for more info and link to join.
Solstice Party 1 (matinee) - new time!
Join Judith-Kate and Mythsinger Legacy Project’s crew for an online Solstice party full of song, dance, story and interactive fun. Come hear what Songwriting Works and the Mythsinger Legacy Project have in store for 2023. [This is the matinee session] Read on for more info and link to join.
The Other Within UK Book Launch!
The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche is released today in the UK! Join Judith-Kate Friedman + special guests on Instagram Live at 10am, noon, and 1pm, and YouTube Live at 3pm and 5pm PST.
#GivingTuesday tasters & Thanksgiving treats
#GivingTuesday is taking place at our fundraising platform MightyCause. Join Judith-Kate Friedman for a celebration of story and song including The Other Within book tasters and Thanksgiving treats throughout the day on YouTube and Instagram Live.
The Gift of Story with Judith-Kate Friedman & Quanita Roberson
Join us for The Gift of Story in celebration of the publication of Daniel Deardorff’s The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture & Psyche.
In this interactive event Judith-Kate Friedman, Mythsinger Legacy Project steward and Daniel’s life-partner and Quanita Roberson, author of The Inner Ground Railroad and longtime colleague of both Friedman and Deardorff, will explore the power of Oral Tradition stories/myth-making and feature short readings from the expanded 3rd edition of Deardorff’s book and discussion.
The Other Within US Book Launch!
North American Book Release of The Other Within: The Genius of Deformity in Myth, Culture and Psyche!
Live streaming ‘taster’ readings by Judith-Kate Friedman at 10am (on KPTZ radio), noon, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm Pacific Time on YouTube Live.
The Firebird: Freedom, Fierce Beauty and Fidelity with the Living World
An online mythtelling event featuring the work of mythsinger Daniel Deardorff benefitting aid to Ukrainian refugees. (Zoom)
Love Dogs - Part II (evening session)
On February 28th, 2022, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - Part II, the second hour of her two-hour concert with Daniel “3D” Deardorff which they gave together at Key City Public Theatre for Valentine’s Day. This concert event will be held on Zoom. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
Love Dogs - Part II (afternoon session)
On February 28th, 2022, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - Part II, the second hour of her two-hour concert with Daniel “3D” Deardorff which they gave together at Key City Public Theatre for Valentine’s Day. This concert event will be held on Zoom. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by live audience conversation with all who attend. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
Love Dogs - Part I (evening session)
On February 14th, 2022, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by live audience conversation with all who attend. The second hour of the concert, Love Dogs - Part II will follow on February 28, 2022. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
Love Dogs - Part I (afternoon session)
On February 14th, 2022, Judith-Kate Friedman will host Love Dogs - Part I - the first hour of a two-hour Valentine’s Day concert which she and Daniel “3D” Deardorff gave at Key City Public Theatre. This concert event will be held on Zoom. It will include a screening of the pre-recorded concert video followed by live audience conversation with all who attend. The second hour of the concert, Love Dogs - Part II will follow on February 28, 2022. Donations will be gratefully accepted for the Mythsinger Legacy Project.
The Mythsinger Legacy Project is fiscally sponsored by Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization which Daniel supported as a board member, guest artist and teacher.
Thank you for your support!
Contact us! We’d love to hear from you: mythsingerlegacy at gmail dot com