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Purple Songs Can Fly Project: Links

Texas Children's Cancer Center
For information about Texas Children's Cancer Center's Arts in Medicine Program, and to view news reports about the project.
Anita Kruse, composer, pianist
For more information about Anita Kruse, composer, pianist and Purple Songs Can Fly Founder.
Pink Ribbons Project, Dancers in Motion Against Breast Cancer
The Pink Ribbons Project, dancers in motion against breast cancer is the first dance organization created to promote awareness about breast cancer and to help raise funding for breast cancer advocacy, education and research. Purple Songs Can Fly board member and breast cancer survivor. Susan Rafte. along with her sister, Jane Weiner, founded the very successful Pink Ribbons Project in the early 90's.
If We Can Fly to the Moon
In 2003, Anita Kruse's song, If We Can Fly to the Moon, written as a September 11th tribute, flew over 5 million miles around the earth with astronaut, John Herrington, on the Endeavor Shuttle Mission. Having a song fly so far was a great thrill, and became the inspiration for having the Purple Songs Can Fly Project songs FLY as well.
Writers In the Schools
Marcia Chamberlain is a writer with Writers in the Schools and a Writing Consultant with the Leadership Rice Program at Rice University. In addition to receiving Rice University’s Envision Grant while a graduate student, she also has won a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Practicum Fellowship, a Teaching Tolerance grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center, and an Emerging Filmmaker Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County (CACHH). Marcia has been very helpful working with many of the Purple Songs Can Fly participants on poetry and song lyrics. For more information about the great work of Writers In the Schools, click on this link.
SugarHill Studios
Many of the Purple Songs Can Fly songs have been remixed at SugarHill Studios by Steve Christensen - engineer & Robbie Parrish - producer. Dan Workman - SugarHill owner - has been a guest artist with the project.