DANCE FOR RADIO
Sun 1st March, 4:30pm
Musician Martin Berger, poet Peter Spafford, and dancers Rachel Dean and Anthony Haddon make the improbable possible
Welcome to Chapel FM
Chapel FM Arts Centre is a house of creativity, art, music, writing & more with radio at the core. Listen live or any time on our website. Based in Seacroft, East Leeds.
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Chapel FM Arts Centre brings radio, writing, music, theatre, activism and so much more to our community of Seacroft, our city of Leeds and the wider world! They also run East Leeds Community Radio. Please consider donating before the end of 2024 to support our work in the new year.
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EATING HISTORY, 1938-46
Sun 1st March, 3:30pm
More stories from Len Biran about a world in turmoil. But you have to eat! Live storytelling in the radio theatre
Chapel FM on the BBC & visit from West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin
Chapel FM’s work was featured in a nationwide broadcast of the BBC programme “The Breakfast Show” in November 2025. Also, in December 2025, West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin visited Chapel FM. Click here to listen to Tracy Brabin’s interview on East Leeds Community Radio.
LEEDS SONG AND CHAPEL FM PRESENT: OLD WORDS / NEW SONG – A Day of Musical Creativity in Leeds
Sat 28th March, 11:00am
Calling all composers, songwriters, word-lovers and curious creatives! Ever wondered what it’s like to set someone else’s words to your own music? Or to turn a 500 year old poem into something new and alive? How about transforming a lemon sponge recipe, or even a tombstone inscription, into a song with real emotional punch?
Find Your Frequency: Radio + Podcast Workshop
26th Jan '26 - 30th Mar '26
Discover radio + podcasts through our free monthly workshop! Use your voice in our studios, give writing and producing a show a go and get involved with the technology behind broadcasting!
Left of Leeds 108: Panos Kotsiopoulos
Fri 13th Feb '26, 4:00pm
A recording of a very pleasant afternoon over the summer talking life, love, jazz, the bass guitar, Captain Beefheart and Greek history with Panos Kotsiopoulos.
Centre Volunteer Team
3rd Nov '25 - 31st Dec '26
CHAPEL FM NEEDS YOU!!!! Come join our existing volunteer group. Come be that important part of Chapel FM and explore the world of Community Arts.
Sanctuary Diaries: A Right To Love
Wed 11th Feb '26, 1:00pm
On this episode we talk about love & whether we believe Sanctuary Seekers have the right.
Left of Leeds Live
Fri 20th March - Fri 20th February
Our resident experimental music show host has a brand new selection of experimental music, live in our radio theater.
An abundance of ingenuity… it’s near impossible to find fault with such ambitious and inventive design choices and use of space.
Sanctuary Diaries: Who We Are + Why We Do What We Do
Wed 11th Feb '26, 4:00pm
In this episode we talk all about what Sanctuary Diaries, why we do it & why a place of information in important!
Tech Volunteering & Training
15th Sep '25 - 21st Dec '26
Want to learn and volunteer at a fantastic community radio studio? We have some great opportunities to help out on a wide variety of radio broadcasts, live gigs, radio theatre and much more, no prior knowledge required as all training is provided.
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Seaside horror by OddDollPuppetry is imaginative, witty and indeed spooky! Catch them while still on tour (and I won an action man).
Poetry Unseen 5
Tue 10th Feb '26, 7:15pm
Poetry-heads respond in the moment and live on air to poems they've never seen before.
CHRIS SHARKEY IS A HIGHLY CREATIVE AND DYNAMIC MUSICIAN, COMPOSER AND TEACHER. HE ALWAYS DELIVERS 100% ON ANY PROJECT HE UNDERTAKES.
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