WICA Welcomes Judith Adams and Friends Poetry Night

WICA presents an evening of Poetry with Judith Adams and Friends: Lark's Rising Shepherd's Whistle tonight, May 11, at 7:30 P.M. The evening will be a celebration with poet Judith Adams and musicians Jonas Anderson, Lauren Anderson, Giles Buser-Molatore, and Mira Yamamoto together with Rachel Adams who will be performing a Flamenco dance.

"This will be a wonderful event to pay tribute to the exuberance of rebirth marking the Festival of Beltane that each spring builds fires across the laylines of England, from coast to coast on May 1st. Giles Buser-Molatore will be singing from Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Vagabond" and he will perform an original piece he has composed based on one of Judith Adams' poems. Jonas Anderson and Lauren Anderson will be playing trumpet music, some of which will be composed by Lauren Anderson, and Mira Yamamoto will be playing exquisite music for violin. This is a wonderfully diverse program that will have breadth for tears and laughter." Judith Adams

"Poetry is only complete when it is heard, for it is the listener who completes the poem and brings to it greater dimensions, while music creates a spaciousness for the words to take flight." Judith Adams

"There is truthful geometry
that leads a man to spirit,
the crossing of cathedral are
not a centimeter too soon or too late Symmetry and science and imagination the architect of a snowflake,

perfection of Bach,
the rhythmic pull of the sea,
the embryonic heartbeat
in the mothership of the womb,
the lark's rising,
the shepherd's whistle,
the monk's daily invictus.
All this is the view from where angels look."

Judith Adams is a local Whidbey Island poet, born in Suffolk, England. Her poetry has been featured in the anthology The Poetry of Dogs, published by J.A. Allan. Judith has performed her poetry with music around the Northwest, including a reading at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Her poems have been selected and used in original dance choreography in NY. Her poetry books include Crossing the Line, I Wanna Die Nice and Easy, and Springing the Hill, which placed in the Writer's Digest Poetry Book Contest. She has also recorded audio CDs of these books. Apart from her poetry, Judith has written several children's books, Looking For a Fairy and Hedgehogs Midnight Milking, published by Wynstones Press, and most recently The Rag Box Cat.

Judith's background includes training in voice performance. She has worked over the years as a Waldorf remedial teacher, and has taught poetry to children of all ages in both private and public schools. Inspired by her work with young people, she created a developmental program for kindergarten children implementing poetry, movement and music. Her passion is for speaking poetry, and loves to include music in her readings. She also enjoys reading for retreats, crafting custom poetry on commission, and working with young emerging artists.

Judith lives with her husband Robin on Whidbey Island.

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents an evening of Judith Adams Poetry and Friends: Lark's Rising Shepherd's Whistle at Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, 565 Camano Avenue, Langley, Washington 98260 on Saturday, May 11, 2013, 7:30 P.M. Tickets are $20, and available at wicaonline.com, WICA Ticket Office (360) 221- 8268 or (800) 638-7631.

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