Holding the Space

#2 Lilian Kennedy Brzoska on performance, creativity, connection and nature spirits.


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#2 Lilian Kennedy Brzoska, Drama Teacher, Performer and Theatre Director, on performance, creativity, connection and nature spirits.

Holding the Space, the new interview series, by Lisa May Young.

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Biography

Lilian is a qualified primary teacher, drama lecturer, voice and movement teacher, theatre director and performer. In the last ten years she has been Senior Co-facilitator of Fifeshed Inclusive Theatre, then Trustee on the Board of Attention Fife, doing therapeutic drama with ADHD children. She has also worked on the YMCA summer programme for children. After retiring she became one of the founding group of Fife Writes, which is now in its fourth year as a support group for writers in Fife, running workshops and encouraging writers to perform once a month at various venues in Fife. She is currently engaged in gathering her writings of various genre, artworks and songs for publication / performance, as well as co-facilitating workshops in Scotland / Europe for CoCounselling International, a peer support network encouraging personal growth and creativity.

She is a member of the Scottish Region of the International Theosophical Society, under whose aegis she hosts TSFife in The Heart Centre in Kirkcaldy. Occasionally, for the Scottish Region, she delivers lectures and meditations. She has strong connections with the West Coast and is a Trustee member of the Core Group of An Tearman, a sanctuary for writers, musicians, artists and seekers of inspiration on the Isle of Bute. Lilian connects with Scotland’s sacred sites and deeply values the glorious clear waters of our ancient land, as well as the Faerie World and the Sacred nature of our cultural heritage.

Lilian has many happy childhood memories of holidays in Anstruther, Pittenweem and Crail, where her Polish father and Scots mother brought the family every year from Stirling.. She has been writing poetry, articles and drama sketches since 1984. She wrote for BBC Scotland’s programme “Hopscotch”, before leaving Glasgow, where she was Co-director of Roughcast Music Theatre .During this time she appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in “ In The Night “ by Jim Kelman, whom she encouraged to direct. Tom Leonard and Allan Tall also wrote for the company, for whom she also directed “ A Midsummer Night's Dream, “ “ A Secret “, “ Alive at the Half Cafe” and Decadence. In 1995 she toured Scotland performing “Freedom Song” with Howard Purdie, the Innerleithen poet and playwright. She performed “ Phantarch in Alba” in the Demarco European /Arts Foundation and co-ran The Cellyddon Festival at Wiston Lodge with Martin Lowe of Amiga Centre Scotland. She has an ongoing friendship with the very talented Alan Jackson. www.booksfromscotland.com/Authors/Alan-Jackson with whom she has performed in Edinburgh on a variety of occasions.

As troubadour at Music Festivals Lilian also improvises, sings and runs voice workshops when invited. She can occasionally be found in the Kirkcaldy Yes Hub, supporting the notion that we are Big Enough, Intelligent Enough, Rich Enough and Strong Enough to run our own affairs as an Independent Nation.

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Holding the SpaceBy Lisa May Young