- May 16th, 2009 – NPR’s Weekend Edition: Reporter Joseph Shapiro interviews Basting, David Greenberger, and Paul Cebar about the “Cherry Picking Apple Blossom Time”Concert on May 13th. FM features a chapter about Greenberger’s 30-year project, Duplex Planet.
- June 8th, 2009 – Brookdale National Fellows Retreat, New Jersey. Basting will present on the Greenberger/Cebar collaboration.
- Sept. 18th, 2009 – St. Paul, MN: Basting conducts a full-day workshop in the TimeSlips creative storytelling method.
- Sept. 24/25, 2009 – Oxford, OH: Basting presents on creative engagement in dementia at Scripps Gerontology Center through the MetLife Mind Alert program.
- Oct. 8-10, 2009 – Seattle, WA: Basting is keynote speaker for the National Adult Day Services Association annual conference, and conducts a pre-conference intensive training workshop on the TimeSlips creative storytelling method.
- Nov. 3rd, 2009 - Troy, MI: Basting is keynote speaker for the 13th Annual Edna Gates Conference on Alzheimer’s Care.