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Sun 16th Jun '24, 5:00pm
Poet Lydia Kennaway and musician Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne present ‘… a form of contemporary metaphysical poem where scientific and technological vocabularies are brought into the
Live at the Chapel
A selection of live performances and events from our stunning radio theatre, including Friday Night Live
Schedule
Live and Direct from Chapel FM
Next programme
When: 20 Sep 24 at 8:30pm
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Programme All-Night Readathon: Part 1
Sat 15th Jun '24, 8:00pm
Come and read a book aloud with other volunteer readers in Chapel FM’s beautiful radio theatre.
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Programme All-Night Readathon: Part 2
Sat 15th Jun '24, 8:00pm
Come and read a book aloud with other volunteer readers in Chapel FM’s beautiful radio theatre.
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Programme Leeds Lit Forum: A Call to Action
Wed 12th Jun '24, 7:00pm
Does Leeds adequately support its emerging organisers, young writers, writers from under-represented communities?
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Programme The Big West Yorkshire Bus Forum
Sat 11th May '24, 3:00pm
Join us for a festive community forum, broadcast live on the radio, about plans to bring the buses of West Yorkshire back under public control along with music, poetry, performance
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeVoices of Gaza
Fri 3rd May '24, 7:30pm
A diverse evening of music, poetry and readings from and for Palestine
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Programme Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic March 2024
Fri 29th Mar '24, 6:00pm
Chapel FM's unique open mic series for young performers age 25 or younger. This month, we are joined by LS18 Rocks and we welcome new participants.
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Programme Untold Stories: The Leeds Irish Community
Fri 15th Mar '24, 7:30pm
In celebration with the Irish Arts Foundation. The forgotten history of Irish communities in Leeds. Talks, live music & food.
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Programme IWD: Connecting Women Community Sharing
Sat 9th Mar '24, 7:00pm
Come join Chapel FM as we celebrate International Women's Day, with 2 full days of conversations, crafts and community forums.
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Programme Addiction and Recovery – Poetry and Performance Night
Fri 8th Mar '24, 7:30pm
A night of performances from recovering addicts, a Q+A/discussion, and an open mic on theme
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Programme International Women’s Day 2024 #1: Safety On Our Streets
Fri 8th Mar '24, 11:00am
Join us for part one of our broadcast celebrating International Women's Day. We discuss how safe we feel on our streets & roads as women.
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Programme International Women’s Day 2024 #2: A World Designed For Men
Fri 8th Mar '24, 11:00am
Join us for part two of our broadcast celebrating International Women's Day. We chat about the ways in which our world is all but designed for women.
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Programme International Women’s Day 2024 #3: Period Poverty
Fri 8th Mar '24, 11:00am
Join us for part three of our broadcast celebrating International Women's Day. We discuss the world of menstruation & whether women are heard when it comes to periods.
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Programme International Women’s Day 2024 #4: Women’s Wellbeing
Fri 8th Mar '24, 11:00am
Join us for part four of our broadcast celebrating International Women's Day. We are talking everything from finding your roots, taking care of yourself & all about the project.
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeThe 2024 Open Mic
Fri 23rd Feb '24, 7:30pm
Got a new instrument over the holidays? Want to try your new selection of poetry, juggle on live radio? Come down to the Chapel FM
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Programme Blue Owl: Young Person Open Mic February 2024
Wed 7th Feb '24, 6:00pm
Blue Owl Young Persons Open Mic returns for the first show of 2024
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Programme Chapel FM Burns Night 2024
Fri 26th Jan '24, 7:30pm
Burns night returns to Chapel FM! A wonderful evening celebration of the Scottish poet & lyricist Robert Burns
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Programme Blue Owl: Young Person Open Mic December 2023
Wed 20th Dec '23, 6:00pm
Blue Owl Young Persons Open Mic returns for the final performance of the year
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeHalloween Open Mic Night
Fri 27th Oct '23, 7:30pm
Blue Owl Young Persons Open Mic returns for there first showcase of the new term, come down and watch or be part of the performance.
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Programme Blue Owl: Young Person Open Mic October 2023
Wed 25th Oct '23, 6:00pm
Blue Owl Young Persons Open Mic returns for there first showcase of the new term, come down and watch or be part of the performance.
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Programme Lost and The Living
Fri 21st Jul '23, 7:30pm
Join us for an informal script-in-hand performance of this new audio play by award-winning writer SJ Bradley.
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Programme LIVE AT CHAPEL FM: LEEDS/DORTMUND 50 RE-VISITED
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
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Programme Blue Owl Performance Loft: Young Persons Open Mic #4
Wed 17th May '23, 6:00pm
Created by young people and for young people, the Blue Owl open mic is open to everyone 25 and under!
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeCahun Collective: Mixed Arts Open Mic Night
Fri 21st Apr '23, 7:15pm
The Cahun Collective is an LGBTQ+ Yorkshire based activist organisation, and they are putting on an activism based Open Mic Night!
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Programme The Easter Chapel FM Open Mic Night
Fri 7th Apr '23, 7:30pm
Put a spring in your step and hop on down to Chapel FM for the Easter Open Mic Night.
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Programme How To Build a Spaceship: How does Leeds imagine its future?
Sat 18th Mar '23, 7:30pm
Journey to new futures and discover Leeds’ past as a pioneer of science fiction.
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Programme Mik Artistik’s Ego Trip at Chapel FM
Mon 13th Mar '23, 7:30pm
Mik Artistik, Leeds artist, poet and musician will be delighting one and all with a night of film, art and rock and roll stand up.
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ProgrammeThe Readathon!
Sat 25th Feb '23, 8:00pm
Chapel FM hosts its 4th Readathon, As part of Leeds Literature Festival 2023, with live reading of Adam Farrer's Cold Fish Soup
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Programme Blue Owl Performance Loft: Young Persons Open Mic
Wed 8th Feb '23, 6:00pm
Created by young people and for young people, the Blue Owl open mic is open to everyone 25 and under!
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Programme The New Year Open Mic Night at Chapel FM
Fri 27th Jan '23, 7:30pm
"New Year New Me" and a Brand New Chapel FM Open Mic Night.
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Programme Burns Night at Chapel FM
Sat 21st Jan '23, 7:30pm
Come down to Chapel FM to celebrate the life of Robert Burns and Scottish culture in our second ever Burns Night event
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Programme John Hegley LIVE at Chapel FM
Fri 9th Dec '22, 7:30pm
Widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name, John Hegley brings his unique style of story-telling
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Programme Blue Owl Performance Loft: Young People’s Open Mic #2
Fri 2nd Dec '22, 7:30pm
Created by young people and for young people, the Blue Owl open mic is open to everyone 25
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Programme Care To Air Live
Sun 6th Nov '22, 3:00pm
In partnership with Shine Magazine & Age UK Leeds, Chapel FM's older people's broadcasters present their first Care to Air radio show with a LIVE audience.
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Programme Leyla Josephine Live at Chapel FM
Sat 29th Oct '22, 7:30pm
Leyla Josephine, Scottish poet, theatre maker, and screenwriter, comes to Chapel FM as part of her autumn 2022 national tour.
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Programme Halloween Open Mic Night
Fri 28th Oct '22, 7:30pm
Prepare for a spook, Prepare for a fright. Come down to the last ever? Open Mic Night...
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Programme We Are Seacroft #2: Community Climate Forum
Sat 22nd Oct '22, 5:45pm
Climate Action Seacroft (along with all our We Are Seacroft pals) are delighted to announce our second Community Climate Forum on the 22nd October, 5 PM, Chapel FM Arts Centre.
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Programme The Chapel FM Steam and Cyberpunk Night
Fri 30th Sep '22, 7:30pm
Featuring local performer Jaimes Lewis Moran and the amazing Ullalele, a progressive ukulele rock quartet Steamplunk group.
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Programme Exploring the Music Traditions of County Cork & County Kerry
Sat 9th Jul '22, 7:00pm
A unique opportunity to explore the story of one Irish ballad and celebrate its living oral tradition.
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeChapel FM Open Mic Night: June 2022
Fri 24th Jun '22, 7:30pm
Not your usual open mic… Come try something new, come share your last creation or [ignite/set in motion/get starting/start up] your stage skills
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Programme Chapel FM Open Mic Night: May 2022
Fri 27th May '22, 7:30pm
Not your usual open mic… Come try something new, come share your last creation or [ignite/set in motion/get starting/start up] your stage skills
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Programme Sports Talk LIVE!
Thu 5th May '22, 7:30pm
Celebrating the wide range of amazing sports that happen in our city
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Programme How to be a Better Human
Sat 16th Apr '22, 7:30pm
How to be a Better Human is a spoken word comedy about grief, loss and self-acceptance.
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeExplore the past
Fri 8th Apr '22, 7:30pm
[coming soon]
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Programme Chapel FM Open Mic – March 2022
Fri 25th Mar '22, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre.
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Programme Irish Arts Foundation – Exploring the musical traditions of County Cork & County Kerry
Sat 12th Mar '22, 2:30pm
Supported by Arts Council England, this 9 month social history project will explore the musical traditions of County Cork Kerry, in particular the music of the “Sliabh Luachra"
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Programme The Next Generation Debate
Fri 11th Mar '22, 7:30pm
Come join Chapel FM’s young people as they debate the topics they find most important to them, from the silly to the serious.
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeChapel FM Open Mic – Feb 2022
Fri 25th Feb '22, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre.
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Programme Climate Action Seacroft Forum
Fri 11th Feb '22, 7:30pm
A celebration and showcase of all the climate action happening in Seacroft
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Programme The First Chapel FM Open Mic of 2022
Fri 28th Jan '22, 7:30pm
Bring your music, your poetry, your spoken word or anything else you’d like to share with a supportive audience in our cosy Studio 3 at the Chapel FM Arts Centre.
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Programme The Last Chapel FM Open Mic of 2021
Fri 26th Nov '21, 7:30pm
After an event full year of events at Chapel FM one of our final events of the year is our always popular Open Mic Night.
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Programme Chevin Rouge Slow Canter Merry Tales
Fri 12th Nov '21, 7:30pm
Poetic homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in contemporary form from The Otley Troubadour
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeHalloween Open Mic Night
Fri 29th Oct '21, 7:30pm
Prepare for a spook, prepare for a fright, come join Chapel FM for the Halloween Open Mic Night
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Media available soon!
ProgrammeChapel FM VS……
Sun 24th Oct '21, 7:30pm
Chapel FM faces off against a new challenger in an all out quiz battle. Who will win? listen in and root for your team.
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Programme Abtuse: returns to Chapel FM
Fri 15th Oct '21, 7:30pm
The Chapel FM regulars returns with a fantastic night of eclectic mix of jazz, fusion, funk, latin and the blues, to kick off our return
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Programme Chapel FM Jazz Collective Live
Fri 23rd Jul '21, 7:30pm
Chapel FM's very own jazz ensemble is back and presenting two exciting world premiere pieces created during lockdown: "Following the Science" and an untitled new composition.
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Programme 7X7 Live at Chapel FM
Fri 16th Jul '21, 7:00pm
Seven by Seven are back and we are delighted to have them once again at Chapel FM Arts Centre, playing a bunch of 7” 45rpm vinyl singles of your choosing.
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Programme Blind Dead McJones & Friends
Fri 25th Jun '21, 7:30pm
Chapel FM's first live gig back starring the fantastic Blind Dead McJones band & friends.
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Programme The International Experimental Music Night
Fri 12th Mar '21, 7:30pm
An exploration of Anglo/Indian/Scandinavian drone to unsettle the enquiring mind!
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Programme The Chapel FM Online Open Mic
Fri 26th Feb '21, 7:30pm
A very popular end of the month event at Chapel FM the Open Mic Night, but fear not we will be doing it online you can listen live on this very website
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Last year we completed 8 days broadcasting on FM, 156 days on the internet and ran 3 separate broadcast festivals: the 24-hour Musicathon; Writing on Air; and No Bystanders.
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What a brilliant, brilliant place to perform in.
The Sentimentalists
01/07/2015
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Chapel FM feels like a brilliantly creative community and everyone who I’ve been involved with is able to have their input into Leeds and the rest of the world.
Holly
