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Tue 25th Mar '25, 4:00pm
Geoff Tranter talks about the shared history of Leeds & German city Dortmund & the value of city twinning. Plus street artist Stewy on his new wall portrait of poet Tony Harrison.
Fri 14th Jul '23, 7:30pm
Poetry, Jazz, Painting: As part of Leeds Poetry Festival & ELFM 20, Chapel FM hosts resident Dortmund artist Linn Schiffmann and Leeds poet Dalton Harrison
Tue 4th June, 9:53pm
Poetry, Jazz, Painting: As part of Leeds Poetry Festival & ELFM 20, Chapel FM hosts resident Dortmund artist Linn Schiffmann and Leeds poet Dalton Harrison, plus German hits re-interpreted by funk-jazz Chapel FM Jazz Collective. Unique, unmissable!
Sat 27th Mar '21, 7:15pm
Writers from The LiteraturRaum in our German twin city send us a glimpse into their lives.
Tue 5th May '20, 6:00pm
Following the LD50 festival last autumn at Chapel FM, Dortmund celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Leeds/Dortmund twinning.
Sat 5th Oct '19, 2:45pm
In this finale to the first week of LD50, exhilarating jazz from CJC (Chapel FM Jazz Collective) to celebrate musical connections between the sister cities of Dortmund and Leeds
Fri 4th Oct '19, 7:30pm
John Whale presents a celebration of the role played by Stand Magazine in introducing Anglophone readers to Continental European poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s
Fri 4th Oct '19, 4:45pm
What does the statue of The Barrel Man, or Drayman, in Dortmund Square get up to at night? And why is he so sad?
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 7:00pm
East Street Arts and Leeds City College have been creating collaborative work between Leeds and Dortmund artists. They talk about the work
Fri 4th Oct '19, 6:15pm
Otley poets, led by Sandra Burnett, present a selection of work specially written for LD50
Sat 12th Oct '19, 2:00pm
Ursula Maria Wartmann discuss the role of locality in crime fiction. With Frances Brody, Chris Nickson, June Taylor, chaired by Ali Harper.
Sat 5th Oct '19, 8:00pm
The Florians have been visiting Leeds for over twenty five years. Here they perform songs from their varied repertoire in the splendid surroundings of Leeds Civic Hall.
Sat 5th Oct '19, 2:45pm
In this finale to the first week of LD50, exhilarating jazz from CJC (Chapel FM Jazz Collective) to celebrate musical connections between the sister cities of Dortmund and Leeds
Sat 5th Oct '19, 12:00pm
Over thirty writers answered the call to write a new piece for LD50. Here they share their work.
Fri 4th Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over thirty writers in West Yorkshire answered the call to write a new piece for LD50. Here, in a candle-lit event, they share their work
Fri 4th Oct '19, 6:00pm
Students from Forster College, Bradford, present powerful writing on the theme of homes we have left behind and new neighbourhoods we have found.
Fri 4th Oct '19, 5:30pm
Peek into the heads of people who live in Canal Crescent, Leeds, as a strange light glimmers in the abandoned cottage.
Fri 4th Oct '19, 4:00pm
There has always been a lively musical dialogue between Leeds and Dortmund.
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over the last six months, ten writers in Dortmund have paired with ten Leeds writers to translate each other’s specially written work on the theme of Neighbourhood
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 7:45pm
On this National Poetry Day, Jacob Blakesley, Academic Fellow in World Literatures, host a discussion with writers and translators about the challenges of translating poetry.
Thu 3rd Oct '19, 5:00pm
The Deli is a regular words and music programme on East Leeds FM. Here the Deli team collaborate with a writers’ group resident at The Literaturhaus (Dortmund)
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 8:30pm
Over the last six months, ten writers in Dortmund have paired with ten Leeds writers to translate each other’s specially written work on the theme of Neighbourhood
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 7:30pm
Theatre makers, teachers, choir members, language learners: a great variety of people in West Yorkshire have experienced Leeds/Dortmund projects over the last 50 years.
Wed 2nd Oct '19, 6:45pm
A Live reading from Reise-Gedanken/Road Markings, the book by Peter Spafford and Dortmund poet Ralf Thenior
Tue 1st Oct '19, 7:30pm
This special LTW previews the festival and talks to key players in the Leeds/Dortmund sisterhood of cities.
Mon 30th Sep '19, 1:30pm
The statue of The Barrel Man, or Drayman, stands in Dortmund Square. But why is he feeling sad? And what do the statues of Leeds get up to at night?
The Leeds/Dortmund 50 Festival featured more than two dozen events celebrating 50 years of the two cities being twinned.
Mon 30th September - Sat 12th October
This year, 2019, the cities of Leeds (UK) and Dortmund (Germany) will have been twinned for 50 years. LD50 is a project that celebrates our golden anniversary through the arts, particularly literature.
Fri 7th Feb '25, 4:00pm
Starting with a baseball bat from Louisville, Kentucky, Frank Griffiths shares tales of his visits to Dortmund, Durban, Hangzhou and other of Leeds' global twin cities
Sat 7th Dec '24, 12:00pm
Poetry and short fiction by Wren Aster from our twin city Dortmund in Germany, anticipating Chapel FM’s international orientation next year.