What would you say if you felt fearless?
Broadcaster, Columnist and Author Lisa May Young in conversation with creatives, misfits and trailblazers.
Cue the conversation.
Holding the Space with Allan Crow on place making, care home gazebos and the future of the Lang Toun
The Story Behind Our Lockdown with Lisa May Young, Lisa Dendy of Rainbow Lion Wellbeing and Gavin Hugh of Midgiebite Media.
Morag Wilson, International Yoga Master, Founder of Jyoti Yoga, Morag's Zoom Yoga and Instructor at Gym 64 - Dunfermline Gym64 - Kirkcaldy!
Meeting Archie and the Enchanter with Author Alexander Weir
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Archie-Enchanter-discovery-bagpipes-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B07MZYB4N2
In case you missed it..Cara Forrester of Queendom of Fife in conversation with Lisa May Young on representation of women in media at Women in Fife: International Women’s Day 2020.
The launch launch in collaboration of the Queens of Kindness Charter.
A great wee chat with experienced counselling practitioners Bridie Mackenzie & Patricia Joyce on COSCA, counselling and the future of mental health services in Scotland.
As a student of Bridie and Trisha, I am absolutely delighted to bring a chat I had with them their forthcoming course at Volunteer House, Kirkcaldy in March.
For more information please visit http://www.groundedlearning.co.uk/
A great wee chat with K107FM Presenter Mark AG on the BBC Academy and the S Factor.
Are you a inspiring broadcaster? Listen to this!
The S Factor with Mark AG every Sunday from 6pm until 8pm Live & Online on K107FM www.k107.co.uk
James More of Dysart Colliery Silver Band on heritage and making music.
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 11th February 2020 on K107FM
Greener Kirkcaldy on their Community Fridge
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 11th February 2020
The inaugral episode of Queendom of Fife x Holding the Space on Kindness
https://queendomoffife.com
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Keren Brynes Maclean of Health Food & More on Kingdom Community Herbal Medicine Clinic
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 28th January 2020 on K107FM
John Murray, Writer, Broadcaster & DJ on media, Kelty Clippie and community.
Broadcast Live on Tuesday, 21st January 2020
Brandy Montmarte on burlesque and body confidence
Broadcast Live & Online on K107FM on Tuesday, 21st January 2020
Megan Brett Artwork on paint, colour and character
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 14th January 2020.
Slainte - Tom Hubbard - Cultural Worker, Novelist, Poet and Itinerant Academic, First Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library & A Scot Abroad.
Recorded on Friday, 3rd January 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hubbard
Ross Clark on music, mental health and never giving up
Broadcast Live on Tuesday, 17th December 2019 from 6pm to 8pm on K107FM
SAJE Scotland sharing Her-Story Rewritten
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 10th December 2019
David Cruickshanks, Actor, Comedian & Campaigner for Mental Health Awareness on media, transitions and helping others
Neil Oliver on Favourite Places, Protecting Culloden Battlefield & Legacy
Broadcast Live & Online on K107FM
Elaine Green on finding art, writing, creativity and offering a Sahana space
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 19th November 2019 from 6pm until 8pm.
Amy Gannon, Volunteer of the Year, Fife Breastfeeding Cafe
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 19th November 2019 from 6pm to 8pm
Holding the Space with Anne Crow, Ian Moir, Cody Feechan & FASS Alcohol Awareness Week
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 12th November 2019 from 6pm until 8pm
Holding the Space with Ian Moir, Professional Artist, Curator of Fire Station Curator and Change-Maker on visions, art and the creative renaissance
http://www.ianmoir.com
News Announcement with Cara Forrester & Lynda Dargie & Introducing The Wonder Spot with Angela Jackson
Broadcast Live & online on Tuesday, 5th November from 6pm umtil 8pm
Emma Watson recently spoke about preferring the phrase Self-Partnered instead of Single? What about Happy?
Holding with Space with Hayden Dalgetty, Cody Feechan & Jean Young @ Uptown Girl
Broadcast live and online on K107FM on Tuesday, 29th October 2019 from 6pm until 8pm.
Book Review by Hayden Dalgetty on You Are Awesome by Matthew Syed
Broadcast Live on Tuesday, 29th October 2019
Holding the Space with Jean Young @ Uptown Girl on trusting your intuition and creating your vision
Holding the Space with Alvina Menzies of mytime4mebox, Cody Feechan & Scottish Ancestral Records - Stories
Broadcast Live & Online on Tuesday, 15th October 2019 on K107FM
Holding the Space with Kirkcaldy Galleries on their family history resources.
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019
Holding with Space with Janet Henderson of SAJE Scotland on courage, empowerment and Her-Story Rewritten
Broadcast Live on K107FM on Tuesday, 8th October 2019 from 6pm until 8pm
Holding the Space with Lynda Dargie of Matrix Storytelling, Gail Cadogan of My Cherry Pie & Janet Henderson of SAJE Scotland
Broadcast Live & Online on K107fm on Tuesday, 8th October from 6pm until 8pm
Holding the Space with Fife Women Rocks Award Winner Lauren Anderson @ Room 34 on self care, vision on entrepreneurship.
Broadcast Live on Tuesday, 24th September 2019.
Holding the Space with David Torrance MSP - The Long & Short Of It.
Broadcast Live & Online on K107FM on Tuesday, 24th September 2019
Holding the Space with Lynda Dargie of Matrix Storytelling on the magic of storytelling
Broadcast live and online on K107FM on Tuesday, 20th September 2019
Holding the Space with Allan Crow, Lynda Dargie, Kirkcaldy Galleries & Beerjacket
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 17th September on K107FM
Holding the Space with Allan Crow on Kirkcaldy, heritage and rattling cages.
Broadcast Live and online on Tuesday, 17th September on K107FM
Outwith Festival with Author Catherine Simpson on 'When I Had a Little Sister'
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 10th September 2019.
Holding the Space with Grace Black of the Jazz Lounge on Langtoun Jazz Mini Festival
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019 on K107.co.uk
Hazel Stewart of the National Library of Scotland on how to access their ancestry resources.
Holding the Space with Candice Wilson & John T Young
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 27th August 2019 on K107FM
Holding the Space with Author John T Young on Crown of Thorns
Broadcast live on Tuesday, 27th August on K107.co.uk
The Face of Volunteering with Fife Alcohol Support Service (FASS)
www.fassaction.org.uk
Holding the Space with Candice Wilson on transformation, passion and re-igniting the fire.
Broadcast live on 27th August 2019 from 6pm until 8pm on K107.co.uk
Holding the Space with The Face of Volunteering with FASS and Vulture Party on K107.co.uk
Broadcast Live on Tuesday, 20th August 2019
Holding the Space with Lennon Knight the youngest DJ in Scotland
Broadcast live and online on Tuesday, 13th August from 6pm until 8pm on K107.co.uk
Holding the Space with Cara Forrester and Lennon Knight on K107.co.uk
Broadcast live and online on Tuesday, 13th August from 6pm until 8pm on K107.co.uk
Holding the Space with Lauren Beaumont of LB Performance Workshops on her debut at the Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy
Broadcast live and online on Tuesday, 6th August from 6pm until 8pm on K107.co.uk
Holding the Space with Garry Stanton, Maureen Sangster and Lauren Beaumont on K107.co.uk
Tuesday, 6th July 2019 from 6pm until 8pm
If you’re interested in researching your family history. You’re going to love my chat with Ken Nisbet of the Scottish Genealogy Society (SGS).
Ken chats about how to get started, how the SGS can help and the those magical discoveries in your family tree.
Who do you think you are?
Let’s find out.
https://www.scotsgenealogy.com
Holding the Space with June Finlayson & Craig Gilbert Live on K107.co.uk
Tuesday, 30th July 2019 from 6pm until 8pm
"I will always be that woman in the hospital bed, but I am also the successful woman I am now. Like the phoenix, I rose from the ashes and I am glorious. To anyone else reading this who is struggling; you can do this, I know you can do this, and you too are glorious.”
Trigger Warning
Holding the Space with Bee Parkinson Cameron on surviving domestic abuse and suicide, the journey home, breaking the wheel with the creative revolution and that Epic Awards nomination.
Biography
Bee is a writer of poetry, short stories and plays. She focuses on exploring love in all it’s forms, the oppositions of life and death and the nature of humanity and what it means to be human. She is passionate about issues such as mental health, domestic abuse, euthanasia, abortion and human sexuality. Bee’s work has been published in several anthologies including Collections of Poetry and Prose’s Love, War, Travel and Happy, The Challenges of Finding Love and Uncovered Voices anthology. Bee has also contributed to Robin Barrett's collection on Suicide and self harm.
Bee Parkinson Cameron is Writer and Director of Left Behind Productions and has produced two plays; The Divine Comedy Show in March 2017 and The Journey Home about domestic abuse in November 2018. In July 2019, Voluntary Arts nominated ‘The Journey Home’ for an Epic Award for Scotland and for the UK wide People's Choice Award. Left Behind Productions are the only shortlisted group nominated for their work to raise awareness of domestic abuse. To vote for Left Behind Productions go to;
•https://www.voluntaryarts.org/epic-awards-left-behind-production
E-mail: beeparkinsoncameron@gmail.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/beeparkinson?lang=en
Facebook: facebook.com/beeparkinson
Left Behind Productions: www.facebook.com/leftbehindproductions
© 2019 Lisa May Young
K107 FM Exclusive - Bee Parkinson Cameron, Writer and Director, on Left Behind Productions national Voluntary Arts Epic Awards nomination.
Auditions for their next production, The Divine Comedy Show, are taking place at the Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy this Saturday, 27th July.
Holding the Space with Stephen Barbour on helping others, pioneering, mental health, creating the Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy community and getting Frankie Boyle to perform at Kelty Club.
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Biography
From beginnings as a Snowboarder. Stephen is Creator/Founder of the MV Festival, a unique festival in the UK. A charity event bringing Music, Comedy and Snowsports to Aviemore, Scotland. Producer/Presenter of K Sessions 107. Stephen is Events Manager of SPB Events and The Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy,
https://www.facebook.com/StephenPidgeBarbour
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https://www.facebook.com/mvfestival/
Queries, offers and donations for The Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy to;
Kings Theatre Kirkcaldy
Live Lounge
9 Esplanade
Kirkcaldy
KY1 1HR
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© 2019 Lisa May Young
K107 does archaeology with Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S)
A pleasure visiting the hard working and passionate volunteers of Save Wemyss Ancient Caves Society (S.W.A.C.S) on 15th July for a day of archaeology.
Exclusive @k107fm access to the cave last excavated by the Time Team in 2004 with new Pictish discoveries
Tune in k107.co.uk or 107FM in the local area.
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Holding the Space with Maureen Sangster, Poet on poetry, the music of words, the story of places and ceiling roses.
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Maureen Sangster
I have written in response to particular localities such as rivers and woodlands and created poetry inspired by conversations with folk in particular communities, drawing on memory, heritage and affection for place. I’m interested in where the past meets the present. Two streams of language run through my work: they are North East Scots and English.
I’ve recently retired from self-employment which was very varied. It included bibliotherapy workshops for Maggie’s Fife, being a Creative Scotland Reader in Residence at a mental health facility, running a crime fiction book group, and delivering workshops to a wide range of people, including those with mental health problems.
I have a love of drama which I would like to develop. So far I have written mini-plays for reading/performance and subsequent discussion. Topics have been Silver Surfers, Old Age, Female Friendship, The Suffrage Movement and Neighbourhood. I want to write longer theatrical pieces.
I love reading my work and also enjoy combining text with image as I’m an artist as well as a writer. I like doing cartoon type doodles, painting and collages.
https://maureensangster.wordpress.com
© 2019 Lisa May Young
A wee blether with Robert Reid, Author of White Light Red Fire on K107 on Wednesday, 10th July.
Book Review by Lisa May Young
“The skies were filled with unreal fire; blue, burnt with amber, red, orange and yellow. This fire was no natural thing. It clawed across the sky, and below it all life shivered and retreated. The land lay scorched, the mountains and glens trembling.”
And so, with vivid description and fervent prose, begins Robert Reid’s debut novel White Light Red Fire. The story, set within the third age on the island of Andore, begins with the ambition of Oien, an ancient alchemist, who forges an alliance with the tyrant King Dewar to overpower the northern land of Bala to harvest its othium. The power to resist is gifted to one man, Alastair Munro, a farmer from humble beginnings. The only man who can supress the red fire.
White Light Red Fire, fifteen years in the making, is inspired by the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 1300s and heralding from the border town of Hawick, Reid’s vibrant love of history shines within his fictional world of Andore.
The main character, Alastair Munro, could be well be described as a warrior poet with dialogue that’s both heartfelt and succinct and you can’t help but appreciate the meditative intent of Reid within its delivery. Battle scenes are well researched and authentic with a detailed approach to historical research undertaken by Reid to the point where scenes play out easily in your head. Within this story you yearn for what is to come.
Featuring a cast of intriguing and interesting characters to support Munro in his defence of Bala. The inclusion of the character of land is featured in the story hinted by the richness of the map at the beginning of the book. Each individual community within Andore is marked by distinct character and you feel like you’re met another person as they are introduced. Within the imagination of the reader, the story is bright, visual and vivacious and I’m curious as to how this would manifest on screen or if the whole geography of the map will be featured in further stories.
If you’re looking for another world to occupy the gap left by the Seven Kingdoms of Game of Thrones I can’t recommend a better place to visit than the island of Andore. White Light Red Fire is a heady, consuming and inspiring blend of history, fantasy and folklore and is homage to the dedication and inspired storytelling of Robert Reid. Pick up a copy and prepare to commence battle.
Book Trailer https://youtu.be/X_WJJs-Ckrg
© Lisa May Young 2019
Holding the Space with Gail Cadogan, Jewellery Designer and Award-Winning Entrepreneur of My Cherry Pie on design, creation, vision and colour.
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Biography
Gail began her creative home at My Cherry Pie, her own jewellery brand that has expanded and become and Award-Winning Destination Handmade Lifestyle Store both Online and on the High Street, which now includes a range of gift and homeware products from over 20 UK based Makers. In 2019, Gail was awarded the Inspirational Business Award at The Fife Business Awards.
You can visit Gail at:
My Cherry Pie
301 High Street
Merchants Quarter
Kirkcaldy
KY1 1JL
https://mycherrypie.co.uk
Etsy https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MyCherryPieJewellery
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsmycherrypie/
Twitter https://twitter.com/gailmycherrypie?lang=en-gb
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mycherrypie.co.uk/
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/itsmycherrypie
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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.
Holding The Space the new interview series by Lisa May Young.
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Biography
Craig Gilbert is an unfortunate combination of Scottish birth, English accent, and has a writerly compulsion to share tales woven in webs of imaginative fantasy. He has published poetry books and fantasy novels, plus an autobiography of his early adulthood, revealing more skeletons than any writer sensibly should. On near and distant horizons are three book trilogies, a captivating and mysterious book of short-stories and an audio CD for his book A Gathering of Wings, which is really a thinly veiled excuse to buy a synthesizer. Craig treasures a cluttered writing space in his Fife home, however is most likely to be found writing in tearooms, eating cake and drinking copious amounts of tea. He says this is essential to his creative process. His wife says it’s procrastination. He is currently very distracted by Zen Mindfulness, and runs courses, groups and 1-1 mentoring sessions, should you care to join him in his distraction.
www.craig-gilbert.com
Facebook @ZenLifeFife
Instagram @craigwriter
Twitter @craigwriter