Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Regulars from this fabulous monthly night for songwriters perform musical musings on the theme of ‘Missing’
Writing On Air is back again for 2023! This year's theme is MISSING.
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Come listen in and join us live for our largest Writing On Air festival yet.
Spanning over 7 days and including over 80 programmes, live events and workshops.
Drama, soundscape, performance, debate, programmes for WOA come
in all forms. Each festival has carried a theme: Borderlands, Vision,
Voice, Home. This year’s is Missing. The lost and found; what and who
is missing from the table, our politics, our lives, from the world? What
must we preserve at all costs?
Details of individual events below!
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Regulars from this fabulous monthly night for songwriters perform musical musings on the theme of ‘Missing’
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A panel of people from We Are Seacroft
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
An evening of discussion, performance and art
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A gathering of poets/guests from Leeds’ sister cities Brno and Lille
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Chapel FM welcomes back storyteller Vickie Orton to perform her brand new tale.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Who do we forget? What do we forget?
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
In our candle-lit radio theatre Ric Neale
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A free workshop led by poets Caitlin McKenna, Aqeel Parvez, and Alex Callaghan exploring spaces both on and off the page.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Chapel FM celebrates the launch of ‘Missing’, its first-ever literature publication.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
What secrets are suppressed within the Harrison family? What are the three children about to find out?
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Writers from the legendary Wordship
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A resident Chapel FM ensemble that ensures musicians with disabilities have a place to make adventurous music
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A vibetastic night of spoken word, interviews, performance and open mic
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Silent films selected by The Chapel FM Live Events Group.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A film by legendary Leeds poet Tony Harrison
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
The Deli team round off Writing On Air 2023 with their first-ever show in the radio theatre.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A free writing workshop with poets Clare Wigzell and Hannah Stone inviting writers to adopt silence as a prompt for writing poetry.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Chapel FM’s youth radio broadcasters explore what the world misses when trying to understand the lives of teenagers.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Clare Wigzell and Hannah Stone present the fruits of their workshop
Writing On Air is back! Writing On Air is a literature festival on the radio. Now in its 8th year, all programmes are conceived and created by upwards of 200 writers, readers, and performers from across Leeds and West Yorkshire, supported by the Chapel FM team.
Writing On Air is back again for 2023! This years theme is MISSING.
Come listen in and join us live for our largest Writing On Air festival yet.
Spanning over 7 days and including over 80 programmes, live events and workshops.
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