Global Connections Open House: Seacroft Goes Global
Sat 19th July, 1:00pm
A festive open house celebrating global connections through live radio, music, arts & crafts, food, creative writing, zines, giant puppets, story-sharing, and more.
Events: Radio
Have a look through all of our events (please note this includes our past events). You can filter the results to find the kind of events you are particularly interested in.
Lost Leeds Corner Shop Soundscapes & Magical History Tour
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.
Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – May 2025
Wed 21st May, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
Musicathon 2025
Sat 3rd May - Sun 4th May
Our unique 18-hour music festival, live from our studios in Chapel FM Arts Centre.
Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – April 2025
Wed 2nd April, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
International Women’s Day Celebration
Fri 7th March, 11:00am
Chapel FM's annual celebration of women returns with a day filled with activities, conversations and connections.
Seacroft Goes Global: LIVE from the Kirkgate Market
Sat 1st March, 11:00am
Join us for a special outside broadcast of East Leeds Community Radio in Leeds City Centre, where we will be gathering global connections stories.
Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – February 2025
Wed 12th February, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
Bridges Not Borders
Fri 7th February, 5:30pm
The Bridges Not Borders team bring you an evening of live interviews, stories, poetry & music to celebrate & share the lives of refugees. We start the evening with special dishes by the Culture Kitchen at 5:30pm, so please book a ticket in advance to help us understand now many people might want food.
Burns Night at Chapel FM
Fri 24th January, 7:30pm
Chapel FM’s annual Burns Night, returns! Come join us for a night filled to the brim with tributes to the Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns and as always haggis, neeps and tatties will be available.
Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – December 2024
Wed 18th December, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
Writing On Air 2024
Fri 29th November - Sun 8th December
Writing On Air is a festival of words and ideas broadcast on East Leeds Community Radio from Chapel FM Arts Centre. This years theme is Recovery
LIGHT NIGHT: EAST LEEDS COMMUNITY RADIO POP-UP
Thu 24th October, 7:00pm
Join us at Leeds Library in the city center for for live radio and vox pop story-gathering during this year’s Light Night Festival.
Blue Owl Performance Loft: Youth Open Mic – October 2024
Wed 23rd October, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
All-Night Readathon
Sat 15th June - Sun 16th June
Come and read a book aloud with other volunteer readers in Chapel FM’s beautiful radio theatre.
Leeds Lit Forum: A Call to Action
Wed 12th June, 7:00pm
Does Leeds adequately support its emerging organisers, young writers, writers from under-represented communities?
Quiz Night at Chapel FM
Fri 31st May, 7:30pm
Get ready to test your knowledge in a wide variety of subjects from music, to movies to history and beyond.
Blue Owl Performance Loft – Youth Open Mic
Wed 22nd May, 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. Contact martin@chapelfm.co.uk to sign up.
Left of Leeds Experimental Music LIVE!
Fri 10th May, 7:30pm
East Leeds Community Radio’s “Left of Leeds” and host John Toolan present an evening of live experimental music with three exciting guests.
Wed 5th June, 12:09am
Come join Chapel FM as we celebrate International Women's Day, with 2 full days of conversations, crafts and community forums.
Wed 5th June, 12:09am
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
Wed 5th June, 12:09am
Come & celebrate Leeds as a "good city to grow old in"
Wed 5th June, 12:09am
Burns night returns to Chapel FM! A wonderful evening celebration of the Scottish poet & lyricist Robert Burns, with tones of Scottish culture and a fair few haggises to go around.
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 resident Chapel FM ensemble that ensures musicians with disabilities have a place to make adventurous music
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Clare Wigzell and Hannah Stone present the fruits of their workshop
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A film by legendary Leeds poet Tony Harrison
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Silent films selected by The Chapel FM Live Events Group.
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
A vibetastic night of spoken word, interviews, performance and open mic
Tue 4th June, 1:06pm
Chapel FM’s youth radio broadcasters explore what the world misses when trying to understand the lives of teenagers.