BreakInStARTs

Kelly Lu
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BreakInStARTs – Stories of Art, Dreams, and Breaking Barriers BreakInStARTs shares real stories from migrant artists and creative entrepreneurs who’ve built new lives in the UK. Each episode explores their first steps, the barriers they faced, and how they keep their dreams alive — to inspire you to take your own leap.

Episodes

  1. 18/12/2025

    🎙️BreakInStARTs Ep.4 - Between Strings & Stages: Fay’s Journey of Becoming

    🎻 In this episode of BreakInStARTs, we sit down with Fay, a classically trained violinist and interdisciplinary artist who has built her creative life between France and the UK. Fay shares how stepping beyond traditional expectations, and confronting the realities of being a woman of colour in the arts, led her to blend music, theatre, and storytelling. 🌱 Together, we talk about finding your own path, building community as an emerging artist, and the lessons that school never teaches you about pursuing your dream. ✨ Through encountering many difficulties in life, Fay reflects on how continuing forward becomes a way to find true freedom — not only as an artist, but also as a human being. Follow Us on @breakin_media_official Guest @fayguiffo Host By @kelsviews

    26 min
  2. 🎙️ BreakInStARTs Ep.3 | From the War-Zone to the Safe-Zone: Saber Bamatraf on Music, Survival & Hope

    20/10/2025

    🎙️ BreakInStARTs Ep.3 | From the War-Zone to the Safe-Zone: Saber Bamatraf on Music, Survival & Hope

    When I first talked to Saber Bamatraf to see if he might be open to joining me as a guest, I was stunned, almost wordless. I realised I was speaking to someone who had truly lived through the unimaginable: who escaped death, survived war, and somehow continued to believe in life and in art. I struggled to find the right questions, because asking “how did you keep doing art?”  felt almost too shallow for someone whose every act of creation was also an act of survival. Even while recording, I told him I felt ignorant, I couldn’t fully grasp what he had endured. But in listening to Saber speak, I learned something powerful: that even in the darkest moments, creativity can still be a form of light. His story reminds us that resilience isn’t always loud, sometimes it’s simply continuing to make something beautiful, one note, one step, one breath at a time. 🎧 In this episode of BreakInStARTs, Saber shares his journey from war-zone Yemen to finding safety and community in Edinburgh, as a musician, a human rights activist, and a future father. ❤️ At a time like this in the world, what he represents feels so precious: not just an artist’s voice, but a reminder of how to keep standing up, even after being knocked down again and again. ✨ This episode is a quiet tribute to survival, creativity, and the courage to live. Follow Us on @breakin_media_official Host By @kelsviews

    30 min
  3. BreakInStARTs Ep.2 | Art as Belonging: Marcin Krupa on Resilience and Community

    26/09/2025

    BreakInStARTs Ep.2 | Art as Belonging: Marcin Krupa on Resilience and Community

    🎙️ In this second episode of BreakInStARTs, we sit down with Marcin Krupa, a Polish sculptor, drawer, and curator who has built a creative life in Edinburgh after years of persistence and starting over from scratch. 🌍 From art school in Poland, to travels through Italy and Germany, to arriving in Scotland with just £300, Marcin’s story is one of resilience. Along the way, hitchhiking across Europe, working survival jobs, and volunteering in studios all became stepping stones toward finally finding belonging in Edinburgh’s art scene. 🤝 We talk about what it really takes to keep your passion alive through difficult times, why community and collaboration are important, and how to stay true to yourself as an artist when everything else is at stake. 👉 Follow @breakin_media_official for more unfiltered conversations about resilience, creativity, and the courage to keep going. 📸 You can follow Marcin and his work on Instagram @marcikrup. 💬 Share your thoughts in the comments — what keeps you going when the glass wall feels impossible to break through? Music cr: BoominBeats — Aesthetic from CapCut

    28 min
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BreakInStARTs – Stories of Art, Dreams, and Breaking Barriers BreakInStARTs shares real stories from migrant artists and creative entrepreneurs who’ve built new lives in the UK. Each episode explores their first steps, the barriers they faced, and how they keep their dreams alive — to inspire you to take your own leap.

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  • Creator
    Kelly Lu
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  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Kelly Lu
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