Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – April 2025
Wed 2nd Apr '25, 6:00pm
Our regular open mic for performers age 25 and younger. We welcome new participants who want to perform music, spoken word, theatre, or other arts.
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
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When: 30 May 25 at 8:30pm
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ProgrammeFearnville Fest
Sat 29th Mar '25, 7:00pm
Fearnville Fest is a pilot programme supported by East Leeds Project, Space2 Leeds, and The Old Fire Station celebrating culture and community across the last weekend of March.
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Programme International Women’s Day 2025
Fri 7th Mar '25, 11:00am
Join us for as we celebrate International Women's Day over at Chapel Fm with arts, cake, radio & more!
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ProgrammeA Flower Is Not a Rat
Sat 15th Feb '25, 7:30pm
A weave of Jewish stories as told by Ruth Steinberg.
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Programme Burns Night 2025
Fri 24th Jan '25, 7:30pm
Chapel FM brings you there annual Burns Night, a Celebration of the legendary poet and lyricist, Robert Burns.
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ProgrammeBlue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – December 2024
Wed 18th Dec '24, 6:00pm
Our regular open mic for performers age 25 and younger. We welcome new participants who want to perform music, spoken word, theatre, or other arts.
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ProgrammePitanga Trio
Sat 23rd Nov '24, 5:30pm
Pitanga is an instrumental trio which focuses on Brazilian and other Latin American music, with influences from flamenco, jazz, and classical guitar.
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Programme The Designated Mourner: Theatre on the Eve of the American Election
Tue 5th Nov '24, 7:30pm
The future hangs in the balance! What will survive from our culture when an angry revolution rises up to sweep away the people and ideas considered enemies?
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ProgrammeBlue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – October 2024
Wed 23rd Oct '24, 6:00pm
Our regular open mic for performers age 25 and younger. We welcome new participants who want to perform music, spoken word, theatre, or other arts.
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Programme Sh@nty
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
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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 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 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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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 #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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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 #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 #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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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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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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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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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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ProgrammeExplore the past
Fri 8th Apr '22, 7:30pm
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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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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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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
