This is the website for Chapel FM—the first-ever arts centre in East Leeds. You will be able to find everything you need to know about what is going on in the Centre; about how you can get involved and be part of it; and how you can listen and watch all the programming from our community radio station, East Leeds FM.
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.
Tue 20th May '25, 4:00pm
LTW is 300 episodes old! Chapel FM team members look back - and ahead, after a short mash of highlights, including poetry from Andrew McMillan, Helen Burke and Leeds East Academy.
18th Sep '24 - 30th Jul '25
A welcoming space for people playing music at all levels, to come together and explore song-writing skills, practice and create music collaboratively. Wednesdays from 11 am to 1 pm, 18+ only
Tue 17th June, 7:30pm
Hear Schwa tell the story in music and words of Edna St.Vincent Millay, the Taylor Swift of 1930’s American literature and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Media available soon!
ProgrammeYesterday, 7:30pm
An evening of family friendly entertainment to celebrate 10 years of “Left of Leeds” broadcasting uneasy listening music to the nation on East Leeds Community Radio.
3rd Feb '25 - 15th Dec '25
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.
15th Jan '25 - 30th Jul '25
Music ensemble, songwriting and composition skills for 11-18 year-olds, Wednesdays 5-7pm
Sat 14th June, 7:00pm
This double-bill features sharing of a new radio documentary created with the British Library about corner shop stories, followed by a thousand years of British history through song parodies.
Media available soon!
ProgrammeWed 21st May '25, 3:00pm
Another week of Teenage Daydream!
Wed 21st May '25, 4:00pm
Stories about how a Michael has kept a sense of childhood wonder about geography and other cultures during his travels from Nigeria to the UK.
Sat 21st June, 7:30pm
A special celebration of the great working-class Leeds poet to mark new public art about him
Sat 21st June - Sun 22nd June
An overnight reading event- Reading doesn’t have to be a lonely hobby – Chapel FM Arts Centre is here to prove it!
Poetry adds an extra dimension to this warm, conversational memoir about having a first child.
Over the course of this year, Chapel FM Arts Centre will be working with lots of people and groups from our community and across Leeds and West Yorkshire to gather stories about the many ways we are all linked to the wider world. We will then produce live arts events,...
Click here to explore to the 75+ original radio programmes created by more than 200+ writers, musicians, artists, community members for the 2024 Writing on Air Festival at Chapel FM!
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! We also run East Leeds Community Radio. Please consider donating to support our work in the new year. What can your donation help...
Last year 38 young people achieved Bronze and Silver Arts Awards which are nationally accredited qualifications overseen by Trinity University in London
Last year 17,942 visitors came to Chapel FM (a massive 78% increase on the previous year).
