Miranda Aitken Musician & Poet in Margaret River, Western Australia | Writer

Miranda Aitken Musician & Poet

Locality: Margaret River, Western Australia

Phone: +61 435 977 147

Address: PO Box 1156 6285 Margaret River, WA, Australia

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24.01.2022 Walking, poetry, painting - a divine combination over two days in November - we'd love you to join us Welcome to message with any questions about this wonderful weekend I'll be facilitating the poetry workshop. Bookings through Fair Harvest Permaculture website https://www.facebook.com/events/2647781778618912/?ti=icl

23.01.2022 Writing the River Within: a workshop with Miranda Aitken, poet and musician. Her work invokes the river as a central motif in the life journey. Just one of the ...ways we'll explore the landscape within in our upcoming creativity weekend. I hope you can join us! "If I am water, I invite you to swim in me, I will take your weight Here is a place to soften; if there are tears tomorrow, let them come, for trees will grow from them" From 'Five elements' by Miranda Aitken River video by Jinni Wilson

23.01.2022 Thank you to Tania Davey of Margaret River Art and Environment for allowing us to use her fabulous artwork for this poster, couldn't be more appropriate, and it will be a very special afternoon at Fair Harvest Permaculture this Sunday. I will be there with a poem or song or two, along with a whole bunch of wonderful women's voices.

20.01.2022 My article on dead kangaroos in Australian fiction is finally published. The full article link is here for those of you interested in Australian literature, kangaroos and all things gothic. Narrelle de Boer Rachel McEleney

20.01.2022 Times are hard & our hearts goes out to our fellow Australians in the East. We mourn the loss of animals & ecosystems. Music lifts the spirit & donations help those in need - come along if you can, Cows will be singing a few tunes

20.01.2022 Reading for the summer break.

20.01.2022 Totally chuffed to team up with Bec and the Nannas for Native Forests to help write the courageous Nannas an anthem! The song is striking a chord far and wide - please share for our forests everywhere - across Australia our forests need protection!! And if you can join us in Perth on Tuesday for the Mass Morning Tea at Dumas House, even better! Check out WA Forest Alliance for the event xx

18.01.2022 Singing is sooo good for the soul!! See you at The River this Thursday night, 7pm for Pub Choir

16.01.2022 I'm in the big smoke this coming Thursday night, starts 7.30pm

15.01.2022 So this Saturday 6th of April, 2 Oceans FM will celebrate their 10th Birthday on the lawns of The Augusta Hotel. There will be all sorts of fun, family type act...ivities. Entertainment by MG and the Kicks as well as the lovely Miranda Aitken and her sister Sarah as Moody Cows. We were lucky to have Miranda perform solo on The Music Show a little while back. Tune in to 2 Oceans FM 97.1 or stream live from the website https://2oceansfm.com.au this Wednesday to hear more of Miranda's story and original music. To see The Moody Cows play live you'll have to come on down to Augusta to help us celebrate the 2 Oceans 10th Birthday from 2:00pm. See more

13.01.2022 Two buses filled with Southwest Nannas for Native Forests and Wannabe Nannas travelling to Perth tomorrow to ask the WA state government to listen to the wisdom of our elders. The city Nannas have tea and scones ready - we ride at dawn!

11.01.2022 Hi Friends, just a reminder that I am running this wonderful weekend of creativeness next month, along with my two talented friends, Jinni Wilson & Tania Davey. We'd love you to join us & spread the word with your fellow artists

10.01.2022 Hey friends - this is the brand new audio recording for my essay, "We Are In The Underworld And We Haven't Figured It Out Yet". This piece is published as part ...of the collection of 'Letters to the Earth', by HarperCollins - a collection of writings in response to planetary crisis. I wanted it to be free to listen to, and please share at will. Good cheer, Strength to your arm, Martin www.cistamystica.com www.drmartinshaw.com www.schoolofmyth.com https://soundcloud.com//we-are-in-the-underworld-and-we-ha

10.01.2022 Over the weekend I spent time by the beautiful Donnelly River, and visited the Stewart tree, one of the biggest and oldest karri trees in WA, and quite likely o...n the planet! It has lived for hundreds of years deep in a valley West of Manjimup but is now under threat from the Southern Forest Irrigation Scheme's plan to dam the Donnelly River. This tree stood when my great grandfather, Isaac Aitken, came to the Donnelly River in the 1920's group settlement He was an overseer of Group 83 and they lived at Karriburn. Sitting at the feet of this forest Elder I was filled with awe and respect. But I also felt deep grief for the destruction that has been done over generations to our forests. I bought my 11yr old son to see the Stewart tree. If these valleys are flooded for a dam on Record Brook, and the Donnelly River pumped dry to fill it, my son will not be able to bring his children to see this magnificent, sacred forest - it will die from lack of water. He will not be able to swim in the river like his great grandfather did when he was a boy. The wilderness will be lost. This is heartbreaking to even consider. Please join the campaign to stop this madness - www.saveourdonnellyriver.com See more

08.01.2022 Red Room Poetry has put together and just released a series of three podcasts as part of their Extinction Elegies project. The podcasts include all of us six po...ets who wrote elegies for the project (Ali Cobby Eckermann, Michelle Cahill, Stuart Cooke, Bruce Pascoe, John Kinsella, and me). We read our poems and talk through the uses of the lyric, of poetry more generally as we learn to look clear-eyed at the climate crises and resist the coming extinction of the life we have known. Play the podcasts now and listen for them across community radio in the months to come. Look out, also, for a Dumbo Feather special, featuring these Extinction Elegies and these broadcasts, in November. https://redroomcompany.org//extinction-elegies-radio-seri/

08.01.2022 Don't miss out on the next big event... a mass morning tea on the grass outside of Dumas House. The 'Nannas for Native Forests' are meeting with the Minister of... Forestry, so come along to support them and connect with the Nannas coming up from Margaret River for the day. It will be a great opportunity to get to know each other and share ideas. It is also a chance to join the chorus of Nannas and Wannabe Nannas as they premiere the Nannas anthem. Expect a mass morning tea. Bring your friends, children and your grandchildren. Bring cake, bring your teapot and your picnic blanket... see you there for the she'nana'gans. Event/ticket link: bit.ly/MassMorningTeaDumas #Nannas4NativeForests #wafa #MassMorningTea

07.01.2022 Installation of 'People of the River'. Last week (Thursday 30 Oct) the new version of my poem ‘People of the River’ on digital glass (created for an Augusta Margaret River Shire public art project in 2013/2014, only to be damaged beyond repair in 2018) was finally installed in the grounds of our new performing arts building and shire. I would like to publically acknowledge and express my heartfelt thanks to Paula Cristoffanini for her commitment to seeing this project to com...pletion. Without Paula’s design knowledge, her artistic vision, and her amazing energy and dedication to see it through I’m not sure it would have ever happened. It’s been two years in the making - Paula, I cannot thank you enough! Also my sincere thanks to Jason Cleary from the Shire, whose commitment and co-ordinating has been key. And to everyone who worked on this project - thank you , we did it! Some of the poem has been rewritten through collaboration with Elders Wayne and Toni Webb. Thank you for your generous contribution and guidance. The poem is far better for your words. It is now what I always hoped it to be. Thank you also to Bill Webb for consultation on the original version. From the beginning in 2013 this was a project close to my heart. I wanted to write a story that spoke of our love of our town and river, but an honest account that did not shy away from dispossession and hardship. A healing poem. The beautiful original artwork in which the poem ‘floats’ was created in 2014 by Diane Hunter, a talented artist and dear friend. The period in which the work was originally written was not an easy one with of the loss of my partner, Pete Waayers, in September 2013. Pete loved the bush, the ocean and had great respect for Indigenous culture and knowledge. He is always in our hearts. May we live here together peacefully protecting our rivers and forests, and caring for one another. All are too precious to take for granted.

06.01.2022 LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY 10th Jan from 5pm The Moody Cows ~Country, soul, originals~... SUNDAY 12th Jan @ 5pm Wil Thomas music ~Folk, rock, roots~

06.01.2022 Creative folks, if you haven't already come across it, I encourage you to take 5mins to do this survey, it will assist in creating opportunities & funding for regional artists just like us!

06.01.2022 My amazing friend Selk Hastings - Poet and Hollow Reed. Heart Music

02.01.2022 It was a truely joyful night of music in Freo last night, thanks to everyone who came down. This is why I play music; the sharing of stories in song, meeting new friends & old- all the beautiful souls, it fills my heart with happiness! Thank you David Hyams Music for accompanying me with such perfect guitar Photo by Donna M Iverson

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