Whidbey Island Center for the Arts will present Judith Adams’ “2012 Reaching for a Mixed Bag of Love” in its Fast and Furious/Down and Dirty series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27.
Adams explains: “On this night through poetry and music we will ponder the threshold, contemplate our humanness and our often bizarre relationship to time.”
Adams will be joined by Jonas Anderson on brass and Gloria Ferry-Brennan on violin.
Tickets are $10, with proceeds to fund the lighting and sound equipment needed to finish Zech Hall, are available from www.WICAonline.com or at 221-8268 or 800-638-7631.
The poetry of Adams — a Whidbey Island poet born in Suffolk, England — has been featured in the anthology “The Poetry of Dogs,” published by J.A. Allan.
Her poems have been selected and used in original dance choreography in New York, and 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. Apart from her poetry, Adams 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.”
She has performed her poetry with music around the Northwest, including a reading at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle.
Anderson, a Whidbey Island native and freshman at South Whidbey High School, has been a trumpet player since the fifth grade and has been studying both classical and jazz trumpet with his coach Lauren Anderson since 2008.
Currently a member of the SWHS Jazz Band, and SWHS Wind Ensemble, he performed as a member and soloist with the Langley Middle School Jazz band in 2009-2011. In the summer of 2011, he attended the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra’s Marrowstone in the City Summer Music Camp where he studied and performed as the only student trumpet player.
Ferry-Brennan, a ninth-grader, began playing the violin at age 4 with Island Strings. She currently studies with Simon James and accompanist Hiro David of the Coleman Violin Studio, and has soloed with several orchestras in the Puget Sound area, most recently with the Seattle Symphony. In March, she won the Music Teachers National Association Junior String Competition.
This year, Ferry-Brennan is a member of the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra as well as the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. Her recent summer studies have included the Brian Lewis Young Artist Program in Kansas as well as the Aspen Music Festival where she worked with Paul Kantor. In March, she will be performing in concert at WICA as part of the Local Artist Series.
