PORT TOWNSEND — A year-end celebration highlighting the stories, song and teachings of the late Daniel Deardorff around the virtual StoryFire Hearth is planned on Zoom today.
The Mythsinger Legacy Project will be offered in two-hour segments at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. To register and receive the link for the event, go to http://tinyurl.com/creationmyths2023.
Suggested donation is between $18 and $72. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
“The Mythsinger Legacy Project 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,” according to hosts Judith-Kate Friedman of Port Townsend and Audrey di Mola on the eventbrite webpage.
Stories from the archives will be woven with community sharing and live offerings from Friedman and di Mola.
“In the StoryFire Circle, Audrey will surprise us with something spoken word,” according to the webpage.
“Judith-Kate will offer song. We’ll feed the story afterward and hail the New Year.”
Deardorff — singer, songwriter, musician, producer, mythologist, author, storyteller and visual artist — died in Port Townsend on Sept. 19, 2019, of natural causes stemming from post-polio sequelae, said Friedman, his partner. He was 67.
Friedman is an award-winning vocalist and performing songwriter who has been the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants for her projects with Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, the nonprofit she founded to restore joy, hope, vitality and community through story and song.
The Mythsinger Legacy Project and learning community is a fiscally-sponsored project of Songwriting Works Educational Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) charitable arts and education organization.
